What executives are

reading in 2019
Time to restock your shelves? We asked leaders of some of the
world’s biggest organizations to share the books they look forward
to reading or revisiting.

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August 2019
 We have books on the brain, with the recent release Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, executive chairman, LEGO
of the Financial Times–McKinsey Business Book Brand Group
of the Year long list. (See coverage of last year’s
winner, Bad Blood, on our blog, and check back —— The End of the End of the Earth—Jonathan
December 3, when the 2019 award is given.) There’s Franzen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018,
inspiration aplenty in the selections, which offer nonfiction)
compelling insights on topics crucial to business
today. But we also wanted to see what CEOs —— Let Love Have the Last Word: A Memoir—
and other business leaders are keeping on their Common (Atria Books, May 2019, nonfiction)
shelves or tucking into their suitcases—consider
it food for thought in picking your next read. Read —— Men in My Situation—Per Petterson (Forlaget
on for selections from leaders at Novartis, PayPal, Oktober, 2018, fiction)
Walmart, and more.
—— Wholehearted Leadership—Morten Mortensen
Doug McMillon, CEO, Walmart (MM Holding, April 2019, nonfiction)

—— The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the —— A Little Book about Love—Frederik Dessau
Age of Colorblindness—Michelle Alexander (Gyldendal Forlag, 1996, nonfiction)
(New Press, 2010, nonfiction)
Salman Khan, founder and CEO, Khan Academy
—— Them: Why We Hate Each Other—and How
to Heal—Ben Sasse (St. Martin’s Press, 2018, —— Breakfast of Champions—Kurt Vonnegut
nonfiction) (Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1973,
fiction)
—— The Sixth Man: A Memoir—Andre Iguodala (Blue
Rider Press, June 2019, nonfiction) —— The Upanishads—translated by Eknath
Easwaran (Nilgiri Press, second edition, 2007,
—— Become an Accelerator Leader: Accelerate nonfiction)
Yourself, Others, and Your Organization to
Maximize Impact—Alvin Rohrs (Gatekeeper —— A Short History of Byzantium—John Julius
Press, May 2019, nonfiction) Norwich (Vintage, 1998, nonfiction)

Meg Whitman, CEO, Quibi Jacqui Canney, chief people officer, WPP

—— Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, —— Becoming—Michelle Obama (Crown, 2018,
and One Man’s Fight for Justice—Bill Browder nonfiction)
(Simon & Schuster, 2015, nonfiction)
—— Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the
—— The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Power of Change—Beth Comstock, with Tahl
Who Brought the American Ideal West—David Raz (Currency, 2018, nonfiction)
McCullough (Simon & Schuster, May 2019,
nonfiction) —— Leaders: Myth and Reality—Stanley McChrystal,
Jeff Eggers, and Jason Mangone (Portfolio
—— The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Penguin, 2018, nonfiction)
Changes the World—Melinda Gates (Flatiron
Books, April 2019, nonfiction)

2 What executives are reading in 2019

Andrew Penn, CEO and managing director, —— The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?—
Telstra Corporation Seth Godin (Portfolio Penguin, 2012, nonfiction)

—— Architects of Intelligence: The Truth about AI —— The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine—
from the People Building It—Martin Ford (Packt Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton, 2010, nonfiction)
Publishing, 2018, nonfiction)
Beth Comstock, former vice chair, General
—— Death of a River Guide—Richard Flanagan Electric; author, Imagine It Forward: Courage,
(Grove Press, reprint edition, 2002, fiction) Creativity, and the Power of Change

—— The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet—David —— The Overstory—Richard Powers (W. W. Norton,
Mitchell (Random House, 2010, fiction) 2018, fiction)

Dan Schulman, president and CEO, PayPal —— The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How
They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret
—— People, Power, and Profits: Progressive World—Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books,
Capitalism for an Age of Discontent—Joseph E. 2016, nonfiction)
Stiglitz (W. W. Norton, April 2019, nonfiction)
—— Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition—Walt
—— The Accidental Admiral: A Sailor Takes Whitman (Penguin Classics, 1961, nonfiction)
Command at NATO—James Stavridis (Naval
Institute Press, 2014, nonfiction) Jesper Jos Olsson, group CEO and founding
partner, White Peak Real Estate
—— Lexicon—Max Barry (Penguin Books, 2013, fiction)
—— Serotonin—Michel Houellebecq (Farrar, Straus
—— The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of and Giroux, November 2019, fiction)
Durable Disorder—Sean McFate (William
Morrow, January 2019, nonfiction) —— The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming—
David Wallace-Wells (Tim Duggan Books,
Strive Masiyiwa, founder, executive chairman, February 2019, nonfiction)
Econet
—— Aniara: An Epic Science Fiction Poem—Harry
—— The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a Martinson (1956, fiction)
World Where Things Go Wrong—Judith Rodin
(PublicAffairs, 2014, nonfiction) Richard Plepler, founder, RLP & Company; former
chairman and CEO, HBO
—— The Other Story: A Fireside Chat with African
Achievers—Judy Dlamini (February 2019, —— Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the
nonfiction) American Century—George Packer (Alfred A.
Knopf, May 2019, nonfiction)
—— Africa at Work—Acha Leke et al. (2012,
nonfiction) —— The Back Channel: A Memoir of American
Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal—William
Joerg Reinhardt, PhD, chairman, Novartis J. Burns (Random House, March 2019, nonfiction)

