The Dent Library
Every year at Dent we ask our members what book they read in the past year that truly changed their outlook on life or made a significant difference on the way they work. We then purchase these books and have them available to borrow (or buy) during the conference. The (nearly comprehensive) list below represents the Dent Library so far.
| Title | Author(s) | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10% Happier | Dan Harris | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| 11 Rules for Creating Value in the #Social Era | Nilofer Merchant | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life | Parker J Palmer | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| A History of the World in 100 Objects | Neil MacGregor | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Academy of One | Preston | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again | Yuval Levin | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| An Immense World | Ed Yong | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Antifragile | Nassim Niholas Taleb | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Atomic Habits | James Clear | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Big Payback | Dan Charnas | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Bitch: On the Female of the Species | Lucy Cooke | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World | Rick Smolan; Jennifer Erwitt | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Born a Crime | Trevor Noah | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimmerer | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Brand Vandals | Steve Earl & Stephen Waddington | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Building a Pro-Black World | Cyndi Suarez; The Staff at NPQ | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Calling My Name | Liara Tamani | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism | Sarah Wynn-Williams | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Chew, Vol. 1: Taster’s Choice | John Layman; Rob Guillory | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Context Changes Everything | Alicia Juarrero | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Creativity, Inc | Ed Catmull | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Crossing the Chasm | Geoffrey A. Moore | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Culture & Consumption | Grant McCracken | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Dare to Lead | Brené Brown | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Daring Greatly | Brene Brown | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs | Lisa Randall | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Dead Wrong: Diagnosing and Treating Healthcare’s Misinformation Illness | Geeta Nayyar; Tom Castles; Jack Murtha | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Death of the Author | Nnedi Okorafor | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain | Antonio Damasio | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Dirt | Bill Buford | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Disrupt Yourself | Whitney Jonson | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Dissension | Stacey Berg | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Ego is the Enemy | Ryan Holiday | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future | Ashlee Vance | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Essentialism | Greg McKeown | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution | Cat Bohannon | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Everything But the Coffee: Learning About America From Starbucks | Bryant Simon | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America | Kurt Andersen | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Extreme Ownership | Jocko Willink | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Fluent Forever | Gabriel Wyner | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Forty Rules of Love | Elif Shafak | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Founders at Work | Jessica Livingston | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Freedom Found: My Life Story | Warren Miller | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| From the Sea to the C-Suite | Dawson; Kiland | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Great | Choice by Jim Collins | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Grit | Angela Duckworth | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Hacking Healthcare | Fred Trotter & David Uhlman | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Hamlet's Blakcberry | William Powers | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Hell Yeah or No: What’s Worth Doing | Derek Sivers | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help | Edgar Schein | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| High St@kes, No Prisoners | Charles H Ferguson | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human | Melanie Challenger | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| How to Fail at Almost Everything | Scott Adams | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery | Kevin Ashton | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| I Never Thought of It That Way | Mónica Guzmán | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life | Héctor García; Francesc Miralles | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| In the Company of Women | Grace Bonney | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Infinite Resource | Ramez Naam | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Influence | Robert Cialdini | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Inside Tracks: Robyn Davidson's Solo Journey Across the Outback | Rick Smolan | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Justice | Michael J. Sandel | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Killers of the Flower Moon | David Grann | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Law of Success | Napoleon Hill | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Leadership: In Turbulent Times | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Lean In | Sheryl Sandberg | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age | Chip Conley | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Learning to Walk in the Dark | Barbara Brown Taylor | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Living the Remote Dream | Darren Murph | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Love + Work | Marcus Buckingham | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Military Culture Shift | Corie Weathers | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything | James R. Doty | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Miracle in the Andes | Nando Parrado and Vince Rause | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) | Carol Tavris; Elliot Aronson | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Moments of Impact | Chris Ertec & Lisa Kay Solomon | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Move to the Edge, Declare It Center: Practices and Processes for Creatively Solving Complex Problems | Everett Harper | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Multipliers | Liz Wiseman | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Nardogani | Narda Pitkethly | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Nexus | Ramez Naam | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines | Jonathan Mooney | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Nudge: The Final Edition | Richard H. Thaler; Cass R. Sunstein | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| One Minute Manager | Ken Blanchard | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Orbiting the Giant Hairball | Gordon MacKenzie | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Organizational Physics: The