We asked our Executive Director affinity groups what was on their reading list for the holiday season, both personal and/or professional. Check out the great compilation we have gathered below.
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What are you reading this holiday season? We would love to add your recommendations! Please reply in the comments below. Happy holidays! –Team MNA
| Book Title | Author |
| Alone Together | Sherry Turkle |
| Atomic Habits | James Clear |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama |
| Blind Spot | Anthony Greenwald, Mahzarin Banaji |
| Born a Crime | Trevor Noah |
| Creating Your Strategic Plan | John M Bryson, Farnum K Alston |
| Dare to Lead | Brene Brown |
| Decolonizing Wealth | Edgar Villanueva |
| Dog Whistle Politics | Ian Haney Lopez |
| Finding Chika | Mitch Albom |
| Focus | Daniel Goleman |
| Getting to Yes | Roger Fisher, William Ury |
| Good to Great (+G2G in the Social Sectors) | Jim Collins |
| Governance as Leadership (+ Pracitioners Guide) | Richard Chaite |
| Great at Work | Jim Collins |
| How to Be an Anti-Racist | Ibram X Kendi |
| How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk | Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish |
| Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson |
| Leaders Eat Last | Simon Sinek |
| Lean Impact | Ann Mei Chang |
| Lean In | Sheryl Sandberg |
| Negotiation Genius | Max H Bazerman, Deepak Malhotra |
| Nonprofit Leadership | Joan Garry |
| Nonprofit Leadership Transition and Development Guide | Tom Adams |
| Nonprofit Sustainability | Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka, Steve Zimmerman |
| On Change Management | Harvard Business Review |
| Partly Cloudy Patriot | Sarah Vowell |
| Powerful | Patty McCord |
| Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking | Susan Cain |
| Refugee | Alan Gratz |
| So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo |
| Start with Why | Simon Sinek |
| Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations | John M Bryson |
| The Art of Stillness | Pico Ayer |
| The Art of the Long View | Peter Schwartz |
| The Checklist Manifesto | Atul Gawande |
| The Five Dysfunctions of a Team | Patrick Lencioni |
| The Making of a Manager | Julie Zhou |
| The Moment of Lift | Melinda Gates |
| The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution | David La Piana |
| The One Thing | Daniel Goleman |
| The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning | Ernest Kurtz |
| The Sustainability Mindset | Jeanne Bell, Steve Zimmerman |
| The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson |
| Untangled | Lisa Damour |
| When | Daniel Pink |
| Working with Emotional Intelligence | Daniel Goleman |
| Lies My Teacher Told Me | James Loewen |
