📚 September book is announced!

Welcome to September!

It’s a new month so that means it’s time for a new book for the Bad Ass Bookshelf.

It’s also a fresh opportunity for anyone who feels like they’ve dropped the ball a little on their reading habits over the summer. We’re coming into the home stretch for the remainder of 2025 and if you’d like to get some points on the board with your reading then there is no better time to start than right now.

Whether you pick up the physical book, dive into the audio, or smash through the chapters on your e-reader, it all counts.

Learn with us this September and be the Bad Ass you know you can be!

Don’t forget to register to join our end of month book club call. If you’re wondering what it’s all about, you can check out the recording of last month’s call with Passion Struck author John R. Miles here - use password: 8x=$5#hy

**Side note, we’re hosting our end of month book club call slightly later in the month than usual. If your schedule has gotten in the way of attending earlier calls than hopefully you can make this one!

This book is all about one of the most valuable but overlooked skills in leadership and life: learning how to truly see and understand the people around us.

Brooks draws on psychology, philosophy and everyday examples to show how small shifts in how we listen, ask questions and pay attention can transform our relationships at work and at home. Expect practical takeaways on becoming a better listener, building stronger connections and bringing out the best in others. These are the skills that make a real difference in leadership.

Buy it now: You can listen to it on or Audible or get the ebook on Kindle. If you’re buying a physical copy, please try to buy second-hand or from a local, independent store whenever possible.

Otherwise, here’s a link to buy the book on Amazon.

From the outset, it looked like Ultra Processed People had it in the bag, but before long it all flipped and How to Know a Person wound up smashing it out of the park with a convincing 47% of the vote!

(Let’s not mention The Good Life)

Here’s how you voted:

Here are a few of the comments some of you left explaining your choices:

We’re so excited to host our next Bad Ass Bookshelf bookclub call to discuss How to Know a Person at the end of September! Call details below:

Date: Monday 29th September
Time: 17:00 GMT (12:00 EST / 09:00 PST)

We love reading these kinds of books, but we get so much more out of them when we have someone to talk about it with. That’s why our Discord channel is such a great place to be.

You can meet other readers who are reading the same book with you at the same time and discuss to your hearts content all of the incredible learnings these amazing books have to offer.

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