Quest's Recommended Reading

Non-Fiction

• How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein
  Case studies of social entrepreneurs throughout the world, and the steps they have taken to accomplish their goals, including the "four practices of innovative organizations" and "six qualities of successful social entrepreneurs."
• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy
  Execution takes a close look at how successful corporations bridge the gap between goals and outcomes.
• Getting Things Done by David Allen
  Allen’s organization and time-management principles that increase productivity.
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
  The Tipping Point explores the phenomena of human behavior, illustrating how small personality traits and actions can cause large-scale change.
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Children About Money – That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki
  Rich Dad, Poor Dad presents Kiyosaki’s ideas about building wealth, based on lessons about differences in the way the rich and poor conceptualize money, as taught to him by his two fathers.
• The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life by Lynne Twist
  An analysis of the function of money in our lives; Twist suggests that one’s view of money is deeply rooted in our cultural values.
• The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill
  Hill documents the guiding principles of successful people in an easily accessible format.
• The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach by Howard Gardner
  Gardner explores the various ways children learn, and proposes solutions for schools and for teachers to expand this knowledge.
• Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner
  Although various theories of multiple intelligences have been explored, Gardner seeks to provide concrete methods of applying these intelligences; he also attempts to dispel traditional notions of "intelligence."
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
  Covey outlines seven principles of more successful personal and professional relationships and performance.
• The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen Covey
  Covey adds another habit, detailing qualities of personal leadership and interpersonal inspiration.
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
  A helpful and concise handbook of guidelines for composition, word usage, writing style, and grammar.

Novels

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
  A fable about a shepherd with an underlying message regarding philosophies about life.
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  An endearing story about a young man who struggles to find faith through religion, and ultimately finds it through his fight to survive.
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  A look at the adult world through the eyes of a naïve child, exposing the sadness and solitude of our lives.
• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
  Albom recalls the final days of his mentor, drawing lessons about life in the shadow of death.
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
  Fadiman’s novel explores the friction caused when Hmong and American cultures clash over the responsible care of a child.

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