Summertime presents a valuable chance to kick back and think about the bigger issues of where you, and your business, are going. Here are 10 books that rate a spot on your reading list in these hazy days of August.

Joe Caponi

Ben Mezrich

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook -- A Tale Of Sex, Money, Genius And Betrayal

This is the story of the wild ride of Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg, two Harvard undergrads who stumbled into creating Facebook, became rich and wound up at each others' throats.

The British Times Online notes the book's sensational tone:

"We find Mark Zuckerberg, an awkward, brilliant computer geek, and Eduardo Saverin, his less awkward and less brilliant friend, at Harvard -- which, in Mezrich's description, resembles a cross between an MTV beach party and Hogwarts ... What follows ... is a story in which almost everyone behaves badly."

While the New York Post says:

"Author Mezrich forsakes the tech and business aspects of the story for a sort of Geeks Gone Wild spin, heavy on -- as the book's subtitle promises -- scandal and soap opera. This is stuff that Hollywood eats up."

And eat it up, Hollywood has -- the movie already is in the works.

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