By Sarah Statz Cords
The other day I brought the Forbes “400 Richest People in America” issue home*. It wasn’t for me–after all, people who regularly wear T-shirts and tennis shoes to work and who don’t understand how things like “amortization” work don’t often read Forbes–but I did leaf through it a bit.
Imagine my surprise when I found an article titled “Books To Get Rich By” on page 31 (it’s available online, too). Laid out in all its glory was a librarian’s dream: a booklist organized by theme and wide-ranging in subject, author, and date published. Want to read about “how capitalism works today”? Consider Microtrends by Mark Penn and E. Kinney Zalesne. “Management Secrets”? In Search of Excellence by Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman or Good to Great by Jim Collins.
Granted, this list caught my eye because I work in a library where we have a large population of business readers. I really just enjoyed the reminder that it’s always a good idea to read things outside my comfort zone, because I never know when I might find something that helps the readers for whom I work. How about you? Found any good reading lists in unexpected places lately?
*Incidentally, for those of you who enjoy trivia, this is the first year the minimum wealth needed to get on the Forbes 400 exceeded $1 billion.
