| This Month |
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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. (†) |
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| 2 |
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OUTLIERS, by Malcolm
Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown.) Why some people succeed — it has to
do with luck and opportunities as well as talent. |
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| 3 |
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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. |
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| 4 |
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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. |
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THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. (Random House.) A Times reporter’s account of the science behind how we form, and break, habits. |
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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. |
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| 7 |
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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. |
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| 8 |
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#GIRLBOSS, by Sophia Amoruso. (Portfolio/Penguin.) An online fashion retailer traces her path to success. |
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| 9 |
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LEAN IN, by Sheryl
Sandberg with Nell Scovell. (Knopf.) The chief operating officer of
Facebook urges women to pursue their careers without ambivalence.
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| 10 |
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THINK LIKE A FREAK, by
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow/HarperCollins.) How to
solve problems creatively, from the authors of “Freakonomics.”
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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.
