Simon's 150 Essential Books of Non-Fiction (Old List)

1

Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed.. (Gillian Tett)

2

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

3

Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

4

Animals Make Us Human (Temple Grandin)

5

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Steven Pinker)

6

Liar's Poker

7

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Leonard Mlodinow)

8

All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera)

9

The Wisdom of Psychopaths (Kevin Dutton)

10

Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior (Leonard Mlodinow)

11

Thinking, Fast and Slow

12

Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind)

13

How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company... (William Poundstone)

14

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein)

15

The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-The-SceNes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street... (Gregory Zuckerman)

16

Luck Factor (Richard Wiseman)

17

Animal Liberation

18

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises (Tim Geithner)

19

Manias, Panics, and Crashes

20

Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)

21

Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your BrainFor Life (David Perlmutter, Kristin Loberg)

22

Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff (Christine S. Richard)

23

ELON MUSK (Ashlee Vance)

24

Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-Like Riddles, Insanely Difficult... (William Poundstone)

25

God: The Failed Hypothesis

26

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Christopher Hitchens)

27

Letter to a Christian Nation (Sam Harris)

28

The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)

29

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (John J. Ratey, Eric Hagerman)

30

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Roger Lowenstein)

31

Open: An Autobiography (Andre Agassi)

32

Dreams From My Father (Barack Obama)

33

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard P. Feynman (James Gleick)

34

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin)

35

Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla

36

What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Richard Feynman)

37

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard Feynman)

38

Iwoz (Steve Wozniak)

39

Kissinger: A Biography (Walter Isaacson)

40

The Compass of Pleasure

Simon's 150 Essential Books of Non-Fiction (Old List)

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