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GOURMET BOOK CLUB
LIST OF GOOD BOOKS TO READ
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FAVORITE LIST
KIM: Birds in Fall
BECKY: Indian Summer-Alex Von Tunzelmann
KIERSTEN: Olive Kitteridge-Elizabeth Strout
VAL: Reluctant Fundamentalist
DEB: A Passage to India
SARAH: Refuge-Terry Tempest-Williams
CLAUDIA: The Help-Katherine Stockett
DIANE:
Murder
of Mary Beane
SUSAN:
Someone
Knows My Name, Lawrence Hill
KATHLEEN: Away-Amy Bloom
"Away" by Amy Bloom.
Published in 2007,this is a fabulous novel of the life of a
young Ellis Island immigrant and her extraordinary will to
survive in her new country...because nothing could be worse than
what she left behind. Her transcontinental travels eventually
take her to Alaska. This book is a gripper and so beautifully
written. The New York Times critics chose it as one of the best
books of 07. Read the review: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/books/review/Thomas-t.html
MELISSA:
State of Fear- Michael Crichton. I've been a Crichton fan since
I first saw Jurassic Park. (I love those dinosaurs!) And I found
this book to be an excellent mix of plot and research. It
addresses the global warming environmental focus--with all sorts
of points of view...scientific vs. political/ marketing vs.
factual/ myth v. partial knowledge. It was gripping!
SUZY:
I Dreamed of Africa
was such a beautiful book...romantic, heartbreaking and yet
lyrical description of place.
???The Elegance of the Hedgehog-Muriel Barbary
???Song Yet Sung-James McBride
Leadership Book List for Women (and others)
The following is a list of books
recommended by several coaches and other professional women
for leaders and aspiring leaders.
1.
"Enlightened Power: How Women are
Transforming the Practice of Leadership" by Ellen Wingard,
Lin Coughlin and Keith Hollihan
2.
"Trade-Up!: 5 Steps for Redesigning
Your Leadership and Life from the Inside Out " by Rayona
Sharpnack
3.
"Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner
Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage
Their Careers" by Lois Frankel
4.
Resonant Leadership: Renewing
Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness,
Hope, and Compassion by
Richard E. Boyatzis
and
Annie McKee
(Hardcover
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Oct. 27, 2005)
5.
Women Don't Ask: The High Cost
of Avoiding Negotiation--and Positive Strategies for Change
by
Linda Babcock and
Sara Laschever
(Paperback
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Feb. 27, 2007)
6.
Stewardship: Choosing Service over
Self Interest by Peter
Block
7.
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership:
Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the
World
by Ronald A. Heifetz, Martin Linsky and Alexander Grashow
(Hardcover
- May 18, 2009)
They not only speak to the role of leader Vs manager but
also point to the attributes of leadership that are more
natural for women and essential in today's networked and
integrated environment
8.
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box
by Arbinger Institute
(Paperback
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Jan. 5, 2010)
(One of Richard’s favorites)
9.
The Four Agreements. Miguel
Ruiz
10. No
Ceiling No Walls: What women haven’t been told about
leadership from career0start to the corporate boardroom,
Susan Colantuono
GREAT BOOKS
SUSAN MORRIS
Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood
Exit Lives, Joan Barefoot
The Polished Hoe, Austin Clarke (The Giller Prize and
Commonwealth Writers Prize, 2003)
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai (Man Booker Prize 2006)
The Murder of Mary Beane, Elizabeth Dewolfe
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer (NYT Best
Seller)
The Lay of the Land, Richard Ford (NYT Best Book of the Year
2006)
The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
Love and other Infectious Diseases, Molly Haskell
Someone Knows Your Name,
Lawrence Hill
Mercy Among the Children, David Adams Richards (The Giller
Prize 2000)
Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told, Carol Shields and
Marjorie Anderson
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth
Strout (Or Amy and Isabelle-Pulitzer Prize)
KIERSTEN LYNCH:
The Brother Gardeners-
Andrea Wulf
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
I Dreamed of Africa-Kuki Gallman
Unaccustomed Earth
DEB AUGUSTINE:
Heart of
Darkness-Joseph Conrad
CLAUDIA LEIGHTON:
The Dog That Wouldn't Be-Farley Mowatt
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society-Mary Anne Schaffer
KATHLEEN JONES:
"A Gate at the Stairs" -Lorrie
Moore
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/books/28book.html.
Birds of America-Lorrie Moore
OTHER SOURCES:
Links courtesy of Diane
Schyberg:
www.powells.com and www.goodreads.com .
Here are the sites i have recently learned about that have
lots of great info about books we may be interested in
reading.
At powells, check out the winners of their 'puddly awards'
. I hope you enjoy these sites as much as I have.
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