I asked Dr. Jagdish Sheth for a list of the 10 books or authors that had influenced him the most during his life. Not only is he unbelievably well-read, he is the author of numerous books. Dr. Sheth is a world-renown Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, GA and teaches on consumer psychology, branding strategy, marketing and geopolitics. Here are the authors and books that have influenced him the most. As he mentioned “As you can see I like historical scholarly books or books that are on future trends.”
5. Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw
Book: The Commanding Heights
6. Leon Festinger
Book: When Prophecy Fails
7. George Caspar Homans
Book: The Human Group
8. Clark Hull
Book: Principles of Behavior: An introduction to Behavior Theory
9. Charles Osgood
Book: The Osgood Files and others

10. Several Biographies
Book: Gandhi, Lincoln, Lenin , Karl Marx, Plato, Aristotle and others