On audio, especially when played at double-speed, the sorts of books that in print might deter the recreational reader otherwise fond of novels can get pretty interesting - I'm thinking of histories, e.g., those done by David McCullogh, and, much to my surpise, the biography of Siegmund Warburg, by Niall Ferguson.  Hardly the most puissant commentator on current economics, his just-the-facts approach to the life of the City's preeminent investment banker, 1945-1980, was entertaining, insightful, and the sort of thing I wish I had written, if I wrote that kind of thing.  

Warburg was as much a management consultant as investment banker, and the way he hired ("what are your favorite novels?") illustrates the break between the gentlemenly era of finance and the more modern one ("how many miles of subway tracks are in Manhattan?").  Not the sort of thing that will set your research agenda loose, but I expected the Gretchen Morgenson of the right.  I didn't get it, so, for that and other reasons, recommended.

If you've got an audio business book you rather liked, do let me know.

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