The following is a list of the bestselling hardcover business books as ranked by the New York Times on November 3.
1. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder. The life of Warren Buffett.
2. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America
by Thomas L. Friedman. The author of The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century and New York Times columnist explores how a green revolution can renew America.
3. Who: The A Method for Hiring
by Geoff Smart and Randy Street. How to attract and hire the right people for your business.
4. The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
by Dave Ramsey. Debt reduction and fiscal fitness for families, by the radio talk-show host.
5. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by by Timothy Ferriss. Because life isn’t all about work.
6. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by by Timothy Ferriss. Because life isn’t all about work.
7. A Sense of Urgency
by John P. Kotter. A professor and leadership expert on how to elicit an earnest response from employees and make change within an organization go more smoothly.
8. Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
by Kevin Phillips. How the financial sector has hijacked the American economy, aided by Washington’s ruinous faith in the efficiency of markets.
9. The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
by Van Jones with Ariane Conrad. How saving the environment will rescue the economy by cutting energy prices and creating jobs.
10. The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
by George Soros. The financier analyzes the origins and implications of the credit crisis, and offers a new way of thinking about how markets really work.
11. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. A financial trader with an expertise in probability theory and statistics, debunks much about economic forecasting, and uses examples ranging from how a book becomes a best-seller to how an entrepreneur becomes a mogul.
12. The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy
by David M. Smick. Prudent advice for Wall Street and Main Street while operating in today’s turbulent global financial market.
13. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
by Seth Godin. By way of the internet, leadership roles are now accessible to anyone using the principles of “tribes.”
14. The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America’s Energy Future
by T. Boone Pickens. An account of Pickens’s career and his views about energy policy.
15. Debt Cures \””They\”” Don’t Want You to Know About
by Kevin Trudeau. How the credit industry is rigged against you, and how to fight back by changing your financial habits.