—— Has the West Lost It? A Provocation—Kishore —— Fleishman is in Trouble—Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Mahbubani (Penguin, April 2019, nonfiction) (Random House, June 2019, fiction)

What executives are reading in 2019 3

 Sarah Friar, CEO, Nextdoor Kevin Sneader, global managing partner,
McKinsey & Company
—— Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis—
Jared Diamond (Little, Brown and Company, May —— The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future
2019, nonfiction) of the World—Peter Frankopan (Bloomsbury
Publishing, 2018, nonfiction)
—— Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That
Shapes What We See, Think, and Do—Jennifer L. —— Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of
Eberhardt (Viking, March 2019, nonfiction) the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster—Adam
Higginbotham (Simon & Schuster, February
—— Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of 2019, nonfiction)
the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster—Adam
Higginbotham (Simon & Schuster, February —— Lords of the Desert: Britain’s Struggle with
2019, nonfiction) America to Dominate the Middle East—James
Barr (Simon & Schuster UK, 2018, nonfiction)
—— Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory
in Northern Ireland—Patrick Radden Keefe —— A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy
(Doubleday, February 2019, nonfiction) and the Crisis of the Old Order—Richard Haass
(Penguin Press, 2017, nonfiction)

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4 What executives are reading in 2019

 We know what you’re
reading this summer
McKinsey’s annual reading list is back—reimagined for
this pandemic year.

August 2020
 See the full list of responses below. Glenn Kelman, CEO, Redfin

— Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam-Joo

Business leaders
John Visentin, CEO, Xerox
Bob Iger, Executive chairman,
The Walt Disney Company
— Scotty, Ken Dryden
— Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,
— Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15
Isabel Wilkerson
Years as CEO of The Walt Disney Company,
Bob Iger
— The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson

David Gibbs, CEO, Yum! Brands

Oscar Munoz, Executive chairman,
United Airlines Holdings, Inc.
— David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the
Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell
— Separated: Inside an American Tragedy,
Jacob Soboroff
Nandan Nilekani, Chairman and cofounder, Infosys
Kenneth M. Jacobs, Chairman and CEO, Lazard
— What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of
Excellence, Steve Schwarzman
— The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson

— Capitalism in America: An Economic History

— Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement
of the United States, Alan Greenspan and
of Black Americans from the Civil War to World
Adrian Woolridge
War II, Douglas A. Blackmon

— Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism,

— Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of
Dinyar Patel
Authoritarianism, Anne Applebaum

Peter Chapman, President and CEO, IonQ

Laxman Narasimhan, CEO, Reckitt Benckiser

— The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from

— The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest
15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company,
Pandemic in History, John M. Barry
Bob Iger
— Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness
— That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and
Meditation in Everyday Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn
the Amazing Life of an Idea, Marc Randolph
— Leadership: In Turbulent Times,
Serge Saxonov, Cofounder and CEO, 10x Genomics
Doris Kearns Goodwin

— The Billion Dollar Molecule: The Quest for

Katherine Garrett-Cox, CEO,
the Perfect Drug, Barry Werth
Gulf International Bank (UK)

— Reamde: A Novel, Neal Stephenson

— The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate
Crisis, Christiana Figueres and
— The Fabric of Reality: The Sciences of Parallel
Tom Rivett-Carnac
Universes—and Its Implications, David Deutsch

2 We know what you’re reading this summer

Thomas S. Gayner, Co-CEO, Markel Technologists/entrepreneurs/
philanthropists
— The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist and Craig
Rules Us and How We Can Rule It, John Tierney Newmark Philanthropies
and Roy Baumeister
Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis
— Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can of American Democracy, Margaret Sullivan
Save America from the Culture of Contempt,
Arthur C. Brooks The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel

— Days of Grace: A Memoir, Arthur Ashe and The City We Became: A Novel, N. K. Jemisin
Arnold Rampersad
Yoky Matsuoka, CEO of the Lifestyle Business
Strategy Division, Panasonic; former CTO of Google
Global leaders Nest and a cofounder of Google X
François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose,
Eckhart Tolle
— Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century
Memoir, Madeleine Albright Sebastian Thrun, CEO, Kitty Hawk, and chairman,
Udacity
— Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis, Bill George
— Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
Director-General, World Health Organization — Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your
Life Depended on It, Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
— Inside Change: Transforming Your Organization
with Emotional Intelligence, Joshua Freedman — Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling
and Massimiliano Ghini MBA Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers,
Geoffrey A. Moore
— A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of
Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Debbie Sterling, Founder and CEO, GoldieBlox
Carbon Emissions, Muhammad Yunus
— American Pastoral, Philip Roth
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor, Columbia Business
School; 2001 recipient, Nobel Memorial Prize in — American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins
Economic Sciences
— Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,
— Mapmaker’s Wife, Robert Whittaker Bryan Stevenson

— The Great Influenza, John M. Barry — This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More
Generous World, Yancey Strickler
— Heavy, Kiese Laymon

— Too Much and Never Enough: How my Family

Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,
Mary L. Trump

We know what you’re reading this summer 3

 Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO, John S. and Angela Duckworth, Founder and CEO, Character
James L. Knight Foundation Lab at University of Pennsylvania

