Learning from a book cannot make you a manager but hey it is education

I am trying to move into management from being in experienced
professional, specialist or individual contributor role for 11 years.

I have led men, managed projects, supervised professionals and
teams, coordinated activities, resolved conflicts, communicated
up and down, championed the causes, facilitated resources,
evaluated and apprised team and project personnel, scheduled
tasks, assigned resources and assert controls to deliver results.
I have been in project leader, technical leader, project engineer,
team supervisor roles for more than 5 years in several firms,
countries and in teams made up of international professionals.

However, I never have had any formal managerial title yet.
So in the process of transition from professional to manager
- for not having a mentor - I have no choice but to resort books.

May I recommend you a book from which you can learn a lot
about transformations stories into first line managers (from
individual contributors)

Reading a book cannot make you a manager. But learning
from other people's costly mistakes is called education.

FYI, below

Becoming a Manager: Mastery of a New Identity
by Linda A. Hill
published by HBS