Reading
If you know me, you know I enjoy exploring the pages of a good book. A long-ago mentor taught the typical book includes ten chapters. Reading one chapter a day for 365 days each year is 36.5 books. I like to listen to one book while I get ready in the morning and when I am driving. I read a chapter of a second book over coffee, and end the day by reading one chapter of a third book.
Reading Now
- Matrix: A Novel, Lauren Groff
Completed in 2022 (28)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie (Re-read every January 1)
- Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
- Telex From Cuba, Rachel Kushner
- Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds, Paul Farmer
- Hell of a Book, Jason Mott
- Find, Fix, and Fill Your Leadership Gap, Candice-Gottlieb-Clark
- Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara
- Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall
- The Truth About Trust, David DeSteno
- The Emptiness of Our Hands, Phyllis Cole-Dai
- Connected, Nicholas Christakis
- The Power of Positive Deviance, Richard Pascale
- Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
- Hybrid Work Management, Hassan Osman
- Hardwiring Excellence, Quint Studer
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The Good Hand, Michael Patrick F. Smith
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The Box, Marc Levinson
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Seeing Around Corners, Rita McGrath
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The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave
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The Engineer's Wife, Tracey Emerson Wood
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Redesigning Work, Lynda Gratton
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Invictus, John Carlin
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The No Club, Brenda Peyser, et. al.
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Better Decisions, Andy Stanley
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Small World: A Novel, Jonathan Evinson
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The Business Case for AI, Kavita Ganesan
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Zorrie, Liard Hunt
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In Scoring Position, Bob Ryan
Completed in 2021 (53)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
- The Art of War, Sun Tzu
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Long-Distance Leader, Kevin Eikenberry
- The Joy of Accounting, Peter Frampton
- Parkinson's Law, C. Horthcote Parkinson
- The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger
- On Friendship, Alexander Nehamas
- Reorg, Stephen Heidari-Robinson
- CalChamber 2021 HR Quick Guide
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
- The League, John Eisenberg
- Master Your Emotions, Thibaut Meurisse
- The Accidental President, A.J. Baime****
- The Fifteen Commitments of Conscious Leadership, Jim Dethmer
- The Business Guide to Legal Literacy, Hanna Hasl-Kelchner***
- D-Day Girls, Sarah Rose
- Flawless Consulting, Peter Block
- Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham
- HBR Guide to Remote Work, Various
- The Immortal Irishman, Timothy Egan
- The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
- Bunker Hill, Nathaniel Philbrick
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaq***
- The Daily Drucker, Peter F. Drucker
- The Practice of Management, Peter Drucker*****
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Mayberry v. Madison, William E. Nelson
- Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
- The Greatest Beer Run Ever, John Donahue
- Crazy Busy, Edward M. Hallowell
- Mercer Girls (Old Seattle Book 1), Libbie Hawker
- Trust Exercise, Susan Choi
- Make Your Bed, William McRaven
- Social Chemistry, Marissa King
- Building Leadership Competencies, Wesley Donahue
- Dewey Defeats Truman, A.J. Baime****
- Triumphs of Experience, George E. Valliant
- The HeART of Laser-Focused Coaching, Marion Franklin
- Sooley, John Grisham
- Fundamentals of Project Management, Joseph Heagney
- The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving
- Chasing Daylight, Eugene O'Kelly
- Madam (Old Seattle Book 2), Libby Hawker
- Employees First, Customers Second, Vineet Nayar
- Passages, Gail Sheehy
- Lincoln Unknown, Dale Carnegie
- The Maze, Alexandra Russell
- Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
- Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
- The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois