September traditionally ushers in a new school year. For people of all ages, it is a time to pick up that new book. Here are some classics that will help move health care forward.

James Reasons (1990, 2003), Human Error

Don Normans (2013), The Design of Everyday Things

Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe (2011), Managing the Unexpected: Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty

Gerald J. Langley, Ronald Moen, and Kevin M. Nolan (2009), The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance

Peter Senge (2010), The 5th Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization

Jim Nance (2008), Why Hospitals Should FLY: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care

Atul Gawande (2000), The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Atul Gawande (2000), Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Maureen Bisognano and Charles Kenney (2012), Pursuing the Triple Aim: Seven Innovators Show the Way to Better Care, Better Health, and Lower Costs

Charles Kenny (2008), The Best Practice: How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine

Donald Berwick (2013), Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It

Ezekiel Emanuel (2014), Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System