— The Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure — Peak: Secrets from the New Science of
of Authoritarianism, Anne Applebaum Expertise, Anders Ericsson

— The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg

Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt Business media
Matt Murray, Editor in Chief, Wall Street Journal
— Self-Portrait in Black and White, Thomas
Chatterton Williams
— The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of
Democracy, Christopher Lasch
— White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White
People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo
— The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the
Wars for the Plantagenet Crown, Nick Barratt
Mack Gill, COO and board member,
Torstone Technology
— The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of
Nazi Germany, William L. Shirer
— The Gene: An Intimate History,
Siddhartha Mukerjee
— Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life, Alison Weir

— Good Economics for Hard Times,

Gillian Tett, Chair, editorial board, and Editor at
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Large, US, Financial Times

— The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel

— Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,
Isabel Wilkerson
Gary Liu, CEO, South China Morning Post
Publishers Ltd
Alan Murray, CEO, FORTUNE Media

— Factfulness, Hans Rosling

— George Marshall: Defender of the Republic,
David Roll
— The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom,
John Pomfret
Jessica Lessin, Founder and Editor in Chief,
The Information
— A History of Scotland, Neil Oliver
— Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo
Richard Buery, President, Achievement First,
a charter-school network with 37 schools in
— Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America,
Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island
Conor Dougherty

— The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

Adi Ignatius, Editor in Chief, Harvard Business
Review
— Deacon King Kong, James McBride
— Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan
— Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice,
Town, Barbara Demick
from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter,
Charlton D. McIlwain

4 We know what you’re reading this summer

Stephanie Mehta, Editor in Chief, Fast Company TV/entertainment
Jorge Ramos, Coanchor, “Noticiero Univision,” host,
— Antisocial, Andrew Marantz
“Al Punto,” and anchor, “Real America”

— Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld

— Intimations, Zadie Smith

— The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,

— My Time To Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and
Robert Louis Stevenson
Confronting Race, Ilia Calderón

— La Corresponsal, Cristina De Stefano

Platforms
Dan Roth, Editor in Chief, LinkedIn Dan Lemon, Anchor, “CNN Tonight”

— The Vanishing Half: A Novel, Brit Bennett Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel
Wilkerson
— Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell,
and the Magazine That Rewrote America, Intimations, Zadie Smith
Stephanie Gorton
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir, Michele Harper
— The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory
and the Birth of the People’s Economy, The Vanishing Half: A Novel, Brit Bennett
Stephanie Kelton
Utopia Avenue: A Novel, David Mitchell
Katherine Maher, CEO and executive director,
Wikimedia Foundation Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the
Making of a Modern Royal Family, Omid Scobie and
— All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions Carolyn Durand
for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth
Johnson and Katharine Keeble Wilkinson Ali Velshi, Host, “Velshi,” on MSNBC

— Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel — The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of
Wilkerson America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson

— The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter — For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful
Masculinity, Liz Plank
Richard Gingras, Vice president, News, Google
— Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its
— Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, Urgent Lessons for Our Own, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Robert K. Massie
Poorna Jagannathan, Actor; producer, Nirbhaya
— The Overstory: A Novel, Richard Powers (winner of the 2013 Amnesty International Award)

— The Big Goodnight: Chinatown and the Last — See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of
Years of Hollywood, Sam Wassan Revolutionary Love, Valerie Kaur

— Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its

Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner

— Wolf Hall Trilogy, Hilary Mantel

We know what you’re reading this summer 5

 Adam Sharp, President and CEO, National Jameel Jaffer, Executive director, Knight First
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which Amendment Institute at Columbia University
oversees the Emmys
— In Hoffa’s Shadow: A Stepfather, a
— The Hardest Job in the World: The American Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search
Presidency, John Dickerson for the Truth, Jack Goldsmith

— Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, — The Lehman Trilogy: A Novel, Stefano Massini
and the Untold Story of America’s Most
Dangerous Amusement Park, Andy Mulvihill — Feel Free: Essays, Zadie Smith
and Jake Rossen
Suzanne Nossel, CEO, PEN America, and author,
— Forever: A Novel, Pete Hamill Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All

Ilia Calderón, News anchor and cohost, — She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment
“Noticiero Univision” and “Aquí y Ahora” Story that Helped Ignite a Movement,
Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey
— Say It Louder, Tiffany D. Cross
— Intimations, Zadie Smith
— Little Leaders, Vashti Harrison
— The Room Where It Happened, John Bolton
— Three Women, Lisa Taddeo

Diversity/inclusion activists
Civil rights/freedom of expression Ellen Pao, Cofounder and CEO, Project Include,
Anthony D. Romero, Executive director, ACLU and author, Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and
Lasting Change
— Manifesto for a Moral Revolution,
Jacqueline Novogratz — So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

— American Sonnets for My Past and Future — Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close,
Assassin, Terrance Hayes Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman

— The End of Policing, Alex S. Vitale — Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the
New Jim Code, Ruha Benjamin
— The Human Stain, Philip Roth
Marley Dias, Founder, #1000BlackGirlBooks,
— Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an activist, and author, Marley Dias Gets It Done
American City, Wes Moore And So Can You!

