Prescribed books in IIM Indore class of 2014:Year I:1)Introduction to Finance - Financial Management: Theory and Practice by Brigham & Ehrhardt2)Marketing - Marketing Management: A South Asian Perspective by Kotler, Keller, Koshy & Jha3)HR&OB - Behaviour in Organisations by Jerald Greenberg4)Economics - Microeconomics by Pindyck & Rubinfeld - Macroeconomics by Dornbusch, Fisher and Startz5)Accounting - Accounting: Text & Cases by Anthony, Hawkins & Merchant - Cost Accounting by Horngren6)Strategic Management - Competitive Strategy by Michael E Porter (not prescribed as such but a good read)Year II: (based on my electives only)1)Higher Finance (investments) - Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management by Brown & Reilly - Options, Futures and other Derivatives by J.C. Hull2)Quantitative Finance - Paul Wilmott (not a prescribed book as per syllabus but very helpful for preparation)3)Business Analysis and Valuation - Damodaran on Valuation by Aswath Damodaran (can be regarded as the leading Guru on the subject of valuation). Also refer to valuation book from McKinsey.4)Econometrics - Basic Econometrics by Damodaran Gujarati5)Behavioural Finance - Beyond Greed and Fear by Hersh ShefrinDo note that the real value out of these books can be best derived only under the guidance of stellar professors and motivated colleagues in a typical B-school classroom.Also, you may have spotted the conspicuous absence of books on IT management and operations management. That's because those were taught by notes provided by the institute (yes, you don't have to buy all the books). In fact, most of these courses were supplemented with HBR (Harvard Business Review) articles to provide dynamic learning (books can only be static) and a tight grip on the application of theoretical concepts to real-life business situations through case studies.