Books
Here, in no particular order, is a non-exhaustive list of most of the books I have read or listened to. They are categorized by recommend (light green), like (blue) and indifferent (light blue).
I plan on adding the rest of the books in my libary, that I have not yet read, at some stage.
- The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
- Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers
- Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
- Turning Points in Middle Eastern History
- The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
- After Tamerlane
- Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
- The Decisive Battles of World History
- More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
- First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
- The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
- Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
- The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
- The Kill Chain: How Emerging Technologies Threaten America's Military Dominance
- The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
- Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
- Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
- The Billion-Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect Drug
- Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
- Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
- The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind
- Counter-shock: The Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s (International Library of Twentieth Century History Book 131)
- Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
- MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
- The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Sa'ud
- The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World
- Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
- Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
- Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century
- Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
- The Basics of Cancer Immunotherapy
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences
- Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World
- Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines
- The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
- Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
- The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
- Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles
- Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
- The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
- The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants
- Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
- The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
- Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
- That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
- Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
- The Arabs: A History
- How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- How China Became Capitalist
- Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
- Gorbachev: His Life and Times
- Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
- Structural change, fundamentals, and growth: A framework and case studies
- One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
- Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America
- Emerging Markets: Resilience and Growth amid Global Turmoil
- The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
- Monetary Policy, a Market Price Approach
- Bailouts or Bail-Ins?: Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Economies
- Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
- The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
- The Invisible Hands: Hedge Funds Off the Record - Rethinking Real Money
- Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders
- Business Cycles, Inflation, and Forecasting
- A Term at the Fed: An Insider's View
- The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
- Hedgehogging
- The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting
- Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
- Applied Financial Macroeconomics and Investment Strategy: A Practitioner’s Guide to Tactical Asset Allocation
- Interest Rates, the Markets, and the New Financial World
- On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir
- Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses
- On China
- The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
- The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
- Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets
- The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America
- The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
- Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
- Capitalism in America: A History
- Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
- Money of the Mind: How the 1980s Got That Way
- Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government
- Connections
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- The Passage of Power
- Master of the Senate
- The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
- Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
- When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
- Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
- Distressed Debt Analysis: Strategies for Speculative Investors
- The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
- Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence
- Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side
- The Fifth Risk
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
- Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
- Predicting the Markets: A Professional Autobiography
- The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
- Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
- The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy
- Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts: Essentials for Buy-Side and Sell-Side Analysts
- The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economics and the Threat of Financial Collapse
- The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
- China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
- The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy
- The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe
- Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy
- The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession
- Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions
- How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
- What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
- Market Wizards
- Hedge Fund Market Wizards
- Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004
- Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
- Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
- The Art of Short Selling
- Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business
- Beating the Street
- One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
- Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase
- Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
- In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
- The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market
- Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- Capital Returns: Investing Through the Capital Cycle: A Money Manager's Reports 2002-15
- The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders
- Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
- World Order
- Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
- The Gene: An Intimate History
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
- The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
- Principles: Life and Work
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- Outliers: The Story of Success The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World
- Confessions of a Street Addict
- The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
- The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
- Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
- Liar's Poker
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
- Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
- Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
- Boomerang: The Biggest Bust
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
- Elon Musk: Tesla, Spacex, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Council on Foreign Relations Books
- Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts