I always find it interesting to see which books TBP readers are buying.
In addition to throwing off minor referral revenue, the Amazon embed code lets me track every click from these links — how many people look at the page, how many books get collectively purchased.
Its anonymous — I don’t know who bought what — but there’s lots of data on the various books generated.
The 10 Most Popular Books Bought By Big Picture Readers in 2011
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These were the most popular TBP books for the year of 2011:
Bailout Nation (Barry Ritholtz)
Trend Commandments: Trading for Exceptional Returns (Michael W. Covel)
A Gift to My Children: A Father’s Lessons for Life and Investing (Jim Rogers)
Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives (Satyajit Das)
How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Thomas Gilovich)
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (Michael Lewis)
The Other Side of Wall Street: In Business It Pays to Be an Animal, In Life It Pays to Be Yourself (Todd A. Harrison)
Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything (John Mauldin)
How I Trade and Invest in Stocks and Bonds (Richard D. Wyckoff)
Fiscal Hangover: How to Profit From The New Global Economy (Keith Fitz-Gerald)
The 32 Most Popular Books Bought By Big Picture Readers in 2011
These were the most popular TBP books for the year of 2011:
Bailout Nation (Barry Ritholtz)
Trend Commandments: Trading for Exceptional Returns (Michael W. Covel)
A Gift to My Children: A Father’s Lessons for Life and Investing (Jim Rogers)
Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives (Satyajit Das)
How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Thomas Gilovich)
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (Michael Lewis)
The Other Side of Wall Street: In Business It Pays to Be an Animal, In Life It Pays to Be Yourself (Todd A. Harrison)
Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything (John Mauldin)
How I Trade and Invest in Stocks and Bonds (Richard D. Wyckoff)
Fiscal Hangover: How to Profit From The New Global Economy (Keith Fitz-Gerald)
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Carmen M. Reinhart)
Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk (Satyajit Das)
The Little Book of Sideways Markets: How to Make Money in Markets that Go Nowhere (Vitaliy N. Katsenelson)
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (T.E. Lawrence)
Probable Outcomes (Ed Easterling)
How to Lie with Statistics (Darrell Huff)
Art of Contrary Thinking (Humphrey B. Neill)
Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (Frederick Sheehan)
Go the F**k to Sleep (Adam Mansbach)
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think (Brian Wansink)
When to Sell: Inside Strategies for Stock-Market Profits (Justin Mamis)
Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream (R. Christopher Whalen)
The Tao of Pooh (Benjamin Hoff)
The Little Book of Value Investing (Christopher H. Browne)
Unexpected Returns: Understanding Secular Stock Market Cycles (Ed Easterling)
Bull: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004 (Maggie Mahar)
Super Boom: Why the Dow Jones Will Hit 38,820 and How You Can Profit From It (Jeffrey A. Hirsch)
A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars (Nicholas Rankin)
Florilegium Imperiale: Botanical Illustrations for Francis I of Austria (Walter H. Lack)
Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America’s Top Stock Traders (Jack D. Schwager)
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