Science of Growing a Business | Lex Sisney | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Playful Rebellion: Maximize Workplace Success Through the Power of Play | Gary Ware | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Power of Habit | Charrles D Uhigg | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Principles: Life and Work | Ray Dalio | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Quiet | Susan Caine | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Raising Hare: A Memoir | Chloe Dalton | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet | Chris Dixon | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Real American | Julie Lythcott-Haims | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Refuge of Scoundrels | David Horsey | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All | Elisa Camahort Page; Carolyn Gerin; Jamia Wilson | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Same as Ever | Morgan Housel | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Sea of Tranquility | Emily St. John Mandel | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Servant Leadership | Robert Greenleaf | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Sharing Space: An Astronaut's Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change | Cady Coleman | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| She Made Me Laugh | Richard Cohen | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Skunk Works | Ben R Rich & Leo Janos | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Team of Teams | General Stanley McChrystal | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Activator: What Today’s Rainmakers Do Differently | Matthew Dixon; Rory Channer; Karen Freeman; Ted McKenna | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Anomaly | Hervé Le Tellier | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters | Priya Parker | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Art of War (illustrated) | Jessica Hagy | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Big Leap | Gay Hendricks | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Book of Joy | Dalai Lama; Desmond Tutu; Douglas Abrams | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Boys in the Boat | Daniel James Brown | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Buddha Walks Into a Bar | Lodro Rinzler | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Clockwork Universe | Edward Dolnick | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society & the Birth of the Modern World | Edward Dolnick | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure | Greg Lukianoff; Jonathan Haidt | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Decision Maker | Dennis Bakke | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Design of Everyday Things | Don Norman | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex | Harold J. Morowitz | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Fabulous Future? America and the World in 2040 | Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapio | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Fire Starter Sessions | Danielle LaPorte | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Forty Rules of Love | Elif Shafak | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Future Is… (Adventures of a Freelance Human) | Fred Van Lente; Ennio Ubaldi; Andrea Meloni; Taylor Esposito | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Gift of the Sea | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Good Fight: America’s Ongoing Struggle for Justice | Rick Smolan; Jennifer Erwitt | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Happiness Hack | Ellen Petry Leanse | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Hard Thing About Hard Things | Ben Horowitz | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Listening Society | Hanzi Freinacht | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Man Who Lied to His Laptop | Clifford Nass | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir | Layli Long Soldier | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials in Triumph | Ryan Holiday | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Originals | Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Point of It All | Charles Krauthammer | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Power of Now | Eckhart Tolle | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys | James Fadiman | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Pychadelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys | Dr James Fadiman | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery | Adam Gopnik | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium | Martin Gurri | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion | Jonathan Haidt | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Second Machine Age | Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Secret of Our Success: How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter | Joseph Henrich | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Sleeper and the Spindle | Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Talent Code | Daniel Coyle | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Tao Te Ching | Lao Tzu | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas | Anand Giridharadas | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Tuning of Place | Richard Coyne | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Undoing Project | Michael Lewis | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds | Michael Lewis | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Unwinding: An Inner History of New America | Geroge Packer | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change | Michelle Mijung Kim | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Whip | Karen Kondazian | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| The Work of Art | Adam Moss | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Think Again | Adam Grant | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Thinking Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahnerman | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts | Annie Duke | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| This View of Life | David Sloan Wilson | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| To Sell is Human | Daniel Pink | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Topgrading | Badford D. Smart | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future | Elizabeth Kolbert | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Undrowned | Alexis Pauline Gumbs | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Unlocked | George Mumford | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Unreasonable Hospitality | Will Guidara | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| What Every Body is Saying | Joe Navarro | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Who Moved My Cheese | Dr Spencer Johnson | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Who Owns the Future | Jaron Lanier | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Who: The Method for Hiring | Geoff Smart & Randy Street | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped | Garry Kasparov | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Yes Please | Amy Poehler | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Your Brain At Work | David Rock | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Your Customer Rules! | Bill Price & David Jaffe | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Zen and the Art of Archery | Eugen Herrigel | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Zero to One | Peter Thiel | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |
| Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future | Peter Thiel; Blake Masters | Bookshop.org | Amazon | Kindle |