What Are You Reading This Year?

What's on your reading list for 2025? What books have you read recently that you recommend?

Check out this list of recommendations from some of our leaders. Then, leave a comment with your own reading list or recommendation. We will randomly choose 13 people who leave a comment by Monday, Jan. 20 to receive one of the books pictured above.

Steve Arner, President and CEO:

• "The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder" by Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao
• "Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World" by Parmy Olson
• "Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter" by Liz Wiseman
• "Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI" by Ethan Mollick
• "All Physicians Lead: Redefining Physician Leadership for Better Patient Outcomes" by Leon Moores, MD

Tony Seupaul, MD, Chief Physician Executive:

• "Developing the Leader Within You" by John Maxwell
• "Tribal Leadership" by Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright
• "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" by Daniel Pink
• "Deep Work" by Cal Newport

Mike Abbott, President of Carilion Medical Center:

• "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson, MD
• "I’m Here: Compassionate Communication in Patient Care" by Marcus Engel
• "Choices that Change Lives: 15 Ways to Find More Purpose, Meaning and Joy" by Hal Urban
• "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman

Tami Frost, Chief Nursing Officer: 

• "The Oz Principle" by Roger Connors, Tom Smith and Craig Hickman
• "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" by Patrick Lencioni

Matt Barr, VP of Accounting: 

• "The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town" by Brian Alexander
• "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles
• "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Tracy Clouser, VP of Communications, Marketing and Planning: 

• "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t" by Jim Collins
• "Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose" by Tony Hsieh
• "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" by Malcolm Gladwell

Michelle Franklin, VP of Carilion Women's and Children's: 

• "You Don't Need a TITLE to be a Leader" by Mark Sanborn
• "The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle—How to Become a Servant Leader" by James Hunter

Chris Turnbull, CEO Transition Team:

• "Working Backwards: Insights, Stories and Secrets from Inside Amazon" by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
• "Smart Brevity" by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz
• "Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife" by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
• "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
• "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande

Kristie Williams, VP of CGCH and CTCH: 

• "Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't" by Simon Sinek
• "The 5 Voices: How to Communicate Efficiently with Everyone" by Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram