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1 100 to 1 in the Stock Market Thomas Phelps Business & Finance 4 282 50 Shades Darker E.l. James Fiction 1 43 50 Shades Free E.l. James Fiction 1 34 50 Shades Of Gray E.l. James Fiction 2 145 A Few Lessons For Investors And Managers From Warren E. Buffett Peter Bevelin Business & Finance 1 46 A Financial History of Western Europe Charles Kindleberger Business & Finance 1 47 A Good Indian Wife Anne Cherian Fiction 1 18 A History of Financial Crises Charles P. Kindleberger Business & Finance 1 49 A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean Fiction 1 210 A Technique for Producing Ideas James Webb Young Social Science 1 411 A Tour Of The Calculus David Berlinksi Science & Nature 1 312 Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 2 813 All the Devils Are Here Bethany McLean Business & Finance 1 114 An American Spy Olen Steinhauer Fiction 1 315 An Improvised Life Alan Arkin Biography & Memoir 1 216 Andrew Carnegie Joseph Frazier Wall Biography & Memoir 2 817 Angela's Ashes Frank Mccourt Biography & Memoir 1 718 Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Taleb Business & Finance 7 3919 Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google William Poundstone Business & Finance 2 820 Art Of Fielding Chad Harbach Fiction 1 421 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Fiction 11 4622 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Biography & Memoir 1 423 Badass Ben Thompson Fiction 1 724 Bailout Neil Barofsky Business & Finance 3 825 Baruch: My Own Story Bernard Baruch Biography & Memoir 1 326 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Katherine Boo Social Science 1 427 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 3 1328 Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century Burton Richter Social Science 1 329 Biography Of Andrew Jackson Robert Remini History 2 630 Black Friday Alex Kava Fiction 1 231 Blink Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 4 1232 Bloodland Alan Glynn Fiction 1 433 Book of Genesis: A Biography Ronald Hendel Religion 1 134 Boomerang: The Biggest Bust Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 735 Born To Run Christopher Mcdougall Health, Mind, & Body 1 336 Breaking The Maya Code Michael Coe Science & Nature 1 437 Breakthrough Rapid Reading Peter Kump Self-Help 1 738 Bringing Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel History 6 25
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39 Bruce Peter Carlin Biography & Memoir 2 740 Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street From Wall Street and Wall Street from ItselfSheila Bair Business & Finance 1 441 Capitalism and Freedom Milton Friedman Business & Finance 3 1442 Carry The One Carol Anshaw Fiction 1 243 Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Robert Massie Biography & Memoir 1 344 Charles Dickens: A Life Claire Tomalin Biography & Memoir 1 345 China Airborne James Fallows History 2 746 Civilization: The West And The Rest Niall Ferguson History 1 447 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond Social Science 1 248 Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960/2010 Charles Murray History 1 249 Cooperating Rivals Jeffrey Sosland Social Science 1 750 Corporate Catalyst: A Chronicle Of The (mis)management.. Tony Griffiths Business & Finance 1 751 Cracking The Code: Understand And Profit... Jim Mellon Business & Finance 2 452 Currency Wars James Rickards Business & Finance 2 1053 Cutting For Stone Abraham Verghese Fiction 2 1154 Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution Rebecca Stott Social Science 1 355 Days of God: Revolution in Iran James Buchan History 1 256 D-Day: The Battle for Normandy Antony Beevor History 1 757 Debt: The First 5,000 Years David Graeber Business & Finance 2 658 Defending Jacob William Landay Mystery 1 259 Demons of our Own Design Richard Bookstaber Business & Finance 4 1260 Different Youngme Moon Business & Finance 6 1061 Dominion C.J. Sansom Fiction 1 362 Drive Daniel Pink Social Science 2 663 Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics PJ O'Rourke Business & Finance 2 564 Einstein: His Life and Universe Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 1 765 Eisenhower, A Soldiers Life Carlo D'este History 2 466 End Game Frank Brady Biography & Memoir 1 167 Exile on Wall Street Mike Mayo Business & Finance 2 668 Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Satyajit Das Business & Finance 1 769 Fall Of Giants Ken Follett Fiction 1 270 Fitgeralds And Kennedys Doris Kearns Biography & Memoir 1 471 Fooled By Randomness Nassim Taleb Business & Finance 1 272 Fooling Houdini Alex Stone Biography & Memoir 3 973 Fooling Some of the People All of the Time David Einhorn Business & Finance 2 674 Fortune's Formula William Poundstone Business & Finance 1 475 Foundation Isaac Asimov Fiction 1 376 Fountainhead Ayn Rand Fiction 1 7
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77 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everyting Steven Levitt Business & Finance 2 678 Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government Yaron Brook Politics 2 979 Game of Thrones George Martin Fiction 3 1480 Globalization and Its Enemies Daniel Cohen Business & Finance 1 381 Golf's Sacred Journey David Cook Self-Help 1 382 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn Fiction 8 3683 Good to Great Jim Collins Business & Finance 1 184 Hedge Fund Market Wizards Jack Schwager Business & Finance 1 185 Hedgehogging Barton Biggs Business & Finance 1 186 How An Economy Grows And Why It Crashes Peter Schiff Business & Finance 1 187 How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character Paul Tough Social Science 1 388 How Do We Fix This Mess? The Economic Price of Having It All, and the Route to Lasting ProsperityRobert Peston Business & Finance 1 789 How Music Works David Byrne Social Science 1 390 How To Tell What People Are Thinking Peter Collett Social Science 1 491 Hubris: How HBOS Wrecked the Best Bank in Britain Ray Perman Business & Finance 1 492 Human Action: A Treatise on Economics Ludwig von Mises Business & Finance 1 393 Ice Age: How a Change of Climate Made Us Human John Gribbin History 1 494 Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World Evan Thomas History 1 195 Iliad 0 Homer Fiction 1 396 Imagine Johan Lehrer Social Science 2 697 In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic David Wessel Business & Finance 2 1498 In The Garden Of Beasts Erik Larson History 2 1499 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Steven Levy Business & Finance 2 4100 Integrity Henry Cloud Self-Help 1 2101 Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham Business & Finance 1 4102 Intelligent Memory Barry Gordon Self-Help 1 2103 Iron Curtain Anne Applebaum History 1 2104 Jerusalem, Jerusalem James Carroll History 1 3105 Justice Michael Sandel Social Science 1 2106 Killing Lincoln Bill O'reilly History 1 3107 Letter On Corpulence William Banting Health, Mind, & Body 1 3108 Liar's Poker Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 4109 Life of Pi Yann Martel Fiction 2 14110 Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Liaquat Ahamed Business & Finance 4 15111 Margin of Safety Seth Klarman Business & Finance 2 11112 Market Wizards Jack Schwager Business & Finance 1 7113 Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar and the Genius of LeadershipBarry Strauss Biography & Memoir 1 3114 Mastery Robert Greene Social Science 2 8
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115 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris Humor 1 2116 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Fiction 1 7117 Millionaire Janet Gleeson History 1 3118 Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think Brian Wansink Social Science 4 11119 Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don't See Them Coming Gary B. Gorton Business & Finance 1 2120 Mondo Agnelli: Fiat, Chrysler, And The Power Of A Dynasty Jennifer Clark Business & Finance 1 4121 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 7122 Monsoon Robert Kaplan Politics 1 4123 Moonwalking with Einstein Joshua Froer Social Science 3 6124 My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult Fiction 1 1125 Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough Fiction 1 4126 Nemesis Philip Roth Fiction 1 4127 No Easy Day Mark Owen History 5 17128 No Less Than Victory Jeff Shaara Fiction 1 3129 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness Richard Thaler Social Science 8 26130 Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams Charles King History 1 2131 One Last Thing Before I Go Jonathan Tropper Fiction 1 7132 One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way Robert Maurer Biography & Memoir 1 4133 One Up On Wall Street Peter Lynch Business & Finance 1 3134 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 7 28135 Overhaul: An Insider's Account Steven Rattner Business & Finance 1 3136 Paul McCartney: A Life Peter Carlin Biography & Memoir 1 1137 Peddling Prosperity Paul Krugman Business & Finance 2 4138 People Who Eat Darkenss Richard Parry Biography & Memoir 2 8139 Personal History Katherine Graham Biography & Memoir 1 3140 Philosophy: Who Needs It? Ayn Rand Philosophy 1 7141 Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett Fiction 1 1142 Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Supe Chrystia Freeland Social Science 1 4143 Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance Madeleine Albright Biography & Memoir 2 8144 Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption and the Hijacking of AmericaCharles H. Ferguson Social Science 1 7145 Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Ta Susan Cain Social Science 1 2146 Rafa Rafael Nadal Biography & Memoir 1 2147 Raven Stole The Moon Garth Stein Fiction 1 7148 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefevre Business & Finance 1 4149 River Of Doubt Candace Millard Biography & Memoir 1 3150 Screw It - Let's Do It Richard Branson Biography & Memoir 1 3151 Security Analysis Benjamin Graham Business & Finance 1 7152 Sexy Boss Heaher Havenwood Self-Help 1 7
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153 Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government and the Free MarketJanine Wedel Social Science 1 4154 Shantaram Gregory Roberts Fiction 1 1155 Sleeping With Your Smartphone Leslie Perlow Social Science 1 4156 Stabilizing an Unstable Economy Hyman Minsky Business & Finance 1 4157 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 12 80158 Strengths Finder 2.0 Tom Rath Business & Finance 1 4159 Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan Fiction 3 9160 Talent is Overrated Geoff Colvin Social Science 4 9161 Tap Dancing To Work Carol Loomis Business & Finance 4 14162 Team Of Rivals Doris Kearns History 6 30163 Texas James Michner Fiction 1 2164 The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson Fiction 1 4165 The Age of Capital: 1848/1875 Eric Hobsbawm Business & Finance 1 3166 The Age of the Unthinkable Joshua Ramo Social Science 4 12167 The Alpha Master Maneet Ahuja Business & Finance 1 2168 The Art Of Fielding Chad Harbach Fiction 1 1169 The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Stephen Pinker Social Science 9 31170 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis Business & Finance 5 19171 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Nassim Taleb Social Science 1 4172 The Blindside Michael Lewis Social Science 5 29173 The Book Thief Markuz Zooste Fiction 2 11174 The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Atul Gawande Social Science 2 3175 The Collapse of Complex Societies Joseph A. Tainter Social Science 1 4176 The Control Revolution: Tech. & Econ. Origins Of Info. Soc. James Beniger Social Science 1 7177 The Cost of Hope Amanda Bennett Biography & Memoir 2 8178 The Dim Hypothesis: Why The Lights Of The West Are Going Out Leonard Peikoff Philosophy 1 2179 The Dog Stars Peter Heller Fiction 1 3180 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Leonard Mlodinow Social Science 2 4181 The Einstein Of Money Joe Carlen Business & Finance 1 3182 The Emotionally Intelligent Investor Ravee Mehta Business & Finance 1 4183 The Emperor of all Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee Medical 1 3184 The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge Business & Finance 1 4185 The Fountainhead Amity Shlaes History 2 4186 The Grand Slam Mark Frost History 1 7187 The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time Will Durant Social Science 1 4188 The Halo Effect Phil Rosenzweig Business & Finance 2 8189 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood Fiction 1 4190 The Hare With The Amber Eyes Edmund De Waal Fiction 1 7
