My Library and my Anti-Library
2 min readJan 15, 2021
In this post, I describe books I enjoyed reading (Library) and books I would like to read sometime (Anti-Library as coined by Nassim Taleb in his book “The Black Swan”). Maybe this list might be interesting for some of you :)
This post is inspired by Julian Schrittweiser’s list.
Library
Psychology
- Influence
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Why We Love
- Delivering Happiness
- Stumbling on Happiness
- The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Economics
- The Personal MBA
- Pragmatic Capitalism
- The Man Who Solved the Market
- The Little Book That Beats the Market
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
- Irrational Exuberance
- Why Most Things Fail
Entrepreneurship
- 10% Entrepreneur
- Zero to One
- The Lean Startup
Computer Science
- The Ethical Algorithm
- Life 3.0
Life Advice
- Die Kunst des klaren Denkens
- Die Kunst des klugen Handelns
- Emotional First Aid
Biographies
- Steve Jobs
- Elon Musk
PhD
- The PhD Grind
Varia
- Utopia for Realists
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
- Swimming with Sharks
- Prisoners of Geography
- Der Verhandlungsprofi
- The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- Split-Second Persuasion
Malcom Gladwell
- Blink
- David and Goliath
- Outliers
- Talking to Strangers
- Tipping Point
- Range
Yuval Harari
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Nassim Taleb
- Fooled by Randomness
- The Black Swan
- Antifragile
- Skin in the Game
- The Bed of Procrustes
Anti-Library
- The Emotional Brain
- The Geometry of Wealth
- The Decision Book
- Time Smart
- The Happiness Hypothesis
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation
- Human Compatible
- The Art of Seduction
- Coping With Difficult People
- Chaos: Making a new Science
- Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert
- Power
- War
- Mastery
- Hug Your Haters
- The Happiness Hypothesis
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
- Rationality: From AI to Zombies
- The Hard Thing about Hard Things
- Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Sports Gene
- The Thank You Economy
- Think and Grow Rich
- Warren Buffet’s Ground Rules
- What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
- Work Rules!
