If you like books, I think you will want to browse through this article on the Bloomberg site:  Buffett, Slim, Greenspan, Tyson Pick Best Books of 2013 by Simon Kennedy.  They asked a bunch of folks – you know, “influencers” – to name their favoirite books of 2013.

Here are the opening paragraphs of the article:

Investor Warren Buffett enjoyed learning more about how his son tries to tackle world hunger, while fellow billionaire Carlos Slim studied how General Motors Co. and AT&T Inc. reinvented themselves.

Pacific Investment Management Co. Chief Executive Officer Mohamed El-Erian zeroed in on U.S. politics and U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew sought insight in the work of his predecessors. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked at American prosperity, while World Bank President Jim Yong Kim probed innovation.

These were some of the responses to the annual Bloomberg News survey, which asked CEOs, investors, current and former policy makers, economists and academics to name their favorite books of 2013.

The most popular selection was “The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White and the Making of a New World Order” by Benn Steil. Others included “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” by Brad Stone, a senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek; “The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914” by Margaret MacMillan and “The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire” by Neil Irwin.

I’ve read through the list, downloaded quite a few “sample pages” on my Kindle App, and realized again – “so many books, so little time.”  I had my usual sense of “I am far from truly well-read; I am so under-read.”

One observation:  The Everything Store:  Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone is the only business book that got multiple mentions.  I presented my synopsis of this book just yesterday at the First Friday Book Synopsis, have already written a few blog posts prompted by the book, am planning a “special edition synopsis handout” for some business consultants who could find this especially useful, and, concur – terrific book!  (I just posted my “takeaways from The Everything Store“ blog post yesterday).

Anyway, click on over to the article on Bloomberg and think about which of these books you would like to add to your reading stack.