(Accounting), Bruce Marshall (1958). The Accounting. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 374 p.). Originally an Accountant. Accountants--Fiction. 

(Accounting), Iris Weill Collett (1988). The Ultimate Rip-off: A Taxing Tale. (Sun Lakes, AZ: Thomas Horton & Daughters,    p.). Taxes--Fiction; taxation---fiction. 

--- (1988). Accosting the Golden Spire. (Sun Lakes, AZ: Thos. Horton & Daughters, 205 p.). Pseudonym for Larry Crumbley, Shelton Taxation Professor (Texas A & M). Basic accounting and taxation in a thriller format. 

(Accounting), Iris Weill Collett and L.M. Smith (1991). Trap Doors and Trojan Horses. (Sun Lakes, AZ: Thos. Horton & Daughters, p.). Accountants--Fiction; Auditing--Fiction. 

(Accounting), Jim Weikart (1991). Casualty Loss. (New York, NY: Walker, 181 p.). Founder, Weikart Tax Associates. Accountants--Fiction.

(Accounting), J. Dayne Lamb (1994). A Question of Preference: A Teal Stewart Mystery. (New York, NY: Kensington Books, 312 p.). Former Price Waterhouse CPA. Stewart, Teal (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Women accountants--Fiction; Boston (Mass.)--Fiction. 

(Accounting), Iris Weill Collett and Dana Forgione (1995). Costly Reflections in a Midas Mirror. (Sun Lakes, AZ: Thos. Horton & Daughters, p.       ). Managerial cost accounting.

(Accounting), Richard E. & Beverly A. Brown (1996). The Rose Engagement. (Kent, OH: Kent Information Services, 201 p.). White House (Washington, D.C.)--Fiction; Auditing--Fiction; Washington (D.C.)--Fiction.

(Accounting), Larry D. Crumbley, Stanley H. Kratchman (1996). Deadly Art Puzzle: Accounting For Murder. (Houston, TX: Dame Publishing, Inc., p.    ). Forensic accounting novel .

(Accounting), J. Dayne Lamb (1996). Unquestioned Loyalty: A Teal Stewart Mystery. (New York, NY: Zebra Books, 348 p.). Stewart, Teal (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Women in finance--Fiction; Boston (Mass.)--Fiction. 

(Accounting), Joseph T. Klempner (1997). Shoot the Moon. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 341 p.). Accountants--Fiction; Drug traffic--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

(Accounting), Tom Drury (1998). The Black Brook. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 319 p.). Accountants--Fiction; Restaurateurs--Fiction; Exiles--Fiction; New England--Fiction; Ardennes (France)--Fiction.

(Accounting), James K. Loebbecke (1999). The Auditor: An Instructional Novella. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 120 p.). Accountants--Fiction; Auditing--Fiction.

(Accounting), Larry D. Crumbley, Douglas E. Ziegenfuss, John J. O'Shaughnessy (2000). The Big "R": An Internal Auditing Action Adventure. (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 266 p.). Auditing, Internal--Fiction; Baseball--Management--Fiction; Serial murderers--Fiction. 

(Accounting), K.H. Spencer Pickett (2001). Internal Control: A Manager’s Journey. (New York, NY: Wiley, 370 p.). Senior Lecturer in Internal Auditing (Civil Service College in Berkshire, England). Industrial management--United States--Evaluation; Auditing, Internal. 

(Accounting), Mark S. Beasley, Frank A. Buckless (2002). MoviesDoorToDoor.com: How Accounting Helped Make the Difference. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 137 p.). Accounting--Study and teaching; Business--Study and teaching; Entrepreneurship--Study and teaching. 

(Accounting), Christopher Reich (2003). The Devil's Banker. (New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 389 p.). Terrorism--Prevention--Fiction; Government investigators--Fiction; International finance--Fiction; Forensic accounting--Fiction; Accountants--Fiction. 

(Accounting), Jerrold M. Solomon (2003). Who’s Counting: A Real-Life Account of People Changing Themselves and Their Company To Achieve Competitive Advantage. (Fort Wayne, IN: WCM Associates, 249 p.). Accountants--Fiction; Manufacturing industries--Accounting--Fiction; Executives--Fiction.

(Accounting), Richard Sanford (2004). The Internal Auditor. (Charleston, SC: BookSurge Publishing, 152 p.). Former Internal Auditor for Western Electric Company. Auditing, Internal--Fiction. Chief Auditor from a large business reminisces about his earlier experiences as an internal auditor for that Company in the 1970's. He remembers that internal auditing exists to protect the weak from temptation and to protect the strong from opportunity. His escapades uncover fraud, theft, sexual abuse, and discrimination.

(Advertising), Dorothy L. Sayers (1983). Murder Must Advertise. (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 344 p.). Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Private investigators--England--Fiction. 

(Advertising), David Levy (1998). Executive Jungle: A Novel. (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 263 p.). Advertising executives--Fiction; Advertising agencies--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

(Advertising), Matthew Beaumont (2002). The Book, the Film, the T-Shirt. (London, UK: HarperCollins, 306 p.). Advertising agencies--Fiction; Television advertising--Fiction.

(Advertising), Karen Robards (2004). Bait. (New York, NY: Putnam, 372 p.). Women in the advertising industry--Crimes against--Fiction; Government investigators--Fiction; Murder for hire--Fiction; Saint Louis (Mo.)--Fiction; New Orleans (La.)--Fiction. 

(Advertising), Kathryn Attalla (2006). Royal Blue. (New York, NY: Avalon Books. Advertising--Perfumes industry--Fiction; Nobility--Fiction; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

(Agribusiness), Frank Norris (1901). The Octopus; A Story of California. (New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 652 p.). Wheat farmers--Fiction; Railroads--Fiction; San Joaquin Valley (Calif.)--Fiction; California--Fiction. First of a trilogy. Deals with the production of wheat.

--- (1903). The Pit; A Story of Chicago. (New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 421 p.). Wheat trade--Fiction; Married people--Fiction; Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction. Second in trilogy. Centers on wheat futures trading in Chicago, probably the first novel on the subject of derivatives. Third in trilogy not completed before author's death (at 32).

(Automotive), Loren D. Estleman (1995). Edsel: A Novel of Detroit. (New York, NY: Mysterious Press, 291 p.). Automobile industry and trade--Fiction; Advertising--Automobiles--Fiction; Edsel automobile--Fiction; Detroit (Mich.)--Fiction.

(Automotive), Steven Madeline (2005). Corporate Warrior: A Novel Based on the Life of Lee Iacocca. (Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc, 176 p.). Automobiles - Fiction; Lee Iacocca - Fiction. Martin Iannelli was president of Cole Motors, one of the world’s largest and grandest corporations. He had paid all the dues of a meteoric rise through executive ranks—hard work, long hours, political savvy and company loyalty. It had brought him to an enviable pinnacle. But now this poor boy’s impossible dream would become an American executive nightmare. One that would shock the world. 

(Banking), Robert McNair Wilson (1934). Death of a Banker. (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott company, 312 p.). Bankers--Fiction.

(Banking), Robert Roderick (1981). The Greek Position: A Novel. (New York, NY: Wyndham Books, 553 p.). Bankers--Fiction; Finance--Fiction; Switzerland--Fiction.

