Red Blooded Risk Recommended List
1. 
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating — 69,676 ratings
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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street 4.18 avg rating — 4,456 ratings
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A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation 3.92 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty
by:
Sam L. Savage
3.86 avg rating — 563 ratings 10. 
Philosophical Lectures on Probability: collected, edited, and annotated by Alberto Mura (Synthese Library, 340)
by:
Bruno De Finetti
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 4.12 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference
by:
Ian Hacking
3.98 avg rating — 243 ratings 
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Barter, Exchange and Value: An Anthropological Approach really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and Culture
by:
Stephen Gudeman
3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings 
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Bronze Age Economics: The Beginnings of Political Economies
by:
Timothy Earle
3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings 24. 
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
by:
Karl Polanyi
4.20 avg rating — 5,131 ratings 
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The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
by:
Paul Seabright
3.68 avg rating — 300 ratings 27. 
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
by:
Niall Ferguson
3.80 avg rating — 612 ratings 28. 
Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
by:
Tim Parks
3.61 avg rating — 1,371 ratings 29. 
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
by:
Stephen Mihm
4.02 avg rating — 154 ratings 30. 
The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse
by:
Jane Kamensky
3.45 avg rating — 109 ratings 31. 
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
by:
Simon Johnson
3.87 avg rating — 3,420 ratings 
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The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort 4.26 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System 3.89 avg rating — 703 ratings
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The Death of the Banker: The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor
by:
Ron Chernow
3.51 avg rating — 959 ratings 37. 
The Greed Merchants: How the Investment Banks Played the Free Market Game
by:
Philip Augar
3.27 avg rating — 41 ratings 38. 
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
by:
Justin Fox
3.85 avg rating — 2,131 ratings 39. 
NOVIIML ing : Exploiting Casino Games from Blackjack to Video Poker
by:
James Grosjean
4.83 avg rating — 18 ratings 40. 
The Theory of Blackjack: The Compleat Card Counter's Guide to the Casino Game of 21
by:
Peter A. Griffin
3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings 41. 
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Gambling and Speculation: A Theory, a History, and a Future of some Human Decisions
by:
Reuven Brenner
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 43. 
Bad Bet : The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, and Danger of America's Gambling Industry 3.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Jackpot Nation: Rambling and Gambling Across Our Landscape of Luck
by:
Richard Hoffer
3.22 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance (The Wiley Finance Series)
by:
Paul Wilmott
4.19 avg rating — 122 ratings 51. 
Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards
by:
Antti Ilmanen
4.37 avg rating — 360 ratings 52. 
Algorithmic Trading And DMA: An Introduction To Direct Access Trading Strategies
by:
Barry Johnson
3.87 avg rating — 154 ratings 53. 
Inside the Black Box: The Simple Truth About Quantitative Trading
by:
Rishi K. Narang
3.73 avg rating — 524 ratings 
55. 
The Handbook of Portfolio Mathematics: Formulas for Optimal Allocation & Leverage
by:
Ralph Vince
4.29 avg rating — 34 ratings 56. 
Finding Alpha: The Search for Alpha When Risk and Return Break Down 3.75 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence 4.09 avg rating — 6,000 ratings
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The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
by:
Scott Patterson
3.89 avg rating — 9,275 ratings 62. 
My Life As A Quant: Reflections On Physics And Finance
by:
Emanuel Derman
3.79 avg rating — 2,720 ratings 63. 
Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets
by:
Steven Drobny
4.04 avg rating — 1,318 ratings 
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Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader
by:
Curtis Faith
3.58 avg rating — 106 ratings 
70. 
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue
by:
David Einhorn
4.01 avg rating — 4,116 ratings 
72. 
Plight of the Fortune Tellers: Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently 3.81 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Coherent Stress Testing: A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Financial Stress 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
77. 
The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations
by:
Dietrich Dörner
3.92 avg rating — 1,004 ratings 78. 
Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
by:
Orrin H. Pilkey
3.53 avg rating — 51 ratings 79. 
The Myth of the Plan: Lessons of Soviet Planning Experience
by:
Peter Rutland
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 80. 
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
by:
Henry Petroski
3.68 avg rating — 2,389 ratings 81. 
Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology
by:
James R. Chiles
4.03 avg rating — 557 ratings 82. 
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
by:
Charles Perrow
4.04 avg rating — 675 ratings 
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The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World
by:
Donald Sull
3.77 avg rating — 60 ratings 85. 
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Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction (The Roundtable Series in Behavioral Economics)
by:
Colin F. Camerer
4.02 avg rating — 110 ratings 
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The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences
by:
Herbert Gintis
3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings 90. 
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating — 129,362 ratings 91. 
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
by:
Robert A. Burton
3.90 avg rating — 2,330 ratings 92. 
Satisfaction: Sensation Seeking, Novelty, and the Science of Finding True Fulfillment
by:
Gregory Berns
3.61 avg rating — 155 ratings 
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All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
by:
Bethany McLean
4.04 avg rating — 7,655 ratings 
98. 
Capital Offense: How Washington's Wise Men Turned America's Future Over to Wall Street
by:
Michael Hirsh
4.08 avg rating — 40 ratings 99. 
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
by:
William D. Cohan
3.94 avg rating — 6,953 ratings 100. 
Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing
by:
Roger Lowenstein
3.85 avg rating — 378 ratings