Standing Room Only

What are business owners reading these days? The top 10 business books at press time (based on net sales) were:

1. The Dilbert Principle, by Scott Adams (Harper Business, $20)

2. The Ernst & Young Tax Guide 1996 (John Wiley & Sons, $14.95)

3.Beardstown Ladies' Common Sense Investment Guide: How We Beat the Stock Marketand How You Can, Too, by the Beardstown Ladies Investment Club (Hyperion, $10.95)

4. Learn to Earn, by Peter Lynch (Simon & Schuster, $13)

5. What Color Is Your Parachute-1996, by Richard Nelson Bolles (Ingram, $14.95)

6. The Road Ahead, by Bill Gates (Penguin Books, $29.95)

7. Investing for Dummies, by Eric Tyson (IDG Books Worldwide, $19.99)

8. J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 1996, by the J.K. Lasser Institute (Macmillan, $14.95)

9. Beardstown Ladies' Stitch-In-Time Guide to Growing Your Nest Egg, by the Beardstown Ladies Investment Club (Hyperion, $19.95)

10. The Future of Capitalism, by Lester Thurow (William Morrow & Co., $25)

Source: Waldenbook Co. Inc.

This article was originally published in the July 1996 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Standing Room Only.