Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Blink and The Bomber Mafia and host of the podcast Revisionist History, explores what sets high achievers apart--from Bill Gates to the Beatles--in this seminal work from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review).

In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 11/18/2008
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.58w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9780316017923

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.8
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 164990 / Outliers: The Story of Success


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/15/2008 pg. 46
Time 09/08/2008 pg. 67
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2008 pg. 927
Publishers Weekly 09/22/2008 pg. 48
Library Journal 10/01/2008 pg. 86
Entertainment Weekly 11/21/2008 pg. 120
Time 11/24/2008 pg. 48
People Weekly 11/24/2008 pg. 54
Booklist 11/15/2008 pg. 8
Newsweek 11/24/2008 pg. 65
New York Times Book Review 11/30/2008 pg. 9
Entertainment Weekly 01/30/2009 pg. 101
Scientific American 04/01/2009 pg. 36
New York Review of Books 05/28/0009 pg. 8
People Weekly 09/20/2010 pg. 63

About the Author
Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and Broken Record, where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included in the Time 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy'sTop Global Thinke