Great Reads
Great reads
As the weather cools, we thought you might like to settle in with a few books. Our colleagues across the country have shared some great recommendations that we think you’ll enjoy.
Wishing you and yours a safe, healthy season.
For your convenience, we’ve provided links to these items on Amazon, but you can probably get them from your favorite provider. CIBC Private Wealth is not affiliated with any retailer and does not receive a fee for providing referrals.
Featured
Recommended by:
Beth Mayfield
Senior Wealth Strategist
The Great Alone
The Great Alone is a captivating story of a family, told through the eyes of a teenage girl who has to deal with moving to a remote area of Alaska and a difficult family situation. Not only is the story engrossing, but the author’s vivid description of Alaska makes you feel you are on this journey with her."
Recommended by:
Judy Saxe
Senior Wealth Strategist
A Good Cry – What We Learn From Tears and Laughter
Giovanni writes this book of poems and short stories about her life – heartbreak, enjoyment & triumphs. It reminds us that healing is possible, and sometimes not. Laughter, as well as a good cry, is part of the process and both certainly get the emotion out."
Recommended by:
Frances Boatwright
Senior Equity Trader
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
A compelling read and extraordinary memoir of a woman trapped in a gilded cage with no inheritance as she traversed a rarified world including royalty and the rich and famous."
More book recommendations
Categories: Business | Business thriller | Leadership | Non-fiction | Personal growth | Fiction | Wealth & Philanthropy
Business
The Moment of Lift
Melinda Gates
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono and The Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKR's
John Doerr
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World.
Adam Grant
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
Getting Naked: A Business Fable
Patrick Lencioni
Business thriller
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silcon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
The Billionaire's Vinegar
Benjamin Wallace
Leadership
Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create and Lead
Tara Mohr
Call Sign Chaos: Learn to Lead
Jim Mattis
Inside the Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees
Bob Klapisch and Paul Solotaroff
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
Simon Sinek
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
John Daniel Coyle
Leadership in Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Non-fiction
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom
The Last Castle
Denise Kiernan
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Christopher McDougall
Educated
Tara Westover
Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life
Jim Kristofic
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
Gary Kinder
1776
David McCullough
The Hiding Place
Corrie Ten Boom
Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone: The Authorized Biography
Charles Moore
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and That Comes After
Julie Yip-Williams
Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Myseteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
James Doty, MD
The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves
Andrew Lownie
Personal growth
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…and Maybe the World
William McRaven
Grit
Angela Duckworth
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcom Gladwell
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why
Laurence Gonzales
Fiction
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
The Magus
John Fowles
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Happiness: A Memoir: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
Heather Harpham
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
Before We Were Yours: A Novel
Lisa Wingate
Wealth, philanthropy and legacy
Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life
William Green
Capitalism in America: A History
Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge
The Wise Inheritor's Guide to Freedom from Wealth - Making Family Wealth Work for You
Charles Lowenhaupt
The Wealth Elite
Reiner Zitelmann
Generation Impact: How Next Gen Donors are Revolutionizing Giving
Sharna Goldseker and Michael Moody
Putting Wealth to Work: Philanthropy for Today or Investing for Tomorrow?
Joel L. Fleishman
Splendid Legacy 2: Creating and Re-Creating Your Family Foundation
Virginia M. Esposito
Successful Philanthropy: How to Make a Life by What You Give
Jean Shafiroff
The Almanac of American Philanthropy
Karl Zinsmeister
Getting to Giving: Fundraising the Entrepreneurial Way
Howard H. Stevenson
Managing Foundations and Charitable Trusts: Essential Knowledge, Tools and Techniques for Donors and Advisors
Roger D. Silk and James W. Lintott
The Art of Giving: Where Soul Meets a Business Plan
Charles Bronfman and Jeffrey R. Solomon
The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World
Joel L. Fleishman
Grassroots Philanthropy
Bill Somerville and Fred Setterberg
Raising Charitable Children
Carol Weisman
Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy
Peter Frumkin
Philanthropy Heirs & Values
Roy Williams and Vic Preisser
Doing Good Great
Doug Balfour
Wealth in Families, Third Edition
Charles Collier
Give Smart: Philanthropy that Gets Results
Thomas J. Tierney and Joel L. Fleishman
Family Wealth: Keeping it in the Family
James E. Hughes, Jr.
The Cycle of the Gift
James E. Hughes, Jr.
Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World
Matthew and Michael Green Bishop
Silver Spoon Kids: How Successful Parents Raise Responsible Children
Eileen Gallo and Jon Gallo
It's Good to be Queen: Every Women's Pocket Guide to Financial Sovereignty
Roselyn Wilkinson
Legacy: The Hidden Keys to Optimizing Your Family Wealth Decisions
Richard J. Orlando
Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate