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Book Recommendations for Biography & History in 2023

There are 40 biography & history books recommended by the community in 2023.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
Jim Collins
4.0
Comments: 8
Avaliable on Amazon
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
4.6
Comments: 6
Avaliable on Amazon
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu
4.5
Comments: 6
Avaliable on Amazon
Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA (Politics and Society in Modern America)
Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA (Politics and Society in Modern America)
Benjamin C. Waterhouse
5.0
Comments: 4
Avaliable on Amazon
Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies)
Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies)
Robert R. Locke, J.-C. Spender
4.2
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
Brian Bagnall
4.5
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
Barry Werth
3.8
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft
Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft
David Bank
4.1
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from
Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from
Thomas Frank, Matt Weiland
4.3
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
Nathaniel Popper
4.0
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (Good to Great)
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (Good to Great)
Jim Collins
4.4
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Apple
Apple
Jim Carlton
4.2
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Roger Lowenstein
4.5
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu
4.4
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
Tom Mueller
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Liaquat Ahamed
4.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
David Kirkpatrick
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business
It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business
Jason Jennings, Laurence Haughton
4.1
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century
The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century
Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Douglas L. Kruse
4.3
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
MCI:Failure Is Not an Option, How MCI Invented Competition in Telecommunications
MCI:Failure Is Not an Option, How MCI Invented Competition in Telecommunications
Lorraine Spurge
5.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Decline and Fall of IBM: End of an American Icon?
The Decline and Fall of IBM: End of an American Icon?
Robert X Cringely
3.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business
The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business
Christopher Leonard
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts
F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts
Philip J. Kaplan
3.1
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Adam Tooze
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired-and Secretive-Company Really Works
Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired-and Secretive-Company Really Works
Adam Lashinsky
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
4.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
IBM Redux: Lou Gerstner and the Business Turnaround of the Decade
IBM Redux: Lou Gerstner and the Business Turnaround of the Decade
Doug Garr
3.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900
Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900
Stephen R. Bown
4.1
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love
Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love
Richard Sheridan
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness
The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness
Steven Levy
4.1
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Growing a Business
Growing a Business
Paul Hawken
4.6
Avaliable on Amazon
Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. Alexander
4.3
Avaliable on Amazon
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
John Markoff
3.9
Avaliable on Amazon
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
Nathaniel Popper
0.0
Avaliable on Amazon
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Michael Moss
4.6
Avaliable on Amazon
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
David Kirkpatrick
4.3
Avaliable on Amazon
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and HowIt's Transforming the American Economy
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and HowIt's Transforming the American Economy
Charles Fishman
4.3
Avaliable on Amazon
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
Tim Wu
4.6
Avaliable on Amazon