Harvard Business Review Books in Order
Harvard Business Review has written 37 books, published between 2007 and 2025. The first book is Dealing with Difficult People (2007) and the newest is Having Difficult Conversations (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 37
- Published
- 2007–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,884 in 16 of 37 books
Harvard Business Review stands as the credited author on 37 catalogued business books, published between 2007 and 2025. The run opens with Dealing with Difficult People (2007) and reaches Having Difficult Conversations (2025), split into the HBR Emotional Intelligence and HBR Working Parents series. Subjects cover management, business communication, time management, feedback, teams in the workplace and meetings. Individual writers carry credits inside the listing: Daisy Dowling on 4 titles, Amy Gallo and Stewart D. Friedman on 2 each, and Tony Schwartz, Mark Gerzon, Holly Weeks and Morten T. Hansen on 1 each.
One of the series is designed to be read in about 20 minutes per book, covering topics such as time management and running meetings.
How many Harvard Business Review books are there?
Harvard Business Review has 37 books, released between 2007 and 2025. They include 2 series and 16 titles listed outside any series.
Harvard Business Review Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 37 Harvard Business Review books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 12007–1/4
- 2Finance Basics2014 · 131 pages · confirmed 1/420141311/4
- 3Managing Up2014 · 77 pages · confirmed 1/42014771/4
- 4Presentations2014 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/420141121/4
- 5Managing Projects2014 · 129 pages · confirmed 1/420141291/4
- 6Delegating Work2014 · 92 pages · confirmed 1/42014921/4
- 7Creating Business Plans2014 · 141 pages · confirmed 1/420141411/4
- 8Running Meetings2014 · 116 pages · confirmed 1/420141161/4
- 9Managing Time2014 · 85 pages · confirmed 1/42014851/4
- 10Getting Work Done2014 · 108 pages · confirmed 1/420141081/4
- 11Giving Effective Feedback2014 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/420141281/4
- 12Innovative Teams2015 · 130 pages · confirmed 1/420151301/4
- 13Performance Reviews2015 · 116 pages · confirmed 1/420151161/4
- 14Difficult Conversations2016 · 110 pages · confirmed 1/420161101/4
- 15Running Virtual Meetings2016 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/420161441/4
- 16Leading Virtual Teams2016 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/420161441/4
- 17Virtual Collaboration2016 · 121 pages · confirmed 1/420161211/4
- 182018–1/4
- 192019–1/4
- 202020–1/4
- 212020–1/4
- 222021–1/4
- 232022–1/4
- 242022–1/4
- 252022–1/4
- 262022–1/4
- 272022–1/4
- 282023–1/4
- 292023–1/4
- 302023–1/4
- 312023–1/4
- 322024–1/4
- 332024–1/4
- 342024–1/4
- 352024–1/4
- 362025–1/4
- 372025–1/4
Harvard Business Review series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
Harvard Business Review books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
HBR Emotional Intelligence in order
16 books- 1. Dealing with Difficult People
- 6. Purpose, Meaning, and Passion
- 12. Power and Impact
- 13. Virtual EI
- 14. Energy + Motivation
- 15. People Skills for a Virtual World Collection
- 16. Being Your Best Collection
- 17. Developing Good Habits
- 18. Inclusion
- 19. Grit
- 20. Managing Your Anxiety
- 21. Curiosity
- and 4 more in the table above
Standalone books
16 books16 Harvard Business Review titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Harvard Business Review books in order?
You only need to read Harvard Business Review books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Harvard Business Review
Start with Taking Care of Yourself (2020), the first HBR Working Parents book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Dealing with Difficult People (2007).
What is the newest Harvard Business Review book?
Having Difficult Conversations (2025) is the newest Harvard Business Review book released so far.
Is there a new Harvard Business Review book coming?
No next Harvard Business Review book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Harvard Business Review at a glance
- Still publishing
- Harvard Business Review published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Harvard Business Review books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,884 pages across the 16 of 37 books with a recorded length, a median of 118 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Harvard Business Review books, 18 of 37, were published in the 2020s.
What the Harvard Business Review books are about
16 of the 37 Harvard Business Review books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: management is tagged on 4 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Management 4 of 16 books
- Business communication 3 of 16 books
- Développement d'aptitudes 3 of 16 books
- Teams in the workplace 3 of 16 books
- Business meetings 2 of 16 books
- Communication 2 of 16 books
- Efficacité 2 of 16 books
- Gestion du personnel 2 of 16 books
- Interpersonal communication 2 of 16 books
- Meetings 2 of 16 books
- Telecommuting 2 of 16 books
- Time management 2 of 16 books