Business Books to Read per Jim Collins Author of: Good to Great and Built to Last A Aaker, David A., Building Strong Brands Aaker, David A., Managing Brand Equity Abbey, Edward, The Monkey Wrench Gang Adams, Ansel, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography Adams, Henry, The Education of Henry Adams Ambrose, Stephen E., Undaunted Courage Ambrose, Stephen E., D Day June 6, 1944 Aristotle, Ethics B Barrett, William, Irrational Man Berendt, John, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berlin, Isaiah, The Hedgehog and the Fox Birch, David, Job Creation in America Bissinger, H.G., Friday Night Lights Boorstin, Daniel J., The Americans - The Colonial Experience Boorstin, Daniel J., The Americans - The Democratic Experience Boorstin, Daniel J., The Americans - The National Experience Boorstin, Daniel J., Cleopatra’s Nose Boorstin, Daniel J., The Discoverers Bortz, Walter M., We Live too Short and Die too Long Bowen, Catherine Drinker, John Adams and the American Revolution (Harry Truman’s favorite book) Bowen, Catherine Drinker, Miracle at Philadelphia Buffett, Warren E. and Lawrence A. Cunningham, The Essays of Warren Buffett Burke, James, The Day the Universe Changed Burrough, Bryan, Barbarians at the Gate C Camus, Albert, The Myth of Sisyphus Camus, Albert, The Plague Caro, Robert A., Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson) Caro, Robert A., The Power Broker (5 stars) Chernow, Ron, The House of Morgan Churchill, Winston S., My Early Life Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War - Closing the Ring Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War - The Gathering Storm Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War - The Grand Alliance Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War - The Hinge of Fate Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War - Their Finest Hour Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War - Triumph and Tragedy Christensen, Clayton, Innovator's Dilemma Cialdini, Robert B., Influence Connell, Evan S., Son of the Morning Star Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph, Lord Jim Conroy, Pat, Lords Of Discipline Conroy, Pat, Prince of Tides Covey, Stephen R., The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Cronkite, Walter, A Reporter’s Life Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, Flow D Darwin, Charles, The Origin of Species Dawkins, Richard, The Blind Watchmaker (esp. chapter 3) De Waal, Frans, Chimpanzee Politics Deming, W. Edwards, Out of the Crisis Depree, Max, Leadership is an Art Detocqueville, Alexis, Democracy in America, Volume I (out of print) Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations Dillard, Anne, The Writing Life Dixit, Avinash K., Thinking Strategically Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Crime and Punishment Douglas, John, Mind Hunter Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, Managing for Results Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, Managing in a Time of Great Change Drucker, Peter F., The Effective Executive Drucker, Peter F., The End of Economic Man Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, The Practice of Management Drury, Allen, Advise and Consent Durant, Will, The Life of Greece E Ehrenfeld, Tom, The Startup Garden Ellis, Joseph J., Founding Brothers F Faulkner, William, Go Down Moses (especially “The Bear”) Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury Forster, Edward Morgan, A Passage to India Frank, Robert and Philip Cook, The Winner Take All Society Frankel, Viktor E., Man’s Search for Meaning Friedman, Thomas L., From Beirut to Jerusalem G Gardner, John W., On Leadership Gardner, John W., Self-Renewal Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point Gleick, James, Chaos Goldratt, Eliyahu M., The Goal Gould, Stephen Jay, Bully for Brontosaurus Gould, Stephen Jay, Dinosaur in a Haystack Gould, Stephen Jay, Eight Little Piggies Gould, Stephen Jay, Ever Since Darwin Gould, Stephen Jay, Flamingo’s Smile Gould, Stephen Jay, Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes Gould, Stephen Jay, The Panda’s Thumb Gould, Stephen Jay, Wonderful Life Graham, Katherine, Personal History Graves, Robert, I Claudius Grove, Andrew S., Only the Paranoid Survive H Halberstam, David, The Amateurs Hamilton, Alexander, et. al., The Federalist Papers Hawkin, Paul, Growing a Business Hebrew Bible, The Book of Job Hegel, Georg Wilhelm (Editor) and Walter Kaufmann (Translator), Hegel: Texts and Commentary Hemmingway, Ernest, For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, The Old Man and the Sea Hesse, Hermann, Siddhartha Hoffman, Edward, The Right to Be Human Hugo, Victor, Les Miserables J Junger, Sebestain, The Perfect Storm K Katzenbach, Jon R. and Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams Keneally, Thomas, Schindler’s List Kennedy, John F., Profiles in Courage Kennedy, Robert F., Thirteen Days Kidder, Tracy, House Kidder, Tracy, Old Friends Kidder, Tracy, The Soul of a New Machine Kierkegaard, Soren, Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, Soren, Sickness Unto Death Kotter, John P., The General Managers Krakauer, Jon, Into Thin Air Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Kushner, Rabbi Harold S., When Bad Things Happen to Good People L Lamott, Anne, Bird by Bird Lansing, Alfred, Endurance Lavie, Peretz, The Enchanted World of Sleep Lee, Harper, To Kill A Mockingbird Levitt, Theodore, Thinking About Management Lewis, Brad Alan, Assault on Lake Casitas Lewis, Michael, The New New Thing Lord, Walter, A Night to Remember M Machiavelli, Niccolo, et. al., The Prince MacLean, Norman, Young Men and Fire Manchester, William, A World Lit Only by Fire Manchester, William, American Caesar Manchester, William, Goodbye Darkness Manchester, William, The Glory and the Dream Manchester, William, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone (Preamble—“The Lion Caged”—presents the best 35 pages of biographical prose I’ve ever read) Manchester, William, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory Mandela, Nelson, Long Walk to Freedom Maraniss, David, When Pride Still Mattered McCullough, David, John Adams McCullough, David, Truman McFeely, Willam S., Grant: A Biography McGregor, Douglas, The Human Side of Enterprise McNamara, Robert S., In Retrospect McPhee, John, A Sense of Where You Are McPhee, John, Levels of the Game McPhee, John, The Control of Nature McPherson, James M., For Cause and Comrades Melville, Herman, Moby Dick Michener, James A., Centennial Michener, James A., The Novel Michener, James A., The Source Michener, James A., The World is My Home Miles, Jack, God: A Biography Miller, Merle, Plain Speaking Morita, Akio, Made in Japan Morris, Edmund, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Moyers, Bill, A World of Ideas Moyers, Bill, Genesis: A Living Conversation N Nayak, P. Ranganath and John M. Ketteringham, Breakthroughs! Nietzche, Friedrich (Editor) and Walter Kaufmann (Translator), The Portable Nietzsche Nocera, Joseph, A Piece of the Action P PBS, Video Series, Ken Burns, Director, The Civil War Peck, M. Scott, The Road Less Traveled Pendergrast, Mark, For God, Country and Coca Cola Peters, Thomas, et. al., In Search of Excellence Pfeffer, Jeffrey, Competitive Advantage Through People Pfeffer, Jeffrey, Managing with Power Pirsig, Robert M., Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Plato, The Socratic Dialogues Plous, Scott, The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making Porter, Michael E., Competitive Strategy Prejean, Sister Helen, Dead Man Walking R Rand, Ayn, Atlas Shrugged Ray, Michael L. and Rochelle Myers, Creativity in Business Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet On the Western Front Rhodes, Richard, The Making of the Atomic Bomb Ricardo-Campbell, Rita, Resisting Hostile Takeovers Rich, Ben R. and Leo Janos, Skunk Works Rogers, Everett M., Diffusion of Innovations S Sandburg, Carl, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years (January 1927)—Library Binding Senge, Peter M., The Fifth Discipline Shaara, Michael, The Killer Angels Shirer, William L., Berlin Diary Shirer, William L., Gandhi: A Memoir Shirer, William L., The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Simonton, Dean Keith, Greatness: Who Makes History and Why Simpson, Joe, Touching the Void Stanley, Thomas and William Danko, The Millionaire Next Door Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath Stegnar, Wallace, Angle of Repose Stockdale, James and Sybil Stockdale, In Love and War Stone, Irving, Love is Eternal Stone, Irving, Men to Match My Mountains Stone, Irving, The Agony and the Ecstasy Stone, Irving, The Origin Superstar Teachers - A collection of Tapes of courses from great university professors, offered by the Teaching Company, 1-800-TEACH12, my favorites listed below: Superstar Teachers - Abraham Lincoln In His Own Words Superstar Teachers - American Civil War Superstar Teachers - Bach and the High Baroque Superstar Teachers - Comedy, Tragedy, History: William Shakespeare Superstar Teachers - Energy & Climate: Science in the Age of Global Warming Superstar Teachers - Freedom: The Philosophy of Liberation Superstar Teachers - God and Mankind: Comparative Religions Superstar Teachers - The Good King: The American Presidency Since the Depression Superstar Teachers - Great American Presidents Superstar Teachers - Great Ideas of Psychology Superstar Teachers - The Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition Superstar Teachers - The Great World Religions: Beliefs, Practices, and Histories Superstar Teachers - The Greenberg Series on Western Concert Music Superstar Teachers - Haydn, his life and music Superstar Teachers - History of Ancient Rome Superstar Teachers - The History of Hitler’s Empire Superstar Teachers - Is Anyone Really Normal? Perspectives on Abnormal Psychology Superstar Teachers - Love and Vengeance Superstar teachers - Modern Physics Superstar Teachers - Mozart, his life and music Superstar Teachers - Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition Superstar Teachers - No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life Superstar Teachers - The Old Testament: An Introduction Superstar Teachers - The Origin of the Modern Mind Superstar Teachers - Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire Superstar Teachers - Stravinksy, his life and music Superstar Teachers - Symphonies of Beethoven Superstar Teachers - Tchaikovsky, his life and music T Taylor, John, Storming the Magic Kingdom Toland, John, The Rising Sun Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace Tuchman, Barbara, Stilwell and the American Experience in China Tuchman, Barbara W., The Guns of August Tuchman, Barbara W., The March of Folly Tuchman, Barbara, The Zimmerman Telegram Tufte, Edward R., Envisioning Information Tufte, Edward R., A Visual Display of Quantitative Information Tufte, Edward R., Visual Explanations Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn U United States Statistical Dept., Statistical Abstract of the United States V Vaillant, George E., Adaptation to Life W Wallerstein, Judith S., The Good Marriage Walsh, Bill, Building a Champion Walton, Sam, Made in America Ward, Geoffrey C., A First-Class Temperament Washington, Booker T., Up From Slavery Watson, Jr., Thomas J., A Business and its Beliefs Watson, Thomas J., Father, Son, & Co. Weick, Karl E., The Social Psychology of Organizing Wessels, Norm K. and Janet L. Hopson, Biology White, Theodore Harold, Breach of Faith White, Theodore Harold, In Search of History Wills, Gary, Lincoln at Gettysburg Wolfe, Tom, The Bonfire of the Vanities Wolfe, Tom, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Wolfe, Tom, The Right Stuff Wooden, John R., They Call Me Coach