— Democracy If We Can Keep It, Ellis Cose — Harbor Me, Jacqueline Woodson

— Men in the Off Hours, Anne Carson — Modern HERstory, Blair Imani

— Caravaggio, Howard Hibbard — Living Lively, Haile Thomas

6 We know what you’re reading this summer

Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO, Girls Who Emily Ramshaw, Cofounder and CEO, The 19th
Code, and author, Brave Not Perfect: How
Celebrating Imperfection Helps You Live Your Best, — The Women’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win
Most Joyful Life the Vote, Elaine Weiss

— The Vanishing Half: A Novel, Brit Bennett Nabiha Syed, President, The Markup

— A Burning: A Novel, Megha Majumdar

Other media
— Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes
Radhika Jones, Editor in Chief, Vanity Fair
to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed,
James C. Scott
— A Burning, Megha Majumdar

— Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of

— The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt
Comprehension, Samuel Arbesman
— Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi

Edward Felsenthal, Editor in Chief and CEO of Time Teachers/experts

Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of psychology
— Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of and behavioral economics, Duke University
An Empire, Alex von Tunzelmann
— How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan
— The Last Trial, Scott Turow
— Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
Mina Al-Oraibi, Editor in Chief, The National, and
World Economic Forum Young Global Leader Ram Charan, Business adviser, author, speaker

— The Nature of Nature, Enric Sala — The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State
Leave the Community Behind, Raghuram Rajan
— Divided: Why We Are Living in an Age of Walls,
Tim Marshall Arturo Condo, President, EARTH University

Danielle Belton, Editor in Chief, The Root — Manifesto for a Moral Revolution,
Jacqueline Novogratz
— Too Much and Never Enough: How my Family
Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, — The Future We Choose: Surviving the
Mary L. Trump Climate Crisis, Christiana Figueres and
Tom Rivett-Carnac
— Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between
Women and Alcohol, Ann Dowsett Johnson — La Peste, Albert Camus

— The Hero With A Thousand Faces, — Cien años de soledad, Gabriel García Márquez
Joseph Campbell

— The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure

for Writers, Christopher Vogler

We know what you’re reading this summer 7

 McKinsey leaders Pierre Gentin, partner and general counsel,
New York
Liz Hilton Segel, senior partner, New York, and
managing partner for McKinsey in North America
— Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise,
Sally Cline
— The World: A Brief Introduction, Richard Haass

— Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Kevin Sneader, global managing partner,
Hong Kong
— Black Box, Amos Oz

— The Lehman Trilogy: A Novel, Stefano Massini

— Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson
and Her Family’s Feuds, Lyndall Gordon
— 1968: The Year That Rocked the World,
Mark Kurlansky
Lareina Yee, senior partner, San Francisco

— Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger

— Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,
Matthew Desmond
Pal Erik Sjatil, senior partner, Paris, and managing
partner for McKinsey in Europe
— Exhalation: Stories, Ted Chiang

— The Second World War, Antony Beevor

— All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

Acha Leke, senior partner, Johannesburg

— Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,

Yuval Noah Harari

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 We still know what you’re
reading this summer
McKinsey’s annual reading list is back for 2021.

© Melanie Tönnies / EyeEm/Getty Images

August 2021
 Corporate leaders — A Promised Land by Barack Obama

James Gorman, Chair and CEO, Morgan Stanley — Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA,
Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet
— Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
by M. T. Anderson — The Great Decoupling: China, America and the
Struggle for Technological Supremacy
John W. Rogers Jr., Chair, Co-CEO, and Chief by Nigel Inkster
Investment Officer, Ariel Investments
Christian Klein, CEO, SAP
— Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You
Don’t Know by Adam Grant — Good Economics for Hard Times: Better
Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Rob Fauber, President and CEO, by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Moody’s Corporation
Ann Fudge, Chair, WGBH Radio
— The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a
Business When There Are No Easy Answers — Humankind: A Hopeful History
by Ben Horowitz by Rutger Bregman

— Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement — The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our
of Black Americans from the Civil War to World Brains by Nicholas Carr
War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
— Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon
Scott Kirby, CEO, United Airlines by Richard Wright

— How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions — The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone
We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need and How We Can Prosper Together
by Bill Gates by Heather McGhee

— The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, — Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast
Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Universe by Ella Frances Sanders
by Erik Larson
Gretchen Howard, COO, Robinhood Markets
— Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health,
Wealth, and Happiness by Cass R. Sunstein and — Two Sides of Glory: The 1986 Boston Red Sox in
Richard H. Thaler Their Own Words by Erik Sherman

— The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene — The Museum of Rain by Dave Eggers
Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson

Shobhana Bhartia, Chair and Editorial Director,

HT Media

— Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t

Have To by David A. Sinclair

2 We still know what you’re reading this summer

Other leaders Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO,
Planned Parenthood
Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO, Acumen Fund
— How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the
— High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
Get Out by Amanda Ripley
— The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century
— Lab Girl by Hope Jahrel Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage
by Sasha Issenberg
— 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
by Elif Shafak — Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler
Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
— Freedom by Sebastian Junger
— The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
— 100 Poems to Break Your Heart by Michael Lewis
by Edward Hirsch
Ailish Campbell, Canada’s Ambassador to the EU
— How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the
History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith — How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
by Elif Shafak
Richard Buery, CEO, Achievement First; CEO,
Robin Hood Foundation (effective September 2021) — Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia
and Then Took On the West by Catherine Belton
— How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the
History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith — The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
(translated by Ann Goldstein)
— On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Rebecca Lowell Edwards, Chief Communications
— Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, Officer, ACLU
and Imprisonment by Angela J. Davis, Bryan
Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western, and — The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial
Jeremy Travis Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

— Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City — Parent Like It Matters: How to Raise Joyful,
by Rosa Brooks Change-Making Girls by Janice Johnson Dias, PhD

— God in the Ghetto: A Prophetic Word Revisited — You Are Enough! Reclaiming Your Career
by William Augustus Jones Jr. (edited by his and Your Life with Purpose, Passion,
daughter Jennifer Jones Austin) and Unapologetic Authenticity
by Charlene Wheeless
— King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
— How Beautiful We Were: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue

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 Shamina Singh, Executive Vice President, — Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside
Sustainability, and President, Center for Inclusive Story of How Trump Lost by Michael C. Bender
Growth, Mastercard
Roula Khalaf, Editor in Chief, Financial Times
— Travels with Charley: In Search of America
by John Steinbeck — Le pays des autres (In the Country of Others)
by Leïla Slimani
— Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life
Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad Alan Murray, CEO, Fortune Media

Frank McCourt, Chair and CEO, Unfinished Labs; — How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions
Owner, Olympique de Marseille We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
by Bill Gates
— These Truths: A History of the United States
by Jill Lepore — The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to
End the Great War, 1916–1917 by Philip Zelikow
— Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A
Recent History by Kurt Andersen Stephanie Mehta, Editor in Chief, Fast Company

— Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets — The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s
Every Father Should Know by Meg Meeker, MD Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin

Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Vice President, — A Burning: A Novel by Megha Majumdar

Public Policy & Philanthropy, Americas, Twitter
Becky Quick, Squawk Box anchor, CNBC
— Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and
Hollywood by Danny Trejo with Donal Logue — Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As if Your
Life Depended On It by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
— The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially
Aware Algorithm Design by Michael Kearns and — When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Aaron Roth by Daniel H. Pink

— A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide Julia Beizer, Global Head of Digital,

by Cyd Harrell Bloomberg Media

— When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our — New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of
Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Native Nations Poetry edited by Joy Harjo by Thomas Dyja

Business media — Klara and the Sun: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

Matt Murray, Editor in Chief, Wall Street Journal Rafat Ali, CEO and Founder, Skift

— American Pastoral by Philip Roth — The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire
Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the
— Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall Power and Greed of Wall Street by Max Frumes
of Rome by Douglas Boin and Sujeet Indap

— The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and

the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown and
Maureen Farrell

4 We still know what you’re reading this summer

Other media — Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, an
Unlikely Family, and the American Dream by
Kevin Merida, Executive Editor, Los Angeles Times Katherine Manning, Lyn Nguyen, and
Tung Nguyen
— The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne and Tamara Payne Danielle Belton, Editor in Chief, HuffPost

— Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz — African Europeans: An Untold History

by Olivette Otele
— Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican
Party and Its Capture of the Court — These Ghosts Are Family: A Novel by Maisy Card
by Jackie Calmes
— Yellow Wife: A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson
Sally Buzbee, Executive Editor, Washington Post
S. Mitra Kalita, CEO and Cofounder, URL Media
— The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
— The Vanishing Half: A Novel by Brit Bennett
— Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with
Harriet Vane by Dorothy L. Sayers — The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Gwendolyn Bounds, Chief Content Officer,
Consumer Reports — Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

— Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized McKinsey leaders

World by David Epstein
Bob Sternfels, Global Managing Partner, McKinsey
— Freedom by Sebastian Junger
— Operation Tidal Wave: The Bloodiest Air Battle in
— Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents the History of War by Vincent dePaul Lupiano
by Octavia E. Butler
— A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Adrienne LaFrance, Executive Editor, Atlantic
— A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist,
— Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye by Diana Preston and Michael Preston

— The Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Tracy Francis, Senior Partner, McKinsey
Revolutionary France by Georges Lefebvre
— The Mirror & the Light: A Novel by Hilary Mantel
— The Sacraments of Desire by Linda Gregg
— The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
— Pachinko by Min Jin Lee by Michael Lewis

Anup Kaphle, Executive Editor, Rest of World Pierre Gentin, Senior Partner, McKinsey

— An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for — Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of
Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark

— The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and — Both Are True by Reyna Marder Gentin
Future of Trump’s America by Adam Serwer

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 Homayoun Hatami, Senior Partner, McKinsey Liz Hilton Segel, Global Leader,
Industry Practices, McKinsey
— This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The
Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth — The How of Happiness: A New Approach to
Getting the Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky
Eric Kutcher, Senior Partner, McKinsey
— Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind
— First Principles: What America’s Founders and Your Life by Martin E. P. Seligman
Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How
That Shaped Our Country by Thomas E. Ricks Sven Smit, Senior Partner, McKinsey

— Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg — The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic
Campaign, June–July 1863 by Shelby Foote Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations by Philippe
Aghion, Céline Antonin, and Simon Bunel
James Manyika, Senior Partner, McKinsey
— Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
— Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Robert B. Cialdini
by Eduardo Galeano
— Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence
— Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White and Persuade by Robert B. Cialdini
Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Magnus Tyreman, Senior Partner, McKinsey

