Thursday, December 12, 2013

The New York Times Business Bestsellers December 2013



December 8, 2013
This Month    Business Books
1
LEAN IN, by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell. (Knopf.) The chief operating officer of Facebook urges women to pursue their careers without ambivalence. (Also available as a downloadable eBook, a downloadable Audiobook, and as an Audiobook on CD.)
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. (Also available as a downloadable eBook, a downloadable Audiobook, and as an Audiobook on CD.)
3
GROUNDED, by Bob Rosen. (Jossey-Bass.) How leaders can stay rooted and become more self-aware by focusing on six powerful personal forces.
4 * DOT COMPLICATED, by Randi Zuckerberg. (HarperOne/HarperCollins.) Observations on the uses and abuses of social media and technology.
5
EVERYTHING STORE, by Brad Stone. (Little, Brown.) The story of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.
6
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. (Also available as a downloadable Audiobook and as an Audiobook on CD.)
7
EXTORTION, by Peter Schweizer. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.) A Hoover institution fellow argues that politicians shape legislation in order to extract donations.
8
DUCK COMMANDERS, by Willie and Korie Robertson with Mark Schlabach. (Howard Books.) Behind the scenes at the A&E show “Duck Dynasty.”
9 * HATCHING TWITTER, by Nick Bilton. (Portfolio/Penguin.) An account of how Twitter came to be focuses on its four founders.
10
THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown.) How and why certain products and ideas become fads. (Also available as a downloadable eBook, a downloadable Audiobook, and as an Audiobook on CD.)

A version of this Best Sellers report appears in the December 8, 2013 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings on weekly lists reflect sales for the week ending November 23, 2013.

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