The Dean's List: Top Five Must-read Books

With the spring semester wrapping up, Sandeep Mazumder, the William E. Crenshaw Endowed Dean of the Hankamer School of Business, shared his list of must-read books for the summer months.

5. “Good to Great” by Jim Collins

A classic business book from Jim Collins that has several key takeaways for successful businesses that I deeply believe in myself. 

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4. “A History of Economics: The Past as the Present” by John Kenneth Galbraith

I won this book as an economics prize in my school in England when I was a teenager, and it helped captivate my mind toward being a future economist.  

Amazon: https://a.co/d/dl1LhH5

3. “Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan

A classic book for good reasons. This book paints a compelling picture of the struggle we face in our Christian walk, but that we have the hope and resources to sustain us. I found the second part of the story detailing Christiana’s journey to be more compelling than the first part, which describes her husband’s journey. 

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2. “Around the World in Eighty Days” by Jules Verne 

This is one of my father’s favorite books and he would read this to us often when I was young. It became a mainstay of my childhood. 

Amazon: https://a.co/d/1Ium5IN

1. The George Smiley series by John Le Carre

I enjoy reading a good mystery or spy thriller from time to time, and the Smiley series from Le Carre is one of the best ones out there in my opinion. 

Amazon: https://a.co/d/bIUMNiP