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===Recent roll===
{{recent reads}}
As of 10/2/2021


{{br|The Good Soldier Svejk}} — {{author|Jaroslav Hasek}} <br>
{{c|reviews}}
{{br|A Man for All Markets}} — {{author|Edward O. Thorp}} <br>
{{br|September 1, 1939}} — {{author|Ian Sansom}} <br>
{{br|Leonardo Da Vinci}} — {{author|Walter Isaacson}} <br>
{{br|Strongmen}} — {{author|Ruth Ben-Ghiat}} <br>
{{br|The Death and Life of Great American Cities}} — {{author|Jane Jacobs}} <br>
{{br|Countdown to Zero Day}} —{{author|Kim Zelltner}} <br>
{{br|The Case Against Reality}} <br>
{{br|Killing for Company}} — {{author|Brian Masters}} <br>
{{br|Prediction Machines}} — {{author|Ajar Agrawal}} <br>
{{br|Moneyland}} — {{author|Oliver Burrough}} <br>
{{br|When}} — {{author|Daniel Pink}} <br>
{{br|Seeing Like A State}} — {{author|James C. Scott}} <br>
{{br|How Innovation Works}} — {{author|Matt Ridley}} <br>
{{br|Twilight of Democracy}} — {{author|Anne Applebaum}} <br>
{{br|Face It}} — {{author|Debbie Harry}} <br>
{{br|Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries}} - {{author|Safi Bahcall}} <br>
 
''As of  18/11/20''
 
{{br|Thinking in Systems}} — {{author|Donella H. Meadows}} <Br>
{{br|Happy}} — {{author|Derren Brown}} <br>
{{br|The Artful Dickens}} — {{author|John Mullan}} <br>
{{br|Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race Gender and Identity}} — {{author|Helen Pluckrose}} and {{author|James Lindsay}}<br>
{{br|Death’s End}} — {{author|Cixin Liu}} <br>
{{br|The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations}} — {{author|Sidney Dekker}}<br>
{{br|Fahrenheit 451}} — {{author|Ray Bradbury}} <br>
{{br|Why We Get The Wrong Politicians}} — {{author|Isabel Hardman}} <br>
{{br|Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour under Corbyn}} — {{author|Gabriel Pogrund}} and {{author|Patrick Maguire}}<br>
{{br|Head Hard Heart}} — {{author|David Goodhart}} <br>
{{br|Complexity}} — {{author|M. Mitchell Waldrop}} <br>
{{br|The Dark Forest}} — {{author|Cixin Liu}} <br>
 
''As of 1/9/2020''
 
{{br|The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets}} — {{author|Michael Blastland}} <br>
{{br|The Courage to be Disliked}} — {{author|Ichiro Kishimi}} <br>
{{br|Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric}} — {{author|Ted Mann}} <br>
{{br|Bezonomics}} — {{author|Brian Dumaine}} <br>
{{br|Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us}} — {{author|Daniel Pink}} <br>
{{br|The Spider Network}} — {{author|David Enrich}} <br>
{{br|The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One}} — {{author|William Black}} <br>
{{br|Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future}} — {{author|Peter Thiel}} <br>
{{br|The Three Body Problem}} — {{author|Cixin Liu}} <br>
 
''As of 20/6/2020''
 
{{br|The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time}} — {{author|Joseph Mazur}} <br>
{{br|Seeing Like a State}} — {{author|James C. Scott}} <br>
{{br|Love in the Time of Cholera}} — {{author|Gabriel Garcia Márquez}} <br>
{{br|The Wisdom of Crowds}} — {{author|James Surowiecki}} <br>
{{br|Darke}} — {{author|Rick Gekoski}} <br>
{{br|Meltdown}} — {{author|Chris Clearfield}} and {{author|András Tilcsik}} <br>
{{br|Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction}} — {{author|David Enrich}} <br>
{{br|The Light That Failed: A Reckoning}} —  {{author|Ivan Krastev}} and {{author|Stephen Holmes}} <br>
{{br|A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush}} —  {{author|Eric Newby}} <br>
{{br|The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor}} —  {{author|Mark Schatzker}} <br>
{{br|The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning}}  —  {{author|Jeremy Lent}} <br>
{{br|War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right}} — {{author|Benjamin R. Teitelbaum}} <br>
{{br|Uncanny Valley: A Memoir}} —  {{author|Anna Wiener}} <br>
{{br|The Bystander Effect: Understanding the Psychology of Courage and Inaction}} —  {{author|Catherine Sanderson}} <br>
{{br|Understanding Complexity}} —  {{author|Scott E. Page}} <br>
{{br|Einstein’s War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World}} —  {{author|Matthew Stanley}} <br>
{{br|The Mind Is Flat}} — {{author|Nick Chater}} <br>
 
