How do leaders find advice and new perspectives? They read a book.
Fortune recently asked 16 business leaders to recommend one book that changed their outlook on life or business this year. Here are their responses.
1. The Road to Character by David Brooks — recommended by Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, and Jim Stengel, business author and former CMO of P&G
2. Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager by Buzz Bissinger — recommended by Sam Yagan, CEO of IAC's Match Group
3. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck — recommended by Spencer Rascoff, CEO of Zillow Group
4. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos — recommended by Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, CEO of Gates Foundation
5. The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski — recommended by Glenn Hubbard, PhD, dean of ColumbiaBusinessSchool and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
6. The Martian by Andy Weir — recommended by Craig Barrett, PhD, former CEO of Intel
7. The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor — recommended by Melanie Whelan, CEO of SoulCycle
8. Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl — recommended by George Logothetis, CEO of Libra Group
9. Sorrow of the Moon: A Journey Through London by Iqbal Ahmed — recommended by Arne Sorenson, CEO of Marriott International
10. Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles A. Murray — recommended by Greg Mankiw, PhD, Harvard professor and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
11. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil — recommended by Christian Madsbjerg, founding partner of ReD Associates
12. The Centrist Manifesto by Charles Wheelan — recommended by Michael Porter, PhD, professor at HarvardBusinessSchool
13. Straight From the Gut by Jack Welch — recommended by Annika Falkengren, president and CEO of SEB Group
14. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander — recommended by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
15. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman — recommended by John Lilly, investment partner at Greylock Partners