— Circe: A Novel by Madeline Miller — The Morning Star: A Novel

by Karl Ove Knausgaard
— The Old Drift: A Novel by Namwali Serpell
Rodney Zemmel, Senior Partner, McKinsey
— Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called
Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib — Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information,
Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything
Gary Pinkus, Senior Partner, McKinsey Else by Jordan Ellenberg

— The Empire of the Senses by Alexis Landau — Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of
Tech in China’s Countryside by Xiaowei Wang
— Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an
Ungoverned World by Peter Zeihan — Call It Sleep: A Novel by Henry Roth

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 2022 summer reading
guide from leaders,
authors, and editors
McKinsey’s annual books list is back—with something for everyone.

© Edward Greenberg

August 2022
 Biography & memoir Lloyd B. Minor, dean, Stanford University School
of Medicine
Azeem Azhar, creator, Exponential View
— In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of
— Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
by Lea Ypi
Indra Nooyi, former CEO, PepsiCo
Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Prize laureate; economist;
author, Cooking to Save Your Life — The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of
Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
— Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger by
Nigel Slater Reshma Saujani, founder, Girls Who Code; CEO,
Marshall Plan for Moms
Sinéad Burke, CEO, Tilting the Lens
— Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My
— Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Mind by Andy Dunn
Harvard Law by Haben Girma
Christi Shaw, CEO, Kite Pharma
Óscar García Maceiras, CEO, Inditex
— Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by
— Personal History by Katharine Graham Theresa Brown

Radhika Jones, editor in chief, Vanity Fair — This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir by
Cecily Strong
— Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls’
Boarding Schools, 1939–1979 by Ysenda Sylvana Quader Sinha, founder and CEO,
Maxtone Graham Praava Health

Leslie Maasdorp, vice president and CFO, New — My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future by
Development Bank Indra Nooyi

— Xi: A Study in Power by Kerry Brown Albert Wenger, managing partner, Union
Square Ventures
Kevin Merida, executive editor, Los Angeles Times
— The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
— His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life
and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Toluse Bob Sternfels, global managing partner, McKinsey
Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels
— Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and
— It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Magic from above the Clouds in Ethiopia by
Made Him by Justin Tinsley Michael Crawley

— Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Tracy Francis, senior partner, McKinsey
Women in Pop by Danyel Smith
— Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by
Hannah Gadsby

2 Summer reading 2022

Eric Kutcher, senior partner, McKinsey Leslie Maasdorp, vice president and CFO, New
Development Bank
— Never Enough: A Navy SEAL Commander on
Living a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning — The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the
by Mike Hayes Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources by
Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
— Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!)
Biography of Golf’s Most Colorful Superstar by Matt Murray, editor in chief, the Wall Street Journal
Alan Shipnuck
— 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal
Pierre M. Gentin, senior partner, McKinsey Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by
Ben S. Bernanke
— The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
by Edmund de Waal Sylvana Quader Sinha, founder and CEO,
Praava Health
Chris Bradley, senior partner, McKinsey
— Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion,
— Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
in Crisis by J. D. Vance
Noel Quinn, CEO, HSBC

— Maverick: The Success Story behind the World’s

Business & economics Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler

François-Philippe Champagne, minister of Kiersten Saunders, cocreator, rich & REGULAR

innovation, science, and industry, Government
of Canada — Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful
Business If You’re Not a Rich White Guy by
— The Next Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Kathryn Finney
Adapt to a Riskier Future by Stephen Poloz
Shankar Vedantam, creator and host, Hidden Brain
Katherine Garrett-Cox, CEO, Gulf International
Bank (UK) — Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the
Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee
— The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global and Esther Duflo
Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale by
Simon Clark and Will Louch Daisy Veerasingham, president and CEO, the
Associated Press
Neil Hoyne, chief measurement strategist, Google
— No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of
— Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-
Proofing Your Career by Jason Feifer David Vélez, cofounder and CEO, Nubank

— The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas — The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized
Great and Great Ideas Scale by John A. List Alternative to Central Banking by
Saifedean Ammous

Summer reading 2022 3

 Amy Webb, founder and CEO, Future Today Institute Neil Hoyne, chief measurement strategist, Google

— Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas — The Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily
Piketty (translated by Arthur Goldhammer) Winfield Martin

Lisa Witter, CEO, Apolitical Foundation; Paul Hudson, CEO, Sanofi

cofounder, Apolitical
— The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
— The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns
and Lower Risk by Patience Marime-Ball and Radhika Jones, editor in chief, Vanity Fair
Ruth Shaber
— The Magician by Colm Tóibín
Jen L. Wong, COO, Reddit
S. Mitra Kalita, CEO, URL Media; publisher,
— Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Epicenter NYC
Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
— Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades

— Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by

Fiction, poetry & essays Rebecca Wells

Mina Al-Oraibi, editor in chief, the National Laxman Narasimhan, CEO, Reckitt Benckiser

— The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles — Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Prize laureate; economist; Manuel Rabaté, director, Louvre Abu Dhabi
author, Cooking to Save Your Life
— The Nabatī Poetry of the United Arab Emirates:
— Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke Selected Poems, Annotated and Translated into
English edited by Said Salman Abu Athera and
— On Photography by Susan Sontag Clives Holes

