- The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Debt : The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber
- Chaos, by James Glick
- The (mis)Behavior of Markets, by Benoit Mandelbrot
- What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars, by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, by Edwin Lefèvre
- Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, by Carlota Perez
- The Sovereign Individual, by James Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
- Zero to One, by Peter Thiel
- The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, by Don Thompson
- Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art, by Michael Shnayerson
- On Equilibrium, by John Ralston Saul
- A Concise Introduction to Logic, by Patrick J. Hurley
- Unended Quest : An Intellectual Autobiography, by Karl Popper
- Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Ethics, by Baruch Spinoza
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford
- Peter The Great : His Life and World, by Robert K. Massie
- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, by Ron Chernow
- The Sultans, by Noel Barber
- How Asia Works, by Joe Studwell
- The Lessons of History, by Will and Ariel Durant
- The Story of Philosophy, by Will Durant
- A History of Private Life (Vol I-V), edited by Georges Duby
- The Histories, by Herotodus
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon
- Medieval Feudalism, by Carl Stephenson
- The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Rabalais
- Candide, by Voltaire
- The Book of Satoshi, by Phil Champagne
- Applied Cryptography : 2nd Edition, by Bruce Schneier
- Present Shock, by Douglas Rushkoff
- Mating in Captivity, by Esther Perel
- The Internet is a Playground, by David Thorne
- Everybody Lies, by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- I Can’t Make This Up, by Kevin Hart
- Win Bigly, by Scott Adams
- Alchemy, by Rory Sutherland
- Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
- Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight
- No Room for Small Dreams, by Shimon Peres
- Putting Out of Your Mind, by Bob Rotella
- Drive On! : A social history of the motor car, by L.J.K. Setright
- Cradle to Cradle, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
- The Trouble With Physics, by Lee Smolin
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series, by Douglas Adams
- The Dirk Gently Series, by Douglas Adams
- The Foundation Series, by Isaac Asimov
- The Red Queen, by Matt Ridley
- The Rational Optimist, by Matt Ridley
- Systems of Survival, by Jane Jacobs
- The Hare With Amber Eyes, by Edmund de Waal
- Hot to Cold, by Bjarke Ingels
- Yes Is More, by Bjarke Ingels
- Building Artistry, by Ian Gillespie
- The Artist’s Reality : Philosophies of Art, by Mark Rothko
List subject to revision.
Is this in order of importance ? :)
Once you’ve read them all, you’ll know the answer !
I like it, the lists are quite different from my personal 20 book favorites, but that s what makes it valuable. If I can find just ONE book I love among the ones mentioned it s worth it. I would love a pattern analysis regarding top recommended books.
The pattern analysis would likely output something like a Rorschach blot.
P.S. You’re definitely one of the smarter spambots around. WD.
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Interesting list. I’ve yet to properly process even a single one of these, although I do have dead-tree copies of a couple within the family shelves (and a few more on the personal disks); Partial preorder recalibrated accordingly!
Cheers mate. And that reminds me, this list is probably overdue for an update. Getting on that now.
Edit : Another ten or so titles added!
Updated for at least the third time, but who’s counting ?
Updated with new dead trees, though of course most are available on audiobook as well.