Here’s my list in this most unique of summers:
The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukerjee
“It’s an amazingly accessible history of genetics—good background reading for better engagement with our current epidemiology and public-health debates.”
Good Economics for Hard Times, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel
McKinsey Global Publishing Picks
20 books to read this summer (Washington Post)
Bill Gates: Books to read, TV to watch, and things to do this summer (World Economic Forum)
FT Series: Summer Books 2020 (Financial Times)
Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge)
So you want to read the classics (Vox)
Summer Reading (New York Times Book Review)
The 2020 Booker Prize longlist (The Booker Prizes)
The great escape: 50 brilliant books to transport you this summer (Guardian)
It takes a village to curate amazing lists from this rather busy group of leaders from all over the world. We would like to thank Nikhil Deogun, Mitra S. Kalita, Gabriella Stern, Rebecca Lowell Edwards, Steve Lipin, Sara Blask, Karen Wickre, Ailish Campbell, Anya Schiffrin, Tom Weber, Shernaz Daver, Jose Zamora, and Judi Mackey for their help.
Within McKinsey Global Publishing, Mike Borruso, Heather Byer, Philip Mathew, Louis Vizzi, Dan Redding, and Torea Frey were instrumental in making this year’s list come alive.
And thank you to our contributors and their organizations for providing McKinsey Global Publishing with their photographs and permission to use them.