Top Firefighting Books – 54 Must Read Books for Firefighters

I have compiled a list of “Must Read” books as told to me by my readers. I asked what the best fire service books were and got over 50 books mentioned in over 80 comments over at The Fire Critic Facebook Page. Sure, there may be some that were left out, but I think this is a pretty decent list! I have not read many of these…I didn’t even know about many of them before today. I have included links to Amazon, so you can get more information and/or purchase them at decent prices. Feel free to add your favorites in the comments if they don’t appear here. There are 54 books listed below. Many of the authors have more books on and off this list. Enjoy – The Fire Critic

Part II of this list is here (56 more books)

• Pride & Ownership: A Firefighter’s Love of the Job – Rick Lasky
  • Pride and Ownership holds no punches. Chief Rick Lasky takes a hard look at the fire service and finds it short on the only element that makes it effective: passion. Chief Lasky gives an upfront and honest criticism about the need to reignite the love o fthe job on every level, from chiefs on down. Key Features: History and traditions of the fire service with overviews of some of th most important fire service leaders, Detailed explanations of ceremonies for all ocasions from a firefighter’s initiation to retirement, Over 150 photos displaying the rites and ceremonies, Helpful appendices full of sample documents for fire company use.
• First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department – John Salka
  • What does it take to lead people into a burning building? How do the leaders of the New York City Fire Department develop so much loyalty, trust, and grace under pressure that their subordinates will risk their very lives for them? As a high-ranking officer of the FDNY, John Salka is an expert at both practicing and teaching high-stakes leadership. In First In, Last Out, he explains the department’s unique strategies and how they can be adopted by leaders in any field—as he has taught them to organizations around the country.
• The Last Men Out: Life on the Edge at Rescue 2 Firehouse – Tom Downey
  • Brooklyn’s Rescue 2 has long been known as one of the country’s top firehouses, a model for departments nationwide. Recognized for their expertise and commitment, Rescue 2’s men handle only big blazes where civilians and their fellow firemen are in danger. Beginning in 1996 with legendary Captain Ray Downey’s promotion, the story follows the trials of his replacement, Phil Ruvolo, as he works to win over his headstrong men. A new Rescue 2 is forged through changes in firefighting methods and blazes that quickly become legend. Through the crisis of 9/11 and the subsequent rebuilding, Ruvolo triumphantly fills the late Downey’s boots, heading Rescue 2 toward a future worthy of its past, its heroes, its city. Filled with firefighting detail, raucous humor, and gritty real-life scenes, The Last Men Out is a new classic for an era in firefighting that is more risky, complicated, and dramatic than any before.
• B-Shifter: A Firefighter’s Memoir – Nick Brunacini
  • Most firefighter memoirs are painfully idealized and should come equipped with a bag-pipe soundtrack. If thatʼs the kind of book youʼre looking for, my advice is to move on because B-Shifter will most likely disappoint you. The first 3 chapters of B-Shifter are about family. Brunacini devotes the first chapter of the book to chronicling his fatherʼs (Alan Brunacini) 48-year career with the Phoenix, AZ Fire Department. Alan is world renown as one of the fathers of the modern fire service and a pioneer for firefighter safety. Nick connects his fatherʼs zeal for improved firefighting safety procedures by vividly describing a diner fire where his father died for a few minutes. The next two chapters are devoted to Nick and his brother and sister growing up in a family where the only logical end was joining the fire service fraternity. Nick makes the observation that fire departments more closely resemble cults (or severely dysfunctional families) than a regular workforce.
• Brannigan’s Building Construction For The Fire Service – Glenn P. Corbett & Francis L. Brannigan
  • For over forty years, Brannigan’s Building Construction of the Fire Service has been the fire service’s most trusted and comprehensive building construction resource available. Now in its Fifth Edition, this bestselling resource continues to honor Frank Brannigan’s legacy by continuing his passion for detail and extensive practical experience. His motto, “Know your buildings,” impacts every aspect of this text. This Fifth Edition now features: Coverage of the National Fire Academy’s Fire and Emergency Services in Higher Education (FESHE) Building Construction for Fire Protection course objectives. New stand-alone chapter on New, Light, Green (Solar), and Modular Construction. Enhanced emphasis on tactical considerations found throughout the text. Trust Brannigan’s Building Construction of the Fire Service to provide straightforward information on different building types and their unique hazards needed to keep fire fighters safe on the job.
