In this stunning new 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.