The summer is my favorite season of the year. Some folks are winter-holiday people—not me. Those holidays are stressful: Secret Santas to deal with, law school exams to grade, and end-of-year bills to collect. Summer provides a chance to rest, enjoy the warm weather and mosquitos, and read a few new books on vacation. Many professionals like some light beach reading, but compliance professionals are always on the job—they need something more substantive.

CorpCounsel.com has you covered. Here are three books to load on your iPad or Kindle (or even in print!) that will help you relax productively on your vacation:

1. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

This is a well-written book that uses behavioral psychology to understand how logic can help offset the biases that exist in our intuition. For Kahneman, intuition is thinking fast and emotional—like our response to an image. Logic requires effort and thinking slow—like a math problem. The goal of Kahneman's book (recommended to me by forecasting pioneer Dr. Phil Tetlock) is to identify and understand errors in our judgment and choices with the hope that greater understanding will result in better decisions.

Kathneman won the Nobel prize in economics in 2002. His book is a must-read for compliance professionals to help them understand how we all make decisions. Understanding the biases in decision-making helps compliance professional develop a more robust compliance program designed to prevent and detect compliance failures and mitigate risks.

2. Simpler by Cass Sunstein

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