20 Women Entrepreneur Books that Empowered & Inspired

Melinda Gates once said: “A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.”

The National Federation of Small Businesses published the results of a study stating that by 2018, more than a half of small businesses will be run by female entrepreneurs. But if every woman with ambition, passion and good ideas would have the courage to start their own business, how high could this number go?

Ever since The CEO Library was started, we interviewed a lot of women who are so driven by passion, they took that leap of faith and decided to take business matters into their own hands. From Catrinel Hagivreta (Co-Founder & CEO of MEDIjobs) to Ella Zheng (Co-founder & Art Director at The Workbench), from Irina Botnari (Co-Founder of Bucur’s Shelter Hostel) to Andrea Loubier (CEO and co-founder of Mailbird), we’ve come across some inspiring women who are doctors, photographers, authors, coders, business consultants, designers, trainers and much more. One can’t help but wonder: is there anything women can’t do if they put their mind to it?

As we published interview after interview, we saw how passionately our curators talked about the books that inspired them and an idea came to mind: what if we gathered the reads that inspired these women entrepreneurs into one place? If you are here, you must be a book lover. And since we have made it our mission to put the right books into your hands, we wanted to answer this question: what do these successful women read?

Welcome to the Collection for Empowering Women Entrepreneurs! Just to make sure these books are what you’re looking for, ask yourself the following:

• Do I want to read books that inspired successful women entrepreneurs?
• Am I curious to see what key learnings other business owners get from their reads?
• Do I want to start my own business, but there’s something holding me down and I’m not sure what it is?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you’re in the right place. Each book in this collection comes with its own recommendation because it’s important to understand why that title was important to its curator, to determine if it might be important to you, as well.

The following collection gathers non-fiction books that discuss entrepreneurship, self-help issues, biographies of inspiring women, and fiction books, which have been highly recommended by the women entrepreneurs we had the pleasure of talking to.

As always, your book recommendations are welcome at any time (and we’re just one email away), so get in touch with us.

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