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