Well, I did it again, more than one year without a blog post. As soon as I realized that, I decided to quickly put together my last year's book list. In 2015, I finished a book almost every week or two. Her is the list, in no particular order:
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
How to lie with statistics by Darrell Huff
The world according to Peter Drucker by Jack Beatty
Capital in the twenty-first century by Thomas Piketty.
I must admit that I didn't quite get to finish this one.
Common stocks and uncommon profits and other writings by Philip A. Fisher
The education of a value investor : my transformative quest for wealth, wisdom and enlightenment by Guy Spier
Zero to one : notes on startups, or how to build the future by Peter Thiel
The smartest kids in the world : and how they got that way / Amanda Ripley
I would highly recommend this to anyone with a schoolgoing kid or with an interest in education.
How not to be wrong : the power of mathematical thinking / Jordan Ellenberg
by Paul Vigna and Michael Casey
Soros on Soros : staying ahead of the curve / George Soros with Byron Wien and Krisztina Koenen.
Do no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery / Henry Marsh
This is a fascinating account of a brain surgeons life. Witty and wonderful story telling.
When to rob a bank : ... and 131 more warped suggestions and well-intended rants by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
A history of religious ideas / Mircea Eliade ; translated from the French by Willard R. Trask
The crisis of capitalist democracy / Richard A. Posner.
Influence: the psychology of persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini.
The Pentagon's brain: an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency by Annie Jacobsen
How Google works / Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, with Alan Eagle.
The age of discontinuity: guidelines to our changing society / Peter F. Drucker
Business strategy: a guide to effective decision-making by Kourdi, Jeremy/The Economist
Managing in a time of great change by Peter Drucker
The Hard thing about hard things by Ben Horowitz
Holocracy: The new management system for a rapidly changing world by Brian Robertson
Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's partition by Nisid Hajari
A very good summary and analysis by the another of favorite authors (William Dalrymple) can be found in a New Yorker article, the Great Divide.
Heads in Beds: a Reckless Memoir by Jacob Tomsky
Funny memoir and account of what happens behind the scenes in a hotel.
Empire of the Moghuls: Traitors in the Shadows by Alex Rutherford
The sixth and final installment of the Empire of the Moghuls series, covering Aurangzeb.
Being Mortal: medicine and what matters in the end, by Atul Gawade.
Duty: memoirs of a secretary at war, by Robert Gates.
This wasn't too difficult to compile, all I had to do is to go to my Kindle library and also my library receipts that I have them send electronically. I still need to compile by 2009-2013 list. Soon.
Feel free to add related suggestions in the comments.
