The following is a list of the bestselling hardcover business books as ranked by the New York Times on August 4.
1. When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
by Mohamed El-Erian. Investing advice for a time of global economic change.
2. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Timothy Ferris. Because life isn’t all about work.
3. Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
by Suze Orman. How women can achieve financial security.
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. 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.
6. Now, Discover Your Strengths
by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. How to identify and develop your talents and those of your employees.
7. Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier
by Gary Harpst. Strategies for small and midsize businesses.
8. Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. A scholar uses economics to explore the incentives that drive such disparate groups, including crack gangs, sumo wrestlers, school teachers, campaign fund-raisers and real estate agents.
9. The Smartest 401k Book You’ll Ever Read: Maximize Your Retirement Savings…the Smart Way!
by Daniel R. Solin. How to avoid the pitfalls of investing for retirement.
10. The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by Leonard Mlodinow. (Pantheon, $24.95.) How we misunderstand the significance of chance in our daily lives.
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. Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber. A fable about how to bring about change in a group, through the eyes of a penguin bearing bad news.
13. The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life
by John Assaraf and Murray Smith. Achieve your exact entrepreneurial aspirations.
14. Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman. The deep-seated forces that influence behavior and cause people to make irrational choices.
15. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by by Dan Ariely. An M.I.T. behavioral economist shows how emotions and social norms systematically shape our behavior.
