This article enumerates the Best Business Classics the past 30 years and Why they’re still relevant.

Read it in full, but if you like shortucts, here are the 9 titles:

• The One Minute Manager (HarperCollins, 1981) by Kenneth H.
  Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
• Out of the Crisis (The MIT Press, 1982) by W. Edwards
  Deming
• In Search of Excellence (HarperBusiness Essentials, 1982)
  by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman
• Guerrilla Marketing (Houghton Mifflin, 1983) by Jay Conrad
  Levinson
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HarperBusiness, 1985) by
  Peter Drucker
• The E-Myth (HarperBusiness, 1985) by Michael Gerber
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Free Press,
  1989) by Stephen Covey
• Reengineering the Corporation (HarperBusiness, 1993) by
  Michael Hammer and James Champy
• Built to Last (HarperCollins, 1994) by Jim Collins and
  Jerry Porras

Novel Ideas from 9 Classic Business Books - Entrepreneur.com

Of the thousands of business books published in the last 30 years, only a handful have withstood the assaults of changing times and changing objectives to remain as relevant today as when they first came out. Here are nine worthy of space on any entrepreneur’s shelf–now and in the future.