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Loved Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from business & economics, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    Moneyball

    Michael Lewis · 2003 · Business & Economics

    How a cash-strapped baseball team used data to beat richer rivals; a gripping story about questioning everything.

  2. 2

    The Lean Startup

    Eric Ries · 2011 · Business & Economics

    Build, measure, learn: the method that reshaped how new ventures are run; essential for founders.

  3. 3

    Reminiscences of a stock operator

    Edwin Lefèvre · 1923 · Business & Economics

    Based on interviews with trader Jesse Livermore, called Larry Livingston in the book.

  4. 4

    Etiquette in society, in business, in politics and at home

    Emily Post · 1922 · Business & Economics

    First published in 1922 under title: Etiquette in society, in business, in politics, and at home. The standard reference book on etiquette for all occasions.

  5. 5

    One Hundred Percent

    Upton Sinclair · 1920 · Business & Economics

    The protagonist in this story is a luckless opportunist in the middle of the Red Scare who becomes embroiled in a plot by the D.A. to infiltrate and spy on an enclave of Socialists who have been wrong

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    The horse's mouth

    Joyce Cary · 1944 · Business & Economics

    Painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drun

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    Management information systems

    Kenneth C. Laudon · 1945 · Business & Economics

    Laudon’s essential case-based text for the study of IS in business today. Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm provides the most comprehensive overview of information systems, whi

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    The Titan

    Theodore Dreiser · 1914 · Business & Economics

    Frank Algernon Cowperwood, the central character of Theodore Dreiser's previous work "The Financier," is now out of the Eastern District Penitentiary of Philadelphia. He still has his mistress and his

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    The Intelligent Investor

    Benjamin Graham · 1949 · Business & Economics

    This classic text is annotated to update Graham's timeless wisdom for today's market conditions... The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people

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    Imperialism [and] Social classes; two essays

    Joseph Alois Schumpeter · 1951 · Business & Economics

    Joseph Schumpeter was not a member of the Austrian School, but he was an enormously creative classical liberal, and this 1919 book shows him at his best. He presents a theory of how states become empi

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