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191 The Hobbit J.R. Tolken Fiction 5 29192 The Honest Truth About Dishonesty Dan Ariely Social Science 8 32193 The Hydrogen Sonata Iain M. Banks Fiction 1 1194 The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton Christensen Business & Finance 2 7195 The Invisable Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us Christopher Chabris Social Science 2 7196 The Jesuit Guide To (almost) Everything James Martin Religion 1 7197 The Journeyer Gary Jennings Fiction 1 1198 The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan Fiction 1 3199 The Last Lion William Manchester Biography & Memoir 4 14200 The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace H.W. Brands Biography & Memoir 1 7201 The Match Mark Frost History 1 4202 The Most Important Thing Howard Marks Business & Finance 1 7203 The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies Bryan Caplan Social Science 2 11204 The New Depression Richard Duncan Business & Finance 1 3205 The Next Decade George Friedman Social Science 1 3206 The Outpost Jake Tapper History 4 12207 The Pallbearers Stephen Cannell Fiction 5 12208 The Panther Nelson Demille Fiction 1 7209 The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers Richard McGregor History 1 2210 The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Biography & Memoir 14 76211 The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life & Turbulent Times of Joseph Kennedy David Nasaw Biography & Memoir 4 16212 The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins Jeff Connaughton Business & Finance 1 4213 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Fiction 2 6214 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Charles Duhigg Social Science 5 22215 The Power Of One Bryce Courtenay Fiction 1 7216 The Power of Productivity William Lewis Social Science 2 8217 The Prisoner Of Heaven Carolos Ruiz Zafon Fiction 1 7218 The Quest Daniel Yergin Business & Finance 3 12219 The Racketeer John Grisham Fiction 6 33220 The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley Business & Finance 8 22221 The Revenge Of Geography Robert Kaplan History 1 4222 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Jonathan Haidt Social Science 2 10223 The Road to Serfdom Friedrich Hayek Business & Finance 1 2224 The Secret Race Tyler Hamilton Sports & Recreation 1 1225 The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver Social Science 14 71226 The Singapore Story Lee Kuan Yew Biography & Memoir 1 4227 The Social Animal David Brooks Social Science 1 3228 The Social Conquest Of Earth Eo Wilson Science & Nature 1 7
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229 The Storm Margriet De Moor Fiction 1 1230 The Storm Of War Andrew Roberts History 4 28231 The Success Equation Jonathan Gottschall Social Science 2 4232 The Talent Code Daniel Coyle Self-Help 1 3233 The Tao of Pooh Benjamin Hoff Philosophy 1 2234 The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 7 22235 The Tourist Olen Steinhauer Fiction 1 3236 The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce Fiction 1 7237 The Upside of Turbulence Donald Sull Business & Finance 1 4238 The Value Investors Ronald Chan Business & Finance 2 6239 The Virtuous Egoist Tara Smith Philosophy 1 3240 The Visible Hand Alfred Chandler History 1 1241 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson History 1 4242 The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 Dick Couch Biography & Memoir 1 4243 The Willpower Instinct Kelly Mcgonigal Self-Help 1 2244 Thinking About Leadership Nannerl O. Keohane Social Science 1 2245 Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Social Science 13 50246 This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Rogoff & Reinhart Business & Finance 1 7247 Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Jon Meacham Biography & Memoir 5 26248 Thunderdog Michael Hingson Biography & Memoir 1 3249 Thunderstruck Erik Larson History 1 1250 Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How It Got There and Where It Is HeadingJonathan Fenby Social Science 1 7251 Titan Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 7252 Titan: The Life Of John D, Rockefeller, Sr. Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 7253 To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Fiction 1 7254 Today We Are Rich Tim Sanders Business & Finance 1 7255 Too Many Murders Colleen McCullough Fiction 1 7256 Toxic Charity Robert Lupton Social Science 1 2257 Triumphs Of Experience George Vaillant Science & Nature 1 7258 Turning Pro Steven Pressfield Self-Help 1 3259 Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Biography & Memoir 1 2260 Universal Principles Of Design William Lidwell Computer & Technology 1 4261 Unlikely Pilgrimage Ofharoldfr Rachel Joyce Fiction 1 3262 Value Investing James Montier Business & Finance 1 2263 Vanished Kingdoms Norman Davies History 1 7264 Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence William Silber Business & Finance 5 23265 Wait: The Useful Art of Procrastination Frank Partnoy Social Science 1 4266 Washington: A Life Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 4
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267 We Are Animals Justin Torres Fiction 1 7268 Wealth, War, And Wisdom Barton Biggs Business & Finance 1 4269 What Is The What Dave Eggers Biography & Memoir 1 2270 What Technology Wants Kevin Kelly Computer & Technology 1 7271 What Works On Wall Street James O'shaughnessy Business & Finance 1 1272 Wheat Belly William Davis Health, Mind, & Body 1 3273 Where'd You Go, Bernadette? Maria Semple Fiction 1 4274 Who I Am Pete Townshend Biography & Memoir 1 4275 Why England Slept John Kennedy History 1 2276 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty Daron Acemoglu Business & Finance 5 28277 Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing Charles Ellis Social Science 1 7278 You Were Never In Chicago Neil Steinberg History 1 4279 Younger Next Year Chris Crowley Health, Mind, & Body 1 1280 Your Brain at Work David Rock Social Science 1 4281 You're Not You Michelle Wildgen Fiction 1 7
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1 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty Daron Acemoglu Business & Finance 5 282 Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Liaquat Ahamed Business & Finance 4 153 The Alpha Master Maneet Ahuja Business & Finance 1 24 Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance Madeleine Albright Biography & Memoir 2 85 Carry The One Carol Anshaw Fiction 1 26 Iron Curtain Anne Applebaum History 1 27 The Honest Truth About Dishonesty Dan Ariely Social Science 8 328 An Improvised Life Alan Arkin Biography & Memoir 1 29 Foundation Isaac Asimov Fiction 1 310 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood Fiction 1 411 Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street From Wall Street and Wall Street from ItselfSheila Bair Business & Finance 1 412 The Hydrogen Sonata Iain M. Banks Fiction 1 113 Letter On Corpulence William Banting Health, Mind, & Body 1 314 Bailout Neil Barofsky Business & Finance 3 815 Baruch: My Own Story Bernard Baruch Biography & Memoir 1 316 D-Day: The Battle for Normandy Antony Beevor History 1 717 The Control Revolution: Tech. & Econ. Origins Of Info. Soc. James Beniger Social Science 1 718 The Cost of Hope Amanda Bennett Biography & Memoir 2 819 A Tour Of The Calculus David Berlinksi Science & Nature 1 320 A Few Lessons For Investors And Managers From Warren E. Buffett Peter Bevelin Business & Finance 1 421 Hedgehogging Barton Biggs Business & Finance 1 122 Wealth, War, And Wisdom Barton Biggs Business & Finance 1 423 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Katherine Boo Social Science 1 424 Demons of our Own Design Richard Bookstaber Business & Finance 4 1225 End Game Frank Brady Biography & Memoir 1 126 The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace H.W. Brands Biography & Memoir 1 727 Screw It - Let's Do It Richard Branson Biography & Memoir 1 328 Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government Yaron Brook Politics 2 929 The Social Animal David Brooks Social Science 1 330 Days of God: Revolution in Iran James Buchan History 1 231 How Music Works David Byrne Social Science 1 332 Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Ta Susan Cain Social Science 1 233 The Pallbearers Stephen Cannell Fiction 5 1234 The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies Bryan Caplan Social Science 2 1135 The Einstein Of Money Joe Carlen Business & Finance 1 336 Bruce Peter Carlin Biography & Memoir 2 737 Paul McCartney: A Life Peter Carlin Biography & Memoir 1 138 The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Biography & Memoir 14 76
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39 Jerusalem, Jerusalem James Carroll History 1 340 The Invisable Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us Christopher Chabris Social Science 2 741 The Value Investors Ronald Chan Business & Finance 2 642 The Visible Hand Alfred Chandler History 1 143 A Good Indian Wife Anne Cherian Fiction 1 144 Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 2 845 Titan Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 746 Titan: The Life Of John D, Rockefeller, Sr. Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 747 Washington: A Life Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 448 The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton Christensen Business & Finance 2 749 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Robert Cialdini Social Science 3 1450 Mondo Agnelli: Fiat, Chrysler, And The Power Of A Dynasty Jennifer Clark Business & Finance 1 451 Integrity Henry Cloud Self-Help 2 452 Globalization and Its Enemies Daniel Cohen Business & Finance 1 353 How To Tell What People Are Thinking Peter Collett Social Science 1 454 Good to Great Jim Collins Business & Finance 1 155 Talent is Overrated Geoff Colvin Social Science 4 956 The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins Jeff Connaughton Business & Finance 1 457 Golf's Sacred Journey David Cook Self-Help 1 358 The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 Dick Couch Biography & Memoir 1 459 The Power Of One Bryce Courtenay Fiction 1 760 The Talent Code Daniel Coyle Self-Help 1 361 Younger Next Year Chris Crowley Health, Mind, & Body 1 162 Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Satyajit Das Business & Finance 1 763 Vanished Kingdoms Norman Davies History 1 764 Wheat Belly William Davis Health, Mind, & Body 1 365 The Storm Margriet De Moor Fiction 1 166 The Hare With The Amber Eyes Edmund De Waal Fiction 1 767 The Panther Nelson Demille Fiction 1 768 Eisenhower, A Soldiers Life Carlo D'este History 2 469 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond Social Science 1 270 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Charles Duhigg Social Science 5 2271 The New Depression Richard Duncan Business & Finance 1 372 The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time Will Durant Social Science 1 473 What Is The What Dave Eggers Biography & Memoir 1 274 Fooling Some of the People All of the Time David Einhorn Business & Finance 2 675 Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing Charles Ellis Social Science 1 776 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Fiction 1 7
