A warm private library with tall oak bookshelves, a reading chair and a ladder

The library

Pull a book off the shelf.

70 books by Tarek Riman, from Answer Engine Optimization and AI marketing to short books on resilience, travel guides, cookbooks and fiction. Open any cover for a quick read, then buy it on Amazon.

Quick answer

What books has Tarek Riman written?

70 books on Amazon. The marketing and AI shelf includes Intro to Answer Engine Optimization (2nd Edition), 500 Ways to Use AI for Your Marketing Strategy in 2026, The Blogger Guideline, The SEO Way and Marketing Data in the Age of AI. Other shelves hold business and career books, short books on mindset, histories of everyday things, travel guides, the Atlas cookbook series and The Sundered Sea fantasy series.

  • 70 books on 8 shelves.
  • Five marketing books free to read chapter by chapter.
  • Available on Amazon.ca and Amazon.com.

The library

Every book, on its shelf.

Filter by shelf or search by title. Click a cover to pull the book out, read the opening and find where to buy it.

Marketing and AI 14

SEO, AEO, PR, content, analytics and AI marketing.

  • Marketing Data in the Age of AI
  • The Context Edge
  • Intro to PR in the Age of AI Search
  • Intro to Content Marketing in the Age of AI
  • The Forgotten P: Positioning
  • A Governance Framework for AI and Education
  • The Blogger Guideline
  • Intro to Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
  • An Introduction to Marketing & AI
  • 500 Ways to Use AI for Your Marketing Strategy in 2026
  • Introduction To Digital Marketing 2023
  • The Secret to Capitalizing on Analytics
  • The SEO Way
  • A Beginners Guide to Paid Search Marketing

Business and work 8

Starting a business, careers, focus and the rules nobody writes down.

  • Written By You
  • Busy Is Not a Strategy
  • Market Yourself
  • The Other Rulebook
  • 10 Truths About Starting a Business
  • Ten Lessons from Ten Years of Teaching
  • The Entrepreneur Guideline
  • Empowerment Equals Discipline²

Life and mindset 18

Short books on resilience, letting go, attention and starting again.

  • If They Wanted To, They Would
  • Lost in Things
  • Stop Making Them Your Priority
  • Stop Chasing
  • Built by Leaving
  • Pick Up the Stone
  • Made From Nothing
  • With Worn-Out Tools
  • You Don't Get a Lot of Things to Care About
  • The Fire You Need
  • They’ve Already Decided
  • There's No There
  • Spend It Wisely
  • The Entrusted Cathedral
  • You're All in Anyway
  • A New Beak
  • We make mistakes, Mistakes make us.
  • The Camino Within

History and ideas 4

The stories behind words, weather, imagination and everyday life.

  • The Power of What’s Not There
  • New Here
  • The Roads Words Took
  • Weathering It

Journals 4

Gratitude, productivity and happiness journals.

  • The Student Gratitude, Productivity & Happiness Journal
  • The Work From Home Gratitude, Productivity & Happiness Journal
  • The Entrepreneur Gratitude, Productivity & Happiness Journal
  • The Gratitude, Productivity & Happiness Journal

Travel 2

No-fluff guides to Lebanon and Canada.

  • Yalla Lebanon
  • Visit Canada, Eh?

Food 17

The Atlas series and Lebanese, Mediterranean and Canadian cookbooks.

  • The Soup Atlas
  • The Bread Atlas
  • The Sandwich Atlas
  • The Pizza Atlas
  • The Pie Atlas
  • The Dinner Atlas
  • The Brunch Atlas
  • The Breakfast Atlas
  • The Pastry Atlas
  • The Griddle Atlas
  • The Cake Atlas
  • The Muffin Atlas
  • The Cookie Atlas
  • The Easy Canadian Cookbook
  • The Arabic Food Recipe Cookbook
  • The Mediterranean Recipe Cookbook
  • The Lebanese Cookbook

Fiction 3

The Sundered Sea, an epic fantasy series.

  • The Sundered Sea: Book Three: The Gathering Fire
  • The Sundered Sea: The Deathless Question
  • The Sundered Sea: Where the Ages Bleed

Read free online

Five marketing books, free chapter by chapter.

