Storytelling (Including Marketing and Mythology)

  • Hutchens, David, Story Dash!
  • McRay, Michael T., I Am Not Your Enemy: Stories to Transform a Divided World
  • Jiwa, Bernadette, Story Driven
  • Corn, Lisa, Story Genius
  • Drake, David B, Narrative Coaching: The Definitive Guide to Bringing New Stories to Life
  • Duarte, Nancy, DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story
  • Godin, Seth, This is Marketing
  • Godin, Seth, The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
  • Miller, Donald, Building a Story Brand
  • Campbell, Joseph, and Moyers, Bill, The Power of Myth
  • Armstrong, Karen, A Short History of Myth
  • Bonnet, James, Stealing Fire From the Gods
  • McKee, Robert, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting

Learning (Including Careers and Professional Development)

  • German, Alex J., and Goldmeier, Jordan, Becoming a Data Head
  • Roose, Kevin, Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
  • Clear, James, Atomic Habits
  • Grant, Adam, Think Again
  • Newport, Cal, Deep Work
  • Dalio, Ray. Principles: Life and Work
  • Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
  • Kahneman, Daniel, Thinking Fast and Slow
  • Martin, Roger, The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
  • Gelb, Michael, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
  • Burnett, Bill, and Evans, Dave, Designing Your Life
  • Pink, Daniel, A Whole New Mind

Mindfulness (Including Psychology and Healing)

  • Gunaratana, Bhante, Mindfulness in Plain English
  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu, The Noble Eightfold Path
  • Goldstein, Joseph, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
  • Batchelor, Stephen. Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
  • Goleman, Daniel, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
  • Hanson, Rick, Buddha’s Brain
  • Kornfield, Jack, The Wise Heart
  • Hanh, Thich Nhat, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
  • Salzburg, Sharon, Loving-Kindness
  • Chodron, Pema, The Places That Scare You
  • Chodron, Pema, When Things Fall Apart
  • Bradshaw, John, Healing the Shame That Binds You
  • Bradshaw, John, Homecoming
  • Neff, Kristin, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
  • van der Kolk, Bessel, The Body Keeps the Score

Digital Transformation, Business, and Customer/Employee Experience

  • Galloway, Scott, Post-Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity
  • Zakaria, Fareed, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
  • Diamandis, Peter H. and Kotler, Steven, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
  • Schwerdtfeger, Patrick, Pandemic, Inc.: 8 Trends Driving Business Growth and Success in the New Economy
  • Guillen, Mauro F., 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
  • Zuboff, Shoshana, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 

  • Martin, Roger, When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency
  • Magee, Rhonda, The Inner Work of Racial Justice
  • Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time
  • Wilkerson, Isabel, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
  • Wilkerson, Isabel, The Warmth of Other Suns
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy 
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Between the World and Me
  • Oluo, Ijeoma, So You Want to Talk About Race
  • Kendi, Ibram X,, How to Be An Anti-Racist
  • Kendi, Ibram X., Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
  • Alexander, Michelle, The New Jim Crow
  • Abrams, Stacey, Our Time is Now
  • Hong, Cathy Park. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning  
  • Wong, Alice. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
  • Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY Book 3)
  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, We Should All Be Feminists
  • Spelling, Gene, Economic Dignity
  • McGhee, Heather, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Existential Possibilities and Threats

  • Harari, Yuval Noah, Sapiens
  • Harari, Yuval Noah, Homo Deus
  • Harari, Yuval Noah, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
  • Christakis, Nicholas A, Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
  • Greger, Michael, How to Survive a Pandemic
  • Gates, Bill, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
  • Figueres, Christiana, and Rivett-Carnac, Tom, The Future We Choose
  • Haass, Richard, The World: A Brief Introduction
  • Wiesel, Elie, Night
  • Smith,  Zadie, Intimations

Health, Fitness, and Nutrition

  • Greger, Michael, How Not to Diet
  • Nestor, James, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
  • Phillips, Steven, and Parish, Dana. Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Get Healthy Again