''As of 1/4/2020''
 
{{br|Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life}} — {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} (re-read!) <br>
{{br|Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies}} — {{author|Charles Perrow}} <br>
{{br|The Silo Effect}} — {{author|Gillian Tett}} <br>
{{br|The Rules of Contagion}} — {{author|Adam Kucharski}} <br>
{{br|The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable}} — {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} (re-read!) <br>
{{br|The Design of Everyday Things}} — {{author|Don Norman}} <br>
{{br|Never Split the Difference}} — {{author|Chris Voss}} <br>
{{br|Why We East (Too Much)}} — {{author|Andrew Jenkinson}} <br>
{{br|How we Know What Isn’t So}} — {{author|Thomas Gilovich}} <br>
{{br|In the Plex}} — {{author|Steven Levy}} <br>
{{br|A World Without Work}} — {{author|Daniel Susskind}} <br>
{{br|The Science of Story Telling}} — {{author|Will Storr}} <br>
{{br|All the Devils are Here}} — {{author|Bethany McLean}} <br>
{{br|Hank}} — {{author|Mark Ribowski}} <br>
{{br|Tools and Weapons}} — {{author|Brad Smith}} <br>
{{br|Last Train to Memphis}} — {{author|Peter Guralnick}} <br>
{{br|The End is Always Near}} — {{author|Dan Carlin}} <br>
{{br|Because Internet}} — {{author|Gretchen McCulloch}} <br>
{{br|The Germans and Europe}} — {{author|Peter Millar}} <br>
{{br|In Europe’s Shadow}} — {{author|Robert D. Kaplan}} <br>
{{br|Red Notice}} — {{author|Bill Browder}} <br>
{{br|The Surprising Science of Meetings}} — {{author|Steven C. Rogelberg}} <br>
{{br|The Madness of Crowds}} — {{author|Douglas Murray}} <br>
{{br|Chernobyl}} — {{author|Serhii Plokhy}} <br>
{{br|The Art of Gathering:How We Meet and Why It Matters}} — {{author|Priya Parker}} <br>
{{br|Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade}} — {{author|Robert Cialdini}} <br>
{{br|Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioural Science to Transform Your Working Life}} — {{author|Caroline Webb}} <br>
{{br|Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion}} — {{author|Robert Cialdini}} <br>
{{br|Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder}} — {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} <br>
{{br|Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life}} — {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} <br>
{{br|The Book of Why}} — {{author|Judea Pearl}} <br>
{{br|Time Travel}} — {{author|James Gleick}} <br>
{{br|Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction}} — {{author|Phillip Tetlock}} <br>
{{br|Superpumped:The Battle for Uber}} — {{author|Mike Isaac}} <br>
{{br|Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking}} — {{author|Matthew Syed}} <br>
{{br|Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust}} — {{author|Gary Marcus}} & {{author|Ernest Davis}} <br>
{{br|Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter}} — {{author|Scott Adams}} <br>
{{br|The World of Yesterday}} — {{author|Stefan Zweig}} <br>
{{br|The Information}} — {{author|James Gleick}} <br>
{{br|Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don’t Make Sense}} — {{author|Rory Sutherland}} <br>
{{br|Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialised World}} — {{author|David Epstein}} <br>
{{br|The Goal}} — {{author|Eliyahu Goldratt}} <br>
{{br|Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics}} — {{author|Richard Thaler}} <br>
{{br|Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup}} — {{author|John Carreyrou}} <br>
 
===The [[Daniel Dennett]] collection===
*{{br|Darwin’s Dangerous Idea}}
*{{br|Consciousness Explained}}
*{{br|Freedom Evolves}}
*{{br|Breaking the Spell}}
*{{Br|From Bacteria to Bach and Back Again}}
 
