11/19/2025
As 2025 draws to a close and I accomplished my big public speaking goal, I am thinking of what’s next on my professional bucket list for next year as my own stop/start/continue exercise.
Some of you know I am a big reader, and I know that’s always a goal for many—read more, finish more, etc.
To help you on your journey, here are some of the books I read in 2025 that impacted my professional work, my work-life balance and my perspective (in no particular order). If you have a book recommendation for me, let me know.
Alicia Garza, The Purpose of Power
Kerry Patterson, Crucial Conversations
Samantha Irby, Wow No Thank You
Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
Deanna Singh, Purposeful Hustle
Morten Hansen, Great at Work
Michelle Obama, Becoming
Drew Magary, Someone Could Get Hurt
Malala Yousafzai, I am Malala
Daniel Pink, The Power of Regret
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy
Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?
Daniel Pink, Drive
Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Dying for a Paycheck
Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry
Jeannie Vanasco, Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl
Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Kenneth Blanchard, Gung Ho
David Goggins, Never Finished
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