Quiet (Susan Cain)

As an introvert myself, I really appreciated this powerful, evocative, and well-researched treatise on the value of introverts. Cain does not try to make a case that introverts are better than extraverts, but that their way of interacting with the world is just as valuable overall and may be more effective in some situations (and less effective in others). Irony of the day: as my more extraverted husband was outside chatting with some of his friends, I was inside reading the last few chapters of this book, happy to be on my own and interacting with the world of ideas and grateful for an author explaining why this was OK.