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===Recent roll===
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as of 14/6/2021
 
The Day of the Jackal — Frederick Forsyth<br>
A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life — Stuart A. Kauffman<br>
Politically Homeless — Matt Forde<br>
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Turned on the West — Catherine Belton<br>
Obliquity — John Kay<br>
Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories — Rob Brotherton<br>
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, Con Artists and Influencers Are Taking Over the Internet - and Why We're Following — Gabrielle Bluestone<br>
Ball Lightning — Cixin Liu<br>
Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions — Gerd Gigerenzer<br>
Frankenstein — Mary Shelley<br>
The Power of Ignorance: How Creative Solutions Emerge When We Admit What We Don’t Know — Dave Trott<br>
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets — Nassim Nicholas Taleb<br>
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space — Stephen Walker<br>
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century — Barbara Tuchman<br>
 
 
As of 10/2/2021
 
{{br|The Good Soldier Svejk}} — {{author|Jaroslav Hasek}} <br>
{{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>


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