(Banking), Ben B. Boothe (1990). Confessions of a Banker. (Austin, TX: Diamond Books, 270 p.). Bankers--Fiction; Texas, West--Fiction.

(Banking), A.E. Maxwell (1991). Money Burns: A Fiddler Novel. (New York, NY: Villard, 292 p.). Fiddler (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Fiora (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Private investigators--United States--Fiction; Women bankers--Fiction; Women detectives--California--Fiction; California, Southern--Fiction.

(Banking), Linda Gray Sexton (1991). Private Acts: A Novel. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 317 p.). Bankers--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

(Banking), Ethan Cooper (1999). In Control. (New York, NY: SJE Pub., 262 p.). Banks and banking--Fiction; Chief executive officers--Fiction; Minneapolis (Minn.)--Fiction. 

(Banking), Gregor Robinson (2000). Hotel Paradiso. (Vancouver, BC: Raincoast Books, 207 p.). Bankers--Fiction; Canadians--Bahamas--Fiction; Bahamas--Fiction.

(Banking), James R. Cook (2000). Full Faith & Credit: A Novel about Financial Collapse. (Minneapolis, MN: Blue Book Publications, p.). President, Investment Rarities. Financial crises--Fiction. 

(Banking), James Zagel (2002). Money to Burn. (New York, NY: Putnam, 371 p.). Chicago Circuit Court Judge. Bank robberies--Fiction; Judges--Fiction; Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction. 

(Banking), Adam Haslett (2010). Union Atlantic. (New York, NY: Nan A. Talese, 320 p.). Bankers -- Fiction; House Construction - Fiction; Massachusetts -- Fiction. Two story lines: 1) conflict between two neighbors, Charlotte Graves, retired history teacher (brother, Henry Graves, president of New York Federal Reserve), Doug Fanning, young banker, over piece of land; 2) financial troubles at bank where Doug works. Doug builds an ostentatious mansion on land that Charlotte's grandfather donated to the town of Finden, Massachusetts; she determines to oust him in court. As a senior manager of Union Atlantic bank, a major financial conglomerate, Doug is embroiled in the company's struggle to remain afloat. It is Charlotte's brother, Henry Graves, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, who must keep a watchful eye on Union Atlantic and the entire financial system. Drawn into Doug and Charlotte's intensifying conflict is Nate Fuller, a troubled high-school senior who unwittingly stirs powerful emotions in each of them.

(Banking), Justin Cartwright (2011). Other People’s Money: A Novel. (New York, NY: Bloomsbury USA, 272 p.). Bankers --Fiction. Human face on dishonesties, misdeeds of bankers who imperiled citizens during credit crisis of 2008: Tubal and Co. - small, privately owned bank in England run by Sir Harry Tubal, senile, longtime leader; Julian (son) takes over, fears what will happen when real value of hedge fund's toxic assets is discovered; Artair Macleod, ex-wife, Fleur, all but stolen by Sir Harry, discovers that his company's monthly grant has not been paid by Tubal; gets no answers from Julian, goes to local press (reporter begins asking questions); discovers that grant money is payoff from Fleur, written off by bank as charitable donation; scandal breaks; Julian tries to hide losses, massage balance sheet as family business plunges into chaos.

(Beverages), Ellen Akins (1998). Hometown Brew: A Novel. (New York, NY: Knopf, 227 p.). Businesswomen--Fiction; Industrial management--Fiction; Family-owned business enterprises--Fiction; Microbreweries--Fiction.

(Beverages), Rupert Thomson (1998). Soft! (New York, NY: Knopf, 307 p.). Soft drink industry--England--London--Marketing--Fiction.

(Beverages), Matthew Beaumont (2000). E: A Novel. (New York, NY: Plume, 346 p.). Advertising--Beverages--Fiction; Advertising agencies--Fiction; Soft drink industry--Fiction; London (England)--Fiction.

(Beverages), David Liss (2003). The Coffee Trader. (New York, NY: Random House, 390 p.). Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Fiction; Coffee industry--Fiction; Netherlands--History--1648-1714--Fiction; Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Fiction. 

(Beverages), Leslie A. Yerkes and Charles Decker (2003). Beans: Four Principles for Running a Business in Good Times or Bad: A Business Fable Taken from Real Life. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 154 p.). Small business--United States--Management; Customer services--United States; Quality of products--United States; Employee morale--United States. 

(Beverages), Boris Starling (2005). Vodka. (New York, NY: Dutton, 503 p.). Former Reporter (England’s Sun and Daily Telegraph). Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Fiction; Americans--Russia--Fiction; Drinking customs--Fiction; Vodka industry--Fiction; Women bankers--Fiction; Privatization--Fiction; Moscow (Russia)--Fiction. Alice Liddell, an American banker, has come to Moscow to oversee the privatization of Russia’s most famous vodka distillery—the Red October. Faced with the charismatic, ruthless Lev—distillery director and head of one of the warring mafia gangs—Alice’s very difficult job is starting to look impossible. Lev’s archenemy has vowed revenge on him, and a series of bizarre child killings is only adding to the complications—and the terror—of this dangerously volatile time.

(Biotechnology), Robert A. Burton (1997). Cellmates. (San Francisco, CA: Russian Hill Press, 271 p.). Genetics--Research--Fiction; Cloning--Fiction; San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.

(Biotechnology), Peter Pringle (2007). Day of the Dandelion. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 320 p.). Investigative reporter, foreign correspondent. Biotechnology; food supply; grain dealers. Researcher at Kew Gardens who is also an intelligence sleuth for Britain's secret service investigates murder, profit-hungry biotech companies, unscrupulous international grain dealers. Scientist at Oxford University's botany lab, working on a supergene that could allow control over the world's entire food supply, and seeds of a new corn plant, go missing.

(Businesswomen), Shirley Lord (1993). My Sister's Keeper. (New York, NY: Crown, 404 p.). Cosmetics industry -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Women -- Crimes against -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Businesswomen -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.

(Businesswomen), Jayne Ann Krentz (1997). Grand Passion. (New York, NY: Pocket Books, 416 p.). Businesswomen -- Northwest, Pacific -- Fiction; Northwest, Pacific -- Fiction.

(Businesswomen), Margaret Thomson Davis (1999). A Tangled Web. (London, UK: Century, 288 p.). Businesswomen -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- Fiction; Malicious accusation -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- Fiction; Glasgow (Scotland) -- Fiction.

(Businesswomen), Paula K. Martin and Joel Weinstein (2000). Project: Sabotage. (Cincinnati, OH: MartinTate, 259 p.). Women executives--Fiction; Private investigators--Gibraltar--Fiction; Project management--Fiction; Gibraltar--Fiction.

(Capitalism), Henry Hazlitt (1966). Time Will Run Back; A Novel About the Rediscovery of Capitalism. (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 368 p. [orig. pub. 1951]). Capitalism--Fiction.

(Capitalism), Philip Roth (1997). American Pastoral. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 423 p.). United States--History--1961-1969--Fiction. Seymour 'Swede' Levov, legendary athlete at his Newark high school, grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. 1968 - Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager—a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longer-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk.

(Capitalism), Maxx Barry (2003). Jennifer Government: A Novel. (New York, NY: Doubleday, 321 p.). 29-Year-Old Australian. Capitalism--Fiction. Thriller with brand placements.

(Capitalism), Peter Mountford (2011). A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 304 p.). Young men --Fiction; Capitalism --Fiction; Bolivia --Fiction. Set in La Paz Bolivia at the time of the election of President Evo Morales near the peak of the financial bubble in 2005; story of Ivy League graduate Gabriel de Boya's moral journey as he works for Calloway Group, unscrupulous Manhattan hedge fund, while pretending to be a freelance journalist; first mission is a test of his abilities: go to Bolivia to ferret out insider information about the plans of the controversial president-elect. If Gabriel succeeds, he will get a bonus that would make him secure for life (he’ll get canned if he doesn’t get info); trouble begins when Gabriel develops feelings for Lenka (single mother and the beautiful Bolivian spokeswoman for candidate Morales) even as he’s trying to use her.

(Capitalists), William D. Howells (1885). The Rise of Silas Lapham. (Boston, MA: Ticknor and Company, 515 p.). Businessmen--Fiction; Rich people--Fiction; Socialites--Fiction; Boston (Mass.)--Fiction. 

(Capitalists), Upton Sinclair (1908). The Moneychangers. (New York, NY: B. W. Dodge & Co., 316 p.). Capitalists and financiers--Fiction; Financial crises--Fiction; Young women--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; Rich people--Fiction; Speculation--Fiction; Socialites--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction. 

(Capitalists), Theodore Dreiser (1912). The Financier: A Novel. (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 779 p.). Capitalists and financiers--Fiction. Set in the Philadelphia of the mid-nineteenth century. Chaotic, changing circumstances of American financial system during that period.

--- (1914). The Titan. (New York, NY: John Lane Company, 551 p.). Capitalists and financiers--Fiction. Second in author's Trilogy of Desire. Set in Chicago.

--- (1947). The Stoic. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 310 p.). Capitalists and financiers--Fiction. Third in author's Trilogy of Desire. 

(Capitalists), Thomas Bertram Costain (1947). The Moneyman. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 434 p.). Coeur, Jacques, d. 1456 --Fiction; Capitalists and financiers--Fiction; France--History--Charles VII, 1422-1461--Fiction.

(Capitalists), J. B. Priestly (1983). Angel Pavement. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 494 p. [orig. pub. 1930]). Capitalists and financiers--Fiction; Small business--Fiction; Businessmen--Fiction; London (England)--Fiction.

(Capitalists), Susan Howatch (1977). The Rich Are Different. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 658 p.). Capitalists and financiers--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

(Capitalists), Paul Erdman (1993). Zero-Coupon. (New York, NY: Forge. Commercial crimes--United States--Fiction; Capitalists and financiers--Fiction.

(Capitalists), David Liss (2000). A Conspiracy of Paper. (New York, NY: Random House, 442 p.). Private investigators--England--London--Fiction; Capitalists and financiers--Fiction; Stock exchanges--Fiction; Jews--England--Fiction; London (England)--History--18th century--Fiction.  

(Capitalists), Brent Monahan (2000). The Jekyl Island Club: A Novel. (New York, NY: St. Martin's, 287 p.). Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913 --Fiction; Pulitzer, Joseph, 1847-1911 --Fiction; Capitalists and financiers--Fiction; Rich people--Fiction; Sheriffs--Fiction; Brunswick (Ga.)--Fiction; Georgia--Fiction.

(Capitalists), Philip Rosenberg (2002). House of Lords. (New York, NY: HarperCollins, 467 p.). Capitalists and financiers--Fiction; Money laundering--Fiction; Organized crime--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; Mafia--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

(Capitalists), Kenneth M. Morris (2003). Man in the Middle: A Novel. (Baltimore, MD: Bancroft Press, 280 p.). Former International Equities Trading Executive (Morgan Stanley, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Prudential-Bache). Mutual funds Fiction; Capitalists and financiers Fiction. 

(Capitalists), Conrad Allen (2006). Murder on the Oceanic. (New York, NY: St. Martin’s Minotaur, 288 p.). Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913 --Fiction; Oceanic (Steamship)--Fiction; Dillman, George Porter (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Masefield, Genevieve (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Private investigators--Fiction; Ocean travel--Fiction. The Oceanic sets sail from England's Port of Southampton for New York with one stop - to pick up financier and art collector J.P. Morgan, fresh from a continental buying spree. George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, the ship's detectives,  are slightly nervous about Morgan's presence, and his cargo.

(Capitalists), John Jakes (2006). The Gods of Newport: A Novel. (New York, NY: Dutton, 400 p.). United States--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction; Upper class--Fiction; Newport (R.I.)--Fiction. Gilded age of excess to thrilling life; extremes of greed, conspicuous consumption, and social striving. 1893 - Sam Driver, railroad mogul and one of the few surviving robber barons of the lawless years after the Civil War, knocks on the door of fabled Newport together with his daughter, Jenny, determined not to be turned away a second time, to avenge its snubbing of his dead wife and find a prestigious match for his daughter. The first time, his new money was tainted by his rapacious reputation and his dealings with some of the most dishonest businessmen of the era. The Drivers find that some who know Sam’s past won’t let it rest. One enemy with a pedigree of wealth and position vows to slam every door in Sam’s face.

(Capitalists), James Grippando (2010). Money to Burn: A Novel of Suspense. (New York, NY, Harper, 368 p.). Former Trial Lawyer. Capitalists and financiers --Fiction. Michael Cantella (31) is a rising star at Wall Street's premier investment bank, Saxton Silvers. Everything is great until Ivy Layton, the love of his life, vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas. Four years  pass; he has a successful career, beautiful new wife, wealth. He logs in to his computer, enters his password, pulls up his biggest investment account: Zero balance. He tries another, and another. All of them zero. Someone has wiped him out. His only clue is a new e-mail message: Just as planned. xo xo. His investment portfolio has been liquidated, his wife files for divorce, Saxton Silvers is suddenly on the brink of bankruptcy, he's the leading suspect in its ruin. What happened? Several signs point to his first wife, Ivy, as a key player. But how so? Why? For what?

(CEO), Hinda Sterling and Herb Selesnick (1989). Stockworth: An American CEO. (Cambridge, MA: Abt Books, 230 p.). Chief executive officers--United States--Caricatures and cartoons; Executives--United States--Caricatures and cartoons; American wit and humor, Pictorial.

(CEO), Michael Scott Rohan (1993). Cloud Castles. (New York, NY: Morrow, 327 p.). Chief executive officers--Fiction.

(CEO), Patrick Lencioni (1998). The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 134 p.). Chief executive officers--Fiction; Leadership--Fiction.

(CEO), James P. Bandler (2000). A Quick Killing. (Pittsburgh, PA: SterlingHouse Publisher, 188 p.). Chief executive officers--Fiction.

(CEO), Greg Costikyan (2000). First Contract. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 287 p.). High technology industries--Fiction; Chief executive officers--Fiction; Human-alien encounters--Fiction; Homeless persons--Fiction.

(CEO), Ariel Dorfman. (2001). Terapia. (New York, NY: Siete Cuentos Editorial. Chief executive officers--Fiction; Downsizing of organizations--Fiction; Psychotherapist and patient--Fiction.