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77 China Airborne James Fallows History 2 778 Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How It Got There and Where It Is HeadingJonathan Fenby Social Science 1 779 Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption and the Hijacking of AmericaCharles H. Ferguson Social Science 1 780 Civilization: The West And The Rest Niall Ferguson History 1 481 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn Fiction 8 3682 Fall Of Giants Ken Follett Fiction 1 283 Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett Fiction 1 184 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Biography & Memoir 1 485 Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Supe Chrystia Freeland Social Science 1 486 The Next Decade George Friedman Social Science 1 387 Capitalism and Freedom Milton Friedman Business & Finance 3 1488 Moonwalking with Einstein Joshua Froer Social Science 3 689 The Grand Slam Mark Frost History 1 790 The Match Mark Frost History 1 491 The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Atul Gawande Social Science 2 392 Blink Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 4 1293 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 7 2894 The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 7 2295 Millionaire Janet Gleeson History 1 396 Bloodland Alan Glynn Fiction 1 497 Intelligent Memory Barry Gordon Self-Help 1 298 Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don't See Them Coming Gary B. Gorton Business & Finance 1 299 Debt: The First 5,000 Years Jonathan Gottschall Social Science 2 4100 Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham Business & Finance 1 4101 Security Analysis Benjamin Graham Business & Finance 1 7102 Personal History Katherine Graham Biography & Memoir 1 3103 Mastery Robert Greene Social Science 2 8104 Ice Age: How a Change of Climate Made Us Human John Gribbin History 1 4105 Corporate Catalyst: A Chronicle Of The (mis)management.. Tony Griffiths Business & Finance 1 7106 The Racketeer John Grisham Fiction 6 33107 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Jonathan Haidt Social Science 2 10108 The Secret Race Tyler Hamilton Sports & Recreation 1 1109 Art Of Fielding Chad Harbach Fiction 1 4110 The Art Of Fielding Chad Harbach Fiction 1 1111 Sexy Boss Heaher Havenwood Self-Help 1 7112 The Road to Serfdom Friedrich Hayek Business & Finance 1 2113 The Dog Stars Peter Heller Fiction 1 3114 Book of Genesis: A Biography Ronald Hendel Religion 1 1
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115 Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Biography & Memoir 1 2116 Thunderdog Michael Hingson Biography & Memoir 1 3117 The Age of Capital: 1848/1875 Eric Hobsbawm Business & Finance 1 3118 The Tao of Pooh Benjamin Hoff Philosophy 1 2119 Iliad 0 Homer Fiction 1 3120 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 3 13121 Einstein: His Life and Universe Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 1 7122 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 12 80123 50 Shades Darker E.l. James Fiction 1 4124 50 Shades Free E.l. James Fiction 1 3125 50 Shades Of Gray E.l. James Fiction 2 14126 The Journeyer Gary Jennings Fiction 1 1127 The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson Fiction 1 4128 The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce Fiction 1 7129 Unlikely Pilgrimage Ofharoldfr Rachel Joyce Fiction 1 3130 Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Social Science 13 50131 Monsoon Robert Kaplan Politics 1 4132 The Revenge Of Geography Robert Kaplan History 1 4133 Black Friday Alex Kava Fiction 1 2134 Fitgeralds And Kennedys Doris Kearns Biography & Memoir 1 4135 Team Of Rivals Doris Kearns History 6 30136 What Technology Wants Kevin Kelly Computer & Technology 1 7137 Why England Slept John Kennedy History 1 2138 Thinking About Leadership Nannerl O. Keohane Social Science 1 2139 A Financial History of Western Europe Charles Kindleberger Business & Finance 1 4140 A History of Financial Crises Charles P. Kindleberger Business & Finance 1 4141 Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams Charles King History 1 2142 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Fiction 2 6143 Margin of Safety Seth Klarman Business & Finance 2 11144 Peddling Prosperity Paul Krugman Business & Finance 2 4145 Breakthrough Rapid Reading Peter Kump Self-Help 1 7146 Defending Jacob William Landay Mystery 1 2147 In The Garden Of Beasts Erik Larson History 2 14148 Thunderstruck Erik Larson History 1 1149 To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Fiction 1 7150 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefevre Business & Finance 1 4151 Imagine Johan Lehrer Social Science 2 6152 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everyting Steven Levitt Business & Finance 2 6
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153 In The Plex Steven Levy Business & Finance 1 2154 Boomerang: The Biggest Bust Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 7155 Liar's Poker Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 4156 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 7157 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis Business & Finance 5 19158 The Blindside Michael Lewis Social Science 5 29159 The Power of Productivity William Lewis Social Science 2 8160 Universal Principles Of Design William Lidwell Computer & Technology 1 4161 Tap Dancing To Work Carol Loomis Business & Finance 4 14162 Toxic Charity Robert Lupton Social Science 1 2163 One Up On Wall Street Peter Lynch Business & Finance 1 3164 A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean Fiction 1 2165 The Last Lion William Manchester Biography & Memoir 4 14166 Bringing Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel History 6 25167 The Most Important Thing Howard Marks Business & Finance 1 7168 Life of Pi Yann Martel Fiction 2 14169 Game of Thrones George Martin Fiction 3 14170 The Jesuit Guide To (almost) Everything James Martin Religion 1 7171 Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Robert Massie Biography & Memoir 1 3172 The Success Equation Michael Mauboussin Business & Finance 1 1173 One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way Robert Maurer Biography & Memoir 1 4174 Exile on Wall Street Mike Mayo Business & Finance 2 6175 Angela's Ashes Frank Mccourt Biography & Memoir 1 7176 Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough Fiction 1 4177 Too Many Murders Colleen McCullough Fiction 1 7178 Born To Run Christopher Mcdougall Health, Mind, & Body 1 3179 Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan Fiction 3 9180 The Willpower Instinct Kelly Mcgonigal Self-Help 1 2181 The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers Richard McGregor History 1 2182 All the Devils Are Here Bethany McLean Business & Finance 1 1183 Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Jon Meacham Biography & Memoir 5 26184 The Emotionally Intelligent Investor Ravee Mehta Business & Finance 1 4185 Cracking The Code: Understand And Profit... Jim Mellon Business & Finance 2 4186 Texas James Michner Fiction 1 2187 River Of Doubt Candace Millard Biography & Memoir 1 3188 Stabilizing an Unstable Economy Hyman Minsky Business & Finance 1 4189 Human Action: A Treatise on Economics Ludwig von Mises Business & Finance 1 3190 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Leonard Mlodinow Social Science 2 4
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191 Value Investing James Montier Business & Finance 1 2192 Different Youngme Moon Business & Finance 6 10193 The Emperor of all Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee Medical 1 3194 Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960/2010 Charles Murray History 1 2195 Rafa Rafael Nadal Biography & Memoir 1 2196 The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life & Turbulent Times of Joseph Kennedy David Nasaw Biography & Memoir 4 16197 Killing Lincoln Bill O'reilly History 1 3198 Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics PJ O'Rourke Business & Finance 2 5199 What Works On Wall Street James O'shaughnessy Business & Finance 1 1200 No Easy Day Mark Owen History 5 17201 People Who Eat Darkenss Richard Parry Biography & Memoir 2 8202 Wait: The Useful Art of Procrastination Frank Partnoy Social Science 1 4203 The Dim Hypothesis: Why The Lights Of The West Are Going Out Leonard Peikoff Philosophy 1 2204 Sleeping With Your Smartphone Leslie Perlow Social Science 1 4205 Hubris: How HBOS Wrecked the Best Bank in Britain Ray Perman Business & Finance 1 4206 How Do We Fix This Mess? The Economic Price of Having It All, and the Route to Lasting ProsperityRobert Peston Business & Finance 1 7207 100 to 1 in the Stock Market Thomas Phelps Business & Finance 4 28208 My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult Fiction 1 1209 Drive Daniel Pink Social Science 2 6210 The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Stephen Pinker Social Science 9 31211 Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google William Poundstone Business & Finance 2 8212 Fortune's Formula William Poundstone Business & Finance 1 4213 Turning Pro Steven Pressfield Self-Help 1 3214 The Age of the Unthinkable Joshua Ramo Social Science 4 12215 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Fiction 11 46216 Fountainhead Ayn Rand Fiction 1 7217 Philosophy: Who Needs It? Ayn Rand Philosophy 1 7218 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand Politics 1 7219 Strengths Finder 2.0 Tom Rath Business & Finance 1 4220 Overhaul: An Insider's Account Steven Rattner Business & Finance 1 3221 This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Rogoff & Reinhart Business & Finance 1 7222 Biography Of Andrew Jackson Robert Remini History 2 6223 Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century Burton Richter Social Science 1 3224 Currency Wars James Rickards Business & Finance 2 10225 The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley Business & Finance 8 22226 The Storm Of War Andrew Roberts History 4 28227 Shantaram Gregory Roberts Fiction 1 1228 Your Brain at Work David Rock Social Science 1 4
