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Books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb recommends 65 books, among them Zero to One, 1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die and A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes.

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Nonfiction

1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die

Mimi Sheraton

Health & fitness

A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

Peter Bevelin

Philosophy

A Guide to Econometrics

Peter E. Kennedy

Economics & politics

Birth of a Theorem

Cédric Villani

Biography & memoir

Bull!

Maggie Mahar

Money & investing

Bull by the Horns

Sheila Bair

Money & investing

Confessions of a Philosopher

Bryan Magee

History

Consciousness

Susan Blackmore

Philosophy

Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow

Technology

Elements of Information Theory

Thomas M. Cover

Science & nature

Explaining Social Behavior

Jon Elster

Psychology

Financial Derivatives

Jamil Baz & George Chacko

Money & investing

Free The Animal

Richard Nikoley

Health & fitness

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Gary Taubes

Health & fitness

Happy Accidents

Morton A. Meyers

Health & fitness

History of the Mind

Nicholas Humphrey

Psychology

How Nature Works

Per Bak

Science & nature

I Think, Therefore I Laugh

John Allen Paulos

Philosophy

Idea Makers

Stephen Wolfram

History

Information

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Technology

Intellectuals in the Middle Ages

Jacques Le Goff

History

Invariances

Robert Nozick

Philosophy

Kant and the Platypus

Umberto Eco

Philosophy

Mapping the Mind

Rita Carter

Psychology

Mathematics

A. D. Aleksandrov

Philosophy

Mean Genes

Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan

Philosophy

Modelling Extremal Events

Paul Embrechts et al.

Economics & politics

Models. Behaving. Badly.

Emanuel Derman

Money & investing

Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

History