The McKinley and Friends Summer Reading List

We reached out to clients, colleagues and the McKinley team for their favorite books. We hope these recommendations inspire your own summer reading. There is something here for everyone!

Recommended by Randy Fiser, Executive Director/CEO, American Geophysical Union:

• Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart

Recommended by Michelle Mason, FASAE, CAE, President & CEO, Association Forum:

• The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, by Gary Keller
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson

Recommended by Peter O’Neil, FASAE, CAE, Chief Executive Officer, ASIS International:

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson (also recommended by Arlene  Pietranton)

Recommended by Arlene Pietranton, PhD, CAE, Chief Executive Officer, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association:

• A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson (Also recommended by Peter O’Neil)
• How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, by Austin Channing Brown
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah
• The Rose Code, by Kate Quinn
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo

Recommended by Khánh Vũ, CEO & Executive Director, Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers:

• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong
• The Sympathizer: A Novel, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel, by Ocean Vuong

And recommended by the McKinley Book Club, led by Karen Travis, Marketing Consultant:

• Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi (The McKinley Book Club’s favorite of the past year)
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by V. E. Schwab, and The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig (The McKinley Book Club’s best beach read picks)
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, by Dan Ariely (The McKinley Book Club’s most fun and intriguing business-oriented pick)

Happy reading! Let us know what you think of these selections, and share your favorites with us. Stay in touch.