Books I Like

I enjoy reading across disciplines and topics, non fiction or fiction. The best books in life tend to be those that are insightful and enjoyable.

Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies – Cesar Hidalgo

Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life – Rory Sutherland

The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created – William J. Bernstein

Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet – William J. Bernstein

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World – William J. Bernstein

Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies – Geoffrey West

The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society – Eric D. Beinhocker

How the World Became Rich – Mark Koyama, Jared Rubin

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century – Walter Scheidel

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge – Edward O. Wilson

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation – Edward Chancellor

Diffusion of Innovations – Everett M. Rogers

The Feynman Lectures on Physics – Richard Feynman, Matthew Sands, Robert Leighton

Principles of Systems – Jay W. Forrester

The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving – H. William Dettmer

The Goal – Eliyahu Goldratt

It’s Not Luck – Eliyahu Goldratt

The Logic of Scientific Discovery – Karl Popper

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – Thomas Kuhn

The Nature of Economies – Jane Jacobs

The Economy of Cities: From the Birth of the U.S. Navy to the Nuclear Age – Jane Jacobs

Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life – Jane Jacobs

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder – Nassim N. Taleb

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life – Nassim N. Taleb

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World – Niall Ferguson

Empire: The Rise & Demise of the British World Order & the Lessons for Global Power – Niall Ferguson

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 – Paul Kennedy

The Lessons of History – Will & Ariel Durant

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia – Peter Hopkirk

Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems – Didier Sornette

A History of Interest Rates – Sidney Homer & Richard Sylla

The Next Perfect Trade: A Magic Sword of Necessity – Alex Gurevich

The Invisible Hands: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money – Steven Drobny

The Alchemy of Finance – George Soros

Tomorrow’s Gold: Asia’s Age of Discovery – Marc Faber

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk – Peter L. Bernstein

The Money Game – Adam Smith, George Goodman

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management – Roger Lowenstein

The Success Equation – Michael Mauboussin

More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places – Michael Mauboussin

Managing Equity Portfolios: A Behavioral Approach to Improving Skills and Investment Processes – Michael A. Ervolini

Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons from Wall Street’s Four Great Bottoms – Russell Napier

The Road to Serfdom – F. A. Hayek

The Fatal Conceit – F. A. Hayek

Psychology of Intelligence Analysis – Richards J. Heuer

Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions – Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions – Gerd Gigerenzer

Talent Is Overrated – Geoff Colvin

The Talent Code – Daniel Coyle

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength – Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

Certain to Win – Chet Richards

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future – Peter Thiel

The Last Word – Thomas Nagel

Clocks and Culture 1300-1700 – Carlo Cipolla

Racing the Enemy – Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Fragile Cargo: China’s Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City – Adam Brookes

Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs

The Mamba Mentality: How I Play – Kobe Bryant

Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers (The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European) – Stefan Zweig

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War – Robert Coram

Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 – Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim

Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam – James A. Warren

A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market – Edward O. Thorp

Killing the Market: Legendary Investor Robert W. Wilson – Roemer McPhee

Fiction

Ken Liu’s Dandelion Dynasty (The Grace of Kings, The Wall of Storms, The Veiled Throne, Speaking Bones)