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Books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb recommends 65 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 Opposing Shore

Julien Gracq

Fiction

The Paradox of Choice

Barry Schwartz

Economics & politics

The Science of Conjecture

James Franklin

History

The Secret of Fatima

Peter J. Tanous

Fiction

The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

Johannes Voit

Money & investing

The Status Syndrome

Michael Marmot

Health & fitness

The Sunday Philosophy Club

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction

The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

Rory Sutherland

Psychology

The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

Fiction

The Tyranny of Experts

William Easterly

Economics & politics