Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/76105804-rick-wilson">Rick Wilson</a> (31 Lists)

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

What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer

Books about U.S. Presidential Elections (nonfiction)

118 books — 67 voters

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

100 books — 11 voters

Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Biology Of Your Favorite Animal

256 books — 138 voters

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Politics Industry by Katherine M. Gehl

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

179 books — 56 voters

Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil

Biophysical Economics

12 books — 3 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

The Martian by Andy Weir

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Best Science Fiction

3,851 books — 7,876 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 Darwin

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Naval Ravikant's Book Recommendations

36 books — 7 voters

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Vicarious Thrills

425 books — 455 voters

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

Favorite Travel Books

2,049 books — 3,982 voters

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

True Life Adventure

394 books — 268 voters

The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock

Data Science - Learning About Data

134 books — 121 voters

1491 by Charles C. Mann

South America - History and Culture

362 books — 131 voters

Kochland by Christopher Leonard

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez

Range by David Epstein

The 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 Mlodinow

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Best Books About Mathematics

458 books — 676 voters

Dry by Augusten Burroughs

Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs

772 books — 1,164 voters

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The Constitution of the United States of America by Founding Fathers

The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding Fathers

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau

Best Books to Become an Informed Voter

954 books — 1,120 voters

Debt by David Graeber

Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Piketty

Best Economics Books

457 books — 533 voters

The Economics Anti-Textbook by Roderick Hill

Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler

Keynesian & Heterodox Economics

35 books — 25 voters

Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

FT (Financial Times) McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2018 — the longlist

15 books — 36 voters

Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar

Adaptive Markets by Andrew W. Lo

The 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 Gleick

Genome by Matt Ridley

The Tell-Tale Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

The Red Queen by Matt Ridley

Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only

1,952 books — 3,636 voters

Chaos by James Gleick

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Scale by Geoffrey B. West

163 books — 165 voters

The Martian by Andy Weir

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century

1,198 books — 9,103 voters

The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh

Business Biographies and Memoirs

269 books — 382 voters

Options, Futures and Other Derivatives by John C. Hull

8 books — 2 voters

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,825 books — 124,590 voters

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Personal MBA - 99 Best Business Books

208 books — 221 voters

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