For a complete list of career books, check
out the Quintessential Careers Bookstore, in association with Amazon Books.
Note: You can read reviews of some of these books in our
Quintessential
Reading: Career and Job Book Reviews section of Quintessential Careers.
Please feel free to browse through this hand-picked collection of the best books for you,
or jump down to search Amazon.com directly.
FEATURED BOOK:
Downshifting: How to Work Less and Enjoy Life More,
by John D. Drake (Berrett-Koehler). This guide is an excellent resource for anyone
who is searching for alternatives to too much work and not enough happiness.
Practical, inspiring, and life-changing. Read our review (coming soon).
The 12 Bad
Habits That Hold Good People Back: Overcoming the Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead,
by James Phd Waldroop (Author), Timothy Phd Butler (Currency).
Banishing Burnout:
Six Strategies for Improving Your Relationship with Work, by Michael P. Leiter and Christina Maslach (Jossey-Bass).
Chained to
the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them,
by Bryan E. Robinson, Ph.d. (New York University Press).
Coping with Toxic
Managers, Subordinates ...And Other Difficult People: Using Emotional Intelligence to Survive and Prosper,
by Roy H. Lubit, M.D., Ph.d. (FT Press).
Getting
Promoted: Real Strategies for Advancing Your Career, by Harry E. Chambers (Perseus Books).
How to
Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive ... Without Killing Your Boss, by John Hoover (Career Press).
My Office is
a 3-Ring Circus: Must I Take Orders from Clowns?, by Judith M. Weigle (iUniverse, Inc.).
Overcoming Job
Burnout: How to Renew Enthusiasm for Work, by Beverly A. Potter (Ronin Publishing).
Overworked
American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, by Juliet B. Schor (Basic Books).
Reclaiming the
Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout, by Steven Berglas (Random House).
The Rules of Work:
The Unspoken Truth About Getting Ahead in Business, by Richard Templar (Prentice Hall).
So... You Want to be
Promoted...And Make a Few Bucks Too!, by J.R. Oram (Trafford Publishing).
A Survival
Guide for Working With Bad Bosses: Dealing With Bullies, Idiots, Back-stabbers, And Other Managers from Hell,
by Gini Graham Scott (AMACOM).
Take Back Your
Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America, by John De Graaf (Berrett-Koehler).
Take Back Your
Time: How to Regain Control of Work, Information, and Technology, by Jan Jasper (St. Martin's Press).
Workaholics:
The Respectable Addicts, by Barbara Killinger, Ph.D. (Firefly).
Working Ourselves
to Death: The High Cost of Workaholism and the Rewards of Recovery, by Diane Fassel (Backinprint.com).
If you are interested in job flexibility options, you might want to check out these other books from our bookstore:
Work-at-Home/Job Flexibility/Telecommuting Books.
