41 Best Industry Books

Hard Landing

The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos

by Thomas Petzinger Jr.

Creativity, Inc.

Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

by Donald N. Thompson

The Reckoning

by David Halberstam

The Fish That Ate the Whale

The Life and Times of America's Banana King

by Rich Cohen

The House of Morgan

An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

by Ron Chernow

Dethroning the King

The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon

by Julie MacIntosh

Genentech

The Beginnings of Biotech

by Sally Smith Hughes

Digital Gold

Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money

by Nathaniel Popper

Cable Cowboy

John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business

by Mark Robichaux

The Alchemy of Air

A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler

by Thomas Hager

The World for Sale

Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources

by Javier Blas

The Emperors of Chocolate

Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars

by Joël Glenn Brenner

The Box

How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

The Attention Merchants

The Epic Struggle to Get Inside Our Heads

by Tim Wu

How Music Got Free

A Story of Obsession and Invention

by Stephen Richard Witt

Fire in the Valley

The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer

by Michael Swaine

Empires of Light

Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

by Jill Jonnes

Fast Food Nation

The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

by Eric Schlosser

Shoe Dog

A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

by Phil Knight

More Money Than God

Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

by Sebastian Mallaby

The Big Payback

The History of the Business of Hip-Hop

by Dan Charnas

The Perfectionists

How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

by Simon Winchester

Lords of Strategy

The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World

by Walter Kiechel

The Master Switch

The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

The Prize

The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin

The Goal

A Process of Ongoing Improvement

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Masters of Doom

How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

Bad Pharma

How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

by Ben Goldacre

Easy Riders Raging Bulls

How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

by Peter Biskind

Barbarians at the Gate

The Fall of RJR Nabisco

by Bryan Burrough

Nothing Like It In the World

The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

by Stephen E. Ambrose

The Elements of Power

Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

by David S. Abraham

Setting the Table

The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business

by Danny Meyer

The World in a Grain

The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization

by Vince Beiser

Powerhouse

The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency

by James Andrew Miller

Liar's Poker

by Michael Lewis

Junkyard Planet

Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

by Adam Minter

The Power Broker

Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

by Robert A. Caro

The Power Law

Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

by Sebastian Mallaby