On April 1, 2012, @tomwhitby came up with an idea that was no April Fool's joke.  He challenged educators to share their "must read" recommendations via Twitter using the hashtag #edbook.  The challenge received quite a response.  In less than 24 hours, more than 100 titles were recommended.  Here is a list of the books recommended to date with links to Amazon for your convenience; Twitter handles for many of the authors are also included.  Books are listed in the order they were posted.

·         Outliers, Malcom Gladwell

·         The Connected Educator, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall

·         Mosaic of Thought, Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann

·         Talks on Pedagogics, Francis W. Parker

·         The Global Achievement Gap, Tony Wagner

·         I Read It, But I Don't Get It, Cris Tovani

·         Horace's School, Ted Sizer

·         The Book Whisperer, Donalyn Miller

·         There Are No Shortcuts, Rafe Esquith

·         The Knowing Doing Gap, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton

·         Drive, Dan Pink (@DanielPink)

·         Study Driven, Katie Wood Ray

·         Write Beside Them, Penny Kittle

·         Deeper Reading and Write Like This, Kelly Gallagher

·         First Days of School, Harry Wong

·         Results Now, Mike Schmoker

·         I'd Rather Teach Peace, Colman McCarthy

·         A Different Kind of Teacher, John Taylor Gatto

·         What's Worth Fighting for in the Principalship, Michael Fullan

·         Five Minds for the Future, Howard Gardner

·         Getting Started, Robert Eaker and Laura Lipton

·         Differentiation in Action, Judith Dodge

·         The Brain and Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman (@DanielGolemanEI)

·         The Art of Problem Posing, Stephen Brown

·         The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson

·         Stop Stealing Dreams, Seth Godin (@ThisIsSethsBlog)

·         Let's Put Kids First, Finally, Charles Achilles

·         Curriculum 21, Heidi Hayes Jacobs (@HeidiHayesJacob)

·         Disrupting Class, Clayton Christenson

·         In the Middle, Nancie Atwell

·         Switch, Chip and Dan Heath (@heathbrothers)

·         The Basic School, Ernest Boyer

·         What Great Teachers Do Differently, Todd Whitaker (@ToddWhitaker)

·         Catching up or Leading the Way, Yong Zhao (@YongZhaoUO)

·         Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnetic Strips, Gene Glass

·         The Hurried Child, David Elkind

·         Art as Experience, John Dewey

·         If You Don't Feed the Teachers, They Eat the Students, Neila Connors

·         Choice Words, Peter Johnston

·         Homo Zappiens: Growing Up in a Digital Age, Wim Veen

·         The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner

·         Among Schoolchildren, Tracy Kidder

·         The Writing Workshop, Katie Wood Ray 

·         Reframing Organizations, Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal

·         Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson

·         Good Questions: Great Ways to Differentiate Mathematics, Marian Small

·         They Call Me Coach, John Wooden

·         When Kids Can't Read - What Teachers Can Do, Kylene Beers

·         How People Learn, John Bransford and Rodney Cocking

·         Mindset, Carol Dweck (@Brainology)