Sinéad Burke, CEO, Tilting the Lens Marc Rosen, CEO, JCPenney

— Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the — The Maid by Nita Prose
Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong
Amy Webb, founder and CEO, Future Today Institute
— Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell
— Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Esther Duflo, professor, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; Nobel Prize laureate Albert Wenger, managing partner, Union
Square Ventures
— Summer by Ali Smith
— Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
Óscar García Maceiras, CEO, Inditex
Tracy Francis, senior partner, McKinsey
— Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu
— Middlemarch by George Eliot

4 Summer reading 2022

Magnus Tyreman, senior partner, McKinsey Radhika Jones, editor in chief, Vanity Fair

— Ulvene fra evighetens skog (The wolves from the — Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making
forest of eternity) by Karl Ove Knausgård of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra

Ozgur Tanrikulu, senior partner, McKinsey Alan Murray, CEO, Fortune Media

— Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by — Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler
Edgar Allan Poe Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

— Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved by Rumi — The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack
(translated by Maryam Mafi and Azima Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the
Melita Kolin) Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo
His Legacy by David Gelles

Matt Murray, editor in chief, the Wall Street Journal

History
— The Civil War: A Narrative (Volume 1, Fort Sumter
Mimi Alemayehou, senior vice president, Mastercard to Perryville) by Shelby Foote

— Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Laxman Narasimhan, CEO, Reckitt Benckiser
Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second
World War by Howard W. French — How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the
History of Slavery across America by Clint Smith
— HBR at 100: The Most Influential and Innovative
Articles from Harvard Business Review’s First Manuel Rabaté, director, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Century by Harvard Business Review et al.
— Art contemporain africain: Histoire(s) d’une
Mina Al-Oraibi, editor in chief, the National notion par celles et ceux qui l’ont faite by
Cédric Vincent
— The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History
of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917– Marc Rosen, CEO, JCPenney
2017 by Rashid Khalidi
— How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by
Esther Duflo, professor, Massachusetts Institute of Barbara F. Walter
Technology; Nobel Prize laureate
Enric Sala, explorer in residence, National
— A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty Geographic Society
(translated by Steven Rendall)
— The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton
Benedict Evans, independent analyst
Anjhula Mya Singh Bais, chair, international board,
— Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great Amnesty International
West by William Cronon
— Amnesty International and Human Rights
— Recollections of a Picture Dealer by Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945–1977 by
Ambroise Vollard Tom Buchanan

Summer reading 2022 5

 Daisy Veerasingham, president and CEO, the Personal development
Associated Press
Paul Hudson, CEO, Sanofi
— You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women
Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker — How to Get Your Act Together: A Judgement-
Free Guide to Diversity and Inclusion for Straight
Albert Wenger, managing partner, Union White Men by Felicity Hassan and Suki Sandhu
Square Ventures
Alan Murray, CEO, Fortune Media
— The Collapse of Complex Societies by
Joseph A. Tainter — Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get
What You Really Want in Life by Seth
Jen L. Wong, COO, Reddit Stephens-Davidowitz

— The Lessons of History by Ariel Durant and Tsedal Neeley, senior associate dean, Harvard
Will Durant Business School

Tessa West, associate professor, NYU — Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art
of Receiving Feedback Well by Sheila Heen and
— The Monster’s Bones: The Discovery of T. rex and Douglas Stone
How It Shook Our World by David K. Randall
Manuel Rabaté, director, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Bob Sternfels, global managing partner, McKinsey
— The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective
— The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing by
San Francisco Underworld by Herbert Asbury John Perry

Sven Smit, senior partner, McKinsey Reshma Saujani, founder, Girls Who Code; CEO,
Marshall Plan for Moms
— Oil Shock: The 1973 Crisis and Its Economic
Legacy edited by Elisabetta Bini, Giuliano — Grief Is Love: Living with Loss by Marisa
Garavini, and Federico Romero Renee Lee

Magnus Tyreman, senior partner, McKinsey Christi Shaw, CEO, Kite Pharma

— Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by — Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations.
Timothy Snyder Whole Hearts. by Brené Brown

Pierre M. Gentin, senior partner, McKinsey Janeen Uzzell, CEO, the National Society of
Black Engineers
— Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler’s
Germany by Douglas G. Morris — Black Faces in High Places: 10 Strategic
Actions for Black Professionals to Reach the
Top and Stay There by Randal D. Pinkett and
Jeffrey A. Robinson

6 Summer reading 2022

Lisa Witter, CEO, Apolitical Foundation; Esther Duflo, professor, Massachusetts Institute of
cofounder, Apolitical Technology; Nobel Prize laureate

— The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, — Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of
Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Immigrant Success by Ran Abramitzky and
Relationships by Susan McPherson Leah Boustan

Sven Smit, senior partner, McKinsey Katherine Garrett-Cox, CEO, Gulf International
Bank (UK)
— The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering
Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life by — Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight
Dr. James DiNicolantonio and Dr. Jason Fung against the World’s Network of Corruption by
Patrick Alley
Gautam Kumra, senior partner, McKinsey
Reid Hoffman, cofounder, LinkedIn; partner,
— From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Greylock Partners
Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second
Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks — The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of
Truth by Jonathan Rauch
— The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral
Life by David Brooks S. Mitra Kalita, CEO, URL Media; publisher,
Epicenter NYC

