Annual Book Recommendations For CEOs And Global Business Leaders, 2024
Annually, CEOWORLD magazine compiles a list of top books in business, technology, workplace culture, and more, endorsed by influential leaders like CEOs, CFOs, senior executives, business leaders, private equity investors, investment bankers, and high-net-worth individuals. Make sure to delve into their 2024 annual book recommendations for an exceptional read!
Book Recommendations For CEOs And Global Business Leaders, 2024
| Book | Author | Category |
|---|---|---|
| An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created | Santi Elijah Holley | Biography and memoir |
| Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life | Nicholas D. Kristof | Biography and memoir |
| The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race | Walter Isaacson | Biography and memoir |
| Fever Pitch | Nick Hornby | Biography and memoir |
| Grief Is for People | Sloane Crosley | Biography and memoir |
| Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony | M. K. Asante | Biography and memoir |
| Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey Through America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses | Jimmie James | Biography and memoir |
| The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality | William Egginton | Biography and memoir |
| Trace | Jenny Holzer | Biography and memoir |
| Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph | Sheila Johnson, with Lisa Dickey | Biography and memoir |
| Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo | Lesley-Ann Noel | Business and economics |
| The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport | Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg | Business and economics |
| How Legendary Leaders Speak: 451 Proven Communication Strategies of the World’s Top Leaders | Peter D. Andrei | Business and economics |
| Inner Drive: From Underdog to Global Company | Arsen Tomsky | Business and economics |
| The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out | Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink, and Ramesh Srinivasan | Business and economics |
| Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict | William Ury | Business and economics |
| Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell | Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle | Business and economics |
| What I Learned About Investing from Darwin | Pulak Prasad | Business and economics |
| What Went Wrong with Capitalism | Ruchir Sharma | Fiction |
| 2054 | Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis | Fiction |
| The Assassin | Tom Fletcher | Fiction |
| Birnam Wood | Eleanor Catton | Fiction |
| The Books of Jacob | Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft | Fiction |
| Bournville | Jonathan Coe | Fiction |
| Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver | Fiction |
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Freeborn | Fiction |
| God’s Debris: A Thought Experiment | Scott Adams | Fiction |
| I Have Some Questions for You | Rebecca Makkai | Fiction |
| The Island of Missing Trees | Elif Shafak | Fiction |
| James | Percival Everett | Fiction |
| Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen | Fay Weldon | Fiction |
| The Maniac | Benjamín Labatut | Fiction |
| The Meursault Investigation | Kamel Daoud, translated by John Cullen | Fiction |
| Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | Fiction |
| The Wizard of the Kremlin | Giuliano da Empoli, translated by Willard Wood | Fiction |
| The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt | Health |
| Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health | Casey Means, with Calley Means | Health |
| Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have to | David A. Sinclair, with Matthew D. LaPlante | Health |
| My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s | Sandeep Jauhar | Health |
| Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity | Peter Attia, with Bill Gifford | Health |
| Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World | Elinor Cleghorn | Health |
| Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold On to What Matters | Charan Ranganath | Health |
| Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop | Martin Puchner | Health |
| Eyeliner: A Cultural History | Zahra Hankir | Health |
| The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper | Hallie Rubenhold | History |
| The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball’s Power Brokers | Jon Pessah | History |
| One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink—September 29, 1923 | Matthew Parker | History |
| Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of Seventeenth-Century Italian Painters | Richard E. Spear and Philip Sohm | History |
| The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power | Daniel Yergin | History |
| The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women | Kate Moore | History |
| Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England | Keith Thomas | History |
| An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s | Doris Kearns Goodwin | History |
| Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most | Adam Alter | Personal development |
| The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence | Ros Atkins | Personal development |
| The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters | Priya Parker | Personal development |
| Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering | Joseph Nguyen | Personal development |
| Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child | John Bradshaw | Personal development |
| How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between | Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner | Personal development |
| Der Kreativitäts-Code: 25 Erfolgsregeln für Ihre Kreativität (The Creativity Code: 25 rules for success for your creativity) | Josef Brunner and Christian Sellmann | Personal development |
| Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | Personal development |
| Mindset: The New Psychology of Success; How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our Potential | Carol S. Dweck | Personal development |
| Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead | Tara Mohr | Personal development |
| Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words | Anne Curzan | Personal development |
| Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout | Cal Newport | Personal development |
| Somehow: Thoughts on Love | Anne Lamott | Personal development |
| To My Sisters: A Guide to Building Lifelong Friendships | Renée Kapuku and Courtney Daniella Boateng | Personal development |
| What I Know for Sure | Oprah Winfrey | Personal development |
| Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present | Fareed Zakaria | Politics |
| Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town | Barbara Demick | Politics |
| How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World | Deb Chachra | Politics |
| Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy | Henry Kissinger | Politics |
| Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream | David Leonhardt | Politics |
| The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy | Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter | Politics |
| Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison―Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out | Jason Rezaian | Politics |
| ‘Whatever It Is, I’m Against It’: Resistance to Change in Higher Education | Brian Rosenberg | Politics |
| Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World | Helen Czerski | Sustainability |
| Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises | Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman | Sustainability |
| The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming | David Wallace-Wells | Sustainability |
| AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own | Verity Harding | Technology |
| Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology | Chris Miller | Technology |
| Co-intelligence: Living and Working with AI | Ethan Mollick | Technology |
| The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma | Mustafa Suleyman, with Michael Bhaskar | Technology |
| God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning | Meghan O’Gieblyn | Technology |
| Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone | Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, and Jill Tracie Nichols | Technology |
| Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science | Harry R. Lewis | Technology |
| Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller | Alec Nevala-Lee | Technology |
| The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI | Ray Kurzweil | Technology |
| The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone’s Work | Zeynep Ton | Workplace culture |
| Culture Is the Way: How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence | Matt Mayberry | Workplace culture |
| Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries | Safi Bahcall | Workplace culture |
| The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance | Steven G. Rogelberg | Workplace culture |
| Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization | Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright | Workplace culture |
| What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture | Ben Horowitz | Workplace culture |
| Work Here Now: Think like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace | Melissa Swift | Workplace culture |
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