Michael's Books & Recommendations
Michael Melcher the Writer
My nonfiction writing focuses on demystifying what makes strong leadership and fulfilling careers, and providing readers with fresh insights and actionable tips. My goal is to take you from “kind of knowing” about subjects to mastering them. I care about the quality of my writing so I promise my books are interesting and readable!
Your Invisible Network: How to Create, Maintain, and Leverage the Relationships That Will Transform Your Career
Meaningful relationships are a must-have to sustain and further your career. A network built on reciprocity, depth, and trust isn’t merely helpful to your career growth; it is absolutely necessary. Your Invisible Network provides a practical plan for building and sustaining a network that will supercharge your growth.
The Creative Lawyer: A Practical Guide to Authentic Professional Satisfaction
The Creative Lawyer: A Practical Guide to Authentic Professional Satisfaction is a self-coaching book for lawyers. It's a step-by-step guide to creating the career you want, whether inside or outside the practice of law, and is the ABA's best-selling book on lawyer careers.
Michael Melcher the Reader
A couple of years ago, I undertook a project to get my concentration back by reading a lot more books. Here are some of my favorite picks of the 70 books I read last year:
Best book of the year
Effingers by Gabriele Tergit
The saga of a German-Jewish family from 1878-1948. Both a social kaleidoscope and novel of manners with the backdrop of Germany’s convulsive history.
Most inventive
North Woods by Daniel Mason
A house in Western Massachusetts over a 300-year period, and the people, animals, and ghosts that have lived in and around it.
Best heartstrings-plucker
The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
A young man visits his past homes and childhood friends as he searches for a home for his beloved cat.
Best book of essays
The Catastrophe Hour by Meghan Daum
Trying to figure out what is real nowadays and what it means to be human. Nuanced, self-revealing, and always witty.
Best series
The Slough House Series (9 novels) by Mick Herron
Dark, witty page-turners following the ambitions and debacles of a cast-out group of spies in the British intelligence service.
Easiest car ride
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
A charming, self-absorbed adolescent muses on his tribulations growing up in Thatcher’s England.
Best book for a long plane ride
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
A depressed professor plans to end things at a ritzy Maine resort, but then runs into a high-end Bridezilla with her own dramas.
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