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How To Win Friends and Influence People. The 48 Laws of Power (do not take this to heart, just read and understand how they CAN apply in situations).
EDIT: Word, and also Persuasion by Ciandali (spelling is wrong) is a great book.
Look at this GMAT fiction list. Even if you're a native speaker, this will help improve your verbal score.
Mindset - Carol Dweck How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie (Warren Buffet took his class) Influence - Robert Cialdini Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell (story of how to win as the underdog, very inspiring)
*Anything by Malcom Gladwell.
*Anything in the Freakanomics Series.
Note: as mentioned with 48 Laws of Power (also a great read) above, some of the topics in these book series will appear ridiculous, ex: in Superfreakanomics there is a section about solving global warming with tubes the pump gases into the stratosphere. The main takeaways from these types of books are the methodologies behind them and the idea of thinking outside the box.
*Gang Leader for a Day - Sudhir Venkatesh
*The Prince - Machiavelli
On a personal note, and without getting too political, if you're a republican read left leaning books, if you're a democrat read some of what the right puts out. Frame it to yourself as getting to "know thy enemy", if you find it hard to pick up stuff like that. Honestly, knowing what drives people on both sides of the isle and how they think, will help you with all the soft skills that you can't get by hammering away at a spreadsheet for 12+ hours a day.