Books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options (1997)

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001)

The Black Swan: Second Edition – The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007)

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2014)

Incerto (2016)

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (2018)

Incerto (Deluxe Edition) (2019)

Books Recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Biographies and Memoirs

Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure – Cédric Villani

Confessions of a Philosopher – Bryan Magee

Idea Makers – Stephen Wolfram

No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets – Michael Steinhardt

Business and Money

A Guide to Econometrics – 4th Edition – Peter E. Kennedy

Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense – Rory Sutherland

Financial Derivatives: Pricing, Applications, and Mathematics – Jamil Baz and George Chacko

Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life – Emanuel Derman

The (Mis)behavior of Markets – Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson

The Blank Swan: The End of Probability – Elie Ayache

The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success – Albert-László Barabási

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust – John Coates

The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century – Robert J. Shiller

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less – Barry Schwartz

Computers and Technology

Deep Learning – Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville

How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality – Per Bak

Social Cognition: Making Sense of People – Ziva Kunda

The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction – Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman

Health, Fitness and Dieting

Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food – Terry Burnham

A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness – Nicholas Humphrey

Body by Science – John Little and Doug McGuff

Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet – Richard Nikoley

Good Calories, Bad Calories – Gary Taubes

Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs – Morton A. Meyers

Mapping the Mind – Rita Carter

Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious – Timothy D. Wilson

The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older – Elkhonon Goldberg

History

A History of Private Life, Volumes I–V – Paul Veyne, Philippe Ariès, Georges Duby

Bull by the Horns – Sheila Bair

Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982–1999 – Maggie Mahar

The Discovery of France – Graham Robb

The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition – Norman Russell

The French Revolution and What Went Wrong – Stephen Clarke

Who We Are and How We Got Here – David Reich

Politics, Humanities and Social Sciences

Consciousness: An Introduction – Susan Blackmore

Explaining Social Behavior – Jon Elster

I Think, Therefore I Laugh – John Allen Paulos

Intellectuals in the Middle Ages – Jacques Le Goff

Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World – Robert Nozick

Kant and the Platypus – Umberto Eco

Order without Design – Alain Bertaud

Perilous Interventions – Hardeep Singh Puri

Seeking Wisdom – Peter Bevelin

The Dream of Reason – Anthony Gottlieb

The Mind Doesn't Work That Way – Jerry A. Fodor

The Status Syndrome – Michael Marmot

The Tyranny of Experts – William Easterly

Thinking and Deciding – Jonathan Baron

Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite – Robert Kurzban

Science and Math

Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences – Didier Sornette

Information: The New Language of Science – Hans Christian von Baeyer

Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning – Aleksandrov, Kolmogorov, Lavrent'ev

Modelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance – Embrechts, Klüppelberg, Mikosch

Probability Theory (Courant Lecture Notes) – S. R. S. Varadhan

Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes – Papoulis, Pillai

Rational Decisions – Ken Binmore

Statistical Models: Theory and Practice – David Freedman

The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion: Theory and Practice – MacLean, Thorp, Ziemba

The Science of Conjecture – James Franklin

The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets – Johannes Voit

Why Stock Markets Crash – Didier Sornette

Literature and Fiction

A Burnt-Out Case – Graham Greene

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes – Peter Bevelin

A Love Affair – Dino Buzzati

Albertine Gone – Marcel Proust

Amerika: The Missing Person – Franz Kafka

Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti

Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen

Clea – Lawrence Durrell

Climates – André Maurois

Collected Fictions – Jorge Luis Borges

Death in Venice – Thomas Mann

Demons – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ferdydurke – Witold Gombrowicz

Flaubert's Parrot – Julian Barnes

History: A Novel – Elsa Morante

Hotel Du Lac – Anita Brookner

How Proust Can Change Your Life – Alain de Botton

Howard's End – E. M. Forster

I, Claudius – Robert Graves

Immortality – Milan Kundera

In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove – Marcel Proust

Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Justine (Alexandria Quartet) – Lawrence Durrell

Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell

Lady L. – Romain Gary

Leo Africanus – Amin Maalouf

Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine) – André Malraux

Memoirs of an Anti-Semite – Gregor von Rezzori

Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar

Nadja – André Breton

Paulina 1880 – Pierre-Jean Jouve

Silk – Alessandro Baricco

The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati

The Complete Essays – Michel de Montaigne

The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle

The End of the Affair – Graham Greene

The Girls – Henry de Montherlant

The Lost Estate – Alain-Fournier

The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann

The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1 – Robert Musil

The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq

The Razor's Edge – W. Somerset Maugham

The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

The Secret of Fatima – Peter J. Tanous

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

The Sunday Philosophy Club – Alexander McCall Smith

The Tattered Cloak – Nina Berberova

The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

The Woman of Rome – Alberto Moravia

Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck

Travels with My Aunt – Graham Greene

Villa Triste: A Novel – Patrick Modiano

Others

1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die – Mimi Sheraton

Modern Aramaic-English / English–Modern Aramaic Dictionary – Nicholas Awde