What your fellow de Tocqueville Society members are reading
March is National Reading Month – the perfect time to fall back in love with reading or find a new title to add to your list.
We asked some of our de Tocqueville Society members for recommendations. Here’s our list of books to inspire you this year.
Career development
Organize Tomorrow Today: 8 Ways to Retrain your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life by Dr. Jason Selk and Tom Bartow
-Melissa Lenz
The Big Stretch by Teneshia Jackson Warner
-Oscar Berryman
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler and Laura Roppe
-Liz Powitzky
Self-improvement
On Fire: 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life by John O’Leary
-Melissa Lenz
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
-Liz Powitzky
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman
-Michelle Ko
Science and history
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
-Mary Kate Hogan
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
-Neil Hershey
The Storm Before the Calm by George Friedman
-Sandra Van Trease
Fiction and Memoir
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
-Alexis Hershey
What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
-Danielle N. Solomon
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
-Alexis Hershey
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Emily (Becherer) Gearhart is a proud native St. Louisan, writer and lover of stories in all their forms. Faced with a captivating question, she will research her way down a rabbit hole and emerge with words that educate and inspire. You can probably find her taking in a musical, bingeing through a new podcast series, exploring the trails at local parks or curating her extensive library of Spotify playlists.
