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The only book of his that I've actually read all the way through was The Structures of Everyday Life. It's part of a larger series on early modern Europe that focuses on economic and material aspects. Its a big book, but its a very easy read. A grad student should be able to breeze through it, pick up fun facts and trivia, but also being to see patterns and themes with ease. It reads like a survey lecture taught by your favorite professor. The way he works specific points into a broader theory is very fluid and helpful if you yourself ever have to write history papers on a grad level.
To really get a feel for Braudel's theory and the Annales school as a whole, I think a bit more reading would be necessary, but just reading the one text would be a great way to get a sense of his style and tone.
If you want economic history, I would recommend Fernand Braudel's Civilization and Capitalism. It's broken into three main parts, The Structure of Everyday Life, The Wheels of Commerce, and The Perspective of the World, and goes into absolutely fantastic detail about the economic operations of Europe in the late Middle Ages / Early Modern period.
I'm a bit late to this thread, but I strongly recommend the classic The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism by Fernand Braudel. As it says in the editorial: "Braudel skims over politics, wars, etc., in favor of examining life at the grass roots: food, drink, clothing, housing, town markets, money, credit, technology, the growth of towns and cities, and more." The second volume in this series (The Wheels of Commerce) on the emergence of global trade after the medieval period is also riveting.
Check out books from historians in the Annales School. Wikipedia has a small list here (also check out this article). I personally like Fernand Braudel's Civilization and Capitalism series (Amazon link to volume one). Not in the Annales School, but still worth checking out is William H. McNeill (wikipedia bibliography, I recommend starting with Plagues and Peoples).
Here are two booklists with several other authors: