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Further Reading Book List

Additional reading to help you keep informed, go deeper and make an even bigger impact.

Book list Intro

The body of literature on ethical and sustainable business practice is growing steadily. One-page summaries of published books in this list can be found at greatesthitsblog.com.

50 Ways To Help The Planet, Sian Berry (Kyle Books, 2018)

A Life On Our Planet, David Attenborough (Witness Books, 2020)

A Safe and Just Space for Humanity, Kate Raworth (Oxfam Discussion Document, 2012) 

Authentic Marketing, Larry Weber (John Wiley, 2019) 

All In, David Grayson, Chris Coulter & Mark Lee (Routledge 2018) 

Better, John Grant (Unbound, 2018) 

Brand Manners, Hamish Pringle & William Gordon (Wiley, 2003) 

Business Ethics, Crane, Matten, Glozer, Spence (Oxford University Press, 2016) 

Clever, Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones (Harvard Business Review Press, 2009) 

Climate Change: A Very Short introduction, Mark Maslin (Oxford University Press, 2021)

Climate Change And The Road To Net Zero, Mathew Hampshire-Waugh (Crowstone Publishing, 2021)

Conscious Capitalism Field Guide, Raj Sisodia, Timothy Henry & Thomas Eckschmidt (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018) 

Conscious Leadership, Mackey, McIntosh, Cripps (Portfolio Penguin, 2020) 

Diversify, June Sarpong (HQ, 2017)

Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth (Random House, 2017) 

Drive, Daniel Pink (Canongate, 2011)

Economics For A Fragile Planet, Edward Barbier (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Ethical Marketing and the New Consumer, Chris Arnold (John Wiley, 2009) 

False Alarm, Bjorn Lomborg (Basic, 2020) 

Frugal Innovation, Radjou & Prabhu (Profile Books, 2016) 

Good Is The New Cool, Aziz & Jones (Regan Arts, 2016) 

Green Swans, John Elkington (Fast Company Press, 2020) 

Greener Marketing, John Grant (Wiley, 2020) 

How Bad Are Bananas?, Mike Berners-Lee (Profile, 2020) 

How To Avoid A Climate Disaster, Bill Gates (Allen Lane, 2021)

How To Save Our Planet, Mark Maslin (Penguin Life, 2021)

Humane Capital, Vlatka Hlupic (Bloomsbury, 2019) 

Natural Capital, Dieter Helm (Yale University Press 2015) 

Net Positive, Polman & Wilson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021)

Net Zero, Dieter Helm (William Collins, 2020)

No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference, Greta Thunberg (Penguin, 2019) 

Nudge, Thaler & Sunstein (Penguin, 2009)

Our Final Warning, Mark Lynas (4th Estate, 2020) 

Speed & Scale, John Doerr (Penguin Business, 2021)

Sustainable Business: A One Planet Approach, Sally Jeanrenaud, Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud & Jonathan Gosling (John Wiley, 2016) 

Sustainable Marketing, Carvill, Butler & Evans (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Sustainable Marketing, Randle & Eyre (Kogan Page, 2024)

The Ethical Business Book, Sarah Duncan (LID, 2021)

The Ethical Capitalist, Julian Richer (Random House, 2018)

The Ethical Leader, Morgen Witzel (Bloomsbury, 2018)

The Excellence Book, Duncan & Duncan (LID, 2023)

The Future We Choose, Figueres & Rivett-Carnac (Manilla Press, 2020) 

The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek (Penguin, 2019) 

The Joyful Environmentalist, Isabel Losada (Watkins, 2020) 

The New Climate War, Michael E. Mann (Scribe, 2021)

The New Rules of Green Marketing, Jacquelyn Ottman (Greenleaf, 2010) 

There Is No Planet B, Mike Berners-Lee (Cambridge University Press, 2019) 

The Sustainable Business, Jonathan T Scott (Greenleaf, 2013) 

The Sustainable Business Book, Duncan & Duncan (LID, 2023)

The Sustainable Business Handbook, Grayson, Coulter & Lee (Kogan Page, 2022)

Transforming Tourism, Jeremy Smith, CABI (2022)

The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells (Allen Lane, 2019) 

Volt Rush, Henry Sanderson (Oneworld, 2022)

We Are The Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer (Penguin, 2019) 

WEconomy, Craig Kielburger, Holly Branson & Marc Kielburger (John Wiley, 2018) 

What If Solving The Climate Crisis Is Simple?, Tom Bowman (Changemaker Books, 2020)

Why Should Anyone Work Here?, Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015)