Tuesday, January 19, 2016

NYT Business Best Sellers January 2016



January 17, 2016
This Month    Business
1
THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton.) The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight.
2
EXTREME OWNERSHIP, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. (St. Martin's.) Applying the principles of Navy SEALs leadership training to any organization. (†)
3
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.
4
THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux.) A 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
OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown.) Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent. Originally published in 2008.
7
ABOVE THE LINE, by Urban Meyer with Wayne Coffey. (Penguin Press.) A championship-winning college football coach shares his insights on team building and leadership.
8
WHEN TO ROB A BANK, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow.) Celebrating ten years of “Freakonomics” with a collection of curated economic blog posts from its companion website.
9
#GIRLBOSS, by Sophia Amoruso. (Portfolio/Penguin/Putnam.) An online fashion retailer traces her path to success.
10
EMPIRE OF COTTON, by Sven Beckert. (Vintage.) The history of the fabric and its dominance as a global commodity that drives modern capitalism.
Rankings reflect sales for December 2015.

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