Just finished reading Amazonia by James Marcus, Amazon's "employee #55." If you are interested in books, bookselling, e-commerce, office culture and/or the dot-com bust, this book is for you. I think at the height of the boom he was worth $9 million, if I read that correctly, until of course it all went up into thin air. Totally insane. I think he still made off pretty well, although he's not forthcoming about that in the book. A fascinating, quick, recommended read (except for the tangent towards the end where he compares Emerson and Transcendentalism to the Internet - ok, that's cool, but get back to talking about Amazon!)

Also, if you like learning new vocabulary words you will like this book - you could probably use this to study for a standardized test. I was underlining words the whole way through and needed my dictionary with me at all times: "vertiginous," "brass tacks," "lucre," "Aeolian," "apothegmatic," "fiat"...and on and on. It got kind of annoying after awhile! I felt that these big fancy words were at times unnecessary and that he could have easily conveyed his meaning with less obscure words. Although, oddly enough, my boss used "fiat" in an email the other day so maybe these words aren't as obscure as I thought and I just need to read more.

Also, James Marcus has a blog that is chock full of literary and bookselling tidbits.