Back in July, Fortune polled a number of executives to find out what’s on their summer reading list. They’re read everything from books about the financial crisis to tomes on history’s great leaders. Of course there are a number management self-help and how-do-I-run-this-damn-company? books, as well as a handful of fiction. The results of the poll are below:
Brad Alford, Chairman and CEO, Nestlé USA
Mary Erdoes, CEO, JP Morgan Asset Management
- The Facebook Effect, by David Kirkpatrick
- On the Brink, by Henry M. Paulson
Jim O’Donnell, President, BMW
- Crash Course, by Paul Ingrassia
- Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World’s Best Golf Writing, by Dan Jenkins
Marc Cenedella, founder and CEO, The Ladders
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis
- Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made, by Richard Toye
- Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel, by Kurt Vonnegut
Alan Miller, CEO, Universal Health
- Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made, by Richard Toye
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis
- Presidential Leadership: 15 Decisions That Changed the Nation, by Nick Ragone
Greg Sebasky, CEO, Philips Electronics North America
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The Dynamics of Taking Charge, by John Gabarro
Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great, by Jim Collins Food Rules (Kindle edition),
Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, by Michael Pollan
This Time Is Different, by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
Lisa Stone, CEO, BlogHer
- Designing the Obvious, by Robert Hoeckman
- Bite Me: A Love Story, by Christopher Moore
Tom Wilson, CEO, Allstate
- Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome, by Robert Harris
- The Brothers Karamazov (Bantam Classics), by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, by Peter Senge
Gilbert Harrison, Chairman, Financo, Inc.
- The Sigma Protocol, by Robert Ludlum
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson
- Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, by Alice Schroeder
George Barrett, CEO, Cardinal Health
- A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean
- Open: An Autobiography, by Andre Agassi
- Chaos and Organization in Health Care, by Thomas H. Lee, MD and James J. Mongan, MD
Heath Golden, CEO, Hampshire Group
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, by Alice Schroeder
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis
Christine Jacobs, CEO and President, Theragenics Corporation
- A Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe
- Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, by John C. Bogle
Les Berglass, Chairman, Berglass and Associates
- China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
- The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Nomad: From Islam to America, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Jim Greenwood, CEO, Concentra
- Why is Everyone Smiling?, by Paul Spiegelman
- Outstanding!: 47 Ways to Make Your Organization Exceptional, by John Miller
Stephen Wiehe, CEO, SciQuest
- 61 Hours: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher Novels), by Lee Childs