As an ongoing feature, staff members at the Des Moines Public Library will recommend a business-related book to add to your reading list. Find this and more books like it at any of the Des Moines Public Library’s six locations and online at dmpl.org. And find information on how to get a FREE library card and all its benefits at dmpl.org/get-carded.

Des Moines Public Library business book pick:
“A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload,” by Cal Newport

Why you should read it: The 2021 bestseller from Cal Newport aims to liberate workers and workplaces from the “tyranny of the inbox.” Newport argues that easy access to constant communication and digital conversations prevents production from happening. The constant, anxious chatter leads to a lack of cognitive bandwidth to perform substantive work, and the book makes the claim that humans are simply not wired for this.