General and Business-Related Reading

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I have created a list of books that I want to or think that I should read for my own benefit and knowledge... if anyone else has anything that they think I might also enjoy or that they have found to be quality reading, feel free to let me know and I will take a look. Thanks!

So here is the current list:

BUSINESS
Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business by Ram Charan
On Competition by Michael E. Porter
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
Built To Last by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Good To Great by Jim Collins
The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor
Straight From The Gut by Jack Welch
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton
The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
PeopleSmart by Melvin L. Silberman
Speak Like a C.E.O. by Suzanne Bates
C.E.O. Logic by C. Ray Johnson
Managing by the Numbers by Chuck Kremer
Effective Delegation by Chris Roebuck
The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox 
Business: The Ultimate Resource by Daniel P. Goleman
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The Cluetrain Manifesto by Christopher Locke and Rick Levine
Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Leading Change by John P. Kotter
The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias
My Years With General Motors by Alfred Sloan
The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
The Quest For Value by G. Bennett Stewart
Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald
The Practice of Management by Peter F. Drucker
Self-Renewal by John W. Gardner
The Human Side of Enterprise by Douglas McGregor
Succeeding Against The Odds by John H. Johnson
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
The Kimchi Matters by Marvin Zonis and Dan Lefkovitz
The Trusted Advisor by David H. Maister and Robert Galford
The Exceptional Presenter by Timothy J. Koegel

LAW
The Buffalo Creek Disaster by Gerald M. Stern
Gideon’s Trumpet by Anthony Lewis
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
Law and Morals by Roscoe Pound

HISTORY
Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
A History of Britain: At The Edge of The World by Schama Simon
A History of Britain: The Fate of The Empire by Schama Simon
The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Middle Kingdom of Ancient History by Wolfram Grajetzki

CLASSIC LITERATURE
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Five Dialogues by Plato
Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

WRITING
The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White
On Writing by Stephen King

MISCELLANEOUS
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis

mNeo · Answer

It appears that you've already covered all the business-related books that I've ever read :shock:

I know you are talking about books .. but I think we should also mention the "Harvard Business Review" here. I just love reading that.

seanpatin · Answer

Actually, now that I look at that list... it is rather extensive.... i may have to narrow it down a little, but I would agree that the Harvard Business Review would be a great addition as a subscription.

sm176811 · Answer

Add The Economist to the list of subscriptions too!

seanpatin · Answer

Actually, I did subscribe to it, but canceled my subscription a while back. Although I have kept my subscriptions to BusinessWeek, Forbes, Wired, and Business 2.0.

aurobindo · Answer

You may want to read "Execution" by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan.

lepium · Answer

I don't get it, are you looking for books / magazines that will help you with applications/interviews, during the MBA or in general? If the latter, then the list is endless. The first option has been addressed here before and the remaining option will be addressed after you enroll.

L.

seanpatin · Answer

I am looking for both.... I still have quite a bit of time before I apply, and this topic probably belonged in the "Off Topic" section, but it never seems like anything gets replies in there. So, sorry for any confusion that this may have caused.

Praetorian · Answer

Thanks for that list.

Subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, Economist and Financial Times. It will cost you about 40 bucks a month for all though.

You can pick up most of the popular business books at your local library or buy them used at Amazon. I would also recommend audio books.

https://www.audible.com/adbl/site/audibl ... tegory.jsp?

zakk · Answer

Top 4 that I'd add to the above:

Siddhartha (Hesse)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Solzhenitsyn)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (The Good Doctor: Hunter S. Thompson)
The No Asshole Rule (Sutton)

rhyme · Answer

Hmmm... interesting... I wonder if I could listen to the WSJ on my way to work in the car... could be a more useful use of my time... You've got me thinking about pulling out my ipod now.

Praetorian · Answer

I dont think newspapers are available. Just books for now. You can try this following option from FT.com too: https://www.ft.com/businesseducation/ https://www.ft.com/businesseducation/stern You may need a subscription to FT.com to access some sections of the website though.

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