As many of our colleagues are taking a much-deserved break this time of year, we share some of our favorite beach reads that we hope you enjoy. Rest assured, this is a great time of year to give your mind a break from technology, finance, and venture capital, and this should hopefully be a selection of topics with a bit more breadth than the daily deal analysis. We hope you enjoy it.

The snowball - warren Buffet and the business of life

Alice Schroeder

nuclear war

Annie Jacobsen

hits, flops, and other illusions : my forty years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

Witness to a Prosecution: The Myth of Michael Milken

Richard Sandler

Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World

Tobias Hürter