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229 The Halo Effect Phil Rosenzweig Business & Finance 2 8230 Nemesis Philip Roth Fiction 1 4231 Justice Carolos Ruiz Zafon Fiction 2 4232 Today We Are Rich Tim Sanders Business & Finance 1 7233 Dominion C.J. Sansom Fiction 1 3234 How An Economy Grows And Why It Crashes Peter Schiff Business & Finance 1 1235 Hedge Fund Market Wizards Jack Schwager Business & Finance 1 1236 Market Wizards Jack Schwager Business & Finance 1 7237 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris Humor 1 2238 Where'd You Go, Bernadette? Maria Semple Fiction 1 4239 The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge Business & Finance 1 4240 No Less Than Victory Jeff Shaara Fiction 1 3241 The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression Amity Shlaes History 2 14242 Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence William Silber Business & Finance 5 23243 The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver Social Science 14 71244 The Virtuous Egoist Tara Smith Philosophy 1 3245 Cooperating Rivals Jeffrey Sosland Social Science 1 7246 Raven Stole The Moon Garth Stein Fiction 1 7247 You Were Never In Chicago Neil Steinberg History 1 4248 An American Spy Olen Steinhauer Fiction 1 3249 The Tourist Olen Steinhauer Fiction 1 3250 Fooling Houdini Alex Stone Biography & Memoir 3 9251 Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution Rebecca Stott Social Science 1 3252 Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar and the Genius of LeadershipBarry Strauss Biography & Memoir 1 3253 The Upside of Turbulence Donald Sull Business & Finance 1 4254 The Collapse of Complex Societies Joseph A. Tainter Social Science 1 4255 Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Taleb Business & Finance 7 39256 Fooled By Randomness Nassim Taleb Business & Finance 1 2257 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Nassim Taleb Social Science 1 4258 The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan Fiction 1 3259 The Outpost Jake Tapper History 4 12260 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness Richard Thaler Social Science 8 26261 Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World Evan Thomas History 1 1262 Badass Ben Thompson Fiction 1 7263 The Hobbit J.R. Tolken Fiction 5 29264 Charles Dickens: A Life Claire Tomalin Biography & Memoir 1 3265 We Are Animals Justin Torres Fiction 1 7266 How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character Paul Tough Social Science 1 3
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267 Who I Am Pete Townshend Biography & Memoir 1 4268 One Last Thing Before I Go Jonathan Tropper Fiction 1 7269 Triumphs Of Experience George Vaillant Science & Nature 1 7270 Cutting For Stone Abraham Verghese Fiction 2 11271 Andrew Carnegie Joseph Frazier Wall Biography & Memoir 2 8272 Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think Brian Wansink Social Science 4 11273 Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government and the Free MarketJanine Wedel Social Science 1 4274 In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic David Wessel Business & Finance 2 14275 You're Not You Michelle Wildgen Fiction 1 7276 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson History 1 4277 The Social Conquest Of Earth Eo Wilson Science & Nature 1 7278 The Quest Daniel Yergin Business & Finance 3 12279 The Singapore Story Lee Kuan Yew Biography & Memoir 1 4280 A Technique for Producing Ideas James Webb Young Social Science 1 4281 The Book Thief Markuz Zooste Fiction 2 11
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1 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 12 802 The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Biography & Memoir 14 763 The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver Social Science 14 714 Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Social Science 13 505 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Fiction 11 466 Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Taleb Business & Finance 7 397 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn Fiction 8 368 The Racketeer John Grisham Fiction 6 339 The Honest Truth About Dishonesty Dan Ariely Social Science 8 3210 The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Stephen Pinker Social Science 9 3111 Team Of Rivals Doris Kearns History 6 3012 The Blindside Michael Lewis Social Science 5 2913 The Hobbit J.R. Tolken Fiction 5 2914 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 7 2815 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty Daron Acemoglu Business & Finance 5 2816 100 to 1 in the Stock Market Thomas Phelps Business & Finance 4 2817 The Storm Of War Andrew Roberts History 4 2818 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness Richard Thaler Social Science 8 2619 Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Jon Meacham Biography & Memoir 5 2620 Bringing Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel History 6 2521 Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence William Silber Business & Finance 5 2322 The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley Business & Finance 8 2223 The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 7 2224 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Charles Duhigg Social Science 5 2225 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis Business & Finance 5 1926 No Easy Day Mark Owen History 5 1727 The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life & Turbulent Times of Joseph Kennedy David Nasaw Biography & Memoir 4 1628 Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Liaquat Ahamed Business & Finance 4 1529 Tap Dancing To Work Carol Loomis Business & Finance 4 1430 The Last Lion William Manchester Biography & Memoir 4 1431 Capitalism and Freedom Milton Friedman Business & Finance 3 1432 Game of Thrones George Martin Fiction 3 1433 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Robert Cialdini Social Science 3 1434 50 Shades Of Gray E.l. James Fiction 2 1435 In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic David Wessel Business & Finance 2 1436 In The Garden Of Beasts Erik Larson History 2 1437 Life of Pi Yann Martel Fiction 2 1438 The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression Amity Shlaes History 2 14
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39 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 3 1340 The Pallbearers Stephen Cannell Fiction 5 1241 Blink Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 4 1242 Demons of our Own Design Richard Bookstaber Business & Finance 4 1243 The Age of the Unthinkable Joshua Ramo Social Science 4 1244 The Outpost Jake Tapper History 4 1245 The Quest Daniel Yergin Business & Finance 3 1246 Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think Brian Wansink Social Science 4 1147 Cutting For Stone Abraham Verghese Fiction 2 1148 Margin of Safety Seth Klarman Business & Finance 2 1149 The Book Thief Markuz Zooste Fiction 2 1150 The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies Bryan Caplan Social Science 2 1151 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Jonathan Haidt Social Science 2 1052 Talent is Overrated Geoff Colvin Social Science 4 953 Fooling Houdini Alex Stone Biography & Memoir 3 954 Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan Fiction 3 955 Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government Yaron Brook Politics 2 956 Bailout Neil Barofsky Business & Finance 3 857 Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 2 858 Andrew Carnegie Joseph Frazier Wall Biography & Memoir 2 859 Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google William Poundstone Business & Finance 2 860 Mastery Robert Greene Social Science 2 861 People Who Eat Darkenss Richard Parry Biography & Memoir 2 862 Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance Madeleine Albright Biography & Memoir 2 863 The Cost of Hope Amanda Bennett Biography & Memoir 2 864 The Halo Effect Phil Rosenzweig Business & Finance 2 865 The Power of Productivity William Lewis Social Science 2 866 Bruce Peter Carlin Biography & Memoir 2 767 China Airborne James Fallows History 2 768 The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton Christensen Business & Finance 2 769 The Invisable Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us Christopher Chabris Social Science 2 770 Angela's Ashes Frank Mccourt Biography & Memoir 1 771 Badass Ben Thompson Fiction 1 772 Boomerang: The Biggest Bust Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 773 Breakthrough Rapid Reading Peter Kump Self-Help 1 774 Cooperating Rivals Jeffrey Sosland Social Science 1 775 Corporate Catalyst: A Chronicle Of The (mis)management.. Tony Griffiths Business & Finance 1 776 D-Day: The Battle for Normandy Antony Beevor History 1 7
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77 Einstein: His Life and Universe Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 1 778 Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Satyajit Das Business & Finance 1 779 Fountainhead Ayn Rand Fiction 1 780 How Do We Fix This Mess? The Economic Price of Having It All, and the Route to Lasting ProsperityRobert Peston Business & Finance 1 781 Market Wizards Jack Schwager Business & Finance 1 782 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Fiction 1 783 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 784 One Last Thing Before I Go Jonathan Tropper Fiction 1 785 Philosophy: Who Needs It? Ayn Rand Philosophy 1 786 Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption and the Hijacking of AmericaCharles H. Ferguson Social Science 1 787 Raven Stole The Moon Garth Stein Fiction 1 788 Security Analysis Benjamin Graham Business & Finance 1 789 Sexy Boss Heaher Havenwood Self-Help 1 790 The Control Revolution: Tech. & Econ. Origins Of Info. Soc. James Beniger Social Science 1 791 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand Politics 1 792 The Grand Slam Mark Frost History 1 793 The Hare With The Amber Eyes Edmund De Waal Fiction 1 794 The Jesuit Guide To (almost) Everything James Martin Religion 1 795 The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace H.W. Brands Biography & Memoir 1 796 The Most Important Thing Howard Marks Business & Finance 1 797 The Panther Nelson Demille Fiction 1 798 The Social Conquest Of Earth Eo Wilson Science & Nature 1 799 The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce Fiction 1 7100 This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Rogoff & Reinhart Business & Finance 1 7101 Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How It Got There and Where It Is HeadingJonathan Fenby Social Science 1 7102 Titan Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 7103 Titan: The Life Of John D, Rockefeller, Sr. Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 7104 To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Fiction 1 7105 Today We Are Rich Tim Sanders Business & Finance 1 7106 Too Many Murders Colleen McCullough Fiction 1 7107 Triumphs Of Experience George Vaillant Science & Nature 1 7108 Vanished Kingdoms Norman Davies History 1 7109 We Are Animals Justin Torres Fiction 1 7110 What Technology Wants Kevin Kelly Computer & Technology 1 7111 Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing Charles Ellis Social Science 1 7112 You're Not You Michelle Wildgen Fiction 1 7113 Moonwalking with Einstein Joshua Froer Social Science 3 6114 Biography Of Andrew Jackson Robert Remini History 2 6
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115 Debt: The First 5,000 Years David Graeber Business & Finance 2 6116 Drive Daniel Pink Social Science 2 6117 Exile on Wall Street Mike Mayo Business & Finance 2 6118 Fooling Some of the People All of the Time David Einhorn Business & Finance 2 6119 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everyting Steven Levitt Business & Finance 2 6120 Imagine Johan Lehrer Social Science 2 6121 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Fiction 2 6122 The Value Investors Ronald Chan Business & Finance 2 6123 Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics PJ O'Rourke Business & Finance 2 5124 Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century Bernard Baruch Biography & Memoir 2 4125 Cracking The Code: Understand And Profit... Jim Mellon Business & Finance 2 4126 Different Youngme Moon Business & Finance 2 4127 Eisenhower, A Soldiers Life Carlo D'este History 2 4128 Peddling Prosperity Paul Krugman Business & Finance 2 4129 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Leonard Mlodinow Social Science 2 4130 The Prisoner Of Heaven Bryce Courtenay Fiction 2 4131 50 Shades Darker E.l. James Fiction 1 4132 A Few Lessons For Investors And Managers From Warren E. Buffett Peter Bevelin Business & Finance 1 4133 A Financial History of Western Europe Charles Kindleberger Business & Finance 1 4134 A History of Financial Crises Charles P. Kindleberger Business & Finance 1 4135 A Technique for Producing Ideas James Webb Young Social Science 1 4136 Art Of Fielding Chad Harbach Fiction 1 4137 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Biography & Memoir 1 4138 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Katherine Boo Social Science 1 4139 Bloodland Alan Glynn Fiction 1 4140 Breaking The Maya Code Michael Coe Science & Nature 1 4141 Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street From Wall Street and Wall Street from ItselfSheila Bair Business & Finance 1 4142 Civilization: The West And The Rest Niall Ferguson History 1 4143 Fitgeralds And Kennedys Doris Kearns Biography & Memoir 1 4144 Fortune's Formula William Poundstone Business & Finance 1 4145 How To Tell What People Are Thinking Peter Collett Social Science 1 4146 Hubris: How HBOS Wrecked the Best Bank in Britain Ray Perman Business & Finance 1 4147 Ice Age: How a Change of Climate Made Us Human John Gribbin History 1 4148 Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham Business & Finance 1 4149 Liar's Poker Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 4150 Mondo Agnelli: Fiat, Chrysler, And The Power Of A Dynasty Jennifer Clark Business & Finance 1 4151 Monsoon Robert Kaplan Politics 1 4152 Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough Fiction 1 4
