With 66 bookstores in airports all over North America, you may know Hudson Booksellers from your travels. They have now decided that it is time to help busy travelers select the books they sell, announcing their picks of the best books of 2007. It's a pretty long list, with selections in the fields of fiction, non-fiction, children's, and--aha!--business! The business titles selected are:

* Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner

* Microtrends by Mark Penn

* The No Asshole Rule by Robb Sutton

* The Black Swan by Nasim Nicholas Taleb

* Wikinomics by Don Tapscott

You'll notice two of the books, Wikinomics and The Black Swan, were also on the FT/Goldman Sachs Award shortlist, and The No Asshole Rule won The Quill Award in the business category. I think it's a great idea to put this list out, and the categories here should cater well to different kinds of travelers. They even offer two additional categories to extend the list for more voracious readers. One is called "Books We Love", and the other is "Newsworthy/Noteworthy". If you'd like to see the titles in the other categories, you can find it on their website. You should also begin seeing the list posted in their stores beginning December 1st.

• The Education of the Accidental CEO>>The Wall Street Journal | Pitchman in the Corner Office
  Yum Brands Inc. chairman and chief executive David Novak isn't your typical corporate chieftain. Any doubts about that should have vanished when, in celebrating the company's initial public offering 10 years ago this month, he wore a yellow foam cheese he
  (tags: businessbooks business industry entrepreneurship)

• The Age of Turbulence >> The Economist | The Undertaker's story
  The book's first half is a memoir; the rest is essays on the main economic issues confronting governments over the next few decades [ link].
  (tags: businessbooks biography global economics)

• Microtrends and Republic.com 2.0 >> Economist | Land of the small
  But niches do not need to imply narrow-mindedness. On the contrary, as Mr Sunstein accepts, the internet holds far more promise than risk. Mr Penn, for his part, remains an optimist [link].
  (tags: businessbooks bigidea)

• The Billionaire Who Wasn't >> The Economist | The secretive do-gooder
  When [Feeney] became a philanthropist, his gifts came on condition that his name never appeared on any press release or plaque [link].
  (tags: businessbooks biography philanthropy)