The folks over at the 800-CEO-Read Blog point out the Hudson's (which has many shops that sell books in airports) has just come out with a list of the best business books (and lists in other topics as well) for 2007. Here it is:
* Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner
* Microtrends by Mark Penn
* The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton
* The Black Swan by Nasim Nicholas Taleb
* Wikinomics by Don Tapscott
The Hudson's website is here; my favorite book on this list is The Black Swan -- it grabs you and sweeps you along, because it is smart and because Taleb comes across as such an intriguing human-being. The book that is missing from this list, in my biased opinion is the Heath brother's Made to Stick. The press release reports that they will be displaying the lists in Hudson's stores starting in early January.
P.S. I've written a bit about 1-800-CEO-Read before. They specialize in bulk sales of business books, and have the most competent and warm customer service in the book business. If you are going to buy one book, Amazon is cheaper, but once you hit about 25, Amazon and other large houses often mess-up the orders, and CEO-Read is the same or cheaper. I've never had the folks at CEO-Read make a mistake, and the best part is that -- although you can order online -- you can also call or e-mail the remarkably warm and competent people who work there. If something does go wrong, or you are pushing a tight deadline, they will take extraordinary measures to help-out. And the two guys who run CEO Read, Todd and Jack, not only know a huge amount about business books (Todd loves business books more than anyone I've ever met), they set the tone for a place that is asshole-free. Actually, that is too weak, I think that The Power of Nice describes the operation a lot better!
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