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Nassim Taleb Book Recommendations (80 Books)

Nassim Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, mathematical statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst.

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Books Recommended by Nassim Taleb

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Models.Behaving.Badly.

Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

Emanuel Derman

Source: "Convincingly establishes the difference between model and theory and shows why attempts to model financial markets can never be genuinely scientific." - Nassim Taleb

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Source: "A landmark book in social thought, in the same league as The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud." - Nassim Taleb

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Zero to One

Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel

Source: "When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of [this author], read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic." - Nassim Taleb

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The Invisible Gorilla

And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us

Christopher F. Chabris

Source: "The illusion of attention is one of the most important, surprising, and least known flaws in human thinking. This lucid book examines it in detail." - Nassim Taleb

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Probability Theory

A Concise Course

Y. A. Rozanov

Source: "Gives a complete overview of the basis of probability theory with some grounding in measure theory, and presents the main proofs." - Nassim Taleb

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Free The Animal

How to Lose Weight and Fat on the Paleo Diet

Richard Nikoley

Source: "A charming primer on the paleo idea, with an illustration through the authors own life. I read it in one sitting." - Nassim Taleb

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Information

The New Language of Science

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Source: "If you want an introduction to information theory, and, in a way, probability theory from the real front door, this is it." - Nassim Taleb

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Blueprint

The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

Nicholas A. Christakis

Source: "Excited to get [this book] as I am trying to go deeper into the notion of fractal (multiscale) localism & see what's wrong w/my thesis" - Nassim Taleb

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The Mind Doesn't Work That Way

The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology

Jerry A. Fodor

Source: "Horribly written (that is Fodor's charm after all) but his argumentation is so ferocious that he ends up loud & clear." - Nassim Taleb

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The Formula

The Universal Laws of Success

Albert-László Barabási

Source: "[Approaches] the problem of randomness and success using the state of the art scientific arsenal we have." - Nassim Taleb

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No Bull

My Life In and Out of Markets

Michael Steinhardt

Source: "The man is one of the greatest traders in history. There are a few jewels in there." - Nassim Taleb

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The Sunday Philosophy Club

Isabel Dalhousie, Book 1

Alexander McCall Smith

Source: "I don't want to spoil the story but I felt that I was reading a detective story until I realized what it was..." - Nassim Taleb

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The Wisdom Paradox

How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older

Elkhonon Goldberg

Source: "I am now spoiled; I need more essays by opinionated, original,and intellectual, contemporary scientists." - Nassim Taleb

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Bull!

A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004

Maggie Mahar

Source: "[The author] had the courage to take a look at what was behind all of this religious belief in markets." - Nassim Taleb

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The Status Syndrome

How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity

Michael Marmot

Source: "Well written, humorous at times, and rigorous --it reads like a well-translated scientific paper." - Nassim Taleb

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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...

Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

Thomas Cathcart

Source: "Like a brief drink in an airplane lounge with someone funny, smart, witty, but not too funny." - Nassim Taleb

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The Blank Slate

The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker

Source: "A great exposition of modern scientific thinking and understanding of the nature of man." - Nassim Taleb

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Financial Derivatives

Pricing, Applications, and Mathematics

Jamil Baz

Source: "A condensed, but extremely deep , and complete exposition of the subject of theoretical finance." - Nassim Taleb

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The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion

Leonard C. MacLean

Source: "Finally, a compendium of the most rigorous research (gamblers ruin based) on risky decisions." - Nassim Taleb

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Rational Decisions

Ken Binmore

Source: "Presents a comprehensive set of the principles and axioms behind neo-classical economics." - Nassim Taleb

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The Elements of Statistical Learning

Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

Trevor Hastie

Source: "Very comprehensive, sufficiently technical to get most of the plumbing behind machine learning." - Nassim Taleb

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The Blank Swan

The End of Probability

Elie Ayache

Source: "I am relieved to finally find a book that deals with Black Swan Events in a new way." - Nassim Taleb

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Perilous Interventions

The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos

Hardeep Singh Puri

Source: "Should be mandatory reading to every student and practitioner of foreign affairs." - Nassim Taleb

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Good Calories, Bad Calories

Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health

Gary Taubes

Source: "Read it twice, once for the diet, once a a rich document in the history of science." - Nassim Taleb

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Order without Design

How Markets Shape Cities

Alain Bertaud

Source: "It is a pleasure to read something by a person who knows his subject in so much depth." - Nassim Taleb

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Alchemy

The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

Rory Sutherland

Source: "Wonderfully applicable to about everything in life. Furthermore, it is funny as hell." - Nassim Taleb

