If ever there were a year in which we needed cogent business books, this is it. David Lidsky offers his 2009 favorites at Fast Company. Here's a sampling from the full list:
- Busted, Edmund Andrews: The author's personal story about getting burned in the housing bust makes abstract problems tangible.
- Bright-Sided, Barbara Ehrenreich: She "gleefully pops the positive-thinking bubble" that pervades society. Americans' zeal to be upbeat blinded them to the danger signs before the financial meltdown.