Below is an impressive list of books recommended by your peers at #EFG2019. The titles with Amazon links at the top of each section were recommended by more than one individual, hence their featured status. While not all of these recommendations have a social impact focus, they’re sure to keep your summer bookshelf stocked! | ![]() |
FEATURED NONFICTION BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS (see full list below)
FEATURED FICTION BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS (see full list below)
MORE NONFICTION RECOMMENDATIONS
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson
15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
80,000 hours (free PDF)
American Nations by Colin Woodard
Blue Ocean Shift
Blue Ocean Strategy, to help you build an organization that can grow effectively and efficiently… better serving your consumer and partners
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Bring Your Human To Work: 10 Surefire Ways to Design a Workplace That Is Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World
Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority
Building Powerful Community Organizations
Chasing Hillary by Amy Chozick
Conscious Capitalism
Creative Trespassing, How to Put the Spark and Joy Back into Your Work and Life Tania Katan
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
Financially Forward: How to Use Today’s Digital Tools to Earn More, Save Better, and Spend Smarter
Finding My Voice by Valerie Jarrett
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant
Good to Great
Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary
Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age
Right Cause Consulting Summer Reading List
I Am Because You Are by Jacob Lief
Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better by Rob Reich
Lean Impact by Ann Mei
Less Than a Minute To Go: The Secret to World-Class Performance in Sport, Business and Everyday Life by Bill Thierfelder
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
Living a Life That Matters
Love Does and Everybody Always by Bob Goff
Make Trouble by Cecile Richards
On Call in the Artic: A Doctor’s Pursuit of Life, Love, and Miracles in the Alaskan Frontier
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Radical Candor, Be a Kickass Boss without losing your humanity by Kim Scott
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Social Marketing
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
Switch Highlight: Build on the bright spots of what’s working versus only trying to fix what isn’t
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
The Content Trap
The Happiness Equation
The Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles
Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential by Dan Pallotta
We First by Simon Mainwaring
When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn’t the Life You Want by Mike Lewis
You are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero
MORE FICTION RECOMMENDATIONS
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Bad Blood
The Poisonwood Bible
Hillbilly Elegy
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Lying Game
The President is Missing by James Patterson & Bill Clinton
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
World War Z by Max Brooks