Paperback Business Best Sellers

THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, by Ben Mezrich. (Anchor, $15.95.) How two Harvard undergraduates created Facebook. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to the falling crime rate.THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95.) How and why certain products and ideas become fads.)TOO BIG TO FAIL, by Andrew Ross Sorkin. (Penguin, $18.) The 2008 financial implosion on Wall Street and in Washington, by a New York Times business columnist.THE NO ----- RULE, by Robert I. Sutton. (Business Plus, $14.99.) How to build a civilized workplace and survive one that isn?t. (?) THE BLACK SWAN, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. (Random House, $17.) The hubris of predictions ? and our perpetual surprise when the not-predicted happens. LIAR?S POKER, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $15.95.) Wall Street?s tumultuous 1980s, as witnessed by a young bond trader. FREEFALL, by Joseph E. Stiglitz. (Norton, $16.95.) A Nobel Prize-winning economist criticizes the Obama administration?s eco-nomic policy from the left. PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL, by Dan Ariely. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) The hidden forces that shape our decisions. LORDS OF FINANCE, by Liaquat Ahamed. (Penguin, $18.) How four central bankers pushed the global economy into the Great Depression. Rankings are based on October figures at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount, department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (?) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.

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