Recommended Books
Books for Academic Writers
How to Write a Lot by Paul Silvia
Writing Your Journal Article In Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success by Wendy Belcher
Professors As Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive
Writing by Robert Boice
The Work of Writing: Insights and Strategies for Academics and Professionals by Elizabeth Rankin
Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minute a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis by Joan Bolker
Air and Light and Time and Space: How Successful Academics Write by Helen Sword
Writing Science: How to Write Papers that Get Cited and Proposals that Get Funded by Joshua Schimel
Other Books About Writing
Career Advice
The Coach’s Guide for Women Professors: Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life by Rena Seltzer
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury
Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure – Without Losing Your Soul by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy
Time Management
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons In Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
First Things First by Stephen Covey
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
Leadership
First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
The Essential Academic Dean or Provost: A Comprehensive Desk Reference by Jeffrey L. Buller
How Colleges Change: Understanding, Leading, and Enacting Change by Adrianna Kezar
The College Administrator’s Survival Guide by C.K. Gunsalus
The Essential Department Chair: A Practical Guide to College Administration by Jeffrey L. Buller
A Practical Guide to Strategic Planning in Higher Education by Karen E. Hinton
Positive Leadership, Strategies for Extraordinary Performance by Kim Cameron
Budgets and Financial Management in Higher Education by Margaret J. Barr and George McClellan
Lab Dynamics: Management and Leadership Skills for Scientists by Carl M. Cohen and Suzanne L. Cohen
Work/Life Well-Being
Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia by Rachel Connelly and Kristen Ghodsee
Ask the Children: What America’s Children Really Think About Working Parents by Ellen Galinsky
Composing a Life by Mary Catherine Bateson

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work by Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie Weingart
The Misrepresented Minority: New Insights on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and the Implications for Higher Education edited by Samuel D. Museus, Dina C. Maramba, and Robert T. Teranishi
Why So Slow: The Advancement of Women by Virginia Valian
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women In Academia edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris
An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence by Abigail Stewart and Virginia Valian

Teaching
Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment in College by Barbara E. Walvoord and Virginia Johnson Anderson

Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross
What The Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain