Fortune CEO Summer Reading List

Wed, 07/14/2010 - 15:05

By Alex Konrad, contributorJuly 9, 2010: 2:44 PM ET

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. Read more here.

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