We know what you’re reading this summer McKinsey’s annual reading list is back—reimagined for this pandemic year. August 2020 See the full list of responses below. Glenn Kelman, CEO, Redfin — Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam-Joo Business leaders John Visentin, CEO, Xerox Bob Iger, Executive chairman, The Walt Disney Company — Scotty, Ken Dryden — Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, — Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Isabel Wilkerson Years as CEO of The Walt Disney Company, Bob Iger — The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson David Gibbs, CEO, Yum! Brands Oscar Munoz, Executive chairman, United Airlines Holdings, Inc. — David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell — Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, Jacob Soboroff Nandan Nilekani, Chairman and cofounder, Infosys Kenneth M. Jacobs, Chairman and CEO, Lazard — What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, Steve Schwarzman — The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson — Capitalism in America: An Economic History — Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of the United States, Alan Greenspan and of Black Americans from the Civil War to World Adrian Woolridge War II, Douglas A. Blackmon — Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism, — Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Dinyar Patel Authoritarianism, Anne Applebaum Peter Chapman, President and CEO, IonQ Laxman Narasimhan, CEO, Reckitt Benckiser — The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from — The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Pandemic in History, John M. Barry Bob Iger — Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness — That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and Meditation in Everyday Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn the Amazing Life of an Idea, Marc Randolph — Leadership: In Turbulent Times, Serge Saxonov, Cofounder and CEO, 10x Genomics Doris Kearns Goodwin — The Billion Dollar Molecule: The Quest for Katherine Garrett-Cox, CEO, the Perfect Drug, Barry Werth Gulf International Bank (UK) — Reamde: A Novel, Neal Stephenson — The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis, Christiana Figueres and — The Fabric of Reality: The Sciences of Parallel Tom Rivett-Carnac Universes—and Its Implications, David Deutsch 2 We know what you’re reading this summer Thomas S. Gayner, Co-CEO, Markel Technologists/entrepreneurs/ philanthropists — The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist and Craig Rules Us and How We Can Rule It, John Tierney Newmark Philanthropies and Roy Baumeister Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis — Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can of American Democracy, Margaret Sullivan Save America from the Culture of Contempt, Arthur C. Brooks The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel — Days of Grace: A Memoir, Arthur Ashe and The City We Became: A Novel, N. K. Jemisin Arnold Rampersad Yoky Matsuoka, CEO of the Lifestyle Business Strategy Division, Panasonic; former CTO of Google Global leaders Nest and a cofounder of Google X François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Eckhart Tolle — Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir, Madeleine Albright Sebastian Thrun, CEO, Kitty Hawk, and chairman, Udacity — Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis, Bill George — Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization — Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended on It, Chris Voss with Tahl Raz — Inside Change: Transforming Your Organization with Emotional Intelligence, Joshua Freedman — Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling and Massimiliano Ghini MBA Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers, Geoffrey A. Moore — A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Debbie Sterling, Founder and CEO, GoldieBlox Carbon Emissions, Muhammad Yunus — American Pastoral, Philip Roth Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor, Columbia Business School; 2001 recipient, Nobel Memorial Prize in — American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins Economic Sciences — Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, — Mapmaker’s Wife, Robert Whittaker Bryan Stevenson — The Great Influenza, John M. Barry — This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World, Yancey Strickler — Heavy, Kiese Laymon — Too Much and Never Enough: How my Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, Mary L. Trump We know what you’re reading this summer 3 Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO, John S. and Angela Duckworth, Founder and CEO, Character James L. Knight Foundation Lab at University of Pennsylvania — The Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure — Peak: Secrets from the New Science of of Authoritarianism, Anne Applebaum Expertise, Anders Ericsson — The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt Business media Matt Murray, Editor in Chief, Wall Street Journal — Self-Portrait in Black and White, Thomas Chatterton Williams — The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, Christopher Lasch — White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo — The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown, Nick Barratt Mack Gill, COO and board member, Torstone Technology — The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, William L. Shirer — The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukerjee — Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life, Alison Weir — Good Economics for Hard Times, Gillian Tett, Chair, editorial board, and Editor at Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo Large, US, Financial Times — The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel — Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson Gary Liu, CEO, South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd Alan Murray, CEO, FORTUNE Media — Factfulness, Hans Rosling — George Marshall: Defender of the Republic, David Roll — The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, John Pomfret Jessica Lessin, Founder and Editor in Chief, The Information — A History of Scotland, Neil Oliver — Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo Richard Buery, President, Achievement First, a charter-school network with 37 schools in — Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America, Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island Conor Dougherty — The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin Adi Ignatius, Editor in Chief, Harvard Business Review — Deacon King Kong, James McBride — Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan — Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, Town, Barbara Demick from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter, Charlton D. McIlwain 4 We know what you’re reading this summer Stephanie Mehta, Editor in Chief, Fast Company TV/entertainment Jorge Ramos, Coanchor, “Noticiero Univision,” host, — Antisocial, Andrew Marantz “Al Punto,” and anchor, “Real America” — Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld — Intimations, Zadie Smith — The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, — My Time To Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Robert Louis Stevenson Confronting Race, Ilia Calderón — La Corresponsal, Cristina De Stefano Platforms Dan Roth, Editor in Chief, LinkedIn Dan Lemon, Anchor, “CNN Tonight” — The Vanishing Half: A Novel, Brit Bennett Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson — Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America, Intimations, Zadie Smith Stephanie Gorton The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir, Michele Harper — The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy, The Vanishing Half: A Novel, Brit Bennett Stephanie Kelton Utopia Avenue: A Novel, David Mitchell Katherine Maher, CEO and executive director, Wikimedia Foundation Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family, Omid Scobie and — All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions Carolyn Durand for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Keeble Wilkinson Ali Velshi, Host, “Velshi,” on MSNBC — Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel — The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of Wilkerson America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson — The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter — For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity, Liz Plank Richard Gingras, Vice president, News, Google — Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its — Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, Urgent Lessons for Our Own, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Robert K. Massie Poorna Jagannathan, Actor; producer, Nirbhaya — The Overstory: A Novel, Richard Powers (winner of the 2013 Amnesty International Award) — The Big Goodnight: Chinatown and the Last — See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Years of Hollywood, Sam Wassan Revolutionary Love, Valerie Kaur — Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner — Wolf Hall Trilogy, Hilary Mantel We know what you’re reading this summer 5 Adam Sharp, President and CEO, National Jameel Jaffer, Executive director, Knight First Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which Amendment Institute at Columbia University oversees the Emmys — In Hoffa’s Shadow: A Stepfather, a — The Hardest Job in the World: The American Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search Presidency, John Dickerson for the Truth, Jack Goldsmith — Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, — The Lehman Trilogy: A Novel, Stefano Massini and the Untold Story of America’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park, Andy Mulvihill — Feel Free: Essays, Zadie Smith and Jake Rossen Suzanne Nossel, CEO, PEN America, and author, — Forever: A Novel, Pete Hamill Dare to Speak: