Unofficial #RWRI16 Book Recs (aka, the Antilibrary)
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating — 69,675 ratings
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Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications 4.27 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
by:
Judea Pearl
3.94 avg rating — 6,381 ratings 9. 
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Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
by:
Gary Taubes
4.17 avg rating — 9,837 ratings 12. 
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by:
Roger Lowenstein
4.20 avg rating — 30,804 ratings 
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Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop: at Solving the Gordian Knot of Electricity Poverty and Global Warming
by:
Jack Devanney
4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings 16. 
Failure to Learn: The BP Texas City Refinery Disaster
by:
Andrew Hopkins
4.18 avg rating — 114 ratings 17. 
Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories behind the Drugs We Use
by:
Jie Jack Li
3.68 avg rating — 37 ratings 18. 
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.28 avg rating — 39,741 ratings 
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Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
by:
John Gribbin
3.98 avg rating — 1,462 ratings 
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The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal
by:
James Franklin
4.21 avg rating — 58 ratings 
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating — 93,181 ratings 32. 
Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One
by:
Edward O. Thorp
4.15 avg rating — 824 ratings 33. 
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 Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
by:
Edward O. Thorp
4.24 avg rating — 7,498 ratings 35. 
Body by Science: A Research-Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week
by:
John Little
4.10 avg rating — 2,450 ratings 36. 
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
by:
Peter Brannen
4.29 avg rating — 5,874 ratings 37. 
The DAO of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World
by:
Mark Spitznagel
3.87 avg rating — 1,441 ratings 38. 
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by:
Gretchen Bakke
3.87 avg rating — 4,503 ratings 39. 
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by:
David Graeber
4.19 avg rating — 24,319 ratings 40. 
Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance 3.84 avg rating — 9,801 ratings
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Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It
by:
Scott Kupor
4.23 avg rating — 3,994 ratings 42. 
Golding, the Law and Practice of Reinsurance (Monument Series)
by:
Maurice Denny
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
45. 
Modelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability (33))
by:
Paul Embrechts
3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings 
49. 
Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes with Errata Sheet 4.25 avg rating — 148 ratings
52. 
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
by:
Thucydides
3.94 avg rating — 39,936 ratings 
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The Politician's Breviary: A Companion to Leaders and Influencers and Those They Seek to Control it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
57. 
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
by:
Peter Hopkirk
4.33 avg rating — 8,764 ratings 
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The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics
by:
Bradley Tusk
3.87 avg rating — 460 ratings 60. 
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by:
Tim Marshall
4.19 avg rating — 110,341 ratings 
63. 
Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
by:
Colin S. Gray
4.18 avg rating — 153 ratings 
65. 
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics 4.26 avg rating — 10,889 ratings
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Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques 4.27 avg rating — 1,274 ratings
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Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
by:
Stephen Wolfram
3.62 avg rating — 505 ratings 
72. 
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by:
Niall Ferguson
3.90 avg rating — 30,145 ratings 
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Payments Systems in the U.S.: A Guide for the Payments Professional 4.11 avg rating — 462 ratings
75. 
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction
by:
Arvind Narayanan
4.30 avg rating — 408 ratings 76. 
Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs
by:
Morton A. Meyers
3.87 avg rating — 373 ratings 
81. 
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
by:
Robert Kurzban
3.95 avg rating — 863 ratings 82. 
Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
by:
Robin Baker
3.91 avg rating — 2,963 ratings 