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SONJA RAJALA

Favorite books

Here is a short overview of my favorite books divided into different categories to help you find what you're looking for.

Self-management and productivity

Cal Newport: Digital minimalism
Cal Newport: A world without email
Bob Pozen: Extreme productivity
Gretchen Rubin: The happiness project
Gretchen Rubin: Better than before

Greg McKeown: Essentialism
Tim Ferriss: 4-hour workweek

Tony Schwartz et al.: Be excellent at anything
David Allen: Getting things done
Saku Tuominen & Pekka Pohjakallio: The workbook
Marie Kondo: The life-changing magic of tidying up
Joanna Teplin, Clea Shearer: The Home Edit
​Kaisa Jaakkola: Palaudu ja vahvistu

Entrepreneurship, leadership and organizational culture

The Arbinger Institute: Leadership and Self-deception
Ben Horowitz: The hard thing about the hard things
Ben Horowitz: What you do is who you are
Jason Fried: It doen't have to be crazy

Marcus Buckingham: Nine lies about work
Kim Scott: Radical candor
​Laszlo Bock: Work rules
Frederic Laloux: Reinventing organizations
Brian J. Robertson: Holacracy
Reid Hoffmann & Ben Casnocha: The start-up of you
Peter Thiel: Zero to one
Eric Ries: The lean startup
Alexander Osterwalder: Business model generation

Personal growth and positive psychology

Aki Hintsa & Oskari Saari: The core
Kristin Neff: Self-compassion
Adam Grant: Give and take
Adam Grant: Think again
Brené Brown: Gifts of imperfection
Brené Brown: Daring greatly
Emma Seppälä: The happiness track
Amy Cuddy: Presence
Carol Dweck: Mindset
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow
Marshall Rosenberg: Non-violent communication
Lori Gottlieb: Maybe you should talk to someone
Maaret Kallio: Lujasti lempeä
Maaret Kallio: Inhimillisiä kohtaamisia
​Kimmo Takanen: Tunne lukkosi

Networking

Dale Carnegie: How to win friends and influence people
Keith Ferrazzi: Never eat alone
​Adam Grant: Give and take

Coaching

John Whitmore: Coaching for performance
Diane Brennan & Leni Wildflower: Handbook of knowledge-based coaching

Books especially for women

Glennon Doyle: Untamed
Rachel Jayne Groover: Powerful and feminine
Michaela Boehm: The wild woman's way
Emily Nagoski: Burnout

Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In
Claire Shipman & Katty Kay: Womenomics
​Liza Marklund & Lotta Snickare: Helvetissä on erityinen paikka naisille, jotka eivät auta toisiaan
​Emilia Kallas & Ninni Myllyoja: Mitä jokaisen kotiäidin (ja muidenkin naisten) tulee tietää sijoittamisesta

Relationships and polarity

Jennifer Petriglieri: Couples that work
Eli Finkel: The All-or-nothing marriage
Esther Perel: Mating in captivity
Esther Perel: State of affairs
Marshall Rosenberg: Non-violent communication
Gary Chapman: 5 love languages
Pat Allen: Getting to I do
David Deida: The way of the superior man

Pregnancy and parenting

Izzy Judd: Mindfulness for mums
KaisaTracy Hogg, Melinda Blau: Secrets of the Baby Whisperer
Pamela Druckerman: Bringing up bebé
John Medina: Brain rules for baby
Brené Brown: Gifts of imperfect parenting (audio book only)
​Jennifer Senior: All joy no fun
​Tiffany Dufu: Drop the ball
Lori Bregman: The mindful mom-to-be
Marie Mongan: Hypnobirthing 
​Emily Oster: Cribsheet & Expecting better
Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson: No-Drama Discipline
In Finnish:
Matilda Katajamäki, Outi Gyldén: Suomalainen vauvakirja
Anna Keski-Rahkonen , Minna Nalbantoglu: Unihiekkaa etsimässä
Laura Andersson: Voit nukkua
Kaisa Jaakkola: Reipas, rakas raskaus
Raisa Mattila, Julia Thurén: Lapsiperheen parisuhdekirja
Elina Kauppila: Ihana perhe - tietoisen vanhemmuuden ABC

Awesome fiction

Naomi Alderman: The Power
Graeme Simsion: The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect and The Rosie Result
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game Trilogy
George R. R. Martin: Game of Thrones series
John Green: The fault under our stars (and all his other books)
Kathryn Stockett: The Help
Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale & The Testaments

Bibliographies

Michelle Obama: Becoming
Hillary Clinton: What happened
Maria Veitola: Veitola
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