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153 Nemesis Philip Roth Fiction 1 4154 One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way Robert Maurer Biography & Memoir 1 4155 Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Supe Chrystia Freeland Social Science 1 4156 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefevre Business & Finance 1 4157 Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government and the Free MarketJanine Wedel Social Science 1 4158 Sleeping With Your Smartphone Leslie Perlow Social Science 1 4159 Stabilizing an Unstable Economy Hyman Minsky Business & Finance 1 4160 Strengths Finder 2.0 Tom Rath Business & Finance 1 4161 The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson Fiction 1 4162 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Nassim Taleb Social Science 1 4163 The Collapse of Complex Societies Joseph A. Tainter Social Science 1 4164 The Emotionally Intelligent Investor Ravee Mehta Business & Finance 1 4165 The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge Business & Finance 1 4166 The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time Will Durant Social Science 1 4167 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood Fiction 1 4168 The Match Mark Frost History 1 4169 The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins Jeff Connaughton Business & Finance 1 4170 The Revenge Of Geography Robert Kaplan History 1 4171 The Singapore Story Lee Kuan Yew Biography & Memoir 1 4172 The Upside of Turbulence Donald Sull Business & Finance 1 4173 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson History 1 4174 The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 Dick Couch Biography & Memoir 1 4175 Universal Principles Of Design William Lidwell Computer & Technology 1 4176 Wait: The Useful Art of Procrastination Frank Partnoy Social Science 1 4177 Washington: A Life Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 4178 Wealth, War, And Wisdom Barton Biggs Business & Finance 1 4179 Where'd You Go, Bernadette? Maria Semple Fiction 1 4180 Who I Am Pete Townshend Biography & Memoir 1 4181 You Were Never In Chicago Neil Steinberg History 1 4182 Your Brain at Work David Rock Social Science 1 4183 The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Atul Gawande Social Science 2 3184 50 Shades Free E.l. James Fiction 1 3185 A Tour Of The Calculus David Berlinksi Science & Nature 1 3186 An American Spy Olen Steinhauer Fiction 1 3187 Born To Run Christopher Mcdougall Health, Mind, & Body 1 3188 Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Robert Massie Biography & Memoir 1 3189 Charles Dickens: A Life Claire Tomalin Biography & Memoir 1 3190 Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution Rebecca Stott Social Science 1 3
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191 Dominion C.J. Sansom Fiction 1 3192 Foundation Isaac Asimov Fiction 1 3193 Globalization and Its Enemies Daniel Cohen Business & Finance 1 3194 Golf's Sacred Journey David Cook Self-Help 1 3195 How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character Paul Tough Social Science 1 3196 How Music Works David Byrne Social Science 1 3197 Human Action: A Treatise on Economics Ludwig von Mises Business & Finance 1 3198 Iliad 0 Homer Fiction 1 3199 Jerusalem, Jerusalem James Carroll History 1 3200 Killing Lincoln Bill O'reilly History 1 3201 Letter On Corpulence William Banting Health, Mind, & Body 1 3202 Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar and the Genius of LeadershipBarry Strauss Biography & Memoir 1 3203 Millionaire Janet Gleeson History 1 3204 No Less Than Victory Jeff Shaara Fiction 1 3205 One Up On Wall Street Peter Lynch Business & Finance 1 3206 Overhaul: An Insider's Account Steven Rattner Business & Finance 1 3207 Personal History Katherine Graham Biography & Memoir 1 3208 River Of Doubt Candace Millard Biography & Memoir 1 3209 Screw It - Let's Do It Richard Branson Biography & Memoir 1 3210 The Age of Capital: 1848/1875 Eric Hobsbawm Business & Finance 1 3211 The Dog Stars Peter Heller Fiction 1 3212 The Einstein Of Money Joe Carlen Business & Finance 1 3213 The Emperor of all Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee Medical 1 3214 The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan Fiction 1 3215 The New Depression Richard Duncan Business & Finance 1 3216 The Next Decade George Friedman Social Science 1 3217 The Social Animal David Brooks Social Science 1 3218 The Storytelling Animal Jonathan Gottschall Social Science 1 3219 The Talent Code Daniel Coyle Self-Help 1 3220 The Tourist Olen Steinhauer Fiction 1 3221 The Virtuous Egoist Tara Smith Philosophy 1 3222 Thunderdog Michael Hingson Biography & Memoir 1 3223 Turning Pro Steven Pressfield Self-Help 1 3224 Unlikely Pilgrimage Ofharoldfr Rachel Joyce Fiction 1 3225 Wheat Belly William Davis Health, Mind, & Body 1 3226 A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean Fiction 1 2227 An Improvised Life Alan Arkin Biography & Memoir 1 2228 Black Friday Alex Kava Fiction 1 2
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229 Carry The One Carol Anshaw Fiction 1 2230 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond Social Science 1 2231 Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960/2010 Charles Murray History 1 2232 Days of God: Revolution in Iran James Buchan History 1 2233 Defending Jacob William Landay Mystery 1 2234 Fall Of Giants Ken Follett Fiction 1 2235 Fooled By Randomness Nassim Taleb Business & Finance 1 2236 In The Plex Steven Levy Business & Finance 1 2237 Integrity Henry Cloud Self-Help 1 2238 Intelligent Memory Barry Gordon Self-Help 1 2239 Iron Curtain Anne Applebaum History 1 2240 Justice Michael Sandel Social Science 1 2241 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris Humor 1 2242 Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don't See Them Coming Gary B. Gorton Business & Finance 1 2243 Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams Charles King History 1 2244 Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Ta Susan Cain Social Science 1 2245 Rafa Rafael Nadal Biography & Memoir 1 2246 Texas James Michner Fiction 1 2247 The Alpha Master Maneet Ahuja Business & Finance 1 2248 The Dim Hypothesis: Why The Lights Of The West Are Going Out Leonard Peikoff Philosophy 1 2249 The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers Richard McGregor History 1 2250 The Road to Serfdom Friedrich Hayek Business & Finance 1 2251 The Tao of Pooh Benjamin Hoff Philosophy 1 2252 The Willpower Instinct Kelly Mcgonigal Self-Help 1 2253 Thinking About Leadership Nannerl O. Keohane Social Science 1 2254 Toxic Charity Robert Lupton Social Science 1 2255 Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Biography & Memoir 1 2256 Value Investing James Montier Business & Finance 1 2257 What Is The What Dave Eggers Biography & Memoir 1 2258 Why England Slept John Kennedy History 1 2259 A Good Indian Wife Anne Cherian Fiction 1 1260 All the Devils Are Here Bethany McLean Business & Finance 1 1261 Book of Genesis: A Biography Ronald Hendel Religion 1 1262 End Game Frank Brady Biography & Memoir 1 1263 Good to Great Jim Collins Business & Finance 1 1264 Hedge Fund Market Wizards Jack Schwager Business & Finance 1 1265 Hedgehogging Barton Biggs Business & Finance 1 1266 How An Economy Grows And Why It Crashes Peter Schiff Business & Finance 1 1
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267 Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World Evan Thomas History 1 1268 My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult Fiction 1 1269 Paul McCartney: A Life Peter Carlin Biography & Memoir 1 1270 Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett Fiction 1 1271 Shantaram Gregory Roberts Fiction 1 1272 The Art Of Fielding Chad Harbach Fiction 1 1273 The Hydrogen Sonata Iain M. Banks Fiction 1 1274 The Journeyer Gary Jennings Fiction 1 1275 The Secret Race Tyler Hamilton Sports & Recreation 1 1276 The Storm Margriet De Moor Fiction 1 1277 The Success Equation Michael Mauboussin Business & Finance 1 1278 The Visible Hand Alfred Chandler History 1 1279 Thunderstruck Erik Larson History 1 1280 What Works On Wall Street James O'shaughnessy Business & Finance 1 1281 Younger Next Year Chris Crowley Health, Mind, & Body 1 1
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1 The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Biography & Memoir 14 762 The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver Social Science 14 713 Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Social Science 13 504 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 12 805 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Fiction 11 466 The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Stephen Pinker Social Science 9 317 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn Fiction 8 368 The Honest Truth About Dishonesty Dan Ariely Social Science 8 329 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness Richard Thaler Social Science 8 2610 The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley Business & Finance 8 2211 Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Taleb Business & Finance 7 3912 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 7 2813 The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 7 2214 The Racketeer John Grisham Fiction 6 3315 Team Of Rivals Doris Kearns History 6 3016 Bringing Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel History 6 2517 Different Youngme Moon Business & Finance 6 1018 The Blindside Michael Lewis Social Science 5 2919 The Hobbit J.R. Tolken Fiction 5 2920 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty Daron Acemoglu Business & Finance 5 2821 Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Jon Meacham Biography & Memoir 5 2622 Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence William Silber Business & Finance 5 2323 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Charles Duhigg Social Science 5 2224 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis Business & Finance 5 1925 No Easy Day Mark Owen History 5 1726 The Pallbearers Stephen Cannell Fiction 5 1227 100 to 1 in the Stock Market Thomas Phelps Business & Finance 4 2828 The Storm Of War Andrew Roberts History 4 2829 The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life & Turbulent Times of Joseph Kennedy David Nasaw Biography & Memoir 4 1630 Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Liaquat Ahamed Business & Finance 4 1531 Tap Dancing To Work Carol Loomis Business & Finance 4 1432 The Last Lion William Manchester Biography & Memoir 4 1433 Blink Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 4 1234 Demons of our Own Design Richard Bookstaber Business & Finance 4 1235 The Age of the Unthinkable Joshua Ramo Social Science 4 1236 The Outpost Jake Tapper History 4 1237 Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think Brian Wansink Social Science 4 1138 Talent is Overrated Geoff Colvin Social Science 4 9
