DTBC  Book Recommendations List

Made to Stick:

Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

By:  Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

The Last Honest Man:

The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, the Kennedys - and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy

By:  James Risen

Recommended by:

John Galarnyk and Pam Hutul

The Girls of Atomic City:

The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

By:  Denise Kiernan

Recommended by: John Galarnyk

Recoding America:

Why the Government is Failing in the Digital Age  and How We Can Do Better

By: Jennifer Pahlka

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

Ask the Dust

By: John Fante

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

Shattered Consensus:

The Rise and Decline of America's Postwar Political Order

By: James Piereson

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible:

The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

By: Peter Pomerantsev

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

Lessons from the Edge:

A Memoir

By: Marie Yovanovitch

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

War on the West

By: Douglas Murray

Recommended by:  Allen Carter

Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

Recommended by:  Joe Flippin

Takedown:

Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking

By: Laila Mickelwait

Recommended by:  Cook Jordan

The Johnstown Flood

By: David McCullough

Recommended by:  Allen Carter

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare:

The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

By: Giles Milton

Recommended by:  Cook Jordan

The Sword and the Shield:

The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB

By: Christopher Andrew

Recommended by:  Cook Jordan

Burn

By: Peter Heller

Recommended by:  Deborah Wells

Breaking the Engagement:

How China Won & Lost America

By: David Shambaugh

Recommended by:  Cook Jordan

The Tao of Alibaba:

Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the World

By:  Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

The Art of Racing in the Rain

By:  Garth Stein

Recommended by: John Galarnyk 

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century:

Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

By:  Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

The Plot Against America

By: Philip Roth

Recommended by: Joe Flippin

Ulysses

By: James Joyce

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

The Box:

How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

By: Marc Levinson

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

The Personal Librarian

By: Marie Benedict &

Victoria Christopher Murray

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

Co-Intelligence:

Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

From the Front:

The Story of War through Correspondents

By: Michael Sweeney

Recommended by:  Cook Jordan

One Soldier's War

By: Arkady Babchenko

Recommended by:  Cook Jordan

Midnight in Moscow:

A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West

By: John Sullivan

Recommended by:  Cook Jordan

Dead Wake:

The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 

By: Erik Larson

Recommended by:  Allen Carter

A Woman of No Importance:

The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World  War II

By: Sonia Purnell

Recommended by:  Deborah Wells

The Wide Wide Sea:

Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides 

Recommended by:  Cook Jordan

Apeirogon

By: Colum McCann

Recommended by:  Ruth Williams

Pockets:

An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

By: Hannah Carlson

Recommended by:  Stephanie Hammond

Not Accountable: 

Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions

By:  Philip K. Howard

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

A Short History of Nearly Everything

By:  Bill Byrson

Recommended by:

John Galarnyk and Pam Hutul

Complicit:

How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop

By: Max H. Bazerman

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

The Death of Public School:

How Conservative Won the War  Over Education in America

By: Cara Fitzpatrick

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

The Solace of Open Spaces

By: Gretel Ehrlich

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

Fragile Empire:

How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin

By: Ben Judah

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

The Codebreakers:

The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet

By: David Kahn

Recommended by: Cook Jordan

The Six Disciplines of

Strategic Thinking:

Leading Your Organization

into the Future

By: Michael D. Watkins

Recommended by:  Jamie Constantine

Black Edge:

Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street

By: Sheelah Kolhatkar

Recommended by:  John Galarnyk

Takeover:

Hitler's Final Rise to Power

By: Timothy W. Ryback

Recommended by:  Cook Jordan

Night of the Grizzlies

By: Jack Olsen

Recommended by:  Allen Carter

Tunnel 29:

The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

By: Helena Merriman

Recommended by:  Allen Carter

Spies:

The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By: Calder Walton

Recommended by:  Cook Jordan

House of Huawei:

The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company

By: Eva Dou

Recommended by:  Cook Jordan

Growth:

A History and a Reckoning

By: Daniel Susskind

Recommended by:  Deborah Wells

Primal Intelligence:

You Are Smarter Than You Know

By: Angus Fletcher

Recommended by:  Cook Jordan