A fun hobby that can reduce stress by 68% and has been proven to produce greater life satisfaction? We’re here for it! At Butler/Till and Digital Hyve, we care about the whole employee-owner and that means having flexibility, showing up for one another, and providing resources to help our people thrive both inside and outside work. Reading is a proven way to increase emotional intelligence, and consequently, career outlooks, which means we’re fully supporting it!
We asked our employee-owners for a list of their top reading picks to share with you, and they delivered. Check them out below:
- The House on The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune heart
- Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
- Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
- Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
- The Long Walk by Stephen King
- The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
- One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
- Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
- Mother May I by Joshilyn Jackson
- The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
- Four Winds and The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
- One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Read
- Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane
- Love & Other Words by Christina Lauren
- Finlay Donavan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, Richard Armitage
- On the Run by Alice Goffman
- Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
- Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeymoon
- The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda
- Open by Andre Agassi
- A Little Hope by Ethan Joella
- Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
- The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
- Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Please Don’t Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson
- Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
- Me Before You by JoJo Meyes
- After You by JoJo Meyes
- Still Me by JoJo Meyes
- Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
- Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
- Believe Me by Eddie Izzard
- Comedy, comedy, comedy, drama by Bob Odenkirk
- Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
- Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
- A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
- This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
We love shopping local and wanted to share some of our favorite community spots below, check them out!
- Rochester Public Library
- Small World Books
- Frederick Douglass Community Library
- Pop Roc
- The Secondhand Librarian
- Rick’s Recycled Books
- Books End
- Golden Bee
- Parthenon
- Onondaga County Public Libraries
- Community Library of DeWitt & Jamesville
- Indie Bound
- Bookshop
- AbeBooks
- PaperBackSwap
- BookMooch
- ThriftBooks
- Biblio