Sunday, October 5, 2014

New York Times October Business Best Sellers



October 12, 2014
This Month    Business Books
1
ZERO TO ONE, by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters. (Crown Business.) A co-founder of PayPal on how to build companies that
 create new things. (†)
2
OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown.) Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.
3
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, by Naomi Klein. (Simon & Schuster.) The author of “The Shock Doctrine” argues that the free market created and is worsening the climate crisis.
4
THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux.) The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life.
5
THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. (Random House.) A Times reporter’s account of the science behind how we form, and break, habits.
6
THE ORGANIZED MIND, by Daniel J. Levitin. (Dutton.) A professor draws on research in neuroscience to explain how organization can help us manage the overwhelming flood of information in our
 lives.
7
HOW GOOGLE WORKS, by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg. (Grand Central.) Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, and Rosenberg, a former senior vice president, discuss corporate culture, strategy and innovation.
8
#GIRLBOSS, by Sophia Amoruso. (Portfolio/Penguin.) An online fashion retailer traces her path to success.
9
LEAN IN, by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell. (Knopf.) The chief operating officer of Facebook urges women to pursue their careers without ambivalence.
10
THINK LIKE A FREAK, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow/HarperCollins.) How to solve problems creatively, from the authors of “Freakonomics.”

About the Best Sellers

Rankings reflect sales for September 2014.
An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.