June 2024 Listeners' Choice

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By flagging the titles you're most excited about, we can better fill our programming with the subjects and voices you hope to hear. These titles were chosen by our Editor in Chief, Panio Gianopoulos. Every month, we present these selections to our curators (Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Dan Pink) so they can do exactly what you're doing now--pick their favorites! Their top choices at the end of each season are what we spotlight as finalists, awarding the authors with an exclusive interview.

Check as many titles below as you'd like. Help us refine our process, and we can let our curators know which titles are most loved by the club. You can always browse our monthly selections in our magazine, where you will also find links to pre-ordering these must-reads. We appreciate your input!

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The NBIC Team

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Which June 2024 books are you most interested in from our Must-Read selection?

Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net (Jessica Calarco) – Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences.

Negotiating While Black: Be Who You Are to Get What You Want (Damali Peterman) – A real-world, one-of-a-kind resource for anyone who has ever been underestimated, overlooked, or misunderstood at the negotiating table.

Build Like a Woman: The Blueprint for Creating a Business and Life You Love (Kathleen Griffith) – From the self-made businesswoman and founder of the global platform Build Like A Woman comes the essential resource to unleash your business, take up space, and create your dream life.

How to Love Someone Without Losing Your Mind: Forget the Fairy Tale and Get Real (Todd Baratz) – A brutally honest guide that cuts through the bullsh*t and sky-high expectations of modern love to help you build healthier and more fulfilling relationships, from the creator of viral Instagram account YourDiagnonsense.

The Laws of Connection: The Scientific Secrets of Building a Strong Social Network (David Robson) – This groundbreaking study reveals how social connections are far more important than we thought, showing us the steps we can take to build better relationships and improve our lives.

Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future (Joél Leon) - With incisive, searing prose, Everything and Nothing at Once deconstructs what it means to be a Black man in America.

The Death of Truth (Steven Brill) – Best-selling journalist Steven Brill documents the forces and people, from Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue to Moscow to Washington, that have created and exploited this world of chaos and division—and offers practical solutions for what we can do about it.

Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Lasting Change (Nicole Vignola) – Change your mind to change your life—discover the neuroscience of a better you in this revolutionary book from neuroscientist and online sensation Nicole Vignola that teaches you how to rewire your brain to achieve peak mental wellbeing.

World Class: Purpose, Passion, and the Pursuit of Greatness On and Off the Field (Grant Wahl) – The definitive collection of beloved late journalist Grant Wahl’s work—a masterclass in the art of sportswriting.

Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine (Joanna Kempner) – An award-winning sociologist unearths how a group of ordinary people debilitated by excruciating pain developed their own medicine from home-grown psilocybin mushrooms—crafting near-clinical grade dosing protocols--and fought for recognition in a broken medical system.

Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water (Amorina Kingdon) – A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes—from an award-winning science writer.

Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation (Tom McGrath) – Triumph of the Yuppies charts Boomers' transformation from hippy idealists in the late 1960s to careerists in the early 1980s, and details how marketers, the media, and politicians pivoted to appeal to this influential new group. Most significantly, the me‑first mindset typical of Yuppieness helped create the largest income inequality in a century.

This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder (Alan Townsend) – A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of scientific wonder, as illuminated through the tragic dual cancer diagnoses of author Dr. Alan Townsend’s wife and daughter.

The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions (Amanda Bellows) – A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary—and often overlooked—adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny.

Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy (Francis Barry) – Bringing together two of America’s unifying loves — road trips and Abraham Lincoln — Frank Barry takes readers on a thought-provoking journey into the heart of our democracy and the soul of our country.

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World (Prentis Hemphill) – From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to heal on a personal and a collective level.

Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever (Joseph Cox) – Dark Wire is more than the story of this enormous sting operation--it shows the fundamental problems of policing in such a vast and high-speed economy. This is a caper for our modern world, where everyone is connected and no one is completely free.

Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World (Alvin Wang Graylin & Louis Rosenberg) – Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality.

