Book Recommendations

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For self-discovery & career explorations

  • Burnett, Bill & Dave Evans. Designing your life. 

  • Collins, Jim. What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire & the Self-knowledge Imperative.

  • Muller, Wayne. How then, shall we live? Four simple questions that reveal the beauty and meaning in our lives. 

  • Palmer, Parker. Let your life speak: Listening to the Voice of your Vocation.

For managing & growing yourself

  • Covey, Stephen. The 7 habits of highly effective people.

  • Roosevelt, Eleanor. You Learn by Living: Eleven keys for a more fulfilling life. 

  • Dweck, Carol. Mindset: the new psychology of success: how we can learn to fulfill our potential

For sales & negotiation

  • Pink, Dan H. To sell is human.

  • Dixon, Matt. The challenger sale.

  • Carnegie, Dale. How to win friends & influence people.

For MANAGING & GROWING OTHERS

  • Lencioni, Patrick. 5 Dysfunctions of a Team

  • 1 Minute Manager

For Conflict & Hard Conversations at work

  • Grenny et al. Crucial Conversations

  • Rosenberg, Marshall. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life.

on romantic relationships & love

  • Levine, Amir & Rachel Heller. Attached: The new science of adult attachment and how it can help you find - and keep - love.

  • Taitz, Jennifer. How to be single and happy: Science-based strategies for keeping your sanity while looking for a soul mate.

  • Perel, Esther. Mating in Captivity: unlocking erotic intelligence.

  • Hanh, Thich Nhat. How to Love.

for people recovering from trauma & burnout

  • Perry, Bruce D & Oprah Winfrey. What Happened to You? Conversations on trauma, resilience and healing.

  • Nagasaki, Amelia and Emily Nagasaki. Burnout: the secret to unlocking the stress cycle.

Gender equality & women’s rights

  • Kristof, Nicholas & Sheryl WuDunn. Half the Sky.

social justice

  • Kidder, Tracy. Mountains beyond mountains & Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connells’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People.

  • Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy.

on parenting, discipline & child-rearing

  • Phelan, Thomas. 1-2-3 Magic: Effective discipline for children ages 2-12.