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39 Capitalism and Freedom Milton Friedman Business & Finance 3 1440 Game of Thrones George Martin Fiction 3 1441 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Robert Cialdini Social Science 3 1442 Benjamin Franklin Walter Isaacson History 3 1343 The Quest Daniel Yergin Business & Finance 3 1244 Fooling Houdini Alex Stone Biography & Memoir 3 945 Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan Fiction 3 946 Bailout Neil Barofsky Business & Finance 3 847 Moonwalking with Einstein Joshua Froer Social Science 3 648 50 Shades Of Gray E.l. James Fiction 2 1449 In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic David Wessel Business & Finance 2 1450 In The Garden Of Beasts Erik Larson History 2 1451 Cutting For Stone Abraham Verghese Fiction 2 1152 Margin of Safety Seth Klarman Business & Finance 2 1153 The Book Thief Markuz Zooste Fiction 2 1154 The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies Bryan Caplan Social Science 2 1155 Currency Wars James Rickards Business & Finance 2 1056 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Jonathan Haidt Social Science 2 1057 Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government Yaron Brook Politics 2 958 Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 2 859 Andrew Carnegie Joseph Frazier Wall Biography & Memoir 2 860 Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google William Poundstone Business & Finance 2 861 Mastery Robert Greene Social Science 2 862 People Who Eat Darkenss Richard Parry Biography & Memoir 2 863 Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance Madeleine Albright Biography & Memoir 2 864 The Cost of Hope Amanda Bennett Biography & Memoir 2 865 The Halo Effect Phil Rosenzweig Business & Finance 2 866 The Power of Productivity William Lewis Social Science 2 867 Bruce Peter Carlin Biography & Memoir 2 768 China Airborne James Fallows History 2 769 The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton Christensen Business & Finance 2 770 The Invisable Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us Christopher Chabris Social Science 2 771 Biography Of Andrew Jackson Robert Remini History 2 672 Debt: The First 5,000 Years David Graeber Business & Finance 2 673 Drive Daniel Pink Social Science 2 674 Exile on Wall Street Mike Mayo Business & Finance 2 675 Fooling Some of the People All of the Time David Einhorn Business & Finance 2 676 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everyting Steven Levitt Business & Finance 2 6
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77 Imagine Johan Lehrer Social Science 2 678 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Fiction 2 679 The Value Investors Ronald Chan Business & Finance 2 680 Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics PJ O'Rourke Business & Finance 2 581 Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century Bernard Baruch Biography & Memoir 2 482 Cracking The Code: Understand And Profit... Jim Mellon Business & Finance 2 483 Eisenhower, A Soldiers Life Carlo D'este History 2 484 Life of Pi Yann Martel Fiction 2 485 One Last Thing Before I Go Michael Lewis Business & Finance 2 486 Peddling Prosperity Paul Krugman Business & Finance 2 487 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Leonard Mlodinow Social Science 2 488 The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Atul Gawande Social Science 2 389 Angela's Ashes Frank Mccourt Biography & Memoir 1 790 Badass Ben Thompson Fiction 1 791 Boomerang: The Biggest Bust Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 792 Breakthrough Rapid Reading Peter Kump Self-Help 1 793 Cooperating Rivals Jeffrey Sosland Social Science 1 794 Corporate Catalyst: A Chronicle Of The (mis)management.. Tony Griffiths Business & Finance 1 795 D-Day: The Battle for Normandy Antony Beevor History 1 796 Einstein: His Life and Universe Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 1 797 Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Satyajit Das Business & Finance 1 798 Fountainhead Ayn Rand Fiction 1 799 How Do We Fix This Mess? The Economic Price of Having It All, and the Route to Lasting ProsperityRobert Peston Business & Finance 1 7100 Market Wizards Jack Schwager Business & Finance 1 7101 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Fiction 1 7102 Philosophy: Who Needs It? Ayn Rand Philosophy 1 7103 Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption and the Hijacking of AmericaCharles H. Ferguson Social Science 1 7104 Raven Stole The Moon Garth Stein Fiction 1 7105 Security Analysis Benjamin Graham Business & Finance 1 7106 Sexy Boss Heaher Havenwood Self-Help 1 7107 The Control Revolution: Tech. & Econ. Origins Of Info. Soc. James Beniger Social Science 1 7108 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand Politics 1 7109 The Grand Slam Mark Frost History 1 7110 The Hare With The Amber Eyes Edmund De Waal Fiction 1 7111 The Jesuit Guide To (almost) Everything James Martin Religion 1 7112 The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace H.W. Brands Biography & Memoir 1 7113 The Most Important Thing Howard Marks Business & Finance 1 7114 The Panther Nelson Demille Fiction 1 7
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115 The Power Of One Bryce Courtenay Fiction 1 7116 The Prisoner Of Heaven Carolos Ruiz Zafon Fiction 1 7117 The Social Conquest Of Earth Eo Wilson Science & Nature 1 7118 The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce Fiction 1 7119 This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Rogoff & Reinhart Business & Finance 1 7120 Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How It Got There and Where It Is HeadingJonathan Fenby Social Science 1 7121 Titan Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 7122 Titan: The Life Of John D, Rockefeller, Sr. Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 7123 To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Fiction 1 7124 Today We Are Rich Tim Sanders Business & Finance 1 7125 Too Many Murders Colleen McCullough Fiction 1 7126 Triumphs Of Experience George Vaillant Science & Nature 1 7127 Vanished Kingdoms Norman Davies History 1 7128 We Are Animals Justin Torres Fiction 1 7129 What Technology Wants Kevin Kelly Computer & Technology 1 7130 Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing Charles Ellis Social Science 1 7131 You're Not You Michelle Wildgen Fiction 1 7132 50 Shades Darker E.l. James Fiction 1 4133 A Few Lessons For Investors And Managers From Warren E. Buffett Peter Bevelin Business & Finance 1 4134 A Financial History of Western Europe Charles Kindleberger Business & Finance 1 4135 A History of Financial Crises Charles P. Kindleberger Business & Finance 1 4136 A Technique for Producing Ideas James Webb Young Social Science 1 4137 Art Of Fielding Chad Harbach Fiction 1 4138 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Biography & Memoir 1 4139 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Katherine Boo Social Science 1 4140 Bloodland Alan Glynn Fiction 1 4141 Breaking The Maya Code Michael Coe Science & Nature 1 4142 Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street From Wall Street and Wall Street from ItselfSheila Bair Business & Finance 1 4143 Civilization: The West And The Rest Niall Ferguson History 1 4144 Fitgeralds And Kennedys Doris Kearns Biography & Memoir 1 4145 Fortune's Formula William Poundstone Business & Finance 1 4146 How To Tell What People Are Thinking Peter Collett Social Science 1 4147 Hubris: How HBOS Wrecked the Best Bank in Britain Ray Perman Business & Finance 1 4148 Ice Age: How a Change of Climate Made Us Human John Gribbin History 1 4149 Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham Business & Finance 1 4150 Liar's Poker Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 4151 Mondo Agnelli: Fiat, Chrysler, And The Power Of A Dynasty Jennifer Clark Business & Finance 1 4152 Monsoon Robert Kaplan Politics 1 4
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153 Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough Fiction 1 4154 Nemesis Philip Roth Fiction 1 4155 One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way Robert Maurer Biography & Memoir 1 4156 Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Supe Chrystia Freeland Social Science 1 4157 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefevre Business & Finance 1 4158 Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government and the Free MarketJanine Wedel Social Science 1 4159 Sleeping With Your Smartphone Leslie Perlow Social Science 1 4160 Stabilizing an Unstable Economy Hyman Minsky Business & Finance 1 4161 Strengths Finder 2.0 Tom Rath Business & Finance 1 4162 The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson Fiction 1 4163 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Nassim Taleb Social Science 1 4164 The Collapse of Complex Societies Joseph A. Tainter Social Science 1 4165 The Emotionally Intelligent Investor Ravee Mehta Business & Finance 1 4166 The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge Business & Finance 1 4167 The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time Will Durant Social Science 1 4168 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood Fiction 1 4169 The Match Mark Frost History 1 4170 The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins Jeff Connaughton Business & Finance 1 4171 The Revenge Of Geography Robert Kaplan History 1 4172 The Singapore Story Lee Kuan Yew Biography & Memoir 1 4173 The Upside of Turbulence Donald Sull Business & Finance 1 4174 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson History 1 4175 The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 Dick Couch Biography & Memoir 1 4176 Universal Principles Of Design William Lidwell Computer & Technology 1 4177 Wait: The Useful Art of Procrastination Frank Partnoy Social Science 1 4178 Washington: A Life Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 4179 Wealth, War, And Wisdom Barton Biggs Business & Finance 1 4180 Where'd You Go, Bernadette? Maria Semple Fiction 1 4181 Who I Am Pete Townshend Biography & Memoir 1 4182 You Were Never In Chicago Neil Steinberg History 1 4183 Your Brain at Work David Rock Social Science 1 4184 50 Shades Free E.l. James Fiction 1 3185 A Tour Of The Calculus David Berlinksi Science & Nature 1 3186 An American Spy Olen Steinhauer Fiction 1 3187 Born To Run Christopher Mcdougall Health, Mind, & Body 1 3188 Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Robert Massie Biography & Memoir 1 3189 Charles Dickens: A Life Claire Tomalin Biography & Memoir 1 3190 Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution Rebecca Stott Social Science 1 3