(CEO), Robin Sharma (2003). The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO: A Remarkable Story about Living Your Heart’s Desires. (Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 221 p.). Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction; Chief executive officers--Fiction; Surfers--Fiction; Saints--Fiction.

(CEO), Robert A.G. Monks (2004). Reel and Rout. (Saint Simons Island, GA: Brook Street Press, 355 p.). Founder - Institutional Shareholder Services and LENS. Consolidation and merger of corporations--Fiction; Periodicals--Publishing--Fiction; Chief executive officers--Fiction; Mass media--Ownership--Fiction; Corporate culture--Fiction; Business ethics--Fiction. 

(CEO), Joseph Finder (2005). Company Man: A Novel. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 416 p.). Chief executive officers--Fiction; Stalking victims--Fiction; Single fathers--Fiction; Layoff systems--Fiction; Corporations--Fiction; Policewomen--Fiction; Widowers--Fiction; Michigan--Fiction. 

(China), Robert S. Elegant (1977). Dynasty: A Novel. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 625 p.). Businesspeople--China--Hong Kong--Fiction.

(Commodities), Frank Norris; edited with an introd. and explanatory notes by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. and Gwendolyn Jones (1993). The Pit: A Story of Chicago. (New York, NY: Penguin, 386 p. [orig. pub. 1903]). Wheat trade--Fiction; Married people--Fiction; Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.

(Computers), William Gibson, Bruce Sterling (1991). The Difference Engine. (New York, NY: Bantam Books, 429 p.). Babbage, Charles; Difference Engine No. 2; Computers--Fiction. 1885 - Industrial Revolution is in full swing in scientifically advanced London, governed by an intellectual elite led by Prime Minister Byron, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines (computers). Charles Babbage perfects Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. Young paleontologist comes into possession of a dangerous set of perforated cards, once in the possession of an executed Luddite leader's daughter, later in the hands of "Queen of Engines" Ada Byron (daughter of prime minister Lord Byron), finally given to scientist Edward Mallory who knows the cards are a gambling device that can be read with a specialized Engine; soon threatened and libeled by the Luddites, and he and his associates confront the scoundrels in a violent showdown.

(Computers), Mona Simpson (1996). A Regular Guy: A Novel. (New York, NY: Knopf, 372 p.). Biological Sister of Steve Jobs. Girls--Fiction; Inventors--Fiction; Fathers and daughters--Fiction; California--Fiction. 

(Computers), Clyde James Aragón (1997). The PC Affair: A Comic Mystery of Murder, Mayhem, and Data Processing. (Albuquerque,. NM: Cliff Zone Books, 147 p.). Computer industry--Fiction; California--Fiction.

(Computers), Ellen Ullman (2003). The Bug: A Novel. (New York, NY: Nan A. Talese, 355 p.). Computer software developers--Fiction; Computer programmers--Fiction; Computer industry--Fiction; Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)--Fiction.

(Computers), Chetan Bhagat (2005). One Night @ the Call Center. (New Delhi, India: Rupa & Co., 290 p.). Call center; customer relations--Fiction. Fictional account of one eventful night at a call centre handling customer queries for a US-based computer and appliances company - six call centre "agents'' whose difficult boss, unreasonable customers and low self-esteem take such a huge toll on them that only a phone call from God can bail them out of the crisis.

(Computers), Janna Levin (2006). A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines. (New York, NY: Knopf, 240 p.). Assistant Professor of Physics (Barnard). Go¨del, Kurt--Fiction; Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954 --Fiction; Logicians--Fiction; Mathematicians--Fiction; Genius--Fiction; Philosophy--Fiction. The Austrian Kurt Gödel (1906–78) and the British Alan Turing (1912–54) never met, but they were intensely aware of each other's work - incompleteness theorem vs. mechanical decision theory. Author cuts between their tortured life stories - one a paranoid old man, living in solitude in Princeton; the other skewed by perceived autism, hounded for his homosexuality.

(Computers), Keith Raffel (2006). Dot Dead: A Silicon Valley Mystery. (Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, 280 p.). Founder, UpShot Corporation (sold to Siebel Systems). Computer industry--Employees--Fiction; Housekeepers--Crimes against--Fiction; Murder--Investigation--Fiction; Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)--Fiction. Ian Michaels, hot Silicon Valley tech executive, discovers a young, beautiful woman stabbed to death in his house - his maid. Far from the gray-haired, cookie-baking grandmother he imagined her to be, Gwendolyn was a stranger to Ian, but her family, old boyfriend, and the Palo Alto police seem to think they were a couple. And despite his best efforts to prove otherwise, the evidence against Ian is growing. It looks like someone is framing Ian for murder, but who? 

(Conglomerates), Rita Jenrette (1985). Conglomerate. (New York, NY: Richardson & Steirman, 284 p.). Conglomerate corporations--Fiction; Consolidation and merger of corporations--Fiction; Defense industries--Fiction; Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

(Conglomerates), David Baldacci (1997). Total Control. (New York, NY: Warner Books, 520 p.). Aircraft accidents--Fiction; Missing persons--Fiction; Conglomerate corporations--Fiction. Wife tries to find missing husband - sheds light on ways of big business.

(Construction), Nina Coombs Pykare (1998). A Question of Trust. (New York, NY: Avalon Books, 185 p.). Concrete construction industry--Fiction; Businesswomen--Fiction.

(Corporate Culture), Sloan Wilson (1955). The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 304 p.). World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Fiction; Inheritance and succession--Fiction; Illegitimate children--Fiction; Corporate culture--Fiction; Suburban life--Fiction. 

(Corporate Culture), Elliotte R. Little (1968). Candles for the Boardroom; A Novel of Subjective Values in American Business Life. (Kingsport, TN: Kingsport Press, 314 p.). Corporate culture--United States--Fiction; Business--Fiction.

(Corporate Culture), Floyd Kemske (1992). Lifetime Employment: A Novel. (Highland Park, NJ: Catbird Press, 236 p.). Corporate culture--Fiction.

(Corporate Culture), Herb Stansbury (1993). Executive Smart Charts & Other Insider Revelations on Corporate Insanity. (San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 229 p.). Industrial management--Charts, diagrams, etc.--Caricatures and cartoons; American wit and humor, Pictorial.

(Corporate Culture), Brent Wade (1993). Company Man: A Novel. (New York, NY: Doubleday, 219 p.). Afro-American executives--Fiction; Corporate culture--Fiction; Baltimore (Md.)--Fiction.

(Corporate Culture), Floyd Kemske (1993). The Virtual Boss: A Novel. (New Haven, CT: Catbird Press, 237 p.). Computer software industry--United States--Fiction; Computers--Fiction; Corporate culture--Fiction. 

--- (1995). Human Resources. (North Haven, CT: Catbird Press, 223 p.). Industrial management--Fiction; Corporate culture--Fiction; Vampires--Fiction.

(Corporate Culture), Neal Barrett, Jr. (2004). Prince of Christler-Coke. (Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 244 p.). Consolidation and merger of corporations--Fiction; Corporate culture--Fiction; Social classes--Fiction; Corporations--Fiction; Prisoners--Fiction; Escapes--Fiction. Adventures of Asel Iacola, former head of the Christler-Coke corporation, who has been banished to a corporate prison after a hostile takeover. 