— Visions for a Better Indian Country: One

Politics & government Potawatomi Editor’s Opinions by Levi Rickert

Mina Al-Oraibi, editor in chief, the National Leslie Maasdorp, vice president and CFO, New
Development Bank
— Liberalism and Its Discontents by
Francis Fukuyama — Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took
Over the UK by Simon Kuper
Azeem Azhar, creator, Exponential View
Kiersten Saunders, cocreator, rich & REGULAR
— Liberalism and Its Discontents by
Francis Fukuyama — How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship,
and Community by Mia Birdsong
— Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for
Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing Janeen Uzzell, CEO, the National Society of
Black Engineers
Børge Brende, president, World Economic Forum
— Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a
— The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Conflict by Mark Leonard
Shankar Vedantam, creator and host, Hidden Brain
François-Philippe Champagne, minister of
innovation, science, and industry, Government — Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know
of Canada by Erica Chenoweth

— China Unbound: A New World Disorder by

Joanna Chiu

Summer reading 2022 7

 Daisy Veerasingham, president and CEO, the Tessa West, associate professor, NYU
Associated Press
— How Minds Change: The Surprising
— Divided We Stand: The 2020 Elections and Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
American Politics by Andrew E. Busch and John by David McRaney
J. Pitney Jr.
— You Have More Influence than You Think: How
David Vélez, cofounder and CEO, Nubank We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion,
and Why It Matters by Vanessa Bohns
— Principles for Dealing with the Changing
World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail Gautam Kumra, senior partner, McKinsey
by Ray Dalio
— Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You
— Liberalism and Its Discontents by Don’t Know by Adam Grant
Francis Fukuyama
Chris Bradley, senior partner, McKinsey
Tracy Francis, senior partner, McKinsey
— The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese
— The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats— Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change
and Our Response—Will Change the World by Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro
Ian Bremmer Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

Sven Smit, senior partner, McKinsey

— Republic by Plato Public health

Katherine Garrett-Cox, CEO, Gulf International

Bank (UK)
Psychology
— Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything Is All
Mimi Alemayehou, senior vice president, Mastercard of Us by Jon Alexander

— How Minds Change: The Surprising Lloyd B. Minor, dean, Stanford University School
Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion of Medicine
by David McRaney
— Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on
Børge Brende, president, World Economic Forum American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
by Linda Villarosa
— Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You
Don’t Know by Adam Grant — Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by
Elizabeth Kolbert
Tsedal Neeley, senior associate dean, Harvard
Business School Indra Nooyi, former CEO, PepsiCo

— Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein — Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month

Race to Make the Impossible Possible by
Dr. Albert Bourla

8 Summer reading 2022

Noel Quinn, CEO, HSBC Paul Hudson, CEO, Sanofi

— How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions — The Age of AI: And Our Human Future by
We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Daniel Huttenlocher, Henry A. Kissinger, and
Bill Gates Eric Schmidt

Kiersten Saunders, cocreator, rich & REGULAR Tsedal Neeley, senior associate dean, Harvard
Business School
— Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by
Angela Garbes — The Exponential Age: How Accelerating
Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics
Lisa Witter, CEO, Apolitical Foundation; and Society by Azeem Azhar
cofounder, Apolitical
Indra Nooyi, former CEO, PepsiCo
— Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything Is All
of Us by Jon Alexander — Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All
of Us by Ro Khanna
Magnus Tyreman, senior partner, McKinsey
Enric Sala, explorer in residence, National
— How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions Geographic Society
We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by
Bill Gates — The Invention of Nature: Alexander von
Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf

— Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the

Science & technology Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

François-Philippe Champagne, minister of Amy Webb, founder and CEO, Future Today Institute
innovation, science, and industry, Government
of Canada — Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of
Philosophy by David J. Chalmers
— How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide
to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil Jen L. Wong, COO, Reddit

Óscar García Maceiras, CEO, Inditex — Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and
Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies by
— The Future of the Professions: How Technology Geoffrey West
Will Transform the Work of Human Experts,
updated edition, by Daniel Susskind and Ozgur Tanrikulu, senior partner, McKinsey
Richard Susskind
— You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How
Reid Hoffman, cofounder, LinkedIn; partner, Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making
Greylock Partners the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane

— Dædalus: AI & Society edited by

James M. Manyika

Summer reading 2022 9

 Workplace culture Anjhula Mya Singh Bais, chair, international board,
Amnesty International
Reid Hoffman, cofounder, LinkedIn; partner,
Greylock Partners — Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by
Henry Kissinger
— Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and
Winners around the World by Tyler Cowen and Shankar Vedantam, creator and host, Hidden Brain
Daniel Gross
— Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace
Laxman Narasimhan, CEO, Reckitt Benckiser by Christine Porath

— Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Eric Kutcher, senior partner, McKinsey
Henry Kissinger
— CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That
Marc Rosen, CEO, JCPenney Distinguish the Best Leaders from the
Rest by Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and
— Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up Vikram Malhotra
by Jerry Colonna

Reshma Saujani, founder, Girls Who Code; CEO,

Marshall Plan for Moms
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