Copywriting greats have produced a number of legendary books over the years. Here’s a list of some of the classics (in alphabetical order by author’s last name).

1. Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got by Jay Abraham
2. Money Making Secrets of Marketing Genius Jay Abraham and Other Marketing Wizards (the Mr. X Book) by Jay Abraham
3. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson
4. Client Machine by George Athan
5. The Copywriter’s Handbook by Robert W. Bly
6. Tested Advertising Methods by John Caples
7. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
8. Influence by Robert Cialdini
9. Presuasion by Robert Cialdini
10. The Robert Collier Letter Book by Robert Collier
11. How to Write Copy That Sells by Ray Edwards
12. Breakthrough Copywriting: How To Generate Quick Cash With The Written Word by David Garfinkel
13. All Marketers are Liars by Seth Godin
14. Everybody Writes: The Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley
15. The Boron Letters by Gary Halbert
16. Scientific Advertising and My Life in Advertising by Claude Hopkins
17. The Ultimate Sales Letter by Dan Kennedy
18. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
19. Bird by Bird by Ann Lamott
20. Words That Work by Dr. Frank Luntz
21. The Architecture of Persuasion by Michael Masterson
22. Copy Logic by Michael Masterson & Mike Palmer
23. So You Think You Can Write? The Definitive Guide to Successful Online Writing by Julia McCoy
24. Ogilvy On Advertising by David Ogilvy
25. Confessions of an Ad Man by David Ogilvy
26. Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion by Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson
27. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
28. Reality in Advertising by Rosser Reeves
29. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! by Al Ries & Jack Trout
30. How to Write a Good Advertisement by Victor Schwab
31. Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene Schwartz
32. The Advertising Solution by Craig Simpson with Brian Kurtz
33. Advertising Secrets of the Written Word by Joseph Sugarman
34. CA$HVERTISING by Drew Eric Whitman

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