{"id":95099,"date":"2023-08-27T15:41:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T15:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/27\/looking-for-your-next-book-these-9-authors-have-reading-recommendations-for-you\/"},"modified":"2023-08-27T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T15:41:52","slug":"looking-for-your-next-book-these-9-authors-have-reading-recommendations-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/27\/looking-for-your-next-book-these-9-authors-have-reading-recommendations-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for your next book? These 9 authors have reading recommendations for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><span class=\"featured__span-first-words\">What\u2019s the hardest<\/span> part of reading? More often than not, it\u2019s picking a good book. \u201cL\u2019embarras du choix,\u201d as we say in French: Presented with infinite options, it becomes very hard to make a decision. That\u2019s why recommendations are so helpful.<\/p>\n<p>And who\u2019s best placed to recommend books than people who, you know, write books? With this in mind, + contacted a handful of authors whose work is closely tied to tech and startups. We asked them a simple question: \u201cWhat book have you read this summer that you think others might enjoy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We heard back from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Adam DuVander, author of \u201cTechnical Content Strategy Decoded\u201d<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Phil Rosen, author of \u201cLife Between Moments: New York Stories\u201d<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Adi Polak, author of \u201cScaling Machine Learning with Spark: Distributed ML with MLlib, TensorFlow, and PyTorch\u201d<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Andrew Lee Miller, author of \u201cThe Startup Growth Book: 50+ Proven Ways to Scale Your Business Without a Marketing Budget\u201d<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">David Kadavy, author of \u201cMind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters\u201d<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Sarah E. Brown, author of \u201cLead Upwards: How Startup Joiners Can Impact New Ventures, Build Amazing Careers, and Inspire Great Teams\u201d<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Zeke Faux, author of \u201cNumber Go Up: Inside Crypto\u2019s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall\u201d<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">David Spinks, author of \u201cThe Business of Belonging: How to Make Community Your Competitive Advantage\u201d<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Purna Virji, author of \u201cHigh-Impact Content Marketing: Strategies to Make Your Content Intentional, Engaging and Effective\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From fiction to practical guides, from very recent books to a century-old one, here are their picks.<\/p>\n<p><i>The responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h3>Adam DuVander<\/h3>\n<p><i>After a recent book explaining why generic marketing approaches <\/i><i>don\u2019t work on software developers<\/i><i>, developer marketer Adam DuVander is now back with \u201c<\/i><i>Technical Content Strategy Decoded<\/i><i>,\u201d a more actionable follow-on explaining what companies should and shouldn\u2019t do.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Book recommendation: \u201c<\/b><b>The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles<\/b><b>,\u201d by Steven Pressfield<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I re-read \u201cThe War of Art\u201d this summer. Again. I return to this book because it describes the life of anyone creating anything \u2014 and that is most of us. Our greatest obstacle is not ourselves. Pressfield gives us a scapegoat in resistance and a game plan to transcend its grasp.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Phil Rosen<\/h3>\n<p><i>Phil Rosen is a journalist and the author of two books, \u201c<\/i><i>Everywhere But Home: Life Overseas as Told by a Travel Blogger<\/i><i>\u201d and \u201c<\/i><i>Life Between Moments: New York Stories<\/i>,\u201d <i>a collection of 12 short stories about the Big Apple.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Book recommendation: \u201c<\/b><b>Forever: A Novel<\/b><b>,\u201d by Pete Hamill<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is a brilliant novel about an immigrant from Ireland who arrives to New York in the 1700s, and is quickly granted immortality under one condition: He can never leave Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a beautiful, tragic story that\u2019s effectively a history of Manhattan through one man\u2019s eyes, and it\u2019s similar to \u201cForrest Gump\u201d in that he\u2019s always in the right place at the right time through historical events.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s the hardest part of reading? 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