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APRIL 10, 2006
The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List The top-selling business books as reported in the April 3, 2006 issue. 1 THE WORLD IS FLAT By Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux -- $27.50) Globalization is great -- sort of, says a columnist from The New York Times. Last month: 1, Months on list: 10 2 FREAKONOMICS By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow -- $25.95) Crack gangs, the Ku Klux Klan, and more, examined by a University of Chicago economist. Last month: 2, Months on list: 11 3 BLINK By Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown -- $25.95) Why snap judgments deserve careful consideration. Last month: 3, Months on list: 14 4 JIM CRAMER'S REAL MONEY By James J. Cramer (Simon & Schuster -- $26) Trading recommendations from the CNBC commentator. Last month: 6, Months on list: 11 5 THE LITTLE BOOK THAT BEATS THE MARKET By Joel Greenblatt (Wiley -- $19.95) A "secret formula." Last month: 5, Months on list: 3 6 THE NUMBER By Lee Eisenberg (Free Press -- $26) A meditation on retirement and second acts, by the former editor-in-chief of Esquire. Last month: 4, Months on list: 2 7 THE LITTLE RED BOOK OF SELLING By Jeffrey Gitomer (Bard Press -- $19.95) A columnist on why people buy. Last month: 7, Months on list: 18 8 THE TOTAL MONEY MAKEOVER By Dave Ramsey (Thomas Nelson-- $24.99) Getting rid of debt and building up your rainy-day reserves. Last month: 9, Months on list: 15 9 THE WAL-MART EFFECT By Charles Fishman (Penguin Press -- $25.95) The retailer's single-minded focus on price-cutting is good for some, disastrous for others. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 10 SECRETS OF THE MILLIONAIRE MIND By T. Harv Eker (HarperBusiness -- $19.95) Shape your financial destiny. Last month: --, Months on list: 11 11 THE FRED FACTOR By Mark Sanborn (Currency/Doubleday -- $14.95) The mailman's philosophy of work. Last month: 13, Months on list: 15 12 THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER By Kenneth Blanchard, PhD, Spencer Johnson, M.D. (Morrow -- $19.95) Three management techniques, conveyed in brief story form. Last month: --, Months on list: 11 13 THE MILLIONAIRE MAKER By Loral Langemeier (McGraw-Hill -- $24.95) Bet the ranch, says this single mom and seminar leader. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 14 WINNING By Jack Welch with Suzy Welch (HarperBusiness -- $27.95) How to succeed within a company, against your competition, and over the course of a career. Last month: 10, Months on list: 11 15 THE COMING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE By Stephen Leeb, PhD, with Glen Strathy (Warner -- $24.95) Getting rich from the coming oil shortfall. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 1 GOOD TO GREAT AND THE SOCIAL SECTORS By Jim Collins (Collins -- $11.95) How noncorporate organizations can excel. Last month: 15, Months on list: 3 2 GETTING THINGS DONE By David Allen (Penguin -- $15) Organizing your office and learning how to manage your time. Last month: 1, Months on list: 23 3 COLLAPSE By Jared Diamond (Penguin -- $17) From Easter Island to Central America, why civilizations fall apart. Last month: --, Months on list: 1 4 THE AUTOMATIC MILLIONAIRE By David Bach (Broadway -- $12.95) How you can put your investment program on autopilot. Last month: 2, Months on list: 2 5 J.K. LASSER'S YOUR INCOME TAX 2006 By The J.K. Lasser Institute (Wiley -- $16.95) Sharpen your pencils, and... Last month: 3, Months on list: 3 6 CONSPIRACY OF FOOLS By Kurt Eichenwald (Broadway -- $16.95) Inside Enron's crumbling house of cards, by an investigative reporter from The New York Times. Last month: 6, Months on list: 2 7 THE ERNST & YOUNG TAX GUIDE 2006 By Ernst & Young, LLP (CDS Books -- $16.95) ...get out the calculator. Last month: 4, Months on list: 3 8 WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? By Richard Nelson Bolles (Ten Speed Press -- $17.95) The 2006 edition of the enduring job-search bible. Last month: 5, Months on list: 3 9 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL COMPLETE MONEY & INVESTING GUIDEBOOK By Dave Kansas (Three Rivers Press -- $14.95) From balance sheets to a business vocabulary. Last month: 7, Months on list: 2 10 PAY IT DOWN! By Jean Chatzky (Penguin -- $12.95) The Today Show's financial editor on dumping your debts Last month: --, Months on list: 1 11 FIND IT, FIX IT, FLIP IT! By Michael Corbett (Penguin -- $15) Profiting from real estate, by a television-show host . Last month: --, Months on list: 1 12 TOTAL MONEY MAKEOVER WORKBOOK By Dave Ramsey (Thomas Nelson -- $17.99) A plan to whip your finances into shape. Last month: 9, Months on list: 4 13 RICH DAD'S BEFORE YOU QUIT YOUR JOB By Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, CPA (Warner -- $16.95) Starting your own business. Last month: --, Months on list: 4 14 THINK AND GROW RICH By Napoleon Hill (Ballantine -- $7.99) Willpower and a positive attitude are the keys to achieving wealth. Last month: --, Months on list: 11 15 INVESTING FOR DUMMIES By Eric Tyson, MBA (Wiley -- $21.99) The fundamentals on real estate, stocks, small business, etc. Last month: 12, Months on list: 12 BusinessWeek's Best-Seller List is based on a survey of chain and independent booksellers that carry a broad selection of books on economics, management, sales and marketing, small business, investing, personal finance, and careers. Well over 1,000 retail outlets nationwide are represented. Current rankings are based on a weighted analysis of unit sales in February.  Get BusinessWeek directly on your desktop with our RSS feeds.  Add BusinessWeek news to your Web site with our headline feed. Click to buy an e-print or reprint of a BusinessWeek or BusinessWeek Online story or video. 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