• Thirty Years on the Line – Leo Stapleton
• Report from Engine Co. 82 – Dennis Smith
  • From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession.
• Step Up and Lead – Frank Viscuso
  • In his new book Step Up and Lead, Frank Viscuso–author, speaker, and career deputy chief–shares the secrets of effective fire service leadership, introduces the traits and skills essential for successful fire service leaders, and discusses the importance of customer service. Designed to help you reach the top of your profession, this new book is considered must-read material for anyone who is ready to step up and lead!
• 3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It – Sean Flynn
  • On December 3, 1999, the call came in to the men of the Worcester, Massachusetts, Fire Department: a five-alarm blaze in a six-story, abandoned, windlowless warehouse filled with lethal hallways and meat lockers.
• The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy – Stewart O’nan
  • The acclaimed author of A Prayer for the Dying brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism-the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. Halfway through a midsummer afternoon performance, Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus’s big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline; in seconds it was burning out of control, and more than 8,000 people were trapped inside. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, O’Nan skillfully re-creates the horrific events and illuminates the psychological oddities of human behavior under stress: the mad scramble for the exits; the hero who tossed dozens of children to safety before being trampled to death. Brilliantly constructed and exceptionally moving, The Circus Fire is history at its most compelling.
• To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire – David Cowan
  • The story of one of the deadliest fires in American history that took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago. “An absorbing account. . .a tale of terror”. -New York Times Book Review.
• Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History – David M. Brown
  • At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a lethal mixture of gas and oxygen in the school’s basement. The odorless, colorless gas went undetected until the flip of an electrical switch triggered a colossal blast. The two-story school, one of the nation’s most modern, disintegrated, burying everyone under a vast pile of rubble and debris. More than 300 students and teachers were killed, and hundreds more were injured.
• The Texas City Disaster, 1947  – Hugh W. Stephens
  • On April 16, 1947, a small fire broke out among bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in the hold of the ship Grandcamp as it lay docked at Texas City, Texas. Despite immediate attempts to extinguish the fire, it rapidly intensified until the Grandcamp exploded in a blast that caused massive loss of life and property. In the ensuing chaos, no one gave much thought to the ship in the next slip, the High Flyer. It exploded sixteen hours later.
• Pass It On: What We Know… What We Want You to Know! – Billy Goldfeder
  • For his first book, Chief Billy Goldfeder, a 40-year fire service veteran, solicited insights and pearls of wisdom from our country’s greatest firefighters, fire officers and emergency responders. The stories that make up this unprecedented collection share many perspectives of the emergency service experience and offer invaluable, often hard-won, lessons learned. Every firefighter, from probie to veteran, can find something to take away from these factual, real-life, first-hand stories, which offer a range of emotions–from wit to heartache and basic common sense. Chief Goldfeder is donating 100% of his royalties equally to the Chief Ray Downey Scholarship and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Every contributor fully supported the benevolent mission of this book.
• From Buddy to Boss: Effective Fire Service Leadership – Chase Sargent
  • Whether you’’re a new officer or in need of a mentor, From Buddy to Boss: Effective Fire Service Leadership is a must-have management book you’’ll turn to over and over again. Fire service veteran Chase Sargent has taken his popular course and written a no-holds-barred leadership book for the fire service in a conversational and easy-to-read style. He tells you how to accept and survive politics, deal with the fringe employees, and keep your cool — tricks of the trade that usually take years to acquire.
• Collapse of Burning Buildings: A Guide to Fireground Safety – Vincent Dunn
  • Chief Vincent Dunn, a 42-year fire service veteran, has updated his best-selling book which examines the dangers of structural failure caused by fire. This is the second edition of the first textbook written to warn firefighters, company officers, and fire chiefs about exactly how structures collapse when destroyed by fire–and examines the subject of burning building collapse in great detail. More importantly, this book, unlike any other publication, instructs firefighters and fire officers in how to survive burning building collapse.
• Laughter, Tears And Muffled Dreams: Strories from an Fdny Life – Tom Burgoyne
• Laughter, Tears & Muffled Drums – Phil Burns
  • When Phil Burns became a member of the Fire Department of New York back in 1963, firefighters didn’t wear masks and their turnout gear consisted of rubber boots, a rubber or canvas coat, a helmet, and a pair of gloves. Phil spent a few years crawling down long hallways full of acrid smoke, smoke so think that you could cut it with a knife. Over the course of a career spanning four decades, Phil saw incidents in warehouses, tenements, high rises, ships, churches, subways, and almost every part of the five boroughs. He advanced through the ranks over the years to Deputy Chief in command of the 11th Division. It was this post that he held on 9-11, when 343 of New York’s Bravest answered their last alarm. Laughter, Tears & Muffled Drums is a collection of essays spanning the course of his career, and is dedicated to the memory of all fallen firefighters.
• Bringing Everybody Home – Phil Burns
• The Last True Hero – Phil Burns
  • The title of the first chapter of The Last True Hero is “No Masks, Radios, Tower Ladders, Saws, Bunker Gear” – and those words pretty much describe what the FDNY did not have when Phil Burns became a member back in 1963. In many ways Phil’s new book is a chronicle of firefighting’s transformation in New York City and the rest of the United States during the forty year span of his career. Just as he did in previous works, Laughter, Tears & Muffled Drums and …bringing everybody home, Phil Burns continues to capture the moments of his fellow firefighters’ lives, whether the moment occurs while fighting a massive fire sweeping through the decks of the aircraft carrier USS Constellation, searching for survivors in airplane wreckage scattered on the congested streets of Brooklyn after a midair collision, wild nights in the South Bronx during the 1980s, or the horrors of September 11th. The Last True Hero also explores the different strategies FDNY units employ in Old Law and New Law tenements, stately Brooklyn Brownstones, residential hi-rises, and row after row of row houses, while also answering the timeless question, “If there’s nothing left to burn, why are the CO readings so high?” And, of course, the tales in The Last True Hero express Phil’s deep appreciation of the firehouse characters and crazies he encountered during his career, and the many, many lasting friendships that form between firefighters – people who risk their lives with and for each other every single day. While not every department faces the same dangers, day in and day out that FDNY confronts, Phil Burns knows that all firefighters in all departments put their lives on the line every time they don their gear and respond to an alarm. Phil Burns reminds us that in reality, every firefighter is…the last true hero.
• The Fire Factory – Harry J. Ahearn
• Fireground Strategies, 2nd Edition – Anthony Avillo
  • Fireground Strategies, 2nd Edition, covers fireground organization and operational safety as well as building construction and choosing a strategic mode of operation from the point of view of those in command of both the fireground and individual companies. In addition, specific occupancy types are explored in regard to command and firefighting concerns as well as life safety concerns. Used in conjunction with the Scenarios Workbook, Fireground Strategies, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive guide to organizing the fireground and maintaining control.
• Firehouse – David Halberstam
  • “In the firehouse, the men not only live and eat with each other, they play sports together, go off to drink together, help repair one another’s houses, and, most important, share terrifying risks; their loyalties to each other must, by the demands of the dangers they face, be instinctive and absolute.” So writes David Halberstam, one of America’s most distinguished reporters and historians, in this stunning New York Times bestselling book about Engine 40, Ladder 35, located on the West Side of Manhattan near Lincoln Center. On the morning of September 11, 2001, two rigs carrying thirteen men set out from this firehouse: twelve of them would never return.
• America Burning: The Report of the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control
  • Discusses the most significant fire safety problems in the United States in 1973. Also includes recommendations for fire loss reduction.
