Publisher's Weekly 2006 Bestsellers - The Business Slice
Every year, Publisher Weekly runs lists of the bestsellers from various genre (fiction, non-fiction, paperback). What is different about this list is you can see the number of copies sold.The author of 800CEORead ran down through the non-fiction list to pull out all the business titles that sold more than 100,000 copies. You often see personal finance books show up on the bestsellers lists so he included those.
1. The World Is Flat (Friedman) - 869,610 copies
2. Freakonomics (Levitt/Dubner) - 697,848 copies
3. Why We Want You To Be Rich (Trump/Kiyosaki) - 490,000 copies
4. Jim Cramer's Mad Money (Cramer) - 360,000 copies(#)
5. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Gladwell) - 317,303 copies
6. Jim Cramer's Real Money (Cramer) - 262,000 copies(#)
7. Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing in Only 15 Minutes a Week! - 203,512 copies
8. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth (Eker) - 199,000 copies
9. The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner (Bach) - 178,000 copies
10. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (Lewis) - 148,000 copies
11. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (Anderson) - 130,427 copies
12. Inteligencia Social/Social Intelligence (Goleman) - 130,000 copies(#)
13. The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization (Maxwell) - 119,339 copies
14. Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions (Kotter) - 107,621 copies
15. Everyday Greatness: Inspiration for a Meaningful Life (Covey) - 102,438 copies
16. War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back (Dobbs) - 102,248 copies
17. Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert) - 100,000 copies(#)
Well, read and catch your fortune. Be sure it's not dust;)
Labels: being rich, business books, self-management