(Corporate Culture), Richard K. Morgan (2004). Market Forces. (New York, NY: Ballantine, 400 p.). Former Tutor in the English Language Teaching Division (Strathclyde University). Success in business--Fiction; Corporate culture--Fiction; Commercial crimes--Fiction; Big business--Fiction; Businessmen--Fiction; Antiheroes--Fiction; Young men--Fiction. 

(Corporations), Elizabeth Gage (1991). The Master Stroke. (New York, NY: Pocket Books, 373 p.). Corporations--Fiction; Business--Fiction.

(Corporations), Colin Harrison (1993). Bodies Electric: A Novel. (New York, NY: Crown, 385 p.). Corporations--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

(Corruption), William Makepeace Thackery (1888). The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond. (Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 430 p.). Finance in literature. Seemingly respectable life insurance director Brough flees to France with the firm's clients' money, leaving the honest clerk Samuel Titmarsh, (who had purchased shares in the company using his aunt's diamond heirloom as credit) to assume full financial responsibility.

(Corruption), Émile Zola. Tr. from the French by Benj. R. Tucker (1891). Money. (Boston, MA: B. R. Tucker, 345 p.). Speculation, bank failure. Set in the Paris Bourse or Stock Exchange.

(Corruption), Studies edited by E. Preston Dargan and Bernard Weinberg (1942). The Evolution of Balzac's Comedie Humaine. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 441 p. [orig. pub. 1942]). Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850. Comédie humaine. Power and importance of money is a pervasive theme in The Human Comedy, great sequence of novels depicting French society in first half of 19th century. 

(Corruption), William Hobart Royce (1946). Balzac as He Should Be Read: The Comédie Humaine Arranged in Logical Order of Reading According to Time of Action. (New York, NY: Auguste Giraldi, 47 p.). Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850. Comédie humaine.

(Corruption), George Gissing; edited and with a new introd. and notes by Patrick Parrinder (1977). The Whirlpool. (Hassocks, UK: Harvester Press, 467 p. [orig. pub. 1897]). Britannia Loan, Assurance, Investment, and Banking Company fails; director subsequently commits suicide; lesser villains continue their degenerate lives unpunished.

(Corruption), translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by L.C.C.; with a preface by Christian Charles Josias Bunsen (1990). Debit and Credit. (New York, NY: Howard fertig, 564 p. [orig. pub. 1855]). Translation of Soll und Haben - most successful German novel of century (deals with contemporary commercial life). 

(Corruption), Charles Dickens (2004). Little Dorrit. (New York, NY: Penguin, 1024 p. [rev. ed., orig. pub. 1855-1857]). Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England)--Fiction; Inheritance and succession--Fiction; Fathers and daughters--Fiction; Debt, Imprisonment for--Fiction; Children of prisoners--Fiction; London (England)--Fiction. 

(Corruption), Alexandre Dumas; edited with an introduction by David Coward (2000). The Black Tulip. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 258 p. [orig. pub. 1865]). Witt, Johan de, 1625-1672 --Fiction; Tulip mania, 17th century--Fiction; Netherlands--History--1648-1714--Fiction. 

(Corruption), Michael M. Thomas (1996). Baker's Dozen: A Novel. (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 321 p.). Corporations--Corrupt practices--Fiction; Businesswomen--Fiction; Big business--Fiction.

(Corruption), William Makepeace Thackeray; edited, with an introduction and notes, by David Pascoe (1996). The Newcomes. (New York, NY: Penguin Books, 847 p. [orig. pub. 1854]). Family--England--Fiction; Bank failure. 

(Corruption), Anthony Trollope; introduction by David Brooks; notes by Hugh Osborne (2001). The Way We Live Now. (New York, NY: Modern Library, 864 p. [orig. pub. 1875]). Capitalists and financiers--Fiction; Commercial crimes--Fiction; London (England)--Fiction. 

(Corruption), K.H. Spencer Pickett (2007). Corporate Fraud: A Manager’s Journey. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 320 p.). Head, Internal Auditing Training Program )National School of Government in Berkshire, England). Fraud; Fraud--Prevention; Corporations--Corrupt practices; Fraud investigation. Bill Reynolds and colleague Jack, set up anti-fraud policy within their company, investigate allegations made by whistleblower in their Orlando office-until whistleblower disappears; integrates corporate fraud risk management, sound internal controls into everyday work.

(Customer Relations), John Guaspari (2000). The Value Effect: A Murder Mystery about the Compulsive Pursuit of "The Next Big Thing". (San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 177 p.). Customer relations--Fiction; Executives--Fiction.

(Depression), Pearl S. Buck (1931). The Good Earth. (New York, NY: John Day Company, 375 p.). Farmers' spouses --Fiction; Married women --Fiction; Farm life --Fiction; China --Fiction. Pulitzer Prize winner; best-selling novel in the U.S. for both 1931, 1932; shaped American perceptions of China for two generations; main characters, a poor farmer named Wang Lung and his wife, O-lan, are recognizable human beings, not mere Oriental stereotypes, who do their best to survive in a punishing world of famine, bandits, war and plague; portraits of suffering but resilient Chinese farmers spoke eloquently to Americans trying to make sense of their own diminished circumstances.

(Depression), Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). Now in November. (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 231 p.). Depression -- 1929; Dust Bowl--Depression. Won Pulitzer Prize; Haldmarnes leave an unnamed city for countryside when Father loses a good job in a lumber mill and with it any hope of financial security for his wife and their three daughters. The mortgaged farm to which the family moves yields little; day-by-day reckoning of the land's collapse into baked and cracking clay during the killing drought in the Great Plains of the 1930s; one of the most convincing and hair-raising depictions of the Dust Bowl in the literature of the Depression.

(Depression), John O'Hara (1934). Appointment in Samarra, A Novel. (New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and company, 272 p. [2003 edition]). Self-destructive behavior --Fiction; Ethnic relations --Fiction; Suicide victims --Fiction; Married people --Fiction; Young men --Fiction; Pennsylvania --Fiction. Set in 1930, after the Crash but before the advent of the New Deal; final three days in the life of a young man named Julian English (30); charming and good-looking, married to an attractive woman, and successful as the manager of a Cadillac franchise in a town called Gibbsville; dangerous drunk and a moral trifler, filled with envy and insecurity, a man with no discernible convictions; rapid decline in the course of the novel is an emblem of moral exhaustion; sense of impending and general collapse.

(Depression), John Dos Passos (1936). The Big Money. (New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 561 p. [2005 edition]). United States --History --1919-1933 --Fiction. America's march toward the Crash. Long conventional storylines alternate with stream-of-consciousness monologues, brief biographies of famous and infamous Americans, and "newsreels" made up of newspaper headlines, popular songs and advertising slogans; opens at the end of World War I, concludes in the early years of the Depression; final scene - vagrant trying to hitch a ride: the open road to American opportunity has become a dead end; expose of Roaring Twenties excess is the best fictional explanation ever written of how Americans got themselves in the biggest economic mess in their history.Fiction.

(Disaster-Chemicals), Indra Sinha (2008). Animal’s People. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 384 p.). Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984--Fiction; Accident victims--Fiction; Slums--India--Fiction; Americans--India--Fiction; India--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction. 1985 - thousands died after explosion at Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India; it's now years later.

