Auden Schendler book makes a “must read” list

“Terrible Beauty” scheduled for Thanksgiving release

Auden Schendler’s new book, “Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering our Soul,” has made the November list of must-read books produced by the Next Big Idea Club. The book published by Harvard Business Review Press is scheduled for release on Nov. 26.

The list has 35 titles of books. Curators — Malcolm Gladwell (he has written frequently for the New Yorker), Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — select the books they think are the most exciting nonfiction titles of the season.

“A firsthand, trench-view story of the failure of the modern corporate sustainability movement—and an inspiring prescription for positive change,” is how this book club describes the work by Schendler, who is the Aspen Skiing Co.’s senior vice president for sustainability.

Also on the list are a memoir by Germany’s Angela Merkel, a book outlining strategies for small business use of social media, a book about metals that will be needed by technology, and a biography of Benjamin Franklin as a scientist.