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Books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb recommends 61 books, among them No Bull, Pagans & Christians and Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar.

No Bull

Michael Steinhardt

Money & investing

Pagans & Christians

Robin Lane Fox

Spirituality & religion

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar

Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

Philosophy

Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

Athanasios Papoulis

Science & nature

Probability Theory

S.R.S. Varadhan

Science & nature

Scale

Geoffrey West

Economics & politics

Seeking Wisdom

Peter Bevelin

Philosophy

Social Cognition

Ziva Kunda

Psychology

Statistical Models

David A. Freedman et al.

Science & nature

Straw Dogs

John Gray

Philosophy

The Blank Swan

Elie Ayache

Money & investing

The Discovery of France

Graham Robb

History

The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition

Norman Russell

Spirituality & religion

The Dream of Reason

Anthony Gottlieb

Philosophy

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

John Coates

Money & investing

The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion

Leonard C. MacLean et al.

Money & investing

The Making of a Philosopher

Colin McGinn

Philosophy

The Mind Doesn't Work That Way

Jerry Fodor

Philosophy

The Misbehavior of Markets

Benoit B. Mandelbrot & Richard L. Hudson

Money & investing

The New Financial Order

Robert J. Shiller

Money & investing

The Paradox of Choice

Barry Schwartz

Economics & politics

The Science of Conjecture

James Franklin

History

The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

Johannes Voit

Money & investing

The Status Syndrome

Michael Marmot

Health & fitness

The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

Rory Sutherland

Psychology

The Tyranny of Experts

William Easterly

Economics & politics

The Wisdom Paradox

Elkhonon Goldberg

Psychology

Thinking and Deciding

Jonathan Baron

Philosophy

This Explains Everything

John Brockman

History

Why Everyone Is a Hypocrite

Robert Kurzban

Philosophy