A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Rick Wilson (31 Lists)



Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Biology Of Your Favorite Animal
256 books — 142 voters
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard RhodesCatch-22 by Joseph HellerFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Politics Industry by Katherine M. GehlWhen We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Ingroup
179 books — 56 voters

Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil
Biophysical Economics
12 books — 3 voters
Dune by Frank HerbertThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsChildhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Martian by Andy WeirStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Best Science Fiction
3,889 books — 8,034 voters

Spying on Whales by Nick Pyenson
Shores, Coasts, Deltas, Estuaries, Bays, Open Ocean, and Deep Sea
276 books — 99 voters
Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee
The Economist - Books of the Year, 2019
40 books — 25 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Naval Ravikant's Book Recommendations
36 books — 7 voters
Endurance by Alfred LansingKon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Vicarious Thrills
427 books — 455 voters

Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Favorite Travel Books
2,053 books — 3,996 voters
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
True Life Adventure
396 books — 275 voters

The Signal and the Noise by Nate SilverSuperforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock
Data Science - Learning About Data
135 books — 125 voters
1491 by Charles C. Mann
South America - History and Culture
362 books — 131 voters

Kochland by Christopher LeonardInvisible Women by Caroline Criado PérezRange by David EpsteinThe Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman
FT (Financial Times) McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2019 — the longlist
16 books — 6 voters
The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard MlodinowGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Best Books About Mathematics
466 books — 684 voters

Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
781 books — 1,235 voters
The Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonThe Constitution of the United States of America by Founding FathersThe Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding FathersOn Liberty by John Stuart MillCivil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
966 books — 1,134 voters

Debt by David GraeberCapital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Piketty
Best Economics Books
458 books — 535 voters
The Economics Anti-Textbook by Roderick HillMisbehaving by Richard H. Thaler
Keynesian & Heterodox Economics
35 books — 25 voters

Billion Dollar Whale by Tom WrightBad Blood by John Carreyrou
FT (Financial Times) McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2018 — the longlist
15 books — 36 voters
Black Edge by Sheelah KolhatkarAdaptive Markets by Andrew W. LoThe Spider Network by David Enrich
FT (Financial Times) McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2017 — the longlist
17 books — 22 voters

Adaptive Markets by Andrew W. Lo
FT (Financial Times) McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2017 — the shortlist
6 books — 8 voters
Chaos by James GleickGenome by Matt RidleyThe Tell-Tale Brain by V.S. RamachandranThe Red Queen by Matt Ridley
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,971 books — 3,657 voters

Chaos by James GleickThe Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebScale by Geoffrey B. West
Complexity
162 books — 164 voters
The Martian by Andy WeirThe Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,233 books — 9,157 voters

The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh
Business Biographies and Memoirs
273 books — 387 voters
Options, Futures and Other Derivatives by John C. Hull
Quant Finance
8 books — 2 voters

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,941 books — 125,072 voters
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale CarnegieThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanArt of War by Sun Tzu
The Personal MBA - 99 Best Business Books
212 books — 225 voters


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