What Corporate America Is Reading; 800-CEO-READ, America's Leading Business Book Retailer, Announces Best-selling Business Books of 2005

MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 2005--800-CEO-READ, the leading distributor of business books in the country, today released their annual list of top-selling books. Leading the list is Blue Ocean Strategy, by Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, followed by The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business by Steven S. Little, and Michael Abrashoff's It's Your Ship.

"The list shows the diverse needs of people in business," noted Jack Covert, 8CR's President and Founder. "Interest in core areas remains strong, and I'm also pleased to see it includes Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. Increasingly, I'm finding that customers are looking for titles that tell them how to look at the world differently rather than how to run a company."

The 800-CEO-READ Best Books of 2005:

1.   Blue Ocean Strategy, Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
2.   The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business, Steven S. Little
3.   It's Your Ship, Michael Abrashoff
4.   Overpromise and Overdeliver, Rick Barrera
5.   Radical Leap, Steve Farber
6.   The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, 
     Jay Papasan
7.   The One Thing You Need to Know, Marcus Buckingham
8.   Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, Jane Hyun
9.   The Resilient Enterprise, Yossi Sheffi
10.  Return on Customer, Don Peppers, Martha Rogers
11.  Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Eker
12.  Why Business People Speak Like Idiots, Brian Fugere, 
     Chelsea Hardaway, John Warshawsky
13.  Twilight in the Desert, Matthew R. Simmons
14.  How Full Is Your Bucket, Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton
15.  Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
16.  Brand Sense, Martin Lindstrom
17.  The Power of We, Jonathan M. Tisch, Karl Weber
18.  When Generations Collide, Lynne C. Lancaster, David Stillman
19.  Ten Minute Marketer's Secret Formula, Tom Feltenstein
20.  Time Off for Good Behavior, Mary Lou Quinlan
21.  Trading Up (Revised Edition), Michael Silverstein, Neil Fiske
22.  The Art of the Start, Guy Kawasaki
23.  The Big Moo, Group of 33, Seth Godin
24.  Time Traps, Todd Duncan
25.  What the CEO Wants You to Know, Ram Charan

The complete list is available online at http://800ceoread.com/blog/archives/005895.html.

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