BCC Back To School Bookshelf

To celebrate the back-to-school season, the Builders of Color Coalition would like to share our Back To School Bookshelf. This shelf features 12 high-quality books of enduring value, put forward by trusted real estate developers from our network. Each of these books was selected as personally beneficial in moving forward in their real estate careers.

Have a read and tell us what you think:

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Peter L. Bernstein

A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference

Tom Peters 

Bubble in the Sun

Christopher Knowlton

Chain of Change: Struggles for Black Community Development

Mel King

Color of Law

Richard Rothstein

Construction Funding: The Process of Real Estate Development, Appraisal, and Finance

Nathan S. Collier

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

Jim Collins

Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood

Peter Medoff

The Liar's Ball

Vicky Ward

The Peebles Principles

Don Peebles

Making It In Real Estate

John McNellis

Zeckendorf: The autobiography of the man who played a real-life game of Monopoly and won the largest real estate empire in history.

William Zeckendorf, Edward McCreary

Thank you to the curators who contributed book title recommendations for the Builders of Color Coalition Book Shelf:

1. Phil Cohen, Boston Communities

2. Dave Madan, Boston Investments

3. Sandi Silk, Jefferson Apartment Group

4. Josue Velney, Velney Development

5. Dariela Villon-Maga, DVM Consulting