Books recommended by Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist based in the United States, a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, and the author of some of the best-selling nonfiction books of recent decades. Works such as The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and David and Goliath popularized a way of storytelling that mixes academic research, psychology, and real cases to reveal surprising patterns in human behavior and society.

His reading recommendations tend to reflect this same oblique view of the world: he seeks books that challenge intuitions, present counterintuitive ideas, or shed unexpected light on everyday phenomena. For those who enjoy intellectually stimulating nonfiction, Gladwell's curation works as a map of the influences that shaped his own worldview.