Here’s the full list of books I recommend in my workshops. Some of them are expensive, but you can often find cheap second-hand copies on World of Books.
Academic Writing
- Detox Your Writing: Strategies for Doctoral Researchers by Pat Thomson & Barbara Kamler
- Writing for Social Scientists by Howard S. Becker
- Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword
- Writing Science by Joshua Schimel
AI
- Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
- The Alignment Problem: How Can Artificial Intelligence Learn Human Values? by Brian Christian
- Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
- The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman
Literature Review
- The Literature Review by Diana Ridley
PhD
- The Literature Review by Diana Ridley
- The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research by Gordon Rugg & Marian Petre
- How to Write a Thesis by Rowena Murray
PhD Supervision
- Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen
Productivity
- The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran & Michael Lennington
Project Management
- How to Lead Smart People by Arun Singh & Mike Mister
- Making Work Visible by Dominica DeGrandis
- Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just 5 Days by Jake Knapp
- The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran & Michael Lennington
- Words that Change Minds by Shelle Rose Charvet
Wellbeing
- Burnout by Emily & Amelia Nagasaki
Working Relationships
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Stone, Patton, & Heen
- How to Lead Smart People by Arun Singh & Mike Mister
- Setting Boundaries that Stick by Juliane Taylor Shore
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just 5 Days by Jake Knapp
- Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen
- Words that Change Minds by Shelle Rose Charvet