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Read Our Speakers on National Book Day!
This weekend, we celebrate NATIONAL READ A BOOK DAY! Books, like TEDx talks, spread ideas, knowledge, and inspiration. Many of our speakers have written award-winning titles, spanning genres as diverse as children’s literature, autobiography, groundbreaking news stories, and motivational career strategies. Celebrate this national holiday of ideas and literacy by picking up a title by a 2015 TEDxBeaconStreet speaker! Find the list below. We’ll be having periodic posts about our various authors and titles during September; if you’ve read one of these books, post your thoughts in the comments!
- Anthony Flint, Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Smart Growth Policies, This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America, Wrestling With Moses
- Carol Fishman Cohen, Back on the Career Track
- David Rose, Enchanted Objects
- Erica Dhawan, Get Big Things Done
- Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Joy Ladin, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders
- Juan Enriquez, Homo Evolutis
- Laurent Adamowicz, Codes & Symbols of European Tools: A guide to codes and symbols found on ancient tools of all trades
- Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water, Tap Dancing Roof, A Single Shard, and other stories
- Matt Kohut, Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential
- Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital
- Rebecca Ryan, ReGENERATION
- Richard Saul Wurman, Information Architects, Understanding Healthcare, What Will Be Has Always Been: The Words of Louis I. Kahn
- Robert Pinsky, An Explanation of America, The Want Bone, Poetry and the World, and other books of poetry and prose
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead
- Scott Kirsner, Fans, Friends, and Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age
- Tina Cassidy, Jackie After O, Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
- Ysaye Barnwell, We Are One and other books of stories and song