5 Successful Business Book "Fun" Types For Growing Your Business

Posted on by Carol Abrahamson

Seeking successful types of fun business books? There are many hundreds of — perhaps 1,000(!) — successful business book types, including over a dozen fun types.

One of the most important decisions an executive makes about their book is its type. That’s because a book’s type and topic so heavily influence the resulting business growth. A type determines a book’s structural framework, point of view and voice. And success-bound executive authors spend significant time and energy deciding the type — or fusion of types — for their book.

We’ve identified 700+ proven business-building book types. And our 18-step Spark Ultimate Book Start System (complete with worksheets) will help you decide which to choose. Plus we reveal titles of two real-world examples of each — and the ones that often require less writing* — in our 2022 multi-award-winning, groundbreaking family of printed and digital workbooks. This excerpt from 666 Book Types For Building Your Business & Brand reveals a few of the fun types for your book.

Jokes (often requires less writing*)
• The Ultimate Lawyers Joke Book by Larry Wilde

• Your Joke Is In The E-Mail: Cyberlaffs From Mousepotatoes by Alice Kahn and John Dobby Boe

Puzzles (often requires less writing*)
• Brain Teasers For Team Leaders: Hundreds Of Word Puzzles And Number Games To Energize Your Meetings by Leslie Bendaly

• Are You Smart Enough To Work At Google? Trick Questions, Zen-Like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, And Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need To Know To Get A Job In The New Economy by William Poundstone

A Fable (often requires less writing*)
• Bingsop’s Fables: Little Morals For Big Business by Stanley Bing

• Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty by Patrick Lencioni

A Tall Tale (often requires less writing*)
• Tall Tales About The Mind & Brain: Separating Fact From Fiction by Sergio Della Sala

• Bodie’s Gold: Tall Tales & True History From A California Mining Town by Marguerite Sprague

Cartoons (often requires less writing*)
• The Cartoon Introduction To Statistics by Grady Klein and Alan Dabney

• The Cartoon Guide To The Environment by Larry Gonick and Alice Outwater

See our 18 steps, worksheets and more types and examples by downloading our free workbook, 77 Book Types For Building Your Business & Brand, in the sidebar to the right. For additional help, check out the related posts below, our other workbooks and our Getting Started on Your Business-Building Book individual consulting program.

We’re thrilled to help you create a successful business book that’s one of our fun types!

* Requiring less writing is a subjective judgment because some books of this type might have a lot of original writing — while some books of types without this designation may have a limited number of words.