1.

Blink
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $15.99, 9780316010665

2.

The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316346627

3.

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Matthew B. Crawford, Penguin Press, $25.95, 9781594202230

4.

House of Cards
William D. Cohan, Doubleday, $27.95, 9780385528269

5.

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein, Penguin, $16, 9780143115267

6.

The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein, Picador, $16, 9780312427993

7.

Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe
Gillian Tett, Free Press, $26, 9781416598572

8.

How We Decide
Jonah Lehrer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25, 9780618620111

9.

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Daniel H. Pink, Riverhead, $15, 9781594481710

10.

Food Inc.
Karl Weber (Ed.), PublicAffairs, $14.95, 9781586486945

11.

Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
Daniel P. Goleman, Broadway Business, $26, 9780385527828

12.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Alain de Botton, Pantheon, $26, 9780375424441

13.

How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
Jim Collins, Harper, $23.99, 9780977326419

14.

The End of Food
Paul Roberts, Mariner, $14.95, 9780547085975

15.

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, $29.95, 9781594201929

16.

Freakonomics (Rev.)
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow, $29.95, 9780061234002

17.

A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent Into Depression
Richard A. Posner, Harvard Univ. Press, $23.95, 9780674035140

18.

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
Paul Krugman, Norton, $24.95, 9780393071016

19.

Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street
Kate Kelly, Portfolio, $25.95, 9781591842736

20.

Deep Economy
Bill McKibben, Holt, $14, 9780805087222

21.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen, Penguin, $16, 9780142000281

22.

The 4-Hour Work Week
Timothy Ferriss, Crown Business, $19.95, 9780307353139

23.

The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Random House, $28, 9781400063512

24.

Letters From Leaders: Personal Advice for Tomorrow's Leaders From the World's Most Influential People
Henry O. Dormann (Ed.), Lyons Press, $24.95, 9781599215013

25.

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller, Princeton Univ. Press, $24.95, 9780691142333