Love the lists
December 19, 2007
Gotta love this time of year. Lots of lists. As is true in business book publishing.
Gotta love this time of year. Lots of lists. As is true in business book publishing. Let me catch you up on the last few weeks of lists. This week we announced the semifinalists for our first ever 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. There are the best books according to the Amazon editors. And BusinessWeek's choice picks. Books written by Economist writers.
And, now we have the best books as chosen by the Economist. You'll find a number of duplicate titles on the various lists. The business titles from the Economist lists are:
- *The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America
By Allan M. Brandt. Basic Books; 704 pages - *The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co--A Tale of Unrestrained Ambition, Billion-Dollar Fortunes, Byzantine Power Struggles, and Hidden Scandal
By William D. Cohan. Doubleday; 742 pages
*Winner of the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs' Business Book Award - *The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Random House; 400 pages - The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
By Paul Collier. Oxford University Press; 224 pages - *The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
By Alan Greenspan. Penguin Press; 531 pages - Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
By Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. Portfolio; 320 pages; $25.95 - From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
By Rakesh Khurana. Princeton University Press; 542 pages - The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune
By Conor O'Clery. PublicAffairs; 352 pages - Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
By Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant. Jossey-Bass; 336 pages
In Milwaukee? Join Leslie for lunch on January 16th. - Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
By Ian Ayres. Bantam; 272 pages
