Reading Material for the Summer
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Every season, the Next Big Idea Club editorial staff reviews dozens of upcoming books to identify the most exciting, must-read nonfiction titles. We start with a broad pool of nominees, and then share them with our curators—Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, and Malcolm Gladwell—to identify six finalists and, ultimately, two official season selections.
And today, we’re excited to share our list of nominees for Summer 2021. Neither our staff nor our curators have read each and every title below, but we believe that the two best nonfiction books of the season are among them. So if you’re looking for summer reading, the nominees are…
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
By Brad Stone
Publication Date: May 11, 2021
From the bestselling author of The Everything Store, an unvarnished picture of Amazon’s unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time. View on Amazon
Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
By Gillian Tett
Publication Date: June 8, 2021
Financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett presents a radically different strategy for success: Businesses can revolutionize their understanding of behavior by studying consumers, markets, and organizations through an anthropological lens. View on Amazon
The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life’s Unending Algorithm
By Caleb Scharf
Publication Date: June 15, 2021
Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. View on Amazon
Awakening: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women’s Rights
By Rachel B. Vogelstein and Meighan Stone
Publication Date: July 13, 2021
Bringing together political analysis and inspiring personal stories from women in seven countries, Awakening takes readers to the front lines of a networked movement that’s fundamentally shifting how women organize for their own equality. View on Amazon
Be Who You Want: Unlocking the Science of Personality Change
By Christian Jarrett
Publication Date: May 18, 2021
From cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Christian Jarrett, a fascinating book exploring the science of personality and how we can change ourselves for the better. View on Amazon
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
By Yusef Salaam
Publication Date: May 18, 2021
This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison reform activist Yusef Salaam, of the Exonerated Five, that will inspire us all to turn our stories into tools for change in the pursuit of racial justice. View on Amazon
Brainscapes: The Warped, Wonderous Maps Written in Your Brain—and How They Guide You
By Rebecca Schwarzlose
Publication Date: June 15, 2021
A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter—and how technology can use them to read your mind. View on Amazon
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By Andrew H. Knoll
Publication Date: April 27, 2021
Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth. View on Amazon
Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work
By Jim Detert
Publication Date: May 18, 2021
An inspirational, practical, and research-based guide for standing up and speaking out skillfully at work. View on Amazon
Convergence: Technology, Business, and the Human-Centric Future
By Deborah Westphal
Publication Date: May 11, 2021
Deborah Westphal, a leader in future-focused strategy, reveals how the interests of people (as human beings, not customers), overlap with those of companies in ways never before seen. View on Amazon
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
By Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell
Publication Date: July 20, 2021
The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what its epic unraveling says about a financial system drunk on the elixir of Silicon Valley innovation. View on Amazon
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
By Amanda Montell
Publication Date: June 15, 2021
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. View on Amazon
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News
By Eric Berkowitz
Publication Date: May 4, 2021
A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintain class and gender disparities. View on Amazon
Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success
By Ron Friedman
Publication Date: June 15, 2021
For readers of Atomic Habits, Deep Work, and Peak comes a game-changing approach to mastering new skills and succeeding faster: reverse engineering. View on Amazon
Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
By Pete Davis
Publication Date: May 4, 2021
A profoundly inspiring and transformative argument that purposeful commitment can be a powerful force in our age of restlessness and indecision. View on Amazon
Did That Just Happen?!: Beyond “Diversity”―Creating Sustainable and Inclusive Organizations
By Stephanie Pinder-Amaker and Lauren Wadsworth
Publication Date: June 15, 2021
An accessible guide showing all people how to create and sustain diversity and inclusivity in the workplace—no matter your identity, industry, or level of experience. View on Amazon
Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust & Connection No Matter the Distance
By Erica Dhawan
Publication Date: May 11, 2021
Erica Dhawan, a go-to thought leader on collaboration and a passionate communication junkie, combines cutting edge research with engaging storytelling to decode the new signals and cues that have replaced traditional body language across genders, generations, and culture. View on Amazon
Everybody: A Book About Freedom
By Olivia Laing
Publication Date: May 4, 2021
Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. View on Amazon
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