Business Book Club: A guide to what you should be reading

The National’s Business Book Club brings you all of our latest book reviews and business literature-related stories.

Losing the Signal: the Untold Story behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry, by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff

Exclusive book extract, part 1

Exclusive book extract, part 2

The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens, by Gabriel Zucman

Read an extract here

Read the review here

Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe, by Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage

Read our extract here

Phishing for Phools, by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller

Read an exclusive extract here

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Predictions, by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner

Read and exclusive extract here

Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter

Read an exclusive extract here

Black Horse Ride: The Inside Story of Lloyds and the Banking Crisis, by Ivan Fallon

Read an exclusive extract here

The Tyranny of Experts, by William Easterly

Review by Nobel winner Angus Deaton

Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy, by Mihir Sharma

Read our four-part extract here. The book was co-winner of the Tata Literature Live! Business Book of the Year and was longlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.

The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse, by Mohamed El Erian

Read our exclusive extract here

Postcapitalism: A Guide to our Future, by Paul Mason

Read our review here

The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business, by Duff McDonald

Read our review here

Leaders Ought to Know: 11 Ground Rules for Common Sense Leadership, by Phillip Van Hooser

Read our review here

The Thin Green Line, by Paul Sullivan

Read our review here

The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity From Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters, And Other Informal Entrepreneurs, by Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips

Read our review here

My Fight to the Top, by Michelle Mone

Read our review here

What executives from the UAE and beyond are reading this summer, by The National staff

Read our full story here

The Process Matters, by Joel Brockner

​• Read our exclusive extract here

Sabah Al Binali: Books to dip in and out of for success

Read the story from our columnist here

Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made, by Dominic Pacyga

Read our extract here

Empire of Cotton, by Sven Beckert

Read our excerpt here from the finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in history and winner of the Bancroft Prize for American history writing

The Confidence Game, by Maria Konnikova

Read our review here

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