(Downsizing), William Heffernan (1997). The Dinosaur Club: A Novel. (New York, NY: Morrow, 303 p.). Marketing executives--Fiction; Downsizing of organizations--Fiction; Office politics--Fiction.

(Downsizing), Donald E. Westlake (1997). The Ax. (New York, NY: Mysterious Press, 273 p.). Downsizing of organizations--Fiction; Serial murderers--Fiction; Middle aged men--Fiction. 

(Downsizing), K.C. Constantine. (2000). Grievance. (New York, NY: Mysterious Press, 279 p.). Police--Pennsylvania--Fiction; Downsizing of organizations--Fiction; Steel industry and trade--Fiction; Pennsylvania--Fiction.

(Drugs), King Hurley (2006). The Interview. (Boulder, CO: Paandaa, 296 p.). Former Healthcare Executive with Fujisawa Pharmaceuticals, Former CEO Novartis Nutrition, Geneva Pharmaceuticals, HealthNexis. Pharmaceutical industry--fiction; Drug development--Fiction; Success in business--Fiction. Michael King is a very successful chief executive officer of a publicly traded pharmaceutical firm in Colorado with annual sales of $500 million. Headhunter phones with news that Panda Pharmaceuticals, a private, international corporation with $3 billion in sales, is interested in him as successor to Panda's cofounder, president and CEO, Philip Chatzwirth, 73. Real test will be his interview with Dr. Chu Zhong Liu, the corporation's Taiwanese cofounder in Thailand who developed Panda's revolutionary line of non-addictive painkillers based on opium derivatives. King begins to have misgivings about the single-mindedness that seems to propel the Panda personnel.

(Economics), Marshall Jevons (1985). The Fatal Equilibrium. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 215 p.). Pseudonym for Economics Professors: William Breit (Trinity University) and Kenneth G. Elzinga (University of Virginia). Spearman, Henry (Fictitious character)--Fiction. 

(Economics), Murray Wolfson and Vincent Buranelli (1990). In the Long Run We Are All Dead: A Macroeconomics Murder Mystery. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 184 p. [2nd ed.]).

(Economics), Marshall Jevons (1993). Murder at the Margin: A Henry Spearman Mystery. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 208 p.). Pseudonym for Economics Professors: William Breit (Trinity University) and Kenneth G. Elzinga (University of Virginia). Spearman, Henry (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Economists--United States--Fiction.

--- (1998). A Deadly Indifference: A Henry Spearman Mystery. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 179 p. [orig. pub. 1995]). Pseudonym for Economics Professors: William Breit (Trinity University) and Kenneth G. Elzinga (University of Virginia). Spearman, Henry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Private investigators -- Fiction; Economics teachers -- Fiction; Cambridge (England) -- Fiction. 

(Economics), Russell D. Roberts (2001). The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 271 p.). Professor of Economics (Washington University). Economics--Fiction. Sam Gordon and Laura Silver teach at exclusive Edwards School in Washington, D.C. Sam lives and breathes capitalism. He thinks that most government regulation is unnecessary or even harmful. He believes that success in business is a virtue. He believes that our humanity flourishes under economic freedom. Laura prefers Wordsworth to the Wall Street Journal. Where Sam sees victors, she sees victims. She wants the government to protect consumers and workers from the excesses of Sam's beloved marketplace. Across town. Erica Baldwin, the crusading head of a government watchdog agency, tries to bring Charles Krauss, a ruthless CEO, to justice. How are these two dramas connected? Why is Sam under threat of dismissal? Will Erica Baldwin find the evidence she needs? Can Laura love a man with an Adam Smith poster on his wall? 

--- (2001). The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 116 p. [updated and rev.]). Professor of Economics (Washington University). Ricardo, David, 1772-1823; Free trade; Protectionism; Free trade--United States; Protectionism--United States.

(Economics), Jonathan B. Wight (2002). Saving Adam Smith: A Tale of Wealth, Transformation, and Virtue. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 332 p.). Professor of Economics (University of Richmond). Wealth--Fiction; Economics--Fiction; Rich people--Fiction; Conduct of life--Fiction. 

(Economics), Thomas Legendre (2006). The Burning: A Novel. (New York, NY: Little, Brown, 368 p.). Gambling--Nevada--Las Vegas--Fiction; Economists--Fiction. Logan Smith has just finished his doctoral dissertation in economics and decides to unwind in Vegas. There he meets beautiful blackjack dealer, Dallas. 

(Economics), Russell Roberts (2008). The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 216 p.). Professor of Economics (George Mason University). Economics--Fiction; economic growth--fiction. Economic growth, unseen forces that create, sustain economic harmony. Stanford University student, Cuban American tennis prodigy, Ramon Fernandez is outraged when nearby mega-store hikes its prices on night of an earthquake;  plans campus protest against price-gouging retailer (also major donor to university), crosses paths with provost, economics professor, Ruth Lieber; begins dialogue about prices, prosperity, innovation, their role in daily life. Is Ruth trying to limit the damage from Ramon's protest? Or does she have something altogether different in mind? Ramon is thrust into national spotlight by events beyond Stanford campus; learns there's more to price hikes than meets the eye, forced to reconsider everything he thought he knew. What is the source of America's high standard of living? What drives entrepreneurs, innovation? What upholds hidden order that allows people to choose   careers, pursue passions with so little conflict? How does economic order emerge without anyone being in charge? Ruth gives new appreciation for how economy works, wondrous role that price of everything plays in everyday life.

(Education), Jeffrey Cruikshank (2004). Murder at the B-School. (New York, NY: Mysterious Press, 323 p.). Business teachers--Fiction; Police--Massachusetts--Boston--Fiction; Children of the rich--Fiction; Drowning victims--Fiction; Business schools--Fiction; College teachers--Fiction; Policewomen--Fiction; Cambridge (Mass.)--Fiction. 

(Electronics), Douglas Coupland (2006). jPod. (New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 448 p.). Electronic games industry--Fiction. Bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video game design company. 

(Entertainment), Nathanial West (1939). The Day of the Locust. (New York, NY: Random House, 238 p. [1981 edition]). Motion picture industry --Fiction; Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) --Fiction. Best novel ever written about Hollywood; Todd Hackett, young artist, has come to the West Coast to paint the legions of bored and lonely men and women who migrate to California in pursuit of a dream they never find. The studios' celluloid fantasies mock the deprivation of the country throughout the 1930s, providing escapist entertainment in the midst of despair; punctuated with scenes of violence -- drunken brawls, bloody cockfights, sexual assault -- that unfold in the glow of Southern California's legendary warmth and sunshine; climactic scene - murderous riot provoked by a movie premiere provides a "real" counterpart to Todd's painting, "The Burning of Los Angeles."

(Entertainment), Robert Cort (2003). Action!: A Novel. (New York, NY: Random House, 388 p.). Motion picture industry--Fiction; Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Fiction. 

