The Top 10 Books of the First 10 Months of 2008

Booklist online has published its list of the Top 10 Business Books of 2008. It is only October, folks, though I suppose that everything that will be published this year is already in the hands of reviewers, and we all need to get a jump on our holiday shopping -- Halloween cometh, after all.

On the list, with links to BNET content about the books, or to author interviews:

The Big Switch, by Nicholas Carr
"Biography of the Dollar," by Craig Karmin
"A Bull in China," by Jim Rogers
"Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt," by Edward J. Renehan
"From Betamax to Blockbuster," by Joshua M. Greenberg
The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation, by A.G. Lafley and Ram Charan
"How Toyota Became #1," by David Magee
"It's Not about the Money," by Brent Kessel
"The Middle-Class Millionaire," by Russ Alan Prince and Lewis Schiff
A Sense of Urgency, by John P. Kotter

A brief sketch of each book is included at the link. It's a smorgasbord of choices -- financial advice, investing advice, business narratives, business how-tos. Something for everyone. I personally have read only one of the books, "The Big Switch," and I would recommend it.

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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