Author
Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell writes psychology and sociology. We've read and reviewed 2 of Malcolm Gladwell's books, including Outliers: The Story of Success and Talking to Strangers, each scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell upends the self-made-genius myth, arguing that extraordinary success comes less from lone talent than from hidden advantages, lucky timing, cultural inheritance, and an enormous amount of practice. It's classic Gladwell: irresistibly readable, occasionally too neat, and impossible to stop quoting.
Talking to Strangers
by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell's Talking to Strangers works through Cold War double agents, Bernie Madoff, a wrongful murder conviction in Italy, and a Texas traffic stop to ask why humans are so consistently terrible at reading people they have just met. Reported psychology built out of cases where the misreading cost somebody everything.