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 The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone–Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely. On the investment book front Ray Dalio’s new book Principles: Life and Work debuted to great sales.

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 September 2017:

The Top 10 (by Unit Sales)

  1. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone–Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely
  2. Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
  3. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
  4. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
  5. Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
  6. Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence–and Where It’s Taking Us Next by Luke Dormehl
  7. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
  8. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
  9. The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future by Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever
  10. Pitch the Perfect Investment: The Essential Guide to Winning On Wall Street by Paul Sonkin and Paul Johnson

The Top 10 (by Revenue)

  1. Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
  2. Pitch the Perfect Investment: The Essential Guide to Winning On Wall Street by Paul Sonkin and Paul Johnson
  3. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone–Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely
  4. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
  5. Big Money Thinks Small: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing by Joel Tillinghast
  6. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
  7. Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew Lo
  8. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
  9. Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
  10. Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts by David Gerard

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.


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