What Books the CEOs Are Reading This Summer

FORTUNE -- Summer is in full swing. For most people, this means hitting the beach, firing up the barbecue, and relaxing poolside -- or at least daydreaming about it from the office. For CEOs, it may mean retreating to a Tuscan villa, docking the yacht in a remote island, or putting out fires in the boardroom. Regardless of their destination, C-suite executives are using a little downtime to catch up on their reading.

Fortune polled a number of executives to find out what's on their reading list. They're diving into everything from the glut of books about the financial crisis, to the latest management self-help books, to tomes on history's great leaders. A few execs are even getting lost in works of fiction by Stieg Larsson, Tom Wolfe and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Brad Alford, Chairman and CEO, Nestlé USA 1776, by David McCullough Drive, by Daniel Pink A paperback spy or mystery novel from the airport 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 North America 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 (Kindle edition), by Michael Pollan This Time Is Different (Kindle edition), by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff Lisa Stone, CEO, BlogHer Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design, MobiPocket (Kindle Edition), 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 (Millennium III), 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  

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