Another month, another monthly bestselling list dominated by reduced price Kindle books. Our readers are apparently a value-sensitive bunch and picked up a slew of copies of New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool. On the investment book front Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund manager Joel Tillinghast’s new book Big Money Thinks Small: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investingdebuted to good sales. On the device front, $99 Amazon Echoes and discounted Kindle Paperwhites were popular in August.

For more book ideas you can check out our latest post compiling our many book links as well as last month’s best-sellers list. We present sales two ways: the first is by unit sales and the second is by revenue which can be notably different. Here are the books (combined print, Kindle* and Audible.com) that Abnormal Returns readers purchased at Amazon during August 2017:

The Top 10 (by Unit Sales)

  1. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
  2. The Leading Brain: Powerful Science-Based Strategies for Achieving Peak Performance by Friederike Fabritius and Hans Hagemann
  3. Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm by Christian Madsbjerg
  4. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks
  5. The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler
  6. Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
  7. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
  8. Big Money Thinks Small: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing by Joel Tillinghast
  9. Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
  10. What Doesn’t Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength by Scott Carney

The Top 10 (by Revenue)

  1. Big Money Thinks Small: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing by Joel Tillinghast
  2. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
  3. Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
  4. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  5. Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics by Gary Smith
  6. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
  7. Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
  8. Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm by Christian Madsbjerg
  9. A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation by Scott Nations
  10. The Leading Brain: Powerful Science-Based Strategies for Achieving Peak Performance by Friederike Fabritius and Hans Hagemann

Thanks again to everyone who purchased a copy of my book or any other book (or item) during the month. Mid-month look for our monthly post summing up all of our book-related links as well.