1. MONEY: MASTER THE GAME, by Tony Robbins (Simon & Schuster)
Seven steps aimed at finding financial security and creating an income for life.

2. THE INNOVATORS, by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
Studies of the people who created computers and the Internet, beginning in the 1840s.

3. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown)
Why some people succeed it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.

4. THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life.

5. THE POWER OF HABIT by Charles Duhigg (Random House)
A Times reporter’s account of the science behind how we form, and break, habits.

6. ZERO TO ONE, by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters (Crown Business)
A co-founder of PayPal on how to build companies that create new things

7. HOW WE GOT TO NOW, by Steven Johnson (Riverhead)
A history of innovation focused on the development of six key technologies of modern life.

8. FLASH BOYS by Michael Lewis (Norton)
The world of high-frequency computer-driven trading

9. CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY by Thomas Piketty (Belknap/Harvard University)
A French economists analysis of centuries of economic history predicts worsening inequality and proposes solutions.

10. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING by Naomi Klein (Simon & Schuster)
The author of The Shock Doctrine argues that the free market created and is worsening the climate crisis.