A Different World

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

1.Your Money or Your Life, by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin (Penguin Books, $11.95)

2.The 1996 What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles (Ingram, $14.95)

3.J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 1996, by J.K. Lasser (McMillan, $14.95)

4.Beardstown Ladies' Common-Sense Investment Guide: How We Beat the Stock Market and How You Can, Too, by The Beardstown Ladies Investment Club (Hyperion, $19.95)

5.The Warren Buffett Way, by Robert C. Hagstrom (Random House, $14.95)

6.Make It So: Leadership Lessons From Star Trek The Next Generation, by Wess Roberts and Rill Ross (Pocket Books, $22)

7.Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, by Roger Lowenstein (Ramdon House, $27.50)

8.The One Minute Manager, by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson (Berkley Publishing, $9.95)

9.Selling for Dummies, by Tom Hopkins (IDG Books, $16.99)

10.Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People, by Michael A. Cusumano and Richard W. Selby (Simon & Schuster

This article was originally published in the February 1996 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: A Different World.