JP Morgan Private Bank releases an annual summer reading list for its high net worth clients. Among this year's recommended books:

• Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right, by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan. Mr Bossidy is the former chief executive of Honeywell International and Mr Charan is a former faculty member of Harvard Business School.

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• It's Only a Movie - Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography, by Charlotte Chandler.
• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, by Tom Freidman, a New York Times columnist.
• Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America, by Russell Shorto, a New York writer of biographies and children's books.
• Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses, by Danny Miller, a business professor, and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, a senior research associate at the University of Alberta.
• The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki, New Yorker magazine business columnist.
• Through the Eyes of the Gods: An Aerial Vision of Africa, by Bobby Haas, a Dallas-based private equity investor and wildlife photographer.