The following is a list of the bestselling paperback business books as ranked by the New York Times on August 8.
1. Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.
2. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by Daniel H. Pink. A look at what truly motivates us, and how we can use that knowledge to work smarter and live better.
3. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell. How and why certain products and ideas become fads.
4. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem–and Themselves
by Andrew Ross Sorkin. The 2008 financial implosion on Wall Street and in Washington, by a New York Times business columnist.
5. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.)
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to the falling crime rate.
6. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis. The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight.
7. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande. A simple way to manage complexity.
8. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. How to apply economic theory to everything: the sequel.
9. Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education
by by Robert T. Kiyosaki. Author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money–That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
talks about the five unfair advantages of a real financial education.
10. Liar’s Poker
by Michael Lewis. Wall Street’s tumultuous 1980s, as witnessed by a young bond trader.
