Malcolm Gladwell's Reading List
The author of “David and Goliath” compares Michael Lewis to Tiger Woods: “I’ll never play like that. But it’s good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like.”
Open in WellRead Daily app →By the Book: Malcolm Gladwell (2013)
NYT By the Book column (2013-10-03).
Source: www.nytimes.com
Jonathan Dee · Buy on Amazon
"I loved Jonathan Dee's new novel, "A Thousand Pardons.""
Adam Alter · Buy on Amazon
"The best science book I read was Adam Alter's "Drunk Tank Pink," which is a really provocative look at how much our behavior is contextually determined."
Janet Malcolm · Buy on Amazon
"I reread Malcolm's "Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession" just to remind myself how nonfiction is supposed to be done. I love how ominous her writing is."
Michael Lewis · Buy on Amazon
""The Big Short," one of the best business books of the past two decades, was about derivatives. I read Lewis for the same reasons I watch Tiger Woods. I'll never play like that. But it's good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like."
Michael Lewis · Buy on Amazon
"His nonbusiness books like "The Blind Side," by the way, are even better. That book is as close to perfect as a work of popular nonfiction can be."
Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross · Buy on Amazon
"Years ago, he wrote a book called "The Person and the Situation" with Lee Ross. If you read that book, you'll see the template for the genre of books that "The Tipping Point" and "Blink" and "Outliers" belong to. That book changed my life."
Adam Grant · Buy on Amazon
"I also really like Adam Grant, who is a psychologist at Penn and the author of "Give and Take.""
David Epstein · Buy on Amazon
"What really excites me as a sports fan, though, is all the smart sports books coming from an academic perspective: "The Sports Gene," by David Epstein; "The Numbers Game," by Chris Anderson and David Sally; and "The Wages of Wins" and "Stumbling on Wins," by Dave Berri and others."
Chris Anderson and David Sally · Buy on Amazon
""The Sports Gene," by David Epstein; "The Numbers Game," by Chris Anderson and David Sally; and "The Wages of Wins" and "Stumbling on Wins," by Dave Berri and others."
David Berri · Buy on Amazon
""The Wages of Wins" and "Stumbling on Wins," by Dave Berri and others."
David Berri · Buy on Amazon
""The Wages of Wins" and "Stumbling on Wins," by Dave Berri and others."
William F. Buckley · Buy on Amazon
"We used to go into Toronto and prowl the used-book stores on Queen Street looking for rare first editions of "The Unmaking of a Mayor" and "God and Man at Yale.""
William F. Buckley · Buy on Amazon
"We used to go into Toronto and prowl the used-book stores on Queen Street looking for rare first editions of "The Unmaking of a Mayor" and "God and Man at Yale.""
William F. Buckley · Buy on Amazon
"We used to go into Toronto and prowl the used-book stores on Queen Street looking for rare first editions of "The Unmaking of a Mayor" and "God and Man at Yale.""
Jeremy Adelman · Buy on Amazon
"I read Jeremy Adelman's biography of Albert O. Hirschman early this year and was deeply moved by it. Hirschman wasn't just a man with a thousand extraordinary adventures… He was also wise and decent and honest. I finished that book with tears in my eyes."
Albert O. Hirschman · Buy on Amazon
"Hirschman wasn't just a man with a thousand extraordinary adventures (fighting fascists in Spain, smuggling Jews out of France, writing "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty" and a handful of other unforgettable books)."
Favorite books (2022)
Favorite books recommended by Malcolm Gladwell, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/malcolm-gladwell-favorite-books/.
Source: radicalreads.com
Adam Alter · Buy on Amazon
"A really provocative look at how much our behavior is contextually determined."
Adam Alter · Buy on Amazon
"As if to prove his point, Adam Alter has written a truly addictive book about the rise of addiction."
Jonathan Dee · Buy on Amazon
Charles Belfoure · Buy on Amazon
"It is a beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man’s unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war."
Patti Smith (also rec’d by Annie Clark & Marina Abramovic ) · Buy on Amazon
"I finished it in one sitting, then wept. It’s that good."
Timothy D. Wilson · Buy on Amazon
"One of the loveliest, most insightful books about social psychology that I ever read."
Leon A. Harris · Buy on Amazon
"It’s about immigrants; it’s about people figuring out and then conquering an unfamiliar marketplace; it’s about all of the brilliant ideas that came to these guys as they invented the department store."
Michael Lewis · Buy on Amazon
Michael Lewis · Buy on Amazon
"One of the best business books of the past two decades."
Michael Lewis · Buy on Amazon
"Supposedly about football (the title refers to the side of the field a quarterback is blind to), it’s actually an extraordinary story about love and redemption."
Janet Malcolm · Buy on Amazon
"I reread Malcolm’s ‘Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession’ just to remind myself how nonfiction is supposed to be done."
Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross · Buy on Amazon
"It offers a way of re-ordering ordinary experience. It argues that when we perceive the actions and intentions of others, we tend to make mistakes. We see things that aren’t there and we make predictions that we ought not to make: we privilege the ‘person’ and we discount the influence of the ‘situation.’ It speaks, in short, to the very broadest questions of human perception."
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · Buy on Amazon
"This book invented an entire genre. Economics was never supposed to be this entertaining."
Roger Martin · Buy on Amazon
"I realize that there are thousands of business books on the subject, but, trust me, this is the first to really answer the question."
Tom Vanderbilt · Buy on Amazon
"I kept waiting for the moment when my interest in congestion and roads would run its course. It never did."
Lee Child · Buy on Amazon
Nassim Taleb · Buy on Amazon
Garry Wills · Buy on Amazon
"A classic from the early ’70s by one of the great political writers of his time. Written just before Richard Nixon resigned, it’s as devastating a portrait of him as has ever been written."
Fareed Zakaria · Buy on Amazon
Daniel Todd Gilbert · Buy on Amazon
Seth Godin · Buy on Amazon