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191 Dominion C.J. Sansom Fiction 1 3192 Foundation Isaac Asimov Fiction 1 3193 Globalization and Its Enemies Daniel Cohen Business & Finance 1 3194 Golf's Sacred Journey David Cook Self-Help 1 3195 How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character Paul Tough Social Science 1 3196 How Music Works David Byrne Social Science 1 3197 Human Action: A Treatise on Economics Ludwig von Mises Business & Finance 1 3198 Iliad 0 Homer Fiction 1 3199 Jerusalem, Jerusalem James Carroll History 1 3200 Killing Lincoln Bill O'reilly History 1 3201 Letter On Corpulence William Banting Health, Mind, & Body 1 3202 Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar and the Genius of LeadershipBarry Strauss Biography & Memoir 1 3203 Millionaire Janet Gleeson History 1 3204 No Less Than Victory Jeff Shaara Fiction 1 3205 One Up On Wall Street Peter Lynch Business & Finance 1 3206 Overhaul: An Insider's Account Steven Rattner Business & Finance 1 3207 Personal History Katherine Graham Biography & Memoir 1 3208 River Of Doubt Candace Millard Biography & Memoir 1 3209 Screw It - Let's Do It Richard Branson Biography & Memoir 1 3210 The Age of Capital: 1848/1875 Eric Hobsbawm Business & Finance 1 3211 The Dog Stars Peter Heller Fiction 1 3212 The Einstein Of Money Joe Carlen Business & Finance 1 3213 The Emperor of all Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee Medical 1 3214 The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan Fiction 1 3215 The New Depression Richard Duncan Business & Finance 1 3216 The Next Decade George Friedman Social Science 1 3217 The Social Animal David Brooks Social Science 1 3218 The Storytelling Animal Jonathan Gottschall Social Science 1 3219 The Talent Code Daniel Coyle Self-Help 1 3220 The Tourist Olen Steinhauer Fiction 1 3221 The Virtuous Egoist Tara Smith Philosophy 1 3222 Thunderdog Michael Hingson Biography & Memoir 1 3223 Turning Pro Steven Pressfield Self-Help 1 3224 Unlikely Pilgrimage Ofharoldfr Rachel Joyce Fiction 1 3225 Wheat Belly William Davis Health, Mind, & Body 1 3226 A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean Fiction 1 2227 An Improvised Life Alan Arkin Biography & Memoir 1 2228 Black Friday Alex Kava Fiction 1 2
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229 Carry The One Carol Anshaw Fiction 1 2230 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond Social Science 1 2231 Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960/2010 Charles Murray History 1 2232 Days of God: Revolution in Iran James Buchan History 1 2233 Defending Jacob William Landay Mystery 1 2234 Fall Of Giants Ken Follett Fiction 1 2235 Fooled By Randomness Nassim Taleb Business & Finance 1 2236 In The Plex Steven Levy Business & Finance 1 2237 Integrity Henry Cloud Self-Help 1 2238 Intelligent Memory Barry Gordon Self-Help 1 2239 Iron Curtain Anne Applebaum History 1 2240 Justice Michael Sandel Social Science 1 2241 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris Humor 1 2242 Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don't See Them Coming Gary B. Gorton Business & Finance 1 2243 Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams Charles King History 1 2244 Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Ta Susan Cain Social Science 1 2245 Rafa Rafael Nadal Biography & Memoir 1 2246 Texas James Michner Fiction 1 2247 The Alpha Master Maneet Ahuja Business & Finance 1 2248 The Dim Hypothesis: Why The Lights Of The West Are Going Out Leonard Peikoff Philosophy 1 2249 The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers Richard McGregor History 1 2250 The Road to Serfdom Friedrich Hayek Business & Finance 1 2251 The Tao of Pooh Benjamin Hoff Philosophy 1 2252 The Willpower Instinct Kelly Mcgonigal Self-Help 1 2253 Thinking About Leadership Nannerl O. Keohane Social Science 1 2254 Toxic Charity Robert Lupton Social Science 1 2255 Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Biography & Memoir 1 2256 Value Investing James Montier Business & Finance 1 2257 What Is The What Dave Eggers Biography & Memoir 1 2258 Why England Slept John Kennedy History 1 2259 A Good Indian Wife Anne Cherian Fiction 1 1260 All the Devils Are Here Bethany McLean Business & Finance 1 1261 Book of Genesis: A Biography Ronald Hendel Religion 1 1262 End Game Frank Brady Biography & Memoir 1 1263 Good to Great Jim Collins Business & Finance 1 1264 Hedge Fund Market Wizards Jack Schwager Business & Finance 1 1265 Hedgehogging Barton Biggs Business & Finance 1 1266 How An Economy Grows And Why It Crashes Peter Schiff Business & Finance 1 1
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267 Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World Evan Thomas History 1 1268 My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult Fiction 1 1269 Paul McCartney: A Life Peter Carlin Biography & Memoir 1 1270 Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett Fiction 1 1271 Shantaram Gregory Roberts Fiction 1 1272 The Art Of Fielding Chad Harbach Fiction 1 1273 The Hydrogen Sonata Iain M. Banks Fiction 1 1274 The Journeyer Gary Jennings Fiction 1 1275 The Secret Race Tyler Hamilton Sports & Recreation 1 1276 The Storm Margriet De Moor Fiction 1 1277 The Success Equation Michael Mauboussin Business & Finance 1 1278 The Visible Hand Alfred Chandler History 1 1279 Thunderstruck Erik Larson History 1 1280 What Works On Wall Street James O'shaughnessy Business & Finance 1 1281 Younger Next Year Chris Crowley Health, Mind, & Body 1 1
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1 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 12 802 The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Biography & Memoir 14 763 Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Jon Meacham Biography & Memoir 5 264 The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life & Turbulent Times of Joseph Kennedy David Nasaw Biography & Memoir 4 165 The Last Lion William Manchester Biography & Memoir 4 146 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 3 137 Fooling Houdini Alex Stone Biography & Memoir 3 98 Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 2 89 Andrew Carnegie Joseph Frazier Wall Biography & Memoir 2 810 People Who Eat Darkenss Richard Parry Biography & Memoir 2 811 Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance Madeleine Albright Biography & Memoir 2 812 The Cost of Hope Amanda Bennett Biography & Memoir 2 813 Angela's Ashes Frank Mccourt Biography & Memoir 1 714 Bruce Peter Carlin Biography & Memoir 2 715 Einstein: His Life and Universe Walter Isaacson Biography & Memoir 1 716 The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace H.W. Brands Biography & Memoir 1 717 Titan Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 718 Titan: The Life Of John D, Rockefeller, Sr. Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 719 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Biography & Memoir 1 420 Fitgeralds And Kennedys Doris Kearns Biography & Memoir 1 421 One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way Robert Maurer Biography & Memoir 1 422 The Singapore Story Lee Kuan Yew Biography & Memoir 1 423 The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 Dick Couch Biography & Memoir 1 424 Washington: A Life Ron Chernow Biography & Memoir 1 425 Who I Am Pete Townshend Biography & Memoir 1 426 Baruch: My Own Story Bernard Baruch Biography & Memoir 1 327 Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Robert Massie Biography & Memoir 1 328 Charles Dickens: A Life Claire Tomalin Biography & Memoir 1 329 Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar and the Genius of LeadershipBarry Strauss Biography & Memoir 1 330 Personal History Katherine Graham Biography & Memoir 1 331 River Of Doubt Candace Millard Biography & Memoir 1 332 Screw It - Let's Do It Richard Branson Biography & Memoir 1 333 Thunderdog Michael Hingson Biography & Memoir 1 334 An Improvised Life Alan Arkin Biography & Memoir 1 235 Rafa Rafael Nadal Biography & Memoir 1 236 Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Biography & Memoir 1 237 What Is The What Dave Eggers Biography & Memoir 1 238 End Game Frank Brady Biography & Memoir 1 1
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39 Paul McCartney: A Life Peter Carlin Biography & Memoir 1 140 Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Taleb Business & Finance 7 3941 100 to 1 in the Stock Market Thomas Phelps Business & Finance 4 2842 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty Daron Acemoglu Business & Finance 5 2843 Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence William Silber Business & Finance 5 2344 The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley Business & Finance 8 2245 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis Business & Finance 5 1946 Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Liaquat Ahamed Business & Finance 4 1547 Capitalism and Freedom Milton Friedman Business & Finance 3 1448 In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic David Wessel Business & Finance 2 1449 Tap Dancing To Work Carol Loomis Business & Finance 4 1450 Demons of our Own Design Richard Bookstaber Business & Finance 4 1251 The Quest Daniel Yergin Business & Finance 2 452 Currency Wars James Rickards Business & Finance 2 1053 Different Youngme Moon Business & Finance 6 1054 Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google William Poundstone Business & Finance 2 855 Bailout Neil Barofsky Business & Finance 3 856 The Halo Effect Phil Rosenzweig Business & Finance 2 857 Boomerang: The Biggest Bust Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 758 Corporate Catalyst: A Chronicle Of The (mis)management.. Tony Griffiths Business & Finance 1 759 Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Satyajit Das Business & Finance 1 760 How Do We Fix This Mess? The Economic Price of Having It All, and the Route to Lasting ProsperityRobert Peston Business & Finance 1 761 Market Wizards Jack Schwager Business & Finance 1 762 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 763 Security Analysis Benjamin Graham Business & Finance 1 764 The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton Christensen Business & Finance 2 765 The Most Important Thing Howard Marks Business & Finance 1 766 This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Rogoff & Reinhart Business & Finance 1 767 Today We Are Rich Tim Sanders Business & Finance 1 768 Debt: The First 5,000 Years David Graeber Business & Finance 2 669 Exile on Wall Street Mike Mayo Business & Finance 2 670 Fooling Some of the People All of the Time David Einhorn Business & Finance 2 671 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everyting Steven Levitt Business & Finance 2 672 The Value Investors Ronald Chan Business & Finance 2 673 Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics PJ O'Rourke Business & Finance 2 574 A Few Lessons For Investors And Managers From Warren E. Buffett Peter Bevelin Business & Finance 1 475 A Financial History of Western Europe Charles Kindleberger Business & Finance 1 476 A History of Financial Crises Charles P. Kindleberger Business & Finance 1 4
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77 Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street From Wall Street and Wall Street from ItselfSheila Bair Business & Finance 1 478 Fortune's Formula William Poundstone Business & Finance 1 479 Hubris: How HBOS Wrecked the Best Bank in Britain Ray Perman Business & Finance 1 480 Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham Business & Finance 1 481 Liar's Poker Michael Lewis Business & Finance 1 482 Mondo Agnelli: Fiat, Chrysler, And The Power Of A Dynasty Jennifer Clark Business & Finance 1 483 Peddling Prosperity Paul Krugman Business & Finance 2 484 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefevre Business & Finance 1 485 Stabilizing an Unstable Economy Hyman Minsky Business & Finance 1 486 Strengths Finder 2.0 Tom Rath Business & Finance 1 487 The Emotionally Intelligent Investor Ravee Mehta Business & Finance 1 488 The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge Business & Finance 1 489 The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins Jeff Connaughton Business & Finance 1 490 The Upside of Turbulence Donald Sull Business & Finance 1 491 Wealth, War, And Wisdom Barton Biggs Business & Finance 1 492 Globalization and Its Enemies Daniel Cohen Business & Finance 1 393 Human Action: A Treatise on Economics Ludwig von Mises Business & Finance 1 394 One Up On Wall Street Peter Lynch Business & Finance 1 395 Overhaul: An Insider's Account Steven Rattner Business & Finance 1 396 The Age of Capital: 1848/1875 Eric Hobsbawm Business & Finance 1 397 The Einstein Of Money Joe Carlen Business & Finance 1 398 The New Depression Richard Duncan Business & Finance 1 399 Cracking The Code: Understand And Profit... Jim Mellon Business & Finance 2 4100 Fooled By Randomness Nassim Taleb Business & Finance 1 2101 In The Plex Steven Levy Business & Finance 1 2102 Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don't See Them Coming Gary B. Gorton Business & Finance 1 2103 The Alpha Master Maneet Ahuja Business & Finance 1 2104 The Road to Serfdom Friedrich Hayek Business & Finance 1 2105 Value Investing James Montier Business & Finance 1 2106 All the Devils Are Here Bethany McLean Business & Finance 1 1107 Good to Great Jim Collins Business & Finance 1 1108 Hedge Fund Market Wizards Jack Schwager Business & Finance 1 1109 Hedgehogging Barton Biggs Business & Finance 1 1110 How An Economy Grows And Why It Crashes Peter Schiff Business & Finance 1 1111 The Success Equation Michael Mauboussin Business & Finance 1 1112 What Works On Wall Street James O'shaughnessy Business & Finance 1 1113 What Technology Wants Kevin Kelly Computer & Technology 1 7114 Universal Principles Of Design William Lidwell Computer & Technology 1 4
