BNET's Best Business Books of 2008

These ten business books, from across the spectrum, received the most "yes" votes from BNET readers, with links to relevant BNET content on books or authors:

One Hen, Katie Smith Milway
Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus
Back of the Napkin, Dan Roam
"Hot, Flat, and Crowded," Thomas Friedman
"Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell
When Markets Collide, Mohamed El-Erian
Ahead of the Curve, Philip Delves Broughton
A Sense of Urgency, John P. Kotter
Who's Your City?, Richard Florida

The books with the highest percentage of yes votes creates a different top 10:

Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus-- 100 percent
One Hen, Katie Smith Milway -- 91 percent
Back of the Napkin, Dan Roam -- 86 percent
Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely -- 79 percent
A Sense of Urgency, John P. Kotter -- 79 percent
Crowdsourcing, Jeff Howe, 78 percent
"Grown Up Digital," Don Tapscott -- 78 percent
"The Snowball," Alice Schroeder -- 78 percent
"The Game-Changer," A.J. Lafley and Ram Charan -- 77 percent
"Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell -- 76 percent

Thanks to all those who voted. Happy and productive reading!

Michael Fitzgerald

Michael Fitzgerald writes about innovation and other big ideas in business for publications like the New York Times, The Economist, Fast Company, Inc. and CIO. He’s worked as a writer or editor at Red Herring, ZDNet, TechTV and Computerworld, and has received numerous awards as a writer and editor. Most recently, his piece on the hacker collective the l0pht won the 2008 award for best trade piece from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He was also a 2007 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow in Science and Religion.

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