The Captive Imagination: Addiction, Reality, and Our Search for Meaning (Elias Dakwar) – A profound, humane, and revolutionary new framework for understanding and addressing addiction.

Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive (James Parker) – From the vertiginously talented Atlantic staff writer James Parker, a collection of uproarious prose odes that show how to find gratitude in unexpected places.

Why War? (Richard Overy) – Why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past? A leading historian explains, drawing on rich examples and keen insight.

The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines (Matt Beane) – From one of the world’s top researchers on work and technology comes an insightful and surprising guide to protecting your skill in a world filling with AI and robots.

The Trolls of Wall Street: How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets (Nathaniel Popper) – The dramatic story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed “degenerates” who made WallStreetBets into a cultural movement that moved from the fringes of the internet to the center of Wall Street, upending the global financial markets and changing how an entire generation thinks about money, investing, and themselves.

Money and Promises: Seven Deals That Changed the World (Paolo Zannoni) – Distinguished banker, executive, and historian Paolo Zannoni examines the complex relationship between states and banks that has changed the world.

Good Judgement: Making Better Business Decisions with the Science of Human Personality (Richard Davis) – An experienced organizational psychologist teaches you how to select the right employees and business partners, assess investment opportunities more shrewdly, resolve conflicts better and faster, and optimize your performance on the job using the science of personality.

Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder's Formula for a Long and Useful Life (Eric Weiner) – New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiring and practical lessons in a book that’s part biography, part travelogue, part personal prescription.

Make Art or Die Trying: The Only Art Book You’ll Ever Need If You Want to Make Art That Changes the World (Stuart Semple) -- Let Make Art or Die Trying be your guide to harnessing the power of creative ideas to create art and change in your life and community.

The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging (Julia Hotz) -- In this combination of diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery, journalist Julia Hotz helps us discover lasting and life-changing medicine in our own communities.

Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality (Renee DiResta) -- A brilliant, original analysis of the radical shift in the dynamics of power and influence, revealing how the machinery that powered the Big Lie works to create bespoke realities revolutionizing politics, culture, and society.

Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World (Jamie Metzl) -- Metzl gives us the definitive account of the technological precipice on which we stand and the map to where we go from here.

The Hacker Mindset: A 5-Step Methodology for Cracking the System and Achieving Your Dreams (Garrett Gee) -- For the countless people feeling trapped in their jobs and whose talents aren’t being fully utilized, this book offers a wake-up call to break free from the constraints of ordinary employment and achieve true financial freedom.

Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap (Louise Story & Ebony Reed) -- A sweeping, deeply researched narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America’s financial system through public and private actions that created today’s Black-white wealth gap.

The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion in Business and Life (Leslie Zane) -- Award-winning Fortune 500 brand consultant and behavioral expert Leslie Zane shatters conventional marketing wisdom, showing readers how to tap into the hidden brain where instinct prevails, creating a powerful network of connections that drive people to buy your product, company, or vision.

The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work (David De Cremer) -- Leaders, don't let AI get the best of you.

What's Next Is Now: How to Live Future Ready (Frederik Pferdt) -- The renowned global thought leader and Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist introduces a forward-thinking mindstate that will help you navigate ambiguity and uncertainty with intention, transform problems and challenges into profound opportunities, and create exactly the future you want to see.

Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World (Kelly Clancy) -- A wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at stake when we forget what games we’re really playing.

Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men (Reah Bravo) -- A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how women unintentionally condone workplace abuse in a post-#MeToo world—and what we can do to change things for the better.

The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage (Jonathan Turley) -- A timely, revelatory look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others.

Nature of Our Cities, The: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet (Nadine Galle) -- A stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, protecting the planet's cities from the effects of climate change and safeguarding the health of their inhabitants.

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Nicola Twilley) -- An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our entire relationship with food—for better and for worse.

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI (Ray Kurzweil) -- The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come.

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV (Emily Nussbaum) -- The rollicking saga of reality television—an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker writer.

Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps (Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor & Josh Halloway) -- From your friends at Pod Save America and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to saving American democracy just in time for the 2024 election and 2025 insurrection.

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