What We’re Reading
The beginning of a new year is usually a good time for me to catch up on my reading list. I’ve jotted down the titles I’m currently focusing on and I’ve asked my colleagues here at Smith to share what they’re reading right now, too. If you’re looking for a recommendation or a conversation, check out the titles below. If you have a great read you’d recommend, please let us know!
Staff picks from the Smith team
Glen Gonzalez
The Social Organization by Anthony J. Bradley and Mark P. McDonald
Drive by Daniel Pink
A beat up copy of the March 2008 edition of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine. which I found for $0.99 at my local record store.
Jennifer Needham
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin
Sara Levinson
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
Checking In: Hospitality-Driven Thinking, Business, and You by Stephen Cloobeck
Allison Artnak
Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
Why Simple Wins: Escape the Complexity Trap and Get to Work That Matters by Lisa Bodell
Julia Wolf
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave by Joanna Gaines
Gretchen Vaught
The Dream King: How the Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. Is Being Fulfilled to Heal Racism in America by Will Ford and Matt Lockett
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World by Deirdre McCloskey
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Rick Cole
The Content Trap: A Strategist’s Guide to Digital Change by Bharat Narendra Anand
Baracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread by Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall
Will Spiers
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
Michael Garcia
Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Don Sanford
A Column of Fire by Ken Follett
Catherine Sturges
Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. by Jeff Tweedy
Pat Dodd
The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
Amy Crowell
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Lindsey Comas
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari