Here is the New York Times August, 2012 Hardcover Business Books Best Sellers List - Steve Jobs, still #1

Here is the August, 2012 Hardcover Business Books Best Sellers List.  Steve Jobs still sits atop the list.  I presented this early this year at the First Friday Book Synopsis, our monthly breakfast event in Dallas.  If you have not yet read it (it is a big book!, but very much worth the read), you might want to check out my synopsis of the book, with audio + comprehensive handout, at our companion web site, 15minutebusinessbooks.com.

We have presented #s 1,2, 3, 4,10, & 13 at our monthly event.  Although, #3, Imagine by Jonah Lehrer, has now been pulled by the publisher from sale for some flat-out made-up and plagiarized material.  (I wrote about this in this blog post:  Jonah Lehrer Lied to Us All, and this is Why that Matters).

There are always books about finances, the economy, personal finance, that don’t quite fit “what we do” at the First Friday Book Synopsis.

And, as I always mention, this is my “favorite” best sellers list, because it (usually) comes out only once a month.  A weekly list can be too easily swayed by bulk purchases, or brief publicity efforts.  The monthly list seems to get us closer to our desire to know what might be a little more “lasting.”  Although, as always, there are not-quite-great books that make such lists, and there are some great books that never make it.  (Bob Morris has eloquently explained this to me, and he is right about this).

Here’s the August, 2012 list.

1	STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson.
2	POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg.
3	IMAGINE, by Jonah Lehrer.
4	THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman.
5	MOBILE WAVE, by Michael Saylor.
6	PRICE OF INEQUALITY, by Joseph E. Stiglitz.
7	UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, by Edward Conard.
8	TOTAL MONEY MAKEOVER, by Dave Ramsey.
9	$100 STARTUP, by Chris Guillebeau.
10	4-HOUR WORKWEEK, by Timothy Ferriss.
11	HOW WILL YOU MEASURE YOUR LIFE?, by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon.
12	YEAR UP, by Gerald Chertavian.
13	GREAT BY CHOICE, by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen.
14	LEAN STARTUP, by Eric Ries.
15	CHARGE, by Brendon Burchard.

 

 

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