The Startup Leader’s Summer Reading List
The first official day of summer is June 20—and if you’re anything like us, you’re ready to push the sourdough starter and jigsaw puzzles aside and dive into a new book or three. To make sure we don’t run out of recommendations, we asked leaders in the OpenView community to tell us what’s on their summer reading list. Here’s what they said:
Books about business and leadership
- A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Dare to Lead
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- Radical Candor
- Contagious: Why Things Catch On
- From Head Shops to Whole Foods
- The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
- Break the Wheel
Non-fiction books
- How to Be an Antiracist
- A Piece of Cake
- Until the End of Time
- Child of Light
- Humble Pi
- Wow, No Thank You
- Eat a Peach: A Memoir (out on 9/20/2020)
- The Splendid and the Vile
- Keep Going
- Talking to Strangers
- Make Time
- The Power of Moments
Fiction books
- A Dance with Dragons
- Between the World and Me
- Salvage the Bones
- Such a Fun Age
- An American Marriage
- Assassination Vacation
Where to order books
Support your local Black-owned bookstore. Here are just a few of many offering online ordering:
- Frugal Bookstore (Boston)
- Mahogany Books (Washington, D.C)
- Semicolon Bookstore (Chicago)
- Harriet’s Bookshop (Philadelphia)
- Black Pearl Books (Austin)
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