NYT Education
Bestseller List for January 15, 2017
THINKING, FAST AND SLOW
Daniel Kahneman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
9780374533557
0-374-53355-5
A winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal lives and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.
GRIT
Angela Duckworth
Scribner
9781501111105
1-5011-1110-8
A psychologist says passion and perseverance are the keys to success.
THING EXPLAINER
Randall Munroe
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
9780544668256
0-544-66825-1
Cells, elevators, smartphones, nuclear reactors and more are demystified with simply annotated blueprints. From the author of "What If?"
SPEAKING AMERICAN
Josh Katz
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
9780544703391
0-544-70339-1
The creator of the New York Times dialect quiz provides a guide to how words are pronounced in different parts of the country.
I AM MALALA
Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
Little, Brown
9780316322423
0-316-32242-3
The experience of the young Pakistani advocate for women’s education who was shot by the Taliban and later won the Nobel Peace Prize. Originally published in 2013.
ON WRITING
Stephen King
Scribner
9781439156810
1-4391-5681-6
A memoir that is a master class on the writer's craft.
WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION
Cathy O'Neil
Crown
9780553418811
0-553-41881-5
How decisions that impact our lives are made by algorithms instead of people.
BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2016
edited Rachel Kushner
Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
9780544812116
0-544-81211-5
A wide-ranging anthology selected by high school students.
HOW NOT TO BE WRONG
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin
9780143127536
0-14-312753-5
A mathematician shows how his discipline helps us think about problems of politics, medicine and commerce.
OTHER-WORDLY
Yee-Lum Mak
Chronicle
9781452125343
1-4521-2534-1
From the blog of the same name, 64 intriguing words from a dozen languages.