508: The 9 Books I’m Most Looking Forward To In 2024

Like any other year before, there are literally tens of thousands of books set to be released this year. Needless to say, it can be hard whittling down what to pay attention to and what to ignore. I’ve attempted to take some of the guesswork out of it for you by selecting nine books I’m really looking forward to reading this year. Here they are in order of their release date. Note that my first selection is actually a book that came out last week—making it, technically, a 2023 release. But it makes the cut as, well, I was a little busy this past week and am just getting around to diving in. Trust me when I say you’ll be glad I’m including it here. 1. Feel Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali Abdaal (December 26, 2023)  Note: I’ll be interviewing Ali later this month and releasing our conversation in early February. 2. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klass (January 23, 2024).  3. The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder by Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao (January 30, 2024) Note: My interview with coauthor Huggy Rao releases on January 30 to coincide with the book’s release. 4.  Never Not Working: Why the Always-On Culture Is Bad for Business—and How to Fix It by Malissa Clark (February 6, 2024)  5. Practical Optimism: The Art, Science, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being by Sue Varma MD (February 20, 2024) 6. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg (February 20, 2024)  7. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport (March 5, 2024)  8. Microskills: Small Actions, Big Impact by Adaira Landry and Resa E. Lewiss (April 16, 2024)  9. Hyperefficient: Optimize Your Brain to Transform the Way You Work by Mithu Storoni (September 17, 2024)  In addition to the two authors and books on this list I’m already set to feature on the show, I’ll be working to invite as many of the other seven as I can.  For more detail about each book, listen to the episode Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |