To end the year of 2014 on an inspiring note, here are several of the best-reviewed books on retailing (by Amazon readers). How many of these books have you read? Why not add a couple of them to your list of New Year’s resolutions.

ALL the best in 2015! 🙂

[Note: The links are to the Amazon book pages for each title.]

• Sam Walton: Made In America

• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (the Zappo’s story)

• Web Marketing That Works: Confessions from the Marketing Trenches

• Decoding the New Consumer Mind: How and Why We Shop and Buy

• Reminiscing About Retail: Confessions of a Cashier

• Marshall Field’s:: The Store That Helped Build Chicago

• Digital Marketing: Integrating Strategy and Tactics with Values, A Guidebook for Executives, Managers, and Students

• The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence: The Handbook For Becoming the “Nordstrom” of Your Industry

• The Retail Revival: Reimagining Business for the New Age of Consumerism

• The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary