As the summer months roll on, we asked the HPA team to share what’s on their reading list. This year’s top picks include a mix of business, memoir, fiction, and more.
Whether you’re looking for something to read on your next flight or during a quiet afternoon, here’s what our colleagues are recommending this season.
Traction – Gino Wickman
A system to strengthen your business’s core components and drive real growth
The Correspondent – Virginia Evans
A retired lawyer makes sense of the world through the letters she writes
Start with Yourself – Emma Grede
A no-nonsense framework for defining success on your own terms, from a serial entrepreneur and mother of four
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
A magnetic professor leads a clique of students toward transcendence, and past the edge of morality
The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
A groundbreaking look at how trauma reshapes the brain and body, and the innovative solutions to healing
There’s Got to be a Better Way – Nelson Repenning & Donald Kieffer
A system for breaking the cycle of firefighting and boosting productivity, profit, and genuine engagement
Freedom in Exile – The Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama’s personal account of mastering Tibetan Buddhism and life under Chinese occupation.
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
Four friends build intertwined lives in New York across decades, tested by ambition, trauma, and one friend’s unspoken past
Emma – Jane Austen
A witty, self-assured matchmaker learns she doesn’t know as much about love as she thinks
The Stand – Stephen King
After a virus wipes out most of humanity, survivors are drawn to different leaders in a battle between good and evil
Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
An unfiltered look into the culture, chaos, and characters of professional kitchens
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
A striking story of two women bound together by war and resilience in Afghanistan
Dungeon Crawler Carl – Matt Dinniman
When aliens transform Earth into a game show, a man and his ex’s cat are forced to play along
The Boy on the Bridge – Mike Carey
A gifted boy sets out through a plague-ravaged world in search of a cure
We hope this list inspired your next read! Have a favorite book you think the HPA team should check out? Reach out and let us know – we’d love to hear from you.
