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Thinking in Bets by Annie DukeBad Blood by John CarreyrouThe Power of Habit by Charles DuhiggAtomic Habits by James ClearLearn Better by Ulrich Boser
Farnam Street - What I’m Reading in 2018
78 books — 26 voters
Legacy of Ashes by Tim WeinerThe Triple Agent by Joby WarrickFair Game by Valerie Plame WilsonThe Ghost by Jefferson MorleyGhost Wars by Steve Coll
The Real CIA
180 books — 52 voters

Hitch 22 by Christopher HitchensArguably by Christopher HitchensAnimal Farm / 1984 by George OrwellGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensWhy Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
You don't know Christopher Hitchens until you've read
127 books — 106 voters
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Tartar Steppe by Dino BuzzatiWhat I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim PaulThe (Mis)Behavior of Markets by Benoît B. MandelbrotThinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Book Recommendations
89 books — 50 voters

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Penguin Modern Classics
405 books — 490 voters
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Unconventional, Seductive, Intelligent and Dizzyingly Surreal
741 books — 388 voters

Moneyball by Michael LewisFriday Night Lights by H.G. BissingerSeabiscuit by Laura HillenbrandOpen by Andre AgassiThe Blind Side by Michael Lewis
Top reads for sports fans
963 books — 807 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,381 books — 1,638 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
Well-Written Holocaust Books
930 books — 3,011 voters
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth KolbertBeing Mortal by Atul GawandeAge of Ambition by Evan OsnosCapital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas PikettyThirteen Days in September by Lawrence Wright
The Economist - Books of the Year, 2014
53 books — 36 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
600 books — 2,065 voters
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerJohn Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best History Books
4,048 books — 4,628 voters


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