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Seeking Wisdom

From Darwin to Munger

Peter Bevelin

Source: "A wonderful book on wisdom and decision-making written by a wise decision-maker." - Nassim Taleb

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Adapt

Why Success Always Starts with Failure

Tim Harford

Source: "A highly readable, even entertaining, argument against top-down design." - Nassim Taleb

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Market Wizards

Interviews with Top Traders

Jack D. Schwager

Source: "Twenty years from now, [this book] will still be fresh. There is no other like it." - Nassim Taleb

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Kant and the Platypus

Essays on Language and Cognition

Umberto Eco

Source: "I was taken aback by the combination of depth and the vividness of the style." - Nassim Taleb

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Birth of a Theorem

Cédric Villani

Source: "[The author] is playful in real life, his research is playful, and [this book] is playful." - Nassim Taleb

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Confessions of a Philosopher

A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to Popper

Bryan Magee

Source: "[The author] was close enough to Popper to present us with his ideas first-hand." - Nassim Taleb

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A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

Peter Bevelin

Source: "It makes you both wiser and eager to reread Sherlock Holmes." - Nassim Taleb

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Mathematics

Its Content, Methods and Meaning

A. D. Aleksandrov

Source: "Mathematicians should be using this book as a model for their own composition." - Nassim Taleb

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The Making of a Philosopher

My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Colin McGinn

Source: "A great book but I felt something cold inside of me while reading it." - Nassim Taleb

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The Science of Conjecture

Evidence and Probability before Pascal

James Franklin

Source: "Stands above, way above other books on the history and philosophy of probability." - Nassim Taleb

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Deep Learning

A Practitioner's Approach

Josh Patterson

Source: "Very clear exposition, does the math without getting lost in the details." - Nassim Taleb

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The Dao of Capital

Austrian Investing in a Distorted World

Mark Spitznagel

Source: "At last, a real book by a real risk-taking practitioner." - Nassim Taleb

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I Think, Therefore I Laugh

John Allen Paulos

Source: "Great refresher in Analytical Philosophy --maybe the best." - Nassim Taleb

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The Misbehavior of Markets

A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

Benoit Mandelbrot

Source: "The deepest and most realistic finance book ever published." - Nassim Taleb

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Social Cognition

Making Sense of People

Ziva Kunda

Source: "It is limpid, precise, illustrative, showing a wonderful clarity of mind." - Nassim Taleb

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: "This treasure will prevent you from enjoying other novels." - Nassim Taleb

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The French Revolution and What Went Wrong

Clarke Stephen

Source: "So much fun to read. The author, visibly writes with an attitude." - Nassim Taleb

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Modern Aramaic-English/English-Modern Aramaic Dictionary & Phrasebook

Assyrian/Syriac

Nicholas Awde

Source: "Most excellent, except for very few and small mistakes." - Nassim Taleb

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The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

Johannes Voit

Source: "Very useful bridge between physics methodologies and finance." - Nassim Taleb

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Hopping over the Rabbit Hole

How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success

Anthony Scaramucci

Source: "So gripping you can read it standing up. A must read." - Nassim Taleb

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Invariances

The Structure of the Objective World

Robert Nozick

Source: "Like a manual for a new regimen in philosophy." - Nassim Taleb

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Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges

Source: "How literature and philosophy can be saved by parables." - Nassim Taleb

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Scale

The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

Geoffrey West

Source: "Will expand your thinking from three dimensions to four." - Nassim Taleb

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Idea Makers

Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People

Stephen Wolfram

Source: "Excellent! Only read on mathematicians by insiders." - Nassim Taleb

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A Guide to Econometrics

Peter Kennedy

Source: "The best intuition builder in both statitics and econometrics." - Nassim Taleb

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Mean Genes

From Sex To Money To Food

Terry Burnham

Source: "So readable as to perhaps set a standard." - Nassim Taleb

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Bull by the Horns

Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

Sheila Bair

Source: "The account of a person who says it the way it was." - Nassim Taleb

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Mapping the Mind

Rita Carter

Source: "Great reference book, very pedagogical." - Nassim Taleb

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The Opposing Shore

Julien Gracq

Source: "Once you enter it, you are stuck there." - Nassim Taleb

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How Nature Works

The Science of Self-organized Criticality

Per Bak

Source: "Intuitive & makes you think of universal laws." - Nassim Taleb

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Explaining Social Behavior

More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

Jon Elster

Source: "Simply the best: read it at least twice." - Nassim Taleb

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Consciousness

An Introduction

Susan Blackmore

Source: "Comprehensive, clear, well written." - Nassim Taleb

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Who We Are and How We Got Here

Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

David Reich

Source: "Finally, science enters historical fields." - Nassim Taleb

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The Discovery of France

A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War

Graham Robb

Source: "An answer to so many questions." - Nassim Taleb

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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind

John Coates

Source: "Excellent exposition of overcompensation." - Nassim Taleb

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Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

Athanasios Papoulis

Source: "I always always recommend [this book]." - Nassim Taleb

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A History of the Mind

Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness

Nicholas Humphrey

Source: "Clarity, so rare, so prized..." - Nassim Taleb

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The Dream of Reason

A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

Anthony Gottlieb

Source: "Deep, readable & investigative." - Nassim Taleb

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Happy Accidents

Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century

Morton Meyers MD

Source: "Please Please READ This Book! Read it TWICE!" - Nassim Taleb

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The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition

Norman Russell

Source: "The most complete overview of theosis." - Nassim Taleb

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The Secret of Fatima

A Father Kevin Thrall Thriller

Peter J. Tanous

Source: "James Bond as a Catholic Priest." - Nassim Taleb

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Elements of Information Theory

Thomas M. Cover

Source: "The BEST book [on information theory]." - Nassim Taleb

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The Bitcoin Standard

The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

Saifedean Ammous

Source: "Bitcoin is an excellent idea." - Nassim Taleb

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The Practice of Natural Movement

Reclaim Power, Health, and Freedom

Erwan Le Corre

Source: "Excited to find in my mailbox [this book]." - Nassim Taleb

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Statistical Models

Theory and Practice

David Freedman

Source: "The best statistics book I've seen." - Nassim Taleb

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A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

Source: "Not a book, but a monument." - Nassim Taleb

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1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die

A Food Lover's Life List

Mimi Sheraton

Source: "This is THE reference book." - Nassim Taleb

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Thinking and Deciding

Jonathan Baron

Source: "I am buying a second copy." - Nassim Taleb

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The Longevity Solution

Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life

Dr. James DiNicolantonio

Source: "Incredibly well made book." - Nassim Taleb

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Modelling Extremal Events

For Insurance and Finance

Paul Embrechts

Source: "The bible for the field." - Nassim Taleb

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Body by Science

A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week

John R. Little

Source: "I owe a lot to this book." - Nassim Taleb

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Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

Source: "A masterpiece." - Nassim Taleb

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The Complete Guide to Fasting

Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting

Dr. Jason Fung

Source: "An excellent book!" - Nassim Taleb

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Intellectuals in the Middle Ages

Jacques Le Goff

Source: "Excellent book." - Nassim Taleb

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Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails

The Logic and Statistics of Fat Tails

Skin in the Game

Incerto, Book 5

Antifragile

Incerto, Book 3

The Bed of Procrustes

The Black Swan

Incerto, Book 2

Fooled by Randomness

The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

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Nassim Taleb Book Recommendations (80 Books)

Models.Behaving.Badly.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Zero to One

The Invisible Gorilla

Probability Theory

Free The Animal

Information

Blueprint

The Mind Doesn't Work That Way

The Formula

No Bull

The Sunday Philosophy Club

The Wisdom Paradox

Bull!

The Status Syndrome

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...

The Blank Slate

Financial Derivatives

The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion

Rational Decisions

The Elements of Statistical Learning

The Blank Swan

Perilous Interventions

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Order without Design

Alchemy

Seeking Wisdom

Adapt

Market Wizards

Kant and the Platypus

Birth of a Theorem

Confessions of a Philosopher

A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

Mathematics

The Making of a Philosopher

The Science of Conjecture

Deep Learning

The Dao of Capital

I Think, Therefore I Laugh

The Misbehavior of Markets

Social Cognition

The Count of Monte Cristo

The French Revolution and What Went Wrong

Modern Aramaic-English/English-Modern Aramaic Dictionary & Phrasebook

The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

Hopping over the Rabbit Hole

Invariances

Ficciones

Scale

Idea Makers

A Guide to Econometrics

Mean Genes

Bull by the Horns

Mapping the Mind

The Opposing Shore

How Nature Works

Explaining Social Behavior

Consciousness

Who We Are and How We Got Here

The Discovery of France

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

A History of the Mind

The Dream of Reason

Happy Accidents

The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition

The Secret of Fatima

Elements of Information Theory

The Bitcoin Standard

The Practice of Natural Movement

Statistical Models

A New Kind of Science

1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die

Thinking and Deciding

The Longevity Solution

Modelling Extremal Events

Body by Science