Books recommended by ambassadors
These are the books that ambassadors have read during their holidays.
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Business books
Data Quality Fundamentals
Barr Moses, Lior Gavish, Molly Vorweck
This book explains how to tackle data quality and trust at scale by leveraging best practices and technologies used by some of the world’s most innovative companies.
Think Again
Adam Grant
This book weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough about the world to actually change it.
The way of Men
Jack Donovan
It’s a guide for understanding who men have been and the challenges men face today. The Way of Men captures the silent, stifling rage of men everywhere who find themselves at odds with the overregulated, overcivilized, politically correct modern world.
Think Big, Dream Big
Tom young
Think big dream big journal/notebook. Filled with lined pages for endless notes and motivational quotes
The Culture Map
Erin Meyer
This book provides a framework for handling intercultural differences in business and illustrates how different cultures perceive the world. It helps us understand these differences, and in doing so improves our ability to react to certain behaviors that might have once seemed strange.
How To Think Like A Manager for the CISSP Exam
Luke Ahmed
Using 25 CISSP practice questions with detailed explanations, this book will attempt to answer how to think like a member of a senior management team who has the goal of balancing risk, cost, and most of all, human life.
The Daily Laws
Robert Greene
The Daily Laws is a page-a-day, calendar-style book covering the three big topics of mastery, power, and emotions, sharing Robert Greene’s best lessons from 20 years of research of the dynamics within and between humans.
The Leader Who Had No Title
Robin Sharma
It’s a story of a young army veteran, returned to society and struggling to find meaning in his work and in his life. Enter Tommy Flinn, an eccentric character who, over the course of a day, introduces our young hero to four unique individuals.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success The Art of Influence
Carol S. S. Dweck
The book describes two main types of thinking, fixed mindset and growth mindset, how they are formed, and how they affect various aspects of a person’s life, including goals, attitudes towards work and relationships, raising children, and realizing potential.
Fiction books
The Cocoa Dancer: and Other Stories
Alwin Bully
Set in the Caribbean – from Jamaica to Trinidad, Barbados to Dominica, the author’s birthplace – this sparkling collection of stories from one of the Caribbean’s foremost cultural activists is full of surprises, both in style and intent.
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
A boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique magical powers of his own. He is summoned from his life as an unwanted child to become a student at Hogwarts, an English boarding school for wizards.
A Few Thousand Kilometres of Happiness
Anand Krishna Panicker
A story of two such bikers, Anand Krishnan and Varun Kumar, who embarked on a journey covering a few thousand kilometres. This book depicts their voyage, the incidents that occurred en route, conflicts, nightlife, challenges, and accidents.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun is the story of the years leading up to and the course of the Nigeria-Biafra war of the late 1960s. Following a failed coup, Nigeria’s Igbo population, centred in the east of the country, seceded to form a proto-independent state called Biafra.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Set in a small Tokyo café, the stories revolve around a mystical chair that allows its occupants to travel back in time, but with one crucial condition: they must return before their coffee gets cold.
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Keigo Higashino
A fantasy novel tells the story of three thieves who inadvertently become advice purveyors after seeking shelter in an abandoned store. When their car breaks down unexpectedly, three young criminals decide to hide out in a convenience store that has long been out of business.
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
Joel Dicker
The novel is a postmodern crime fiction story, belonging to the amateur detective subgenre. Set in the United States, it depicts the events surrounding the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl in 1975 and the discovery of her body in 2008.
Dead Simple
Peter James
It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. But a few hours later, the groom has disappeared, and his friends are dead. The one man who ought to know of the groom’s whereabouts is saying nothing. But then he has a lot more to gain than anyone realizes, for one man’s disaster is another man’s fortune.
The List of my Desires
Gregoire Delacourt
Jocelyne is happy with her life: her dressmaking blog, her factory-worker husband, her children, her friends who dream of winning a fortune. And so when Jocelyne hits the Euromillions jackpot, she keeps it secret, writing a list of simple desires: getting her hair cut, buying a garage door.
Fault Lines
Nancy Huston
Fault Lines begins with Sol, a gifted, terrifying child whose mother believes he is destined for greatness partly because he has a birthmark like his dad, his grandmother, and his great-grandmother. When Sol’s family makes an unexpected trip to Germany, secrets begin to emerge about their history during World War II.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
This book follows the narrative point of view of two erudite narrators: Renée, a concierge who keeps her intellectualism a secret, and Paloma, a 12-year-old resident of Renée’s building whose emerging understandings of philosophy and society make her contemplate suicide.
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
Nadia Hashimi
This book tells an intergenerational story of two Afghan women whose lives are different but connected. Rahima, a teenage girl, lives in 21st-century Afghanistan. In the wake of Taliban rule, Afghanistan’s government is divided and the culture is fractured.