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Annual Book Recommendations for CEOs and Global Business Leaders, 2024

Annual Book Recommendations for CEOs and Global Business Leaders, 2024

An American Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Founded Sant Elijah Holley Biography and memoirs Chasing Hope: The Life of a Reporter Nicholas D. Kristof Biography and memoirs The Codebreaker: Jennifer Doudna, gene editing and the future of humanity Walter Isaacson Biography and memoirs Height Nick Hornby Biography and memoirs Grief is for people Sloane Crosley Biography and memoirs Nephew: Memoirs in four-part harmony MK Asante Biography and memoirs Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey Through America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses Jimmie James Biography and memoirs The Strictness of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant and the Ultimate Nature of Reality William Eggington Biography and memoirs Track Jenny Holzer Biography and memoirs Walk Through Fire: Memories of love, loss and triumph Sheila Johnson, with Lisa Dickey Biography and memoirs Create social change: take action, work towards justice and challenge the status quo Lesley Ann Noel Business and economy The Formula: How villains, geniuses and racers made F1 the fastest growing sport in the world Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg Business and economy How legendary leaders speak: 451 proven communication strategies from the world’s best leaders Peter D. Andrei Business and economy Inner drive: From underdog to global corporation Arsen Tomski Business and economy The Leadership Journey: How CEOs Learn to Lead from Within Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink and Ramesh Srinivasan Business and economy Possible: How to Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict William Ury Business and economy Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook by Bill Campbell from Silicon Valley Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle Business and economy What I learned from Darwin about investing Pulak Prasad Business and economy What went wrong with capitalism Ruchir Sharma fiction 2054 Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis fiction The Assassin Tom Fletcher fiction Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton fiction The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft fiction Bourneville Jonathan Coe fiction Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver fiction Fathers and sons Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Freeborn fiction God’s Rubble: A Thought Experiment Scott Adams fiction I have a few questions for you Rebecca Makkai fiction The island of missing trees Elif Shafak fiction James Percival Everett fiction Letters to Alice: On the first reading of Jane Austen Fay Weldon fiction The Mad Benjamin Labatut fiction The Meursault investigation Kamel Daoud, translated by John Cullen fiction Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin fiction The Wizard of the Kremlin Giuliano da Empoli, translated by Willard Wood fiction The Anxious Generation: How Childhood Restructuring Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt Health Good energy: The surprising connection between metabolism and unlimited health Casey Means, with Calley Means Health Life expectancy: Why we age – and why we don’t have to David A. Sinclair, with Matthew D. LaPlante Health My Father’s Brain: Living in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s Disease Sandeep Jauhar Health Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity Peter Attia, with Bill Gifford Health Discomfort in women: misdiagnoses and myths in an artificially created world Elinor Cleghorn Health Why we remember: Unleashing the power of memory to capture what matters Charan Ranganath Health Culture: Our history, from cave paintings to K-pop Martin Puchner Health Eyeliner: A cultural history Zahra Hankir Health The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Hallie Rubenhold Story The Game: Insights into the secret world of Major League Baseball’s rulers Yon Pesah Story One Fine Day: The British Empire on the Brink of Collapse – 29 September 1923 Matthew Parker Story Painting for Profit: The Economic Life of 17th Century Italian Painters Richard E. Spear and Philip Sohm Story The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power Daniel Yergin Story The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Radiant Women Kate Moore Story Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Belief in 16th and 17th Century England Keith Thomas Story An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal Story of the 1960s Doris Kearns Goodwin Story Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Break Free from the Impasse When It Matters Most Adam Age Personal development The art of explaining: How to communicate clearly and confidently Ros Atkins Personal development The art of coming together: how we meet and why it matters Priya Parker Personal development Don’t believe everything you think: Why your thinking is the beginning and end of suffering Joseph Nguyen Personal development Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child John Bradshaw Personal development How to do great things: Surprising factors that determine the fate of every project, from home renovation to space exploration and everything in between Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner Personal development The Creativity Code: 25 rules for success for your creativity Josef Brunner and Christian Sellmann Personal development The human search for meaning Victor E. Frankl Personal development Mindset: The new psychology of success; How we can learn to reach our potential Carol S. Dweck Personal development Achieving Greatness: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead Tara Mohr Personal development Who says that? A kinder, funnier guide for those who care about words Anne Curzan Personal development Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Getting Things Done Without Burning Out Cal Newport Personal development Somehow: Thoughts on love Anne Lamott Personal development To My Sisters: A Guide to Building Lifelong Friendships Renée Kapuku and Courtney Daniella Boateng Personal development What I know for sure Oprah Winfrey Personal development Age of Revolutions: Progress and Setbacks from 1600 to Today Fareed Zakaria politics Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town Barbara Demick politics How infrastructure works: insights into the systems that shape our world Deborah Chachra politics Leadership: Six Studies on Global Strategy Henry Kissinger politics We had a bright future ahead of us: The story of the American dream David Leonhardt politics The political industry: How political innovation can break the party political gridlock and save our democracy Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter politics Prisoner: My 544 days in an Iranian prison – solitary confinement, a mock trial, high-stakes diplomacy and the extraordinary efforts it took to get me out Jason Rezaian politics “Whatever it is, I’m against it”: Resistance to changes in higher education Brian Rosenberg politics Blue Machine: How the ocean shapes our world Helen Czerski sustainability Children of a Humble Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crisis Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman sustainability The uninhabitable Earth: Life after warming David Wallace-Wells sustainability AI Needs You: How We Can Change the Future of AI and Save Our Own Verity Harding technology Chip war: The battle for the world’s most important technology Chris Miller technology Co-intelligence: Living and working with AI Ethan Mollick technology The coming wave: technology, power and the greatest dilemma of the 21st century Mustafa Suleyman, with Michael Bhaskar technology God, Man, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor and the Search for Meaning Meghan O’Gieblyn technology Hit Refresh: The quest to rediscover the soul of Microsoft and imagine a better future for all Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols technology Ideas that created the future: Classic contributions to computer science Harry R. Lewis technology Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller Alec Nevala-Lee technology The singularity is closer: When we merge with AI Ray Kurzweil technology The case for good jobs: How great companies bring dignity, pay and meaning to everyone’s work Zeynep Ton Work culture Culture is the way: How leaders at all levels build an organization for speed, impact, and excellence Matt Mayberry Work culture Loonshots: How to sponsor crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries Safi Bahcall Work culture The Surprising Science of Meetings: How to Lead Your Team to Peak Performance Steven G. Rogelberg Work culture Tribal leadership: Using natural groups to build a thriving organization Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright Work culture What you do determines who you are: How to create your corporate culture Ben Horowitz Work culture Work here now: Think like a human and create a high-performance workplace Melissa Swift Work culture