• Report from Ground Zero – Dennis Smith
  • The tragic events of September 11, 2001, forever altered the American landscape, both figuratively and literally. Immediately after the jets struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Dennis Smith, a former firefighter, reported to Manhattan’s Ladder Co. 16 to volunteer in the rescue efforts. In the weeks that followed, Smith was present on the front lines, attending to the wounded, sifting through the wreckage, and mourning with New York’s devastated fire and police departments.This is Smith’s vivid account of the rescue efforts by the fire and police departments and emergency medical teams as they rushed to face a disaster that would claim thousands of lives. Smith takes readers inside the minds and lives of the rescuers at Ground Zero as he shares stories about these heroic individuals and the effect their loss had on their families and their companies. “It is,” says Smith, “the real and living history of the worst day in America since Pearl Harbor.” Written with drama and urgency, Report from Ground Zero honors the men and women who—in America’s darkest hours—redefined our understanding of courage.
• 38 Years a Detroit Firefighter’s Story – Bob Tombrowski
  • Decorated firefighter and true-blue Detroiter Bob Dombrowski risked life and limb saving lives for as long as he could remember. Born and raised on the west side of Detroit, Bob narrates an engrossing account of his illustrious firefighting career, from being a trial man to retiring as senior chief. He also gives a vivid description of Motor City in its glory days and the events that led to its recent state. See major historical events such as the 1967 Detroit riot and September 11 attacks through his eyes, and be a witness to a truly inspiring thirty-eight-year career.
• 20,000 Alarms: The Memoirs of New York’s Most Decorated Fireman – Richard Hamilton
• Population: 485- Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time (P.S.) – Michael Perry
  • Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin, where the local vigilante is a farmer’s wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the back roads are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. Against a backdrop of fires and tangled wrecks, bar fights and smelt feeds, Population: 485 is a comic and sometimes heartbreaking true tale leavened with quieter meditations on an overlooked America.
• Common Valor: True Stories from New Jersey’s Bravest – Frank Viscuso
  • Frank Viscuso wrote this one for us relating incidents from his career as a firefighter in New Jersey.
• Rescue Men – Charles Kenney
  • The men in Charles Kenney’s family have been drawn to firefighting since his grandfather Charles “Pops” Kenney joined the Boston Fire Department in 1932. In his working class, Irish-Catholic neighborhood, there were other jobs that offered a decent wage, but none had the sense of belonging that comes with being a fireman, or the purity of purpose that comes with saving lives. Pops was on the scene of the notorious Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942; the author’s father, “Sonny” served with distinction until an explosion blew him from a third-story window; and two of the author’s brothers were “sparks” as children, amateur firefighters, whose career goals were thwarted by a court order integrating the Boston fire department and changing the rules for employment forever. One became a cop, the other a paramedic and rescue man with an elite squad sent to Ground Zero in the aftermath of the collapse of the World Trade Center. Spanning sixty years of firefighting history in America,Rescue Men captures what it’s really like to be a fireman.
• Fire Chief: The Story of a Volunteer Firefighter – Ed Daniels
  • Retired Fire Chief pens reflections on his life as a volunteer firefighter. “Fire Chief” by Ed Daniels shares experiences and sacrifices until now known only to the volunteers themselves. In his first novel, “Fire Chief; The Story of a Volunteer Firefighter,” author Ed Daniels recalls his life as a volunteer firefighter in the mountains of Colorado. Based on actual events, the book takes readers into the heat which countless volunteer firefighters face every day throughout the world. Most people don’t realize that the majority of the firefighters, EMTs and Paramedics who respond to fires and accidents in rural areas are volunteers. These First Responders sacrifice time with their families and their careers, responding at a moment’s notice to protect the lives and property of those who need them. While he fictionalizes his characters and locations, “Fire Chief” describes Daniels’ actual experiences and encounters in frightening detail.
• 25 to Survive: Reducing Residential Injury and Lodd – Dan Shaw & Doug Mitchell
  • Two seasoned fire officers take an in-depth look into the causes of line of duty deaths in residential building fires, and offer incident recommendations. This book is designed to provide firefighters and fire officers “street proven” tips, techniques, and company-level drills that address and overcome the 25 most common errors that occur at residential building fires.
