We asked each of the Forty Under 40:
What book would you recommend?
Seth Bacon: Current: “Hamilton” by Ron Chernow. Classic: “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller.
Derek Belch: I’m a big fan of all of Malcolm Gladwell’s books. They offer a unique perspective and make you think.
Ilan Ben-Hanan: I reread “The Count of Monte Cristo” every five years.
Jimmy Bruns: Anything by Malcolm Gladwell.
Lisa Campos: “Start With Why,” by Simon Sinek.
Daniel Cherry III: “Things Fall Apart,” by Chinua Achebe.
Jason Cohen: “The Last Lecture,” by Randy Pausch.
Sakiya Daniel: “Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly,” by Bernadette Jiwa.
Will Dean: “Tribe,” by Sebastian Junger.
Rob DeAngelis: “Lonesome Dove,” by Larry McMurtry.
Bill Fagan: “Dare to Serve,” by Cheryl Bachelder.
Cole Gahagan: “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles,” by Steven Pressfield.
Rocky Harris: “The Lovemarks Effect,” by Kevin Roberts is a unique marketing book about the importance of getting customers to become emotionally connected to your brand.
Jeff Ianello: “The Boys in the Boat,” by Daniel James Brown.
Martin Jarmond: “The Servant,” by James C. Hunter.
Katherine Johnson: “The Boys in the Boat’’ for a contemporary book, but “East of Eden” is my all-time favorite.
Nick Kelly: “Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (Without Money or Muscle),” by Deepak Malhotra.
Elena Klau: Probably “The Seventh Sense,” by Joshua Cooper Ramo. My favorite book of all time is Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking.”
Brandon Lloyd: “The Undoing Project,” by Michael Lewis.
J.B. Lockhart: “The Righteous Mind,” by Jonathan Haidt.
Olek Loewenstein: “Riding the Waves of Culture,” by Fons Trompenaars.
Matthew Nussbaum: “The Infinite,” by Nicholas Mainieri.
David Oxfeld: “Born to Run,” Bruce Springsteen, and “Jeter Unfiltered,” Derek Jeter.
Dan Parise: “The Paper Bag Princess,” by Robert Munsch.
Anthony Perez: “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” by Daniel Kahneman.
Ashwin Puri: Three books — “Fourth Down and Life to Go,” by Tony Franklin; “Sipping Tea with Buddha and Christ,” by Alexa Benson-Valavanis … both include life lessons galore; and “The Wheels on the Bus,” a fun kids book!
Alex Radetsky: “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School,” by Mark McCormack.
Ann Rodriguez: “Shantaram,” by Gregory David Roberts. It’s the ultimate story of overcoming adversity and finding your way.
Jeffrey Roth: “The Shadow of the Wind,” by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
Connor Schell: “The Undoing Project,” by Michael Lewis.
Brandon Schneider: “Tell to Win,” by Peter Guber.
Vishal Shah: “A Confederacy of Dunces,” by John Kennedy Toole.
Gretchen Sheirr: Right now, my reading life is consumed by 3rd grade chapter books; the “Who was” series is biographies of historical and influential people written to entertain kids.
Tobias Sherman: “The Odyssey,” by Homer.
Justin Toman: I’m reading a book about potty training now called “Oh Crap!” Does that count?
Jeremy Walls: Anything by Patrick Lencioni, Daniel Pink, or Tim Keller.
Danny White: “Good to Great,” by Jim Collins.
Chip Wile: “The Art of Racing in the Rain,” by Garth Stein.
Mike Zabik: “The Ultra Mindset,” by Travis Macy.
Tim Zue: “Steve Jobs,” by Walter Isaacson.
