- The Frugal Cook by Fiona Beckett (Paperback) 1906650535 or 1904573851
- abc Rail Guide 2010
- Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future by Robert B. Reich (Hardcover)
- Kindle price: $11.99
- Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future by Ian Goldin (Hardcover)
- Kindle price: $19.25
- Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
- Kindle price: $12.99
- Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization by John Robb (Hardcover)
- Not on Kindle
- Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities by Jeff Mapes (Paperback)
- Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making by David J. Rothkopf (Hardcover)
- Kindle price: $9.99
- Tried reading, rubbish
- A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers by Patrick Robinson (Paperback)
- The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers by Ram Charan
- Kindle price: $15
- We-Think by Charles Leadbeater http://www.wethinkthebook.net/ has first three chapters.
- One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility (Sporting) by Zack Furness (Paperback)
- Kindle price: $13.72
- What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly (Hardcover)
- Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker (Hardcover)
- Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle by Peter Troob (Paperback)
- The New Elite: Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy by Stephen Kraus (Hardcover)
- Kindle price: $11.04
- The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream by Jeremy Rifkin (Paperback)
- Kindle price: $12.99
- A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization by John Micklethwait (Hardcover)
- Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage by Nicholas Carr
- Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge by Cass R. Sunstein
- The Witling by Vernor Vinge
- Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
- Kindle price: $13.99
- The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Kindle price: $9.99
- Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia by Anthony Townsend
- Kindle price: £16.43
- US Publication Date: 7 Oct 2013
- UK Publication Date: 5 Nov 2013
- Facing the Intelligence Explosion: http://intelligenceexplosion.com/
Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains
- Paperback – 13 May 2003
- by Anne Matthews
- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Buffalo-Roam-Restoring-Americas/dp/0802133398
- Mentioned in 'The End of the Suburbs'
Recommendations
Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards by Antti Ilmanen
- http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119990777.html
- Recommended by Ewan
Market Microstructure Theory by Maureen O'Hara
- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Market-Microstructure-Theory-Maureen-OHara/dp/0631207619
- Recommended by Linda
The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone
- Recommended by Erich
Armed and Dangerous by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Kasrils
- Recommended by Jacob Appelbaum
Internet lists
- Nassim Taleb: http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/02/book-recommendations-from-nassim-taleb/
- Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Average-Is-Over-Powering-Stagnation/dp/0525953736
- http://www.amazon.com/Average-Is-Over-Powering-Stagnation/dp/0525953736
- http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/09/the-economist-reviews-average-is-over.html
- http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21586581-economist-asks-provocative-questions-about-future-social-mobility-american
- http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21586578-americas-income-inequality-growing-again-time-cut-subsidies-rich-and-invest
- http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/26/average_is_over_the_new_book_from_tyler_cowen.html
- Trading for a Living by Alexander Elder [Wiley, 1993]
- recommendation from Trader at Work
- Money: The Unauthorized Biography: Felix Martin
- Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay: John Lanchester
- War in the Age of Intelligent Machines by Manuel de Landa
- mentioned in the introduction of How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
Lists of books
- http://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf
- Goldman Sachs reading list: https://www.quantnet.com/threads/the-goldman-sachs-suggested-reading-list.4916/
- Hacker News books: http://www.hn-books.com/
- http://www.hnreads.com/
- http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/ / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924741
- Quantnet Best-selling quant Books of 2010: https://www.quantnet.com/threads/quantnet-best-selling-quant-books-of-2010.5291/
- Startup reading list: http://www.nicolabortignon.com/startup-reading-list/
- http://themacro.com/articles/2016/07/yc-summer-reading/
- Jacob Lund Fisker: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4511689-jacob
- Derek Sivers: https://sivers.org/book
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-top-business-books-2016-matthew-bishop
- Hacker News: http://toptalkedbooks.com/hackernews/201708
Tim Harford recommends
- The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin Friedman
- mentioned at kilkenomics
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
- Oliver Burkeman
- Wrote The long read: Why time management is ruining our lives
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/22/why-time-management-is-ruining-our-lives
Recommendations
- twitter says: Station Eleven: https://twitter.com/shevski/status/786865541269053440
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CGhI_J87HakT3vgM2eLSAwzLi_v8WctTl3Nirkiu1nM/edit?ts=5a0f1a59#gid=0
- FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2017: https://www.ft.com/content/0481517c-7c47-11e7-ab01-a13271d1ee9c
- Bloomberg 2017 https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-best-books/
- http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2017/12/enlightened-economist-prize-2017-longlist/
- https://medium.com/the-mission/the-50-books-i-read-in-2017-58672722e7e4
- http://www.zdnet.com/article/tech-books-for-christmas-food-for-thought/
- HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16351310
- https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/964110649386299392
- http://jlcollinsnh.com/books/
- https://hackernewsbooks.com/
- https://postmake.io/books
2023
- Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers by Michael Shnayerson