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1 | | OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown.) Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent. | |
2 | | GET WHAT'S YOURS, by Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Philip Moeller and Paul Solman. (Simon & Schuster.) A guide to deciding when to claim Social Security benefits and to getting all you’re eligible for
when you do. | |
3 | | 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. | |
4 | | ELON MUSK, by Ashlee Vance. (Ecco/HarperCollins.) A technology writer follows Musk’s life from his difficult South African childhood to his involvement in Internet start-ups like the rocket company SpaceX, the electric-car company Tesla and the solar power installation company Solar City. | |
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 | | MONEY: MASTER THE GAME, by Tony Robbins. (Simon & Schuster.) Seven steps aimed at finding financial security and creating an income for life. (†) | |
7 | | FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow/HarperCollins.) How to apply economic theory to almost everything. | |
8 | | THINK LIKE A FREAK, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow/HarperCollins.) How to solve problems creatively, from the authors of “Freakonomics.” | |
9 | | TEAM OF TEAMS, by Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell. (Portfolio/Penguin.) Applying a
small-team approach to armed conflict to non-combat scenarios. (†) | |
10 | | 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. | |
Rankings reflect sales for August 2015.
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