#17 in Psychology
Outliers
- 320
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 60 weeks on the list, peaked at #7
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About the book
Outliers: The Story of Success is a non-fiction book written by Canadian writer Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, how the Beatles became one of the most successful musical acts in human history, how two people with exceptional intelligence—Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer—end up with such vastly different fortunes, how Joseph Flom built Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom into one of the most successful law firms in the world, and how cultural differences play a large part in perceived intelligence and rational decision-making.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 1,230 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 89% of the weight and the score stays at 8.0 — the Psychology average of 7.9 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 118 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 1.1K | 90% |
Frequently asked
How long is Outliers?
It has 320 pages — shorter than 72% of the ranked books in Psychology.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
Same shelf — Psychology — with scores between 7.4 and 8.3, closest to this book.
