Annual Book Recommendations For CEOs And Global Business Leaders, 2024

An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created Santi Elijah Holley Biography and memoir Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life Nicholas D. Kristof Biography and memoir The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race Walter Isaacson Biography and memoir Fever Pitch Nick Hornby Biography and memoir Grief Is for People Sloane Crosley Biography and memoir Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony M. K. Asante Biography and memoir Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey Through America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses Jimmie James Biography and memoir The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality William Egginton Biography and memoir Trace Jenny Holzer Biography and memoir Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph Sheila Johnson, with Lisa Dickey Biography and memoir Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo Lesley-Ann Noel Business and economics The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg Business and economics How Legendary Leaders Speak: 451 Proven Communication Strategies of the World’s Top Leaders Peter D. Andrei Business and economics Inner Drive: From Underdog to Global Company Arsen Tomsky Business and economics The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink, and Ramesh Srinivasan Business and economics Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict William Ury Business and economics Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle Business and economics What I Learned About Investing from Darwin Pulak Prasad Business and economics 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 Bournville Jonathan Coe Fiction Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver Fiction Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Freeborn Fiction God’s Debris: A Thought Experiment Scott Adams Fiction I Have Some Questions for You Rebecca Makkai Fiction The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak Fiction James Percival Everett Fiction Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen Fay Weldon Fiction The Maniac Benjamín 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 the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt Health Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health Casey Means, with Calley Means Health Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have to David A. Sinclair, with Matthew D. LaPlante Health My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s Sandeep Jauhar Health Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity Peter Attia, with Bill Gifford Health Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World Elinor Cleghorn Health Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold On to What Matters Charan Ranganath Health Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art 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 History The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball’s Power Brokers Jon Pessah History One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink—September 29, 1923 Matthew Parker History Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of Seventeenth-Century Italian Painters Richard E. Spear and Philip Sohm History The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power Daniel Yergin History The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women Kate Moore History Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England Keith Thomas History An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s Doris Kearns Goodwin History Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most Adam Alter Personal development The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence Ros Atkins Personal development The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters Priya Parker Personal development Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering Joseph Nguyen Personal development Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child John Bradshaw Personal development How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner Personal development Der Kreativitäts-Code: 25 Erfolgsregeln für Ihre Kreativität (The Creativity Code: 25 rules for success for your creativity) Josef Brunner and Christian Sellmann Personal development Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl Personal development Mindset: The New Psychology of Success; How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our Potential Carol S. Dweck Personal development Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead Tara Mohr Personal development Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words Anne Curzan Personal development Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout 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 Backlash from 1600 to the Present Fareed Zakaria Politics Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town Barbara Demick Politics How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World Deb Chachra Politics Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy Henry Kissinger Politics Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream David Leonhardt Politics The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter Politics Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison―Solitary Confinement, a Sham 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 Change in Higher Education Brian Rosenberg Politics Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World Helen Czerski Sustainability Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman Sustainability The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells Sustainability AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own Verity Harding Technology Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology Chris Miller Technology Co-intelligence: Living and Working with AI Ethan Mollick Technology The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma Mustafa Suleyman, with Michael Bhaskar Technology God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning Meghan O’Gieblyn Technology Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, and Jill Tracie Nichols Technology Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis Technology Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller Alec Nevala-Lee Technology The Singularity Is Nearer: 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 Workplace culture Culture Is the Way: How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence Matt Mayberry Workplace culture Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries Safi Bahcall Workplace culture The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance Steven G. Rogelberg Workplace culture Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright Workplace culture What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture Ben Horowitz Workplace culture Work Here Now: Think like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace Melissa Swift Workplace culture