(Entertainment), Paul Goldstein (2006). Errors and Omissions. (New York, NY: Doubleday, 320 p.). Lillick Professor of Law (Stanford Law School). Intellectual property lawyers--Fiction; Motion picture authorship--Fiction; Blacklisting of authors--Fiction; Motion picture industry--Fiction; Americans--Germany--Fiction; Polish Americans--Fiction; Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Fiction; Munich (Germany)--Fiction. Michael Seeley, defender of artists’ rights, aggressive intellectual property litigator, is a man on the brink of personal and career collapse. United Pictures virtually demands that he fly out to Hollywood to confirm legally that it owns the rights to its corporate cash-cow franchise of Spykiller films. He has little choice but to comply. Discovers in these gilded precincts will plunge him headfirst into the tangle of politics of the blacklisting era and then into the even darker world of Nazi-occupied Poland.

(Entrepreneurship), Max Barnet (1995). Driven: Notes of a Neurotic Entrepreneur, His Trials, Failures & Victories. (Cushing, ME: Stones Point Press, 401 p.). Entrepreneurship; Magicolor; Plastics Color Concentrate. 

(Entrepreneurship), Jeff Cox (1997). The Venture: A Business Novel About Starting Your Own Company. (New York, NY: Warner, 344 p.). Business--Fiction.

(Executives), Meg Pei (1992). Salaryman. (New York, NY: Viking, 296 p.). Executives--Fiction; Corporate culture--Fiction.

(Executives), David Dorsey (1997). The Cost of Living. (New York, NY: Viking, 273 p.). Businessmen--Fiction; Executives--Fiction; Corporate culture--Fiction.

(Executives), Stanley Bing (1998). Lloyd, What Happened: A Novel of Business. (New York, NY: Crown, 416 p.). Pseudonym for Gil Schwartz, Director of Communications (CBS). Business--Fiction; Executives--Fiction. 

(Executives), Douglas Kennedy (1998). The Job. (New York, NY: Hyperion, 466 p.). Businessmen--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction. Harrowing tale of downward mobility. 

(Executives), Patrick Lencioni (2000). Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: The Four Disciplines at the Heart of Making Any Organization World Class. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 183 p.). Executives--Fiction.

(Executives), Alan Lightman (2000). The Diagnosis. (New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 369 p.). Executives--Fiction.

(Family Business), Stephen Birmingham (1986). The LeBaron Secret: A Novel. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 403 p.). Family-owned business enterprises--Fiction.

(Family Business), Thomas Mann; translated from the German by John E. Woods; with an introduction by T.J. Reed (1994). Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family. (New York, NY: Knopf, 731 p. [orig. pub. 1901]). Family--Fiction; Germany--Fiction. 

(Family Business), John Le Carre (1999). Single & Single: A Novel. (New York, NY: Scribner, 345 p.). Family-owned business enterprises--England--London--Fiction; Investment bankers--England--London--Fiction; Money laundering--England--London--Fiction; Money--Law and legislation--Criminal provisions--England--Fiction; Fathers and sons--England--London--Fiction; Organized crime--Russia--Fiction; Sons--Family relationships--England--London--Fiction; Adventure stories.

(Family Business), Nancy Zafris (2002). The Metal Shredders. (New York, NY: BlueHen Books, 291 p.). Family-owned business enterprises--Fiction; Scrap metal industry--Fiction; Brothers and sisters--Fiction; Columbus (Ohio)--Fiction. 

(Family Business), Davis Bunn (2004). Elixir. (Nashville, TN: WestBow Press, 299 p.). Family-owned business enterprises--Fiction; Inheritance and succession--Fiction; Pharmaceutical industry--Fiction; Missing persons--Fiction. Multi-billion dollar giant Revell Pharmaceuticals is devouring its competition. A new research breakthrough propels the company into releasing its most profitable product ever. Yet a family crisis confronts them when Kirra Revell, heiress to the empire, goes missing. Taylor Knox, an employee of Revell's latest acquisition, is blackmailed into leading the search. Can Taylor Knox achieve his quest before time runs out for Kirra Revell -- and for himself?

(Family Business), Jim Harrison (2004). True North: A Novel. (New York, NY: Grove Press, 388 p.). Family-owned business enterprises--Fiction; Conflict of generations--Fiction; Fathers and sons--Fiction; Lumber trade--Fiction; Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Fiction; Michigan--Fiction. 

(Family Business), Tim Green (2006). Kingdom Come. (New York, NY: Warner Books, 306 p.). Family-owned business enterprises--Fiction; Family--Fiction; Murder--Fiction; Revenge--Fiction. Bob King is a self-made billionaire who parlayed a rusty backhoe into the 27th spot on Forbes list. Now, his corporation is a multi-billion dollar construction company that instills greed and competition among friends, including his son Scott and his two best friends, Thane and Ben. But instead of handing over the company's crown, Bob reveals a massive public offering that will make him CEO for life. Thane's wife, Jessica, is furious and goads him into a conspiracy to kill Bob. When the board of directors makes Thane CEO, Ben investigates the truth and Thane realizes that he can only be safe if his old friend is also dead.

(Family Business), Barbara Taylor Bradford (2007). The Heir. (New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 480 p.). Inheritance and succession--Fiction; Family-owned business enterprises--Fiction; London (England)--Fiction; Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936--Fiction. 1918 - Edward "Ned" Deravenel (33) has finally wresting control of Deravenels, the family's global trading company, and has restored a modicum of peace to the organization. An influenza pandemic is sweeping the country, and Edward has a family and a business to protect. Politics of inheritance are intense. An heir is needed to keep the Deravenel name alive, but tragedy and death remain obstacles at every turn. The choices include a loyal caretaker, a jealous rumormonger, a charming young woman, a sickly boy, and the scion of the family Edward ousted from power years before.

(Family Business), Brad Smith (2007). Big Man Coming Down the Road. (Toronto, ON: Penguin Canada, 357 p.). Family--Canada--Fiction; Inheritance and succession--Fiction; Business enterprises--Fiction. In life, multi-millionaire Everett Eastman was a ruthless, self-made industrialist, bad husband, absentee father. In death, he challenges each of his three estranged children to make something of themselves. In his will he bequeaths most of his remaining millions to Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children and other charities but leaves to each one a tarnished jewel from his declining empire. The message - turn it around, in line with some parameters. Author documents, the not-so-graceful ways in which conflicting views on the environment, global capitalism and female-male relationships get played out.

(Fashion&Beauty), Jerome Weidman (1937). I Can Get It for You Wholesale. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 370 p.). Novel set in garment district. Harry Bogen - abrasive young man who will do anything to get ahead. Made into Broadway musical in 1962 (Elliott Gould = Harry).

(Fashion&Beauty), Shirley Lord (1993). My Sister's Keeper. (New York, NY: Crown, 404 p.). Cosmetics industry--Fiction; Women--Crimes against--Fiction; Businesswomen--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

(Fashion&Beauty), Ben Neihart (2003). Rough Amusements: The True Story of A'Lelia Walker, Patroness of the Harlem Renaissance's Down-Low Culture: An Urban Historical. (New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 210 p.). Robinson, A'Lelia Walker, 1885-1931 --Fiction; African American women--Fiction; Harlem Renaissance--Fiction; Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

(Fashion&Beauty), Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous (2/6/2007). Fashion Babylon. (New York, NY: Atria Books, 336 p.). Fashion--Fiction. Narrated from the point of view of an anonymous A-list British fashion designer looking to expand internationally;  structured around three of the annual "must" industry events in London, Paris and New York; Over a six month period in a designer's life, from the day after the house's fashion show in London to next season, the narrator describes the journey for producing a new collection. 

