The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Read twice, pre- and post-MBA. Start here.

Same as Ever

Morgan Housel

The Art of Spending Money

Morgan Housel

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein

The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner

The methodology behind the show's predictions scorecard.

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

Rory Sutherland

Mastering the Market Cycle

Howard Marks

A Man for All Markets

Edward O. Thorp

The Misbehavior of Markets

Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard Hudson

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

What Works on Wall Street

James O'Shaughnessy

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Edwin Lefèvre

Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis

The Smartest Guys in the Room

Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind

Trillion Dollar Triage

Nick Timiraos

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Red Notice

Bill Browder

Richer, Wiser, Happier

William Green

Money Stuff

Matt Levine

Chip War

Chris Miller

Apple in China

Patrick McGee

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

Dan Wang

Material World

Ed Conway

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

William Bernstein

Why Nothing Works

Marc J. Dunkelman

How to Win a Trade War

Soumaya Keynes, Chad P. Bown

Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities

Alain Bertaud

The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy

Ray D. Madoff

Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation

Byrne Hobart, Tobias Huber

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

Peter Zeihan

Factfulness

Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

The Fourth Turning

William Strauss, Neil Howe

The Fourth Turning Is Here

Neil Howe

Of Boys and Men

Richard Reeves

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman

The Sovereign Individual

James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg

The Status Game

Will Storr

Escape from Freedom

Erich Fromm

Skunk Works

Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

The Goal

Eliyahu Goldratt, Jeff Cox

The Phoenix Project

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

Lessons from the Titans

Scott Davis, Carter Copeland, Rob Wertheimer

The Origins of Efficiency

Brian Potter

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

Hamilton Helmer

Unreasonable Hospitality

Will Guidara

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

Algorithms to Live By

Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

The Master and His Emissary

Iain McGilchrist

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas Hofstadter

Supercommunicators

Charles Duhigg

How to Know a Person

David Brooks

The Art of Gathering

Priya Parker

Give and Take

Adam Grant

Influence, New and Expanded

Robert Cialdini

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

Carlo M. Cipolla

Prometheus Rising

Robert Anton Wilson

What's Our Problem?

Tim Urban

Grant

Ron Chernow

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

Isaac's Storm

Erik Larson

The 1900 Galveston hurricane — required Houston-area reading.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Bill Bryson

The Age of Wonder

Richard Holmes

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Tom Standage

What If?

Randall Munroe

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Sean collects Vonnegut firsts. Fellow Hoosier. Start here if you're new.

Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

Player Piano

Kurt Vonnegut

A 1952 novel about engineers automating everyone's job. Aging uncomfortably well.

The Sirens of Titan

Kurt Vonnegut

Galápagos

Kurt Vonnegut

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Cannery Row

John Steinbeck

The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson

Florida Roadkill

Tim Dorsey

Gateway drug to a twenty-book Serge Storms habit. Not sorry.

The Giver

Lois Lowry

Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You)

Justin, Travis & Griffin McElroy

Bought before the show existed. It worked.