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