• Air Management for the Fire Service – Mike Gagliano
  • Even though firefighters have strapped on some type of self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) for more than a century, the proud history of fire service always revered the toughest of the “smoke eaters.” Intermittent use of SCBA, lack of proper procedures and training, and sometimes even those time-honored fire service traditions resulted in a tragic loss of life. The toughest of these lessons are here for all firefighters to read and learn. Proper use of SCBA and PASS devices, stricter enforcement of procedures, and an unflinching adherence to the rules will benefit firefighters in every department.
• Commish – Leo Stapleton
  • This is an insiteful and entertaining examination of firefighting from one of the best in the business.
• The Brave: A Story of New York City’s Firefighters – George Pickett
  • Every so often a writer of substantive talent appears through the smokey background to perk up our interest in firefighters and firefighting. George Pickett is just such a man….In The Brave you will come to know him and a valiant group of men as they speed from alarm to alarm in downtown New York, where the buildings are tall and for the most part old, where bums and drug addicts populate the streets, and where the fire companies hardly ever rest.
• Residential Fire Rescue – Mark van der Feyst, Eric Wissner, and James Petruzzi
  • Authors Mark van der Feyst, Eric Wissner and James Petruzzi wrote their new book to serve as a much-needed sole source reference for rescuing an occupant from a residential structure. Residential Fire Rescue covers the theory of search and rescue, practical application of search and rescue, and company training. The book includes sample lesson plans that can be customized for various skills (including VES, drags and removals); step-by-step instructions combined with photos to show the various rescue techniques and positions; and, a DVD to aid the instruction of techniques. Company officers, training officers, and firefighters will find Residential Fire Rescue an important resource.
• Fire Officer’s Handbook of Tactics – John Norman
  • With this fourth edition, Chief John Norman once again brings invaluable wisdom from his four-decade-long career to firefighters aspiring to the officer level and those seeking to promote safety and effectiveness in their organization and the communities they serve by improving their own skills. In his highly readable style, Chief Norman imparts his wisdom and experience by offering advice informed by actual outcomes from the fireground and tying all the elements together into an understandable big picture.
• Fire Trap – Richard Mann
  • Randy Justice puts his life on the line when he touches the smoldering clues from a corporate fire. Randy, an insurance investigator, has set up shop as Justice Investigations in the Portland, Oregon, theater he inherited from his folks. As a single parent, he must provide for Sally and Billy, his adventurous teenagers, while unraveling the truth about a deadly fire at Genetrix, a startup company in California’s Silicon Valley. The principal scientist at Genetrix dies in a fire that consumes most of the company headquarters. Western Insurance must pay millions if the fire is proved an accident. A beautiful venture capitalist and the striking daughter of a competitor help Randy untangle the lies and motives that created the Fire Trap in which the scientist died.
• Call the Fire Brigade: Fighting London’s Fires – Allan Grice
  • A gripping account of the most dramatic emergencies attended by a senior member of the London Fire Brigade during the 1970s
• They come in Threes by David Houseal
  • Dave Houseal became a volunteer firefighter right after high school, and he became a career member of the Harrisburg Fire Department a few years later. He seemed destined for the job: his grandfather had been Chief of the Harrisburg Fire Department, and his father had served as the Chief of the Progress Fire Department. Quite simply; the fire service was -and is- in Dave Houseal’s blood. He started his career during the American fire service’s “War Year”; a period of massive social upheaval, especially in America’s cities, that were often frustrating, daunting and dangerous times for firefighters because sometimes you had to fight more than fires. Some folks seemed to think that America’s cities were built to burn- to burn as a protest, to burn for a profit, or to burn just for the hell of it. It was a tough time to be a firefighter…but it was also one of the greatest times to become an experienced firefighter.
• Strong of Heart: Life and Death in the Fire Department of New York– Thomas Von Essen
  • How will we ever get through this? is the question I ask on the night of September 11. How? Maybe the answer is here, all around me. Not just in the cleanup, not just in the purpose demonstrated by all who came and labored all these months. The answer is in the enduring spirits of all assembled here. That, for me, is the miracle in all of this: having looked horror in the face, we bear the pain without losing heart.
