This is an incomplete list of books I've read (and reread) since 2009.
2025
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- Who We Are and How We Got Here
- Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
2024
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- Working in Public
- The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
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- Nuclear War
- A Scenario
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- The Genesis Book
- The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin
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- Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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- The Mythical Man-Month
- Essays on Software Engineering
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- Blockchain Chicken Farm
- And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
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- Der Mensch und die Technik
- Beitrag zu einer Philosophie des Lebens
2023
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- Street Without Joy
- The French Debacle in Indochina
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- Die Welt von Gestern
- Erinnerungen eines Europäers
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- Die orange Pille
- Warum Bitcoin weit mehr als nur ein neues Geld ist
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- Aias
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- Women of Trakhis
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- Agesilaus
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- Bacchae
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- Platform
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- Philoktetes
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- A Christmas Carol
2022
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- Viral
- The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
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- The Book of Satoshi
- The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto
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- The Mandibles
- A Family, 2029-2047
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- The Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat
- A Guide to Essential Features, Gear, and Handling
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- Bitcoin is Venice
- Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
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- The Minimalist Entrepreneur
- How Great Founders Do More with Less
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- Bloodlands
- Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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- The Network State
- How To Start a New Country
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- Reckless
- The Story Of Cryptocurrency Interest Rates
2021
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- Heart of Darkness
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- The Plague
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- When Money Dies
- The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
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- Gentle Regrets
- Thoughts from a Life
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- The Blocksize War
- The Battle Over Who Controls Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules
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- The Psychology of Money
- Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
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- Out of the Ether
- The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist that Almost Destroyed It All
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- Foundation (Foundation Series #3)
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- The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
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- History Has Begun
- The Birth of a New America
2020
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- Whole Earth Discipline
- Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, Radical Science, and Geoengineering are Necessary
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- The Inside Story
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- The Black Swan
- The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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- Hunger
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- The Sovereign Individual
- Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
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- Hell Yeah or No
- What's Worth Doing
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- Augustus
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- The Cultural Revolution
- A People's History, 1962-1976
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- Dominion
- The Making of the Western Mind
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- On Bullshit
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- Debt
- The First 5000 Years
2019
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- 12 Rules for Life
- An Antidote to Chaos
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- The Mastermind
- The Hunt for the World's Most Prolific Criminal
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- Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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- Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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- Mao's Great Famine
- The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62
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- The Iron Kingdom
- The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
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- The Box
- How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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- Exhalation
- Stories
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- Bitcoin Billionaires
- A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
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- Inventing Bitcoin
- The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained
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- Barbarian Days
- A Surfing Life
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- The Bed of Procrustes
- Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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- The Man Who Solved The Market
- How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
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- Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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- Seeing Like a State
- How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
2018
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- Travels in Siberia
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- Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
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- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- An Inquiry into Values
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- Skin in the Game
- Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
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- On the Move
- A Life
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- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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- Liar's Poker
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- Portnoy's Complaint
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- The Bitcoin Standard
- The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
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- Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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- Americanah
2017
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- Alan Turing
- The Enigma
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- Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
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- The Singapore Story
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- Zero to One
- Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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- The Penguin History of New Zealand
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- Stoner
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- Snow Country
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- Homo Deus
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- American Pastoral
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- Demian
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- Peter Camenzind
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- The Underground Railroad
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- A Mind at Play
- How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
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- The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past #1)
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- Matterhorn
- A Novel of the Vietnam War
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- ZeroZeroZero
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- Conquest
- Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico
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- Pachinko
2016
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- Digital Gold
- Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
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- Deep Work
- Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
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- Stiller
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- Das Versprechen
2015
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- Herzog
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- The Manipulated Man
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- Cannery Row
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- East of Eden
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- Flash Boys
- A Wall Street Revolt
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- Reise an den Rand des Universums
2014
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- Der Verschollene
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- A Farewell to Arms
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- Im Westen nichts Neues
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- Antifragile
- Things That Gain from Disorder
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- Stoner
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- Revolutionary Road
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- Of Mice and Men
2013
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- Der Steppenwolf
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- Ghetto at the Center of the World
- Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
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- Norwegian Wood
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- Lolita
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- Midnight's Children
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- Understanding Power
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- Cypherpunks
- Freedom and the Future of the Internet
2012
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- On The Road
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- Program or Be Programmed
- Ten Commands for a Digital Age
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- O Banqueiro Anarquista
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- Ich bin dann mal weg
- Meine Reise auf dem Jakobsweg
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- L’étranger
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- No Country for Old Men
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- 1Q84 Book 2
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- 1Q84 Book 3
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- Il cimitero di Praga
2011
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- Outliers
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- From Dictatorship to Democracy
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- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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- Daode Jing
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- The Master Switch
- The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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- Fooled by Randomness
- The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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- From the Earth to the Moon
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- Animal Farm
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- The Law
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- Notes from the Underground
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- Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius
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- I am a Strange Loop
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- Capitalism
- The Unknown Ideal
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- Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader
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- Civil Disobedience
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- A Mathematician's Apology
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- The Intelligent Investor
- The Definitive Book on Value Investing
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- Stay Small
- A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
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- Frankenstein
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- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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- Into The Wild
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- The Hobbit
2010
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- Founders at Work
- Stories of Startups' Early Days
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- Too Big to Fail
- The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System and Themselves
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- The Black Swan
- The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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- The Law
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- A Splendid Exchange
- How Trade Shaped the World
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- Der Richter und sein Henker
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- Homo Faber
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- The Big Short
- Inside the Doomsday Machine
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- The Greatest Trade Ever
- The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
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- Essays on Political Economy
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- Underground
- Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
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- Ecce homo
- Wie man wird, was man ist
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- Betrachtung
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- Pride and Prejudice
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- Discourse on the Method
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- Triumph of the Optimists
- 101 Years of Global Investment Returns
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- The Art of War
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- Our Posthuman Future
- Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
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- Liar's Poker
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- The Cuckoo's Egg
- Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
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- Lords of Finance
- The Bankers Who Broke the World
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- Othello
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- Creative Capital
- Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital
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- The Prince
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- The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
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- La giara
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- Fortune's Formula
- The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
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- Utilitarianism
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- Unterm Rad
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- Andorra
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- Hackers
- Heroes of the Computer Revolution
2009
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- My Life as a Quant
- Reflections on Physics and Finance
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- Outliers
- The Story of Success
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- The Misbehavior of Markets
- A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
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- A Demon of Our Own Design
- Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation
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- Fortune's Formula
- The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
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- The Snowball
- Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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- Practical Speculation
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- The Mind of the Mathematician
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- Herr und Knecht
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- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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- Nineteen Eighty Four
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- Die Verwandlung
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- Der Prozeß
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- Das Abenteuer der Erkenntnis
- Eine kleine Geschichte des Wissens
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- Shop Class as Soulcraft
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- The Education of a Speculator
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- Der Tod in Venedig
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- Dantons Tod
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- Hegemony or Survival
- America's Quest for Global Dominance
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- Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
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- The Cash Nexus
- Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
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- Makers
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- Marcovaldo
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- Psychologie der Massen
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- The Gambler
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- The Communist Manifesto