(Finance), David Ignatius (1994). The Bank of Fear: A Novel. (New York, NY: Morrow, 351 p.). Business Editor, Washington Post. International relations--Fiction; Middle East--Fiction. Financial world is central to the plot of spy thriller.

(Finance), J. Dayne Lamb (1995). Unquestioned Loyalty: a Teal Stewart Mystery. (New York, NY: Kensington Books, 348 p.). Former Price Waterhouse CPA. Stewart, Teal (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Women in finance--Massachusetts--Boston--Fiction; Boston (Mass.)--Fiction.

(Finance), D. Larry Crumbley, David Reps (1998). Simon the Incredible. (Houston, TX: Dame Pub.,    p.). Finance--Fiction. Simon the Incredible is a supplemental text to be used in a finance course or a MBA course. The novel could be used in an advanced managerial accounting course or a quantitative financial accounting course. 

(Finance), Rex Ghosh (2010). Nineteenth Street NW. (Austin, TX Greenleaf Book Group Press 304 p.). International Economist at International Monetary Fund. Finance -- fiction. Sophia Gemaye, head of International Monetary and Financial Organization (IMFO), freedom fighter (from an obscure, mineral-rich, third-world nation where the ruling elite plunders the country's wealth, oppress the citizens. Western governments, greedy for the natural resources, turn a blind eye). She turns to economic terrorism, devises a plan to sabotage world currency markets to bring the mightiest corporations and economies to their knees. Financial markets begin to crumble, lives of key finance ministers hang in the balance. Sophia and Celine O'Rourke, an embittered IMFO veteran in dogged pursuit of Sophia's secret, learn the price of love--and the cost of betrayal.

(Finance), Alex Preston (2010). This Bleeding City. (London, UK, Faber and Faber, 304 p.). Global Head of Trading in the Carlyle Group’s Leveraged Finance Division. Finance -- fiction; economic crisis -- fiction. One man swept away in the turmoil of emotional, financial and moral boom and bust; love story, study of the years of excess, timely reminder of how good people end up doing terrible things; sucked into the world of banking, City took over their lives, driven only by the pursuit of money.

(Finance), H. T. Narea (2011). The Fund. (New York, NY: Forge, 464 p.). International Investment Banker. Women intelligence officers --Fiction; International finance --Fiction; Terrorism --Prevention --Fiction. U.S. defense intelligence operative Kate Molares is investigating a suspicious international money trail - financial terrorism— perpetrated by a suave, handsome Middle Eastern hedge fund mogul. His goal is to wreck the West by bringing the global economy to its knees. Kate's mission takes her from the defense intelligence command center on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. to the oil-fueled economy of Caracas, Venezuela; from the Beaux-Arts buildings of Old Havana in Cuba to a hedge fund king’s magnificent back-country estate in Greenwich, Connecticut; from the United Nations to the site of a deadly Islamic conspiracy in the Iberian Peninsula. Kate is in a race against time to fit together the pieces of this global puzzle…or risk the catastrophic destruction of the world’s financial markets. (Parallels U.S. Department of Defense-commissioned report, titled "Economic Warfare: Risks & Responses," which investigated exogenous threats that may have contributed to the 2008 economic crisis [lays out a scenario leading to the complete failure of our financial markets, pointing to the need for greater regulatory oversight]).

(Food), Kimberly Llewellyn (2003). Tender Harvest. (New York, NY: Avalon Books, 182 p.). Businesswomen--Fiction; Cranberry industry--Fiction.

(Food), Hassan Daoud; Translated by Randa Jarrar (2008). The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-making Machine. (London, UK: Telegram, 144 p.). Chief Editor of Nawafez, the Cultural Supplement for Al Mustaqbal Daily in Beirut. Bakery; bread machine. Tale of industrial, personal progress set in a traditional bakery in 1960s Beirut. Abu Ali and his brother have just moved to Beirut. They spend their days sitting in the sun outside their traditional bakery, chatting with customers. For the men working inside the bakery life is starkly different. Working endless shifts in the furious heat of the old bread oven, they fantasize about escape. Mohammed sings all day long in his beautiful tenor voice, while the others lean exhausted on sacks of flour and dream of becoming wrestlers. When the brothers acquire their revolutionary new bread-making machine, the workers struggle to adapt to the new conditions, and one by one their dreams fade into oblivion ...

(Food), Katherine Weber (2009). True Confections: A Novel. (New York, NY: Shaye Areheart Books, 288 p.). Chocolate industry--history--fiction. History of candy, especially chocolate, sweeping story of America's immigrants, race relations, religion from before World War II to present day. Multigenerational saga of family-owned-and-operated candy company, now in crisis. Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky has worked at Zip Candies since 1975, married the boss's son, Howdy Ziplinsky (wealthy, observant Jewish family); desperately wants to belong, to be loved and needed, but is thwarted at every opportunity by Howdy's mother, Freida Ziplinsky; Alice realizes, that as only child of non-demonstrative Protestants, she can never truly belong in such a family, begins her downfall; delves into the truth of Zip Candies’s history - rags-to-riches story of how Hungarian immigrant Eli Czaplinsky developed his famous candy lines, how each of his candies, from Little Sammies to Mumbo Jumbos, was inspired by an element in a stolen library copy of Little Black Sambo, from which he taught himself English; stories of a runaway slave from the cacao plantations of Côte d’Ivoire and the Third Reich’s failed plan to establish a colony on Madagascar for European Jews.

(Food Service), Karen Hubert Allison (1997). How I Gave My Heart to the Restaurant Business: A Novel. (Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 211 p.). Restaurateurs--Fiction; Restaurants--Fiction; Food service--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

(Food Service), Starbuck O'Dwyer (2004). Red Meat Cures Cancer: A Novel. (New York, NY: Vintage, 320 p.). Meat industry and trade--Fiction.  

(Food Service), Stewart O’Nan (2007). Last Night at the Lobster: A Novel. (New York, NY: Viking, 146 p.).  Restaurateurs--Fiction; Restaurants--Employees--Fiction; Connecticut--Fiction. Corporate HQ has forced Manny DeLeon, mid-career general manager of Red Lobster restaurant, to close the restaurant five days before Christmas because it has underperformed. Story of DeLeon's final day...pining over a past romance with a fellow worker, tedium of his duties, loyalty to the restaurant and its employees (regardless of how much they may hate their jobs), dedication to customers, comfort he feels in working there. It closes...he starts at Olive Garden.

(Insurance), Gerald Anderson (2008). Murder Under the Loon: An Otter Tail County Mystery. (Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, 240 p.). Professor of British and European History (North Dakota State University). Insurance executives--Crimes against--Fiction; Executive succession--Fiction; Winter resorts--Fiction; Minnesota--Fiction. Executive succession can be murder. John Hofstead, retiring president of Hofstead Hail Insurance Company, has gathered his staff at  Otter Slide Resort for weekend of fun, chance to influence his final decision on who will replace him. Could any of the four employees or their spouses, who had scrambled into parkas and Norwegian sweaters to learn who was to be the lucky choice, commit murder?