==={{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}}’s “Incerto” collection===
{{br|Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets}}<br>
{{br|The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable}} <br>
{{br|Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life}} <br>
{{br|Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder}}
 
===Rip-snorting business books===
{{br|Barbarians at the Gate}} - {{author|Bryan Burrough}}
{{br|Liar’s Poker}}
 
===Science, mathematics and the philosophy of science===
{{br|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}} - {{author|Thomas Kuhn}} <br>
{{br|A Grand Design}} - {{author|Stephen Hawking}} <br>
{{br|Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos}} - {{author|Roger Lewin}} <br>
{{br|Consilience}} - {{author|E. O. Wilson}} <br>
{{br|Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality can be a Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life}} - {{author|Emanuel Derman}} <br>
{{br|How to Teach Quantum Physics to your Dog}} - {{author|Chad Orzal}} <br>
{{br|The Dappled World – A Study of the Boundaries of Science}} - {{author|Nancy Cartwright}} <br>
{{br|Lake Views: This World and the Universe}} - {{author|Steven Weinberg}} <br>
{{br|The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives}} - {{author|Leonard Mlodinow}} <br>
{{br|The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next}} - {{author|Lee Smolin}} <br>
 
===Good books about technology===
{{br|Code: Version 2.0}} - {{author|Lawrence Lessig}} <br>
{{br|The Nature of Technology: What it is and How it Evolves}} - {{author|Brian Arthur}} <br>
 
===Bad books about technology===
{{br|Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization}} – {{author|Parag Khanna}} and {{author|Ayesha Khanna}} <br>
{{br|The Singularity is Near}} - {{author|Ray Kurzweil}} <br>
 
===Business and process engineering===
{{br|Blockbusters: Why Big Hits - and Big Risks - Are the Future of the Entertainment Business}} - {{author|Anita Elberse}} <br>
{{br|Enterprise 2.0}} – {{author|Andrew MacAfee}} <br>
{{br|Steve Jobs}} - {{author|Walter Isaacson}} <br>
{{br|The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right}} - {{author|Atul Gawande}} <br>
{{br|The Design of Business: Why Design is the Next Competitive Advantage}} - {{author|Roger Martin}} <br>
{{br|Rework}} - {{author|Jason Fried}}
 
===Writing and the law===
{{br|How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One}} - {{author|Stanley Fish}} <br>
 
===Good books about philosophy and psychology===
{{br|Man’s Search for Meaning}} - {{author|Viktor Frankl}} <br>
{{br|The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind}} - {{author|Julian Jaynes}} <br>
{{br|Thinking, Fast and Slow}} - {{author|Daniel Kahneman}} <br>
{{br|Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance}} - {{author|Robert M. Pirsig}} <br>
 
===Bad books about philosophy ===
{{br|Affluenza}} - {{author|Oliver James}} <br>
{{br|The God Delusion}} - {{author|Richard Dawkins}} <br>
 
{{c|The Devil’s Advocate}}

Latest revision as of 13:24, 24 January 2024

Recent roll

as of 14/6/2021

The Day of the Jackal — Frederick Forsyth
A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life — Stuart A. Kauffman
Politically Homeless — Matt Forde
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Turned on the West — Catherine Belton
Obliquity — John Kay
Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories — Rob Brotherton
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, Con Artists and Influencers Are Taking Over the Internet - and Why We're Following — Gabrielle Bluestone
Ball Lightning — Cixin Liu
Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions — Gerd Gigerenzer
Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
The Power of Ignorance: How Creative Solutions Emerge When We Admit What We Don’t Know — Dave Trott
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space — Stephen Walker
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century — Barbara Tuchman


As of 10/2/2021

The Good Soldier Svejk — Jaroslav Hasek
A Man for All Markets — Edward O. Thorp
September 1, 1939 — Ian Sansom
Leonardo Da Vinci — Walter Isaacson
Strongmen — Ruth Ben-Ghiat
The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs
Countdown to Zero Day —Kim Zelltner
The Case Against Reality
Killing for Company — Brian Masters
Prediction Machines — Ajar Agrawal
Moneyland — Oliver Burrough
When — Daniel Pink
Seeing Like A State — James C. Scott
How Innovation Works — Matt Ridley
Twilight of Democracy — Anne Applebaum
Face It — Debbie Harry
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries - Safi Bahcall

