Fortune Magazine is celebrating its 75th anniversary with one of those jam-packed issues full of lists. Lists of seventy-five things. Get it?

Anyway, our favorite is the 75 "Smartest Books We Know," a sort of Oprah's Book Club for aspiring Masters of the Universe.

There are plenty of predictable choices (Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations as a guide to 'economics') and unusual ones (Black Hawk Down as a 'strategy' manual).

The best is Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller's Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as a primer for 'office politics' (right along side Machiavelli's The Prince!). We were also impressed by the inclusion of Sebastio Salgado's Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age in the section on 'globalization.'

But, c'mon, it's 2005: Where's Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast?

The Smartest Books We Know [Fortune]