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115 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Fiction 11 46116 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn Fiction 8 36117 The Racketeer John Grisham Fiction 6 33118 The Hobbit J.R. Tolken Fiction 5 29119 50 Shades Of Gray E.l. James Fiction 2 14120 Game of Thrones George Martin Fiction 3 14121 Life of Pi Yann Martel Fiction 2 14122 The Pallbearers Stephen Cannell Fiction 5 12123 Cutting For Stone Abraham Verghese Fiction 2 11124 The Book Thief Markuz Zooste Fiction 2 11125 Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan Fiction 3 9126 Badass Ben Thompson Fiction 1 7127 Fountainhead Ayn Rand Fiction 1 7128 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Fiction 1 7129 One Last Thing Before I Go Jonathan Tropper Fiction 1 7130 Raven Stole The Moon Garth Stein Fiction 1 7131 The Hare With The Amber Eyes Edmund De Waal Fiction 1 7132 The Panther Nelson Demille Fiction 1 7133 The Power Of One Bryce Courtenay Fiction 1 7134 The Prisoner Of Heaven Carolos Ruiz Zafon Fiction 1 7135 The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce Fiction 1 7136 To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Fiction 1 7137 Too Many Murders Colleen McCullough Fiction 1 7138 We Are Animals Justin Torres Fiction 1 7139 You're Not You Michelle Wildgen Fiction 1 7140 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Fiction 2 6141 50 Shades Darker E.l. James Fiction 1 4142 Art Of Fielding Chad Harbach Fiction 1 4143 Bloodland Alan Glynn Fiction 1 4144 Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough Fiction 1 4145 Nemesis Philip Roth Fiction 1 4146 The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson Fiction 1 4147 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood Fiction 1 4148 Where'd You Go, Bernadette? Maria Semple Fiction 1 4149 50 Shades Free E.l. James Fiction 1 3150 An American Spy Olen Steinhauer Fiction 1 3151 Dominion C.J. Sansom Fiction 1 3152 Foundation Isaac Asimov Fiction 1 3
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153 Iliad 0 Homer Fiction 1 3154 No Less Than Victory Jeff Shaara Fiction 1 3155 The Dog Stars Peter Heller Fiction 1 3156 The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan Fiction 1 3157 The Tourist Olen Steinhauer Fiction 1 3158 Unlikely Pilgrimage Ofharoldfr Rachel Joyce Fiction 1 3159 A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean Fiction 1 2160 Black Friday Alex Kava Fiction 1 2161 Carry The One Carol Anshaw Fiction 1 2162 Fall Of Giants Ken Follett Fiction 1 2163 Texas James Michner Fiction 1 2164 A Good Indian Wife Anne Cherian Fiction 1 1165 My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult Fiction 1 1166 Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett Fiction 1 1167 Shantaram Gregory Roberts Fiction 1 1168 The Art Of Fielding Chad Harbach Fiction 1 1169 The Hydrogen Sonata Iain M. Banks Fiction 1 1170 The Journeyer Gary Jennings Fiction 1 1171 The Storm Margriet De Moor Fiction 1 1172 Born To Run Christopher Mcdougall Health, Mind, & Body 1 3173 Letter On Corpulence William Banting Health, Mind, & Body 1 3174 Wheat Belly William Davis Health, Mind, & Body 1 3175 Younger Next Year Chris Crowley Health, Mind, & Body 1 1176 Team Of Rivals Doris Kearns History 6 30177 The Storm Of War Andrew Roberts History 4 28178 Bringing Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel History 6 25179 No Easy Day Mark Owen History 5 17180 In The Garden Of Beasts Erik Larson History 2 14181 The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression Amity Shlaes History 2 14182 The Outpost Jake Tapper History 4 12183 China Airborne James Fallows History 2 7184 D-Day: The Battle for Normandy Antony Beevor History 1 7185 Vanished Kingdoms Mark Frost History 2 4186 Biography Of Andrew Jackson Robert Remini History 2 6187 Civilization: The West And The Rest Niall Ferguson History 1 4188 Eisenhower, A Soldiers Life Carlo D'este History 2 4189 Ice Age: How a Change of Climate Made Us Human John Gribbin History 1 4190 The Match Mark Frost History 1 4
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191 The Revenge Of Geography Robert Kaplan History 1 4192 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson History 1 4193 You Were Never In Chicago Neil Steinberg History 1 4194 Jerusalem, Jerusalem James Carroll History 1 3195 Killing Lincoln Bill O'reilly History 1 3196 Millionaire Janet Gleeson History 1 3197 Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960/2010 Charles Murray History 1 2198 Days of God: Revolution in Iran James Buchan History 1 2199 Iron Curtain Anne Applebaum History 1 2200 Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams Charles King History 1 2201 The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers Richard McGregor History 1 2202 Why England Slept John Kennedy History 1 2203 Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World Evan Thomas History 1 1204 The Visible Hand Alfred Chandler History 1 1205 Thunderstruck Erik Larson History 1 1206 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris Humor 1 2207 The Emperor of all Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee Medical 1 3208 Defending Jacob William Landay Mystery 1 2209 Philosophy: Who Needs It? Ayn Rand Philosophy 1 7210 The Virtuous Egoist Tara Smith Philosophy 1 3211 The Dim Hypothesis: Why The Lights Of The West Are Going Out Leonard Peikoff Philosophy 1 2212 The Tao of Pooh Benjamin Hoff Philosophy 1 2213 Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government Yaron Brook Politics 2 9214 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand Politics 1 7215 Monsoon Robert Kaplan Politics 1 4216 The Jesuit Guide To (almost) Everything James Martin Religion 1 7217 Book of Genesis: A Biography Ronald Hendel Religion 1 1218 The Social Conquest Of Earth Eo Wilson Science & Nature 1 7219 Triumphs Of Experience George Vaillant Science & Nature 1 7220 Breaking The Maya Code Michael Coe Science & Nature 1 4221 A Tour Of The Calculus David Berlinksi Science & Nature 1 3222 Breakthrough Rapid Reading Peter Kump Self-Help 1 7223 Sexy Boss Heaher Havenwood Self-Help 1 7224 Golf's Sacred Journey David Cook Self-Help 1 3225 The Talent Code Daniel Coyle Self-Help 1 3226 Turning Pro Steven Pressfield Self-Help 1 3227 Integrity Henry Cloud Self-Help 1 2228 Intelligent Memory Barry Gordon Self-Help 1 2
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229 The Willpower Instinct Kelly Mcgonigal Self-Help 1 2230 The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver Social Science 14 71231 The Honest Truth About Dishonesty Daniel Kahneman Social Science 2 4232 The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Stephen Pinker Social Science 9 31233 The Blindside Michael Lewis Social Science 5 29234 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 7 28235 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness Richard Thaler Social Science 8 26236 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Charles Duhigg Social Science 5 22237 The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 7 22238 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Robert Cialdini Social Science 3 14239 Blink Malcolm Gladwell Social Science 4 12240 The Age of the Unthinkable Joshua Ramo Social Science 4 12241 Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think Brian Wansink Social Science 4 11242 The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies Bryan Caplan Social Science 2 11243 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Jonathan Haidt Social Science 2 10244 Talent is Overrated Geoff Colvin Social Science 4 9245 Mastery Robert Greene Social Science 2 8246 The Power of Productivity William Lewis Social Science 2 8247 Cooperating Rivals Jeffrey Sosland Social Science 1 7248 Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption and the Hijacking of AmericaCharles H. Ferguson Social Science 1 7249 The Control Revolution: Tech. & Econ. Origins Of Info. Soc. James Beniger Social Science 1 7250 The Invisable Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us Christopher Chabris Social Science 2 7251 Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How It Got There and Where It Is HeadingJonathan Fenby Social Science 1 7252 Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing Charles Ellis Social Science 1 7253 Drive Daniel Pink Social Science 2 6254 Imagine Johan Lehrer Social Science 2 6255 Moonwalking with Einstein Joshua Froer Social Science 3 6256 A Technique for Producing Ideas James Webb Young Social Science 1 4257 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Katherine Boo Social Science 1 4258 How To Tell What People Are Thinking Peter Collett Social Science 1 4259 Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Supe Chrystia Freeland Social Science 1 4260 Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government and the Free MarketJanine Wedel Social Science 1 4261 Sleeping With Your Smartphone Leslie Perlow Social Science 1 4262 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Nassim Taleb Social Science 1 4263 The Collapse of Complex Societies Joseph A. Tainter Social Science 1 4264 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Leonard Mlodinow Social Science 2 4265 The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time Will Durant Social Science 1 4266 Wait: The Useful Art of Procrastination Frank Partnoy Social Science 1 4
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267 Your Brain at Work David Rock Social Science 1 4268 Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century Burton Richter Social Science 1 3269 Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution Rebecca Stott Social Science 1 3270 How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character Paul Tough Social Science 1 3271 How Music Works David Byrne Social Science 1 3272 The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Atul Gawande Social Science 2 3273 The Next Decade George Friedman Social Science 1 3274 The Social Animal David Brooks Social Science 1 3275 The Storytelling Animal Jonathan Gottschall Social Science 1 3276 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond Social Science 1 2277 Justice Michael Sandel Social Science 1 2278 Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Ta Susan Cain Social Science 1 2279 Thinking About Leadership Nannerl O. Keohane Social Science 1 2280 Toxic Charity Robert Lupton Social Science 1 2281 The Secret Race Tyler Hamilton Sports & Recreation 1 1
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