You love business books?

So u love business books. And you religiously pursue all those hot sellers showing up in the marquee. But they are so many of them. How do you make sure you separate the wheat and the chaff.

I tried to rummage through the Internet to pick that one book to gift a well read friend of mine, an oppurtunity to impress him. And then I bumped across a site which listed favourite books of people about whom busines books are written. So here I compile them for you, the list straight from the horse's mouth of the who's who in the industry.


Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief, Wired magazine; author, The Long Tail

1. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2001)

2.The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger (2000)

3.Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly (1995)

4.Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology by George Gilder (1989)
5. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2000)