The marketing books are published on this site one chapter at a time, each with a direct answer up top, diagrams, decision rules and FAQs. Buy the book if you want it in one place. Read it here if you want to start today.

  • Intro to AEO: all 29 chapters
  • 500 Ways to Use AI for Your Marketing Strategy
  • The Blogger Guideline
  • The Entrepreneur Guideline
  • An Introduction to Marketing and AI
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Reading guide

Which book should you read first?

Pick by the problem in front of you, not by the newest cover.

  1. If you work in marketing
  2. If you are building something
  3. If you are going through something
  4. If you are curious, hungry or travelling

If you work in marketing

  • You want to show up in AI answers. Intro to Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), then Intro to PR in the Age of AI Search.
  • You need practical AI ideas this week. 500 Ways to Use AI for Your Marketing Strategy in 2026.
  • You publish content. The Blogger Guideline, then Intro to Content Marketing in the Age of AI.
  • Your tracking stopped making sense. Marketing Data in the Age of AI, then The Secret to Capitalizing on Analytics.
  • You are new to the field. An Introduction to Marketing and AI, or Introduction to Digital Marketing.
  • Your brand sounds like everyone else. The Forgotten P: Positioning, and The Context Edge.

If you are building something

Founders usually start with The Entrepreneur Guideline and 10 Truths About Starting a Business. For the corporate side of work, The Other Rulebook and Written By You cover the expectations nobody writes down. Busy Is Not a Strategy is the short one for anyone whose calendar runs them.

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If you are going through something

The mindset shelf holds short books on hard seasons: A New Beak on being broken and rebuilt, With Worn-Out Tools on failure and starting again, Stop Chasing and They've Already Decided on letting go, and Spend It Wisely on attention. The Camino Within is the oldest of them.

If you are curious, hungry or travelling

New Here, The Roads Words Took, Weathering It and The Power of What's Not There tell the hidden history of everyday things. Yalla Lebanon and Visit Canada, Eh? are no-fluff travel guides. The Atlas series goes around the world one dish at a time, from soup and bread to cookies. The Sundered Sea is a fantasy series in three books.

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About the author

Written between client work and the classroom.

Tarek Riman is a Canadian marketer and the founder of Riman Agency, with more than 15 years in SEO, analytics and digital marketing. He teaches as an adjunct instructor at McGill University's Executive Institute, Concordia University and York University, and has given more than 170 workshops.

He grew up in Lebanon, lives in the Montreal area and works between Montreal and Dubai, which is why the shelves hold travel guides and cookbooks next to the marketing books.

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FAQ

Questions about the books

Still have a question? Ask us directly

How many books has Tarek Riman written?

70 books are listed in the library, all available on Amazon. They cover marketing and AI, business and work, life and mindset, history and ideas, journals, travel, food and fiction.

Which book should I start with?

Start with Intro to AEO if search and AI visibility is your main goal, 500 Ways if you need practical AI ideas across marketing, The Blogger Guideline if you publish content, and The Entrepreneur Guideline if you are building a company. The reading guide on this page covers the other shelves.

Where can I buy the books?

On Amazon.ca and Amazon.com. Each book in the library has direct buttons, and the Amazon author page lists every title and edition.

Can I read them for free?

Five marketing books are published free on this blog, chapter by chapter: Intro to AEO, 500 Ways to Use AI, The Blogger Guideline, The Entrepreneur Guideline and An Introduction to Marketing and AI.

Are the books available in paperback, Kindle or audio?

It depends on the title. Most are in paperback, many are on Kindle and some have hardcover or audiobook editions. Each book page lists the formats Amazon shows for it.

Are the books available in French or Arabic?

The books are written in English. This site translates the free chapters into French, Arabic and Spanish as translations become available.

Does Tarek write fiction?

Yes. The Sundered Sea is an epic fantasy series in three books: Where the Ages Bleed, The Deathless Question and The Gathering Fire.

Can I order copies for a team or a workshop?

Yes. Workshop participants receive the relevant book. For bulk orders or signed copies, send a note through the contact form.

Is Tarek available to speak at our event?

Yes, for keynotes, workshops and podcasts. Send the date, audience and topic through the contact form.

Want the frameworks implemented in your business?

The methods in the marketing books are the same ones we run with clients across SEO, AEO, GEO, AI marketing, web development and analytics.

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