30 Hot Books for Your Backlog (October)

I love reading books; I love doing research; And I love making lists. So why not publish a regular backlog of new books that (I think) would be great to add to your reading backlog?

This is the third edition of this list. You can find the September list here. It’s important to know that I haven’t read most of these books. This list is calculated from the number of reviews and average ratings on GoodReads, my own evaluations, the age of the books, and the position of the stars. I strongly believe that these new books are worth your consideration. So, here they are. My 30 reading tips for October! (plus 5 extra)

(Click on the book cover to navigate to Amazon.)

TM	LM	Title	Author(s)	Pub	Amazon
1	—	You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)	Felicia Day	Aug 15
2	2	Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives	Gretchen Rubin	Mar 15
3	1	Elon Musk: Inventing the Future	Ashlee Vance	Jan 15
4	3	The Road to Character	David Brooks	Apr 15
5	13	Rising Strong: The Reckoning, the Rumble, the Revolution	Brené Brown	Aug 15
6	6	Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead	Laszlo Bock	Apr 15
7	16	Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear	Elizabeth Gilbert	Sep 15
8	5	A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life	Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman	Apr 15
9	15	Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World	General Stanley McChrystal	May 15
10	12	Leave Your Mark: Land Your Dream Job. Kill It in Your Career. Rock Social Media.	Aliza Licht	May 15
11	18	The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5	Taylor Pearson	Jun 15
12	7	Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World	Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler	Feb 15
13	8	Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World	Bruce Schneier	Mar 15
14	10	Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics	Richard H. Thaler	May 15
15	14	Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts–Becoming the Person You Want to Be	Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter	Mar 15
16	9	Do Over: Everything You Need to Get Unstuck at Work	Jon Acuff	Apr 15
17	30	Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future	Paul Mason	Jul 15
18	—	Why We Work	Barry Schwartz	Sep 15
19	—	Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will	Geoff Colvin	Aug 15
20	23	Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies	Cesar Hidalgo	Jun 15
21	—	Louder than Words: Harness the Power of Your Authentic Voice	Todd Henry	Aug 15
22	—	Boss Life: Surviving My Own Small Business	Paul Downs	Aug 15
23	25	The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life	Bernard Roth	Jul 15
24	—	Leap: Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want	Tess Vigeland	Aug 15
25	—	The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time	Alex Korb	Mar 15
26	—	We Are Market Basket: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement That Saved a Beloved Business	Daniel Korschun, Grant Welker	Aug 15
27	—	Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence	Jerry Kaplan	Aug 15
28	—	Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary	Linda Kaplan Thaler, Robin Koval	Sep 15
29	29	The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs	Kyra Maya Phillips, Alexa Clay	Jun 15
30	—	Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work – and Your Life	Scott G. Halford	May 15

TM = This Month
LM = Last Month
Pub = Publication Date

The following books were unable to make it into the list above. But, being the generous person that I am, I will offer them the spotlight anyway:

Tip	Title	Author(s)	Pub	Amazon
1	Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era	Tony Wagner, Ted Dintersmith	Aug 15
2	The Genius of Opposites: How Introverts and Extroverts Achieve Extraordinary Results Together	Jennifer B. Kahnweiler	Aug 15
3	The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers	Gillian Tett	Sep 15
4	Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time	Jeffrey Pfeffer	Sep 15
5	Content Inc.: How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful Businesses	Joe Pulizzi	Sep 15

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