Bookshelf

Here is a list of books I'm reading, planning to read, or enjoyed reading before. Includes non-fiction books on anthropology, design, disability, society, feminism, and life or work wisdom.

All links direct to Bookshop.org, an online store with a mission to support local, independent bookshops in the UK. If the book is not available there, the link directs to its publisher.

What I'm reading

Work Wisdom

Find your Voice

Caroline Goyder

Work Wisdom

Playing Big

Tara Mohr

For Women Who Want to Speak Up, Stand Out and Lead

Work Wisdom

Talk

Elizabeth Stokoe

The Science of Conversation

What I read and loved

Work Wisdom

Wolfpack

Abby Wambach

How to come together, unleash our power and change the game

Work Wisdom

The Book of Beautiful Questions

Warren Berger

The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead

Design

Good Services

Lou Downe

How to design services that work

Society

Becoming

Michelle Obama

Design

Dark Matter and Trojan Horses

Dan Hill

A Strategic Design Vocabulary

Design

Content Design

Sarah Winters

Society

Doughnut Economics

Kate Haworth

Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

Anthropology

The Social Imagination

C. Wright Mills

Society

Milk and Honey

Rupi Kaur

Work Wisdom

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman

Time Management for Mortals

Anthropology

Why the World Needs Anthropologists

Dan Podded, Meta Group, Pavel Borecky, Carla Guerron Montero

Design

Orchestrating Experiences

Chris Risdon, Patrick Quattlebaum

Collaborative Design for Complexity

Society

Stranger Than We Can Imagine

John Higgs

Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

Design

This is Service Design Doing

Marc Stickdorn, Markus Hormess, Adam Lawrence, Jakob Schneider

Applying service design thinking in the real world

Society

Why Time Flies

Alan Burdick

A mostly scientific investigation

Design

Health Design Thinking

Bon Ku, Ellen Lupton

Anthropology

Small Places, Large Issues

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

Design

Speculative Everything

Anthony Dunne, Foina Raby

Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

Anthropology

The Logic of Care

Annemarie Mol

Health and the Problem of Patient Choice

Design

Beyond Sticky Notes

Kelly Ann McKercher

Co-design for Real: Mindsets, Methods, and Movements

Society

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma

Feminism

The Sun and Her Flowers

Rupi Kaur

Society

Enchantment

Katherine May

Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age

Work Wisdom

Make Time

Charles Duhigg

How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

Anthropology

The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber, David Wengrow

A New History of Humanity

Life Wisdom

It's Not Always Depression

Hilary Jacobs Handel

A New Theory of Listening to Your Body, Discovering Core Emotions and Reconnecting with Your Authentic Self

Feminism

Brazen

Penelope Bagieu

Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

Society

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollen

The New Science of Psychedelics

Society

Non-Violent Communication

Marshall B Rosenberg

A Language of Life

Life Wisdom

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Life Wisdom

When Things Fall Apart

Pema Chodron

Heart Advice for Difficult Times

Design

Creative Confidence

Tom Kelley, David Kelley

Unleashing the Creative Potential within Us All

Work Wisdom

Do Present

Mark Shayler

How to give a talk and be heard