Another month, another bestseller list dominated by reduced price Kindle books. Our readers are apparently a value-sensitive bunch and picked up a slew of copies of Stick with It: A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life-for Good by Sean Young. On the investment book front frankly there wasn’t anything new but The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway is the closest substitute.

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 October 2017:

The Top 10 (by Unit Sales)

  1. Stick with It: A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life-for Good by Sean Young
  2. A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley
  3. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke
  4. Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity by Charles Duhigg
  5. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
  6. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath
  7. The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters by Robert Meyer and Howard Kunreuther
  8. Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
  9. The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway
  10. Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

The Top 10 (by Revenue)

  1. The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway
  2. Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
  3. Grant by Ron Chernow
  4. Hiding in the Bathroom: An Introvert’s Roadmap to Getting Out There (When You’d Rather Stay Home) by Morra Aarons-Mele
  5. Stick with It: A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life-for Good by Sean Young
  6. Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley
  7. Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity by Charles Duhigg
  8. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
  9. WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us by Tim O’Reilly
  10. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke

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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