• Working Fire: The Making of a Fireman – Zac Unger
  • Zac Unger didn’t feel like much of a fireman at first. Most of his fellow recruits seemed to have planned for the job all their lives; he was an Ivy League grad responding to an ad at a bus stop. He couldn’t keep his boots shined, and he looked terrible in his uniform. Working Fire is the story of how, from this unlikely beginning, Zac Unger came to feel at home among this close-knit tribe, came to master his work’s demands, and came to know what it is to see the world through a firefighter’s eyes. From the raw material of his days’ work—alarm calls both harrowing and hilarious, moments of triumph and grief—Unger has forged a timeless story of finding one’s path, and a rousing adventure about the bravery and sacrifice of everyday heroes.
• Incident Management for the Street Smart Fire Officer – John F. (Skip) Coleman
  • A new and improved version of the original best seller, Incident Management for the Street-Smart Fire Officer, is for everyone who wants to learn new ways to enhance the flow of their fire department’s management system. Whether you are a firefighter looking to become an officer, or an officer whose future probably includes the word “Chief”, you will benefit from this book. The second edition of Incident Management for the Street-Smart Fire Officer provides an overview of the Incident Command System (ICS) with an expanded look at the initial firefighting tactical and strategic considerations. It covers operations at house and routine fires and looks in-depth at the relationship between the Incident Commander and Group/Division officers at routine fires.
• Jakes by Leo Stapleton
  • Firefighting social history; Boston.
• Young Men and Fire – Norman MacLean
  • On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy.
• Help Wanted: Orphans Preferred – Earl W. Emerson
• Vertical Burn – Earl W. Emerson
  • Earl Emerson is the poet laureate of men and women who make their living where the heat is, bringing to life the terror of a burning building and the moments of solitude, solace, and camaraderie that happen in between. Now, Emerson has written a mesmerizing novel of suspense about a man who goes into a fire as a hero and a friend, and comes out as an outcast–and a target.
• Engine Company – John Salka
  • In his new book, Battalion Chief Salka, a nationally recognized speaker and author with years of service in several career and volunteer departments, looks at both the similarities and differences in the engine company operations practiced by fire departments throughout the United States and discusses in detail the equipment, staffing, and operations of engine company firefighters at structural fires and emergencies in urban, suburban, and rural settings.
• Streets Smart Firefighting – Robert Bingham
• Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion – George J. Thompson
  • “When you react, the event controls you. When you respond, you’re in control.”Verbal Judo is the classic guide to the martial art of the mind and mouth that can help you defuse confrontations and generate cooperation, whether you’re talking to a boss, a spouse, or even a teenager. For more than a generation, Dr. George J. Thompson’s essential handbook has taught people how to communicate more confidently and persuasively in any situation. Verbal Judo shows you how to listen and speak more effectively, engage others through empathy (the most powerful word in the English language), avoid the most common conversational disasters, and use proven strategies to successfully express your point of view—and take the lead in most disputes.
• Can’t send a duck to eagle school – Mac Anderson
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’’t – Simon Sinek
  • Why do only a few people get to say “I love my job”? It seems unfair that finding fulfillment at work is like winning a lottery; that only a few lucky ones get to feel valued by their organizations, to feel like they belong.
• Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding under Any Conditions – John Kotter
  • Most of the denizens of the Antarctic penguin colony sneer at Fred, the quiet but observant scout who detects worrying signs that their home, an iceberg, is melting.  Fred must cleverly convince and enlist key players, such as Louis, the head penguin; Alice, the number two bird; the intractable NoNo the weather expert; and a passle of school-age penguins if he is to save the colony.
• Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life – Spencer Johnson
  • With Who Moved My Cheese? Dr. Spencer Johnson realizes the need for finding the language and tools to deal with change–an issue that makes all of us nervous and uncomfortable.Most people are fearful of change because they don’t believe they have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Spencer Johnson shows us that what matters most is the attitude we have about change.

If you are interested in fiction (only a couple above are fiction), You might consider checking out Kurt Kamm’s books. I have read most of his and have enjoyed most of them as well. Check out his latest book “Tunnel Visions” here.