July TwitBooks Selection

We will be reading What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell for our July TwitBooks discussion. Its easy to join the conversation - just follow the hashtag #TwitBooks on the 3rd Monday of the month (which is a change from our earlier 20th of the month discussion day) For July that would mean our discussion will take place July 18th.

July TwitBooks Survey

The July TwitBooks is available now until June 15th when we will announce the next read. Your choices are:

• When God Winks at You: How God Speaks Directly to You Through the Power of Coincidence by Squire D. Rushnell
• What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary by Joseph A. Michelli 
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Log your vote here on SurveyMonkey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9398NL9

What's Up for June

June's book is Better By Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong. Hope you'll be joining us for this exploration of what we do wrong and how it helps us to grow!

Happiness Project Additional Readings

Have you finished May's book, The Happiness Project, and wanted to learn a bit more about the psychology of happiness and what resources are out there? Check out these resources:

• Gretchen Rubin's website on The Happiness Project and her toolbox to help you start your own project.
  
• This TED talk by Shawn Achor on happiness.
• Research on authentic happiness and positive psychology.
• What's beyond happiness?
• An argument for location and overall health making an impact on happiness and steps you can take to be happier.
  
• 13 steps to a happier life (half-way down the page)
• Money doesn't make you happier. Good thing too, because I don't have any!
  
• How our "psychological immune system" keeps us set for happiness.
• Participate in research and track your happiness
  

And a few other books on happiness...

• Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert
  
• The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky
  
• The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor
  

New Moderator Account

Hi TwitBooks fans! We've set up a new Twitter account called @TwitBooksMod to post the discussion questions on our TwitBooks reads. Make sure to follow and use #TwitBooks in your post to engage in the online discussion on the 20th of the month. This month's read is The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (@gretchenrubin).

TwitBooks Suggested Readings

When we started the TwitBooks group many people sent in suggestions which made up the first survey to choose the May and June readings. We thought it would be nice to see the list in its entirety. So here it is in no particular order!


Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Made to Stick Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins
A Piece of Cake: A Memoir by Cupcake Brown
The Color of Water by James McBride
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman
Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs
When God Winks at You: How God Speaks Directly to You Through the Power of Coincidence by Squire D. Rushnell
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Beloved by Toni Morrison
A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us by Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks
The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics by John Pollack
Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong by Alina Tugend
Amazonia by James Rollins
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
On being certain: Believing you are Right Even when You’re Not by Robert Burton
What would Google Do by Jeff Jarvis
Eat that Frog: 21 Great ways to Stop Procrastinating by Brian Tracy
Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions by Zachary Share
Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why it Matters by Bill Tancer 
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary by Joseph A. Michelli
Animal Vegetable Mineral by Barbara Kingsoliver

June TwitBooks Selection

The June #TwitBooks selection will be Better by Mistake by Alina Tugend.Again - look for the discussion to happen on June 20th and join in by including the hashtag #TwitBooks in your post.