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1. Who Was Malcolm Gladwell?

2. The Best Malcolm Gladwell Books of All Time

3. More Books Like Malcolm Gladwell's Books

4. Best Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

5. Wish There Was a Faster/Easier Way?

Who Was Malcolm Gladwell?

Malcolm Gladwell (born 3 September 1963) is an English-born Canadian journalist, best-selling author, and public speaker. His writing often deals with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences, like sociology and psychology, and make frequent and extended use of academic work.

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The Best Malcolm Gladwell Books of All Time

Why these best Malcolm Gladwell books and not others? To stay objective, I rank all my book recommendations by a combination of what’s most loved (Goodreads rating), what’s most popular (Goodreads review count) and what’s proven timlessly relevant (first publication date).

This isn’t a whimsical list. It’s a data-driven, crowdsourced collection of the best Malcolm Gladwell books ever published as decided by book lovers like you.

And if you think something's missing? I LOVE book recommendations so if there are any other books by Malcolm Gladwell that you think deserve mentioning, email me and I’ll be sure to include them in the next round of updates.

Until then, here are the best Malcolm Gladwell books of all time...

1. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell (FREE Summary)

The Story of Success

Outliers is a systematic debunking of the myth that success is mostly determined by talent and hard-work - with quantitative and qualitative evidence from medicine, sport, business, history, music, science and more - by journalist and author, Malcolm Gladwell.

Published 2008 // 309 pages // Rated 4.2 over 661,300 reviews on Goodreads

Best Malcolm Gladwell Books: The Tipping Point

2. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Published 2000 // 301 pages // Rated 4.0 over 753,200 reviews on Goodreads

3. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Published 2005 // 296 pages // Rated 3.9 over 541,200 reviews on Goodreads

Best Malcolm Gladwell Books: Talking to Strangers

4. Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell

What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

Published 2019 // 388 pages // Rated 4.0 over 220,700 reviews on Goodreads

Best Malcolm Gladwell Books: David and Goliath

5. David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell

Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Published 2009 // 305 pages // Rated 4.0 over 165,400 reviews on Goodreads

Best Malcolm Gladwell Books: The Bomber Mafia

6. The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell

A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Published 2021 // 256 pages // Rated 4.1 over 23,000 reviews on Goodreads

Best Malcolm Gladwell Books: What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

7. What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures - Malcolm Gladwell

Published 2009 // 444 pages // Rated 3.9 over 96,300 reviews on Goodreads

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Best Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

Here are some of the best Malcolm Gladwell of all time...

"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good."

- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

"Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from."

- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

"Autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying."

- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

"It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.”"

- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

"If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires."

- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

Best Malcolm Gladwell Quotes: If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.

"No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich."

- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

"Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder."

- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

"We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?"

- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

"People don't rise from nothing... It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't."

- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

"Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities."

- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

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