5 Successful Business Book “History” Types For Growing Your Business

Posted on by Carol Abrahamson

Seeking successful types of business books about something historical? There are many hundreds of — perhaps 1,000(!) — successful business book types, including over a dozen history 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 history types for your book.

A Tribute
• Time To Play Shops: A Tribute To The WI Country Markets by Jo Major

• Insights In Decision Making: A Tribute To Hillel J. Einhorn by Robin M. Hogarth

A Legacy
• Behind The Wheel At Chrysler: The Iacocca Legacy by Doron P. Levin

• Poisoned Legacy: The Human Cost Of BP’s Rise To Power by Mike Magner

A Timeline (often requires less writing*)
• Timeline Of The Industrial Revolution by Charlie Samuels

• The Illustrated Timeline Of Inventions: A Crash Course In Words & Pictures by Craig Sandler

Milestones (often requires less writing*)
• Sixty Milestones Of Progress, 1859-1919 by Ladd & Tilton Bank

• International Harvester, McCormick, Navistar: Milestones In The Company That Helped Build America by Kenneth Durr and Lee Sullivan

How Something Was Invented
• Inventing Times Square: Commerce And Culture At The Crossroads Of The World by William R. Taylor

• Inventing Money: The Story Of Long-Term Capital Management And The Legends Behind It by Nicholas Dunbar

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 history 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.

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