New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – August 2009
Nine months and counting for Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers as it continues to dominate the NY Times best seller rankings. To read our review of this outstanding book, check out our July 2009 best seller rankings.
Rounding out the rest of this month’s list, we can only recommend Jim Collins’ How The Mighty Fall – because we simply cannot find time in our busy schedules to read the other three. If we were forced to read one, however, we would likely sit down with Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires. If it’s anything like Bringing Down The House we can be assured of a mostly accurate, highly entertaining read. The Total Money Makeover, by contrast, appears as appetizing as stale bread; and we can certainly wait until December for the updated version of The 4-Hour Workweek.
The Top Five – NY Times Business Hardcover Best Sellers August 2009 (to view the entire list, follow this link):
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OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent — from the author of “Blink” and “The Tipping Point.” |
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THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, by Ben Mezrich. (Doubleday, $25.) How two Harvard undergraduates created Facebook. |
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THE TOTAL MONEY MAKEOVER, by Dave Ramsey (Thomas Nelson, $24.99.) Debt reduction and fiscal fitness for families, by the radio talk-show host. |
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HOW THE MIGHTY FALL, by Jim Collins. (Jim Collins/HarperCollins, $23.99.) Companies fail in stages, and their decline can be detected and reversed |
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THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK, by Timothy Ferriss. (Crown, $19.95.) Because life isn’t all about work. |
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