Reading List

Last updated Jan 2023

reading

• H. Chang, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
• K. Patterson et al., Crucial Conversations

paused

• J. Heller, Catch-22
• P. Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
• N. Juster and J. Feiffer, The Phantom Tollbooth (second read)

future

• J. Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• P. Veyne et al, A History of Private Life, Volume I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
• C. Mann, 1493

past

2022

• N.N. Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
• N.N. Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
• B. Mandelbrot and R.L. Hudson, The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
• S. Lem, The Cyberiad
• M.S. Sorenson, I Hear You

2021

• K. Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (nth read)
• N.N. Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
• N.N. Taleb, Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
• T. Chiang, Exhalation: Stories
• T. Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
• T. Hodgkinson, An Idler’s Manual

2019

• C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
• J.C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed