Book Reads

2019 Book Reads

1. Design Thinking for School Leaders: Five Roles and Mindsets That Ignite Positive Change by Alyssa Gallagher and Kami Thordarson
2. Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Happiness by Ingrid Fetell Lee
3. Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
4. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Audible read by Tim Robbins)
6. Circe by Madeline Miller
7. Beartown by Fredrik Backman
8. Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students’ networks by Julia Freeland Fisher with Daniel Fisher
9. Leading for Professional Learning: What Successful Principals Do to Support Teaching Practice by Anneke Markholt, Joanna Michelson, & Stephen Fink
10. Change is Good. You Go First by by Mac Anderson and Tom Feltenstein
11. Belong: Find Your People, Create Community & Live a More Connected Life by Radha Agrawal
12. Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon A. Mackenzie
13. Show Your Work: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon
14. The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines
15. The Very Principled Maggie Mayfield by Kathy Cooperman
16. Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
17. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
18. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
19. Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle
20. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
21. The Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
22. A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan
23. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
24. Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
25. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
26. Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick by Wendy Wood
27. Personal and Authentic: Designing Learning Experiences That Impact a Lifetime by Thomas C. Murray
28. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
29. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
30. You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane
31. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow
32. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

2018 Book Reads

I made a deal with myself (see blog post “The Next Chapter”) to read more in 2018. My goal is to read a book(ish) a week. I’m slacking on the weekly timeline goal, but I am enjoying the reads!

(These links go to Amazon – I don’t get any money for them.)

1. Grayson by Lynne Cox
2. The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman
3. Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
5. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
6. Launch: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student by John Spencer and A.J. Juliani
7. Creativity Rules: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World by Tina Seelig
8. Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All by Tom Kelley & David Kelley
9. Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World by Tony Wagner
10. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
11. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
12. The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
13. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson
14. CAD Monkeys, Dinosaur Babies and T-Shaped People: Inside the World of Design Thinking and How It Can Spark Creativity and Innovation by Warren Berger
15. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back by William Macaskill
16. This Human: How to Be the Person Designing for Other People by Melis Senova
17. Ted Talks Storytelling: 23 Storytelling Techniques from the Best TED Talks by Akash Karia
18. Wonder by R.J. Palacio
19. The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
20. Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
21. The Human Side of Changing Education: How to Lead Change With Clarity, Conviction, and Courage by Julie Margretta Wilson
22. New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World — and How to Make It Work for You by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms
23. The Space: A Guide for Educators by Rebecca Louise Hare and Robert Dillon
24. Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works and How to Teach It to Everyone by Elizabeth Green
25. Design For Strengths: Applying Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths by John K. Coyle
26. Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive by Bradley R. Staats
27. Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice
28. Teach With Your Strengths: How Great Teachers Inspire Their Students by Rosanne Liesveld

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