Last minute book gifts - my favourite reads of 2024

The holidays are almost here and if you need a last minute gift that’s equal parts valuable and thoughtful or you want to find some great titles to read over the break, look no further.

Below are my favourite books from this past year. These books have inspired me, brought me clarity, new ideas and inspiration. They are non-fiction titles across personal and professional development.

I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as I did:

Erin Meyer - The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business The Culture Map provides a new way forward, with vital insights for working effectively and sensitively with one's counterparts in the new global marketplace.

Kendra Adachi - The Plan: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius Most time management systems prioritize optimization and greatness in service to an imagined future, but what if that’s not your goal? What if you long for a book that helps you live wholeheartedly today? The PLAN is the answer.

Susan Cain - Bittersweet: How Sorrow And Longing Make Us Whole If you’ve ever wondered why you like sad music … If you find comfort or inspiration in a rainy day … If you react intensely to music, art, nature, and beauty … Then you probably identify with the bittersweet state of mind.

Nir Eyal, Julie Li - Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life Indistractable is a practical guide that teaches you how to overcome distractions to achieve your goals and live a more focused, fulfilling life.

Katherine Morgan Schafler - The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control We’ve been looking at perfectionism all wrong. As psychotherapist and former on-site therapist at Google Katherine Morgan Schafler argues in The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control, you don’t have to stop being a perfectionist to be healthy. For people who are sick of being given the generic advice to “find balance,” a new approach has arrived.

Jason Feifer - Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career Your work and life are changing — and now an incredible opportunity awaits. This book teaches you how to prepare for change, quiet your panic, find new strengths, and come away stronger and more successful.

Will Guidara - Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More than They Expect Today, every business can choose to be a hospitality business—and we can all transform ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences. Featuring sparkling stories of his journey through restaurants, with the industry’s most famous players like Daniel Boulud and Danny Meyer, Guidara urges us all to find the magic in what we do—for ourselves, the people we work with, and the people we serve.

Terry Szuplat - Say It Well: Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience For eight years, Terry Szuplat collaborated with President Barack Obama on some of the most impactful speeches of our time. In Say it Well, this gifted speechwriter shows you how your words can change your community, your nation, even the world.

Enjoy discovering some new books and gifting them to others.

Have a great week!

Eva