Fortune's Summer 2010 CEO reading list

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Right after Jamie Dimon unveiled his summer reading list for interns, Fortune polled a number of executives to find out what's on their summer reading list.

Brad Alford, Chairman and CEO, Nestlé USA

1776 by David McCullough
Drive by Daniel Pink

Mary Erdoes, CEO, JP Morgan Asset Management

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System by Henry M. Paulson

Jim O'Donnell, President, BMW

Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster, by Paul Ingrassia
Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger by Dan Jenkins

Marc Cenedella, founder and CEO, The Ladders

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis
Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made by Richard Toye
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Alan Miller, CEO, Universal Health (UHS, Fortune 500)

Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made by Richard Toye
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Presidential Leadership: 15 Decisions that Changed the Nation by Nick Ragone

Greg Sebasky, CEO, Philips Electronics North America

Dynamics of Taking Charge by John Gabarro
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Food Rules by Michael Pollan
This Time Is Different by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

Lisa Stone, CEO, BlogHer

Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design by Robert Hoeckman
Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore

Tom Wilson, CEO, Allstate (ALL, Fortune 500)

Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome, by Robert Harris
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge

Gilbert Harrison, Chairman, Financo, Inc.

The Sigma Protocol by Robert Ludlum
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

George Barrett, CEO, Cardinal Health (CAH, Fortune 500)

A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean
Open by Andre Agassi
Chaos and Organization in Health Care by Thomas H. Lee, MD and James J. Mongan, MD

Heath Golden, CEO, Hampshire Group (HAMP)

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

Christine Jacobs, CEO and President, Theragenics Corporation (TGX)

A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
Enough by John C. Bogle

Les Berglass, Chairman, Berglass and Associates

China in the 21st Century, by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick
Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Jim Greenwood, CEO, Concentra

Why Is Everyone Smiling by Paul Spiegelman
47 Ways to Make Your Organization Exceptional by John Miller

Stephen Wiehe, CEO, SciQuest

61 Hours by Lee Childs
 
Hehe -- Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut. Good choice. Stieg Larsson I've mentioned before. Hat off to Tom Wilson for reading Harris and the turgid Dostoyevsky. Wolfe's A Man in Full isn't too bad. Anything by Michael Pollan can be recommended.
 
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