As of 18/11/20

Thinking in Systems — Donella H. Meadows
Happy — Derren Brown
The Artful Dickens — John Mullan
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race Gender and Identity — Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
Death’s End — Cixin Liu
The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations — Sidney Dekker
Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
Why We Get The Wrong Politicians — Isabel Hardman
Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour under Corbyn — Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire
Head Hard Heart — David Goodhart
Complexity — M. Mitchell Waldrop
The Dark Forest — Cixin Liu

As of 1/9/2020

The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets — Michael Blastland
The Courage to be Disliked — Ichiro Kishimi
Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric — Ted Mann
Bezonomics — Brian Dumaine
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us — Daniel Pink
The Spider Network — David Enrich
The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One — William Black
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future — Peter Thiel
The Three Body Problem — Cixin Liu

As of 20/6/2020

The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time — Joseph Mazur
Seeing Like a State — James C. Scott
Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel Garcia Márquez
The Wisdom of Crowds — James Surowiecki
Darke — Rick Gekoski
Meltdown — Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction — David Enrich
The Light That Failed: A Reckoning — Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush — Eric Newby
The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor — Mark Schatzker
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning — Jeremy Lent
War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right — Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir — Anna Wiener
The Bystander Effect: Understanding the Psychology of Courage and Inaction — Catherine Sanderson
Understanding Complexity — Scott E. Page
Einstein’s War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World — Matthew Stanley
The Mind Is Flat — Nick Chater

As of 1/4/2020

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (re-read!)
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies — Charles Perrow
The Silo Effect — Gillian Tett
The Rules of Contagion — Adam Kucharski
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (re-read!)
The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss
Why We East (Too Much) — Andrew Jenkinson
How we Know What Isn’t So — Thomas Gilovich
In the Plex — Steven Levy
A World Without Work — Daniel Susskind
The Science of Story Telling — Will Storr
All the Devils are Here — Bethany McLean
Hank — Mark Ribowski
Tools and Weapons — Brad Smith
Last Train to Memphis — Peter Guralnick
The End is Always Near — Dan Carlin
Because Internet — Gretchen McCulloch
The Germans and Europe — Peter Millar
In Europe’s Shadow — Robert D. Kaplan
Red Notice — Bill Browder
The Surprising Science of Meetings — Steven C. Rogelberg
The Madness of Crowds — Douglas Murray
Chernobyl — Serhii Plokhy
The Art of Gathering:How We Meet and Why It Matters — Priya Parker
Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade — Robert Cialdini
Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioural Science to Transform Your Working Life — Caroline Webb
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion — Robert Cialdini
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Book of Why — Judea Pearl
Time Travel — James Gleick
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction — Phillip Tetlock
Superpumped:The Battle for Uber — Mike Isaac
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking — Matthew Syed
Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust — Gary Marcus & Ernest Davis
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter — Scott Adams
The World of Yesterday — Stefan Zweig
The Information — James Gleick
Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don’t Make Sense — Rory Sutherland
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialised World — David Epstein
The Goal — Eliyahu Goldratt
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics — Richard Thaler
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup — John Carreyrou

The Daniel Dennett collection

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Incerto” collection

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

Rip-snorting business books

Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough Liar’s Poker

Science, mathematics and the philosophy of science

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn
A Grand Design - Stephen Hawking
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos - Roger Lewin
Consilience - E. O. Wilson
Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality can be a Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life - Emanuel Derman
How to Teach Quantum Physics to your Dog - Chad Orzal
The Dappled World – A Study of the Boundaries of Science - Nancy Cartwright
Lake Views: This World and the Universe - Steven Weinberg
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow
The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next - Lee Smolin

Good books about technology

Code: Version 2.0 - Lawrence Lessig
The Nature of Technology: What it is and How it Evolves - Brian Arthur

Bad books about technology

Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization – Parag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna
The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil

Business and process engineering

Blockbusters: Why Big Hits - and Big Risks - Are the Future of the Entertainment Business - Anita Elberse
Enterprise 2.0 – Andrew MacAfee
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande
The Design of Business: Why Design is the Next Competitive Advantage - Roger Martin
Rework - Jason Fried

Writing and the law

How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One - Stanley Fish

Good books about philosophy and psychology

Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig

Bad books about philosophy

Affluenza - Oliver James
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

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