313 books
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The King of Torts (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as industry)
avg rating 3.73 — 92,077 ratings — published 2003
The Appeal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as industry)
avg rating 3.65 — 63,991 ratings — published 2008
Disclosure (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as industry)
avg rating 3.80 — 75,154 ratings — published 1994
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as industry)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,118 ratings — published 2006
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as industry)
avg rating 4.38 — 45,262 ratings — published 2022
Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as industry)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,094 ratings — published 2012
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as industry)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,035 ratings — published 1991
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as industry)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,345 ratings — published 2012
The Curse of Lono (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as industry)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,326 ratings — published 1983
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as industry)
avg rating 3.69 — 410,616 ratings — published 1957
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as industry)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,335 ratings — published 2013
The Cobra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as industry)
avg rating 3.81 — 11,671 ratings — published 2010
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,720 ratings — published 2023
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,887 ratings — published 2018
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.41 — 7,716 ratings — published 2019
Happy Ever After (Bride Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.19 — 64,214 ratings — published 2010
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.14 — 413,054 ratings — published 2014
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,365 ratings — published 2013
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.15 — 39,335 ratings — published 1998
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.13 — 821,800 ratings — published 2010
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.31 — 173,783 ratings — published 2010
Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.04 — 37,088 ratings — published 2004
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,159 ratings — published 2006
A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities (Crumley Mysteries, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 3.55 — 2,849 ratings — published 1990
Fantasy in Death (In Death, #30)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.28 — 29,117 ratings — published 2010
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,222 ratings — published 2009
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.20 — 104,837 ratings — published 2014
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,111 ratings — published 2022
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,763 ratings — published 2020
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,319 ratings — published 2018
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,165 ratings — published 2000
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.40 — 286,818 ratings — published 2018
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,514 ratings — published 2013
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,941 ratings — published 2012
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.19 — 113,128 ratings — published 2014
Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,864 ratings — published 2014
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.25 — 50,969 ratings — published 2013
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,345 ratings — published 2014
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,894 ratings — published 1997
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,159 ratings — published 2012
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,382,001 ratings — published 2011
Kill Your Friends (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.89 — 15,300 ratings — published 2008
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,877 ratings — published 2001
Shock Wave (Dirk Pitt, #13)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.09 — 23,045 ratings — published 1996
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,584 ratings — published 2002
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,497 ratings — published 2003
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.80 — 375,803 ratings — published 1991
Inside Steve's Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,477 ratings — published 2008
Thank You for Smoking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,302 ratings — published 1994
The Scarecrow (Jack McEvoy, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #20)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.11 — 57,818 ratings — published 2009
“We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.”
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