Books recommended by Nassim Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American scholar and statistician who gained fame for his work on uncertainty, risk management, and antifragility. His ideas have been widely discussed in popular culture through books like The Black Swan (although not among the recommended books), which made him a household name.

The recommended books by Nassim Taleb are characterized by their unique blend of philosophy, economics, and social commentary, often focusing on topics such as individualism, anti-fragility, and critical thinking. His writing style is known for its accessibility, clarity, and ability to distill complex ideas into concise yet profound insights.

Official links:

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s official website: https://antifragile.com/
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Taleb

1. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (by Peter Thiel). Recommended by Andrew Ng , Ben Horowitz , Bryan Johnson , Dustin Moskovitz , Elon Musk , Eric Weinstein , Keith Rabois , Kishore Biyani , Luis von Ahn , Marc Andreessen , Mark Zuckerberg , Matt Mullenweg , Max Levchin , Ryan Petersen , Sam Altman , Lee Stranahan , Nassim Taleb , Chris Dixon , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Tom Bilyeu , Brian Dean , Rupert Murdoch
2. Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (by Geoffrey West). Recommended by Marc Benioff , Stewart Brand , Vinod Khosla , Nassim Taleb , Bill Miller
3. The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us (by Christopher F. Chabris). Recommended by Vinod Khosla , Nassim Taleb
4. The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success (by Albert-László Barabási). Recommended by Vinod Khosla , Nassim Taleb
5. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (by David Reich). Recommended by Marc Andreessen , Naval Ravikant , Nassim Taleb , Balaji Srinivasan , Michael Mauboussin
6. Modern Aramaic-English/English-Modern Aramaic Dictionary & Phrasebook: Assyrian/Syriac (by Nicholas Awde). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
7. Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People (by Stephen Wolfram). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
8. 1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die: A Food Lover's Life List (by Mimi Sheraton). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
9. Information: The New Language of Science (by Hans Christian von Baeyer). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
10. Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World (by Robert Nozick). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
11. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (by A. D. Aleksandrov). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
12. Mapping the Mind: (by Rita Carter). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
13. A Guide to Econometrics: (by Peter Kennedy). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
14. Mean Genes: From Sex To Money To Food (by Terry Burnham). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
15. Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos (by Hardeep Singh Puri). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
16. The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal (by James Franklin). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
17. The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older (by Elkhonon Goldberg). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
18. The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity (by Michael Marmot). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
19. Modelling Extremal Events: For Insurance and Finance (by Paul Embrechts). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
20. The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets: (by Johannes Voit). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
21. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong: (by Clarke Stephen). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
22. Thinking and Deciding: (by Jonathan Baron). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
23. The Practice of Natural Movement: Reclaim Power, Health, and Freedom (by Erwan Le Corre). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
24. I Think, Therefore I Laugh: (by John Allen Paulos). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
25. No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets (by Michael Steinhardt). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
26. Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes: (by Athanasios Papoulis). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
27. Probability Theory: (by S. R. S. Varadhan). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
28. Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (by Nicholas A. Christakis). Recommended by Bill Gates , Eric Schmidt , Nassim Taleb
29. The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (by Anthony Gottlieb). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
30. The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition: (by Norman Russell). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
31. The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology (by Jerry A. Fodor). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
32. Statistical Models: Theory and Practice (by David Freedman). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
33. The Secret of Fatima: A Father Kevin Thrall Thriller (by Peter J. Tanous). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
34. Confessions of a Philosopher: A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to Popper (by Bryan Magee). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
35. The Sunday Philosophy Club: Isabel Dalhousie, Book 1 (by Alexander McCall Smith). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
36. Tartar Steppe: (by Dino Buzzati). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
37. The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy (by Colin McGinn). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
38. Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar…: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes (by Thomas Cathcart). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
39. Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences (by Jon Elster). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
40. Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition (by Umberto Eco). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
41. Birth of a Theorem: (by Cédric Villani). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
42. Social Cognition: Making Sense of People (by Ziva Kunda). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
43. The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life (by Dr. James DiNicolantonio). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
44. The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (by Trevor Hastie). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
45. The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting (by Dr. Jason Fung). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
46. Body by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week (by John R. Little). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
47. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (by Steven Pinker). Recommended by Nassim Taleb , Mark Manson , Tom Bilyeu
48. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War (by Graham Robb). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
49. A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness (by Nicholas Humphrey). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
50. Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (by Alain Bertaud). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
51. Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life (by Emanuel Derman). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
52. How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (by Per Bak). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
53. Intellectuals in the Middle Ages: (by Jacques Le Goff). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
54. Rational Decisions: (by Ken Binmore). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
55. The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion: (by Leonard C. MacLean). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
56. Consciousness: An Introduction (by Susan Blackmore). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
57. The Blank Swan: The End of Probability (by Elie Ayache). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
58. Free The Animal: How to Lose Weight and Fat on the Paleo Diet (by Richard Nikoley). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
59. Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century (by Morton Meyers MD). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
60. Financial Derivatives: Pricing, Applications, and Mathematics (by Jamil Baz). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
61. The Opposing Shore: (by Julien Gracq). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
62. Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself (by Sheila Bair). Recommended by Nassim Taleb
63. Ficciones: (by Jorge Luis Borges). Recommended by Naval Ravikant , Nassim Taleb
64. Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (by Tim Harford). Recommended by Nassim Taleb , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
65. A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: (by Peter Bevelin). Recommended by Nassim Taleb , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
66. The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence (by Benoit Mandelbrot). Recommended by Nassim Taleb , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
67. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking (by Saifedean Ammous). Recommended by Nassim Taleb , Raoul Pal , Max Keiser
68. Deep Learning: (by Ian Goodfellow). Recommended by Elon Musk , Satya Nadella , Vinod Khosla , Nassim Taleb
69. The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind (by John Coates). Recommended by Nassim Taleb , Mike Novogratz
70. A New Kind of Science: (by Stephen Wolfram). Recommended by Steve Jurvetson , Nassim Taleb
71. Elements of Information Theory: (by Thomas M. Cover). Recommended by Eric Weinstein , Nassim Taleb
72. Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life (by Rory Sutherland). Recommended by Matt Ridley , Ryan Petersen , Nassim Taleb , Changpeng Zhao
73. Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004 (by Maggie Mahar). Recommended by Warren Buffett , Nassim Taleb
74. Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders (by Jack D. Schwager). Recommended by Adam Robinson , Nassim Taleb , Raoul Pal
75. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (by Gary Taubes). Recommended by Naval Ravikant , Peter Attia , Zooko Wilcox , Nassim Taleb
76. The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World (by Mark Spitznagel). Recommended by Nassim Taleb , Anthony Pompliano , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Paul Tudor Jones
77. Thinking, Fast and Slow: (by Daniel Kahneman). Recommended by Bill Gates , Bryan Johnson , Derek Sivers , Ev Williams , Jason Fried , Marc Andreessen , Naval Ravikant , Ray Dalio , Ron Conway , Sam Altman , Scott Adams , Stewart Brand , Nassim Taleb , Sahil Lavingia , Mark Manson , Jay Shetty , Michiko Kakutani , Preston Pysh
78. Hopping over the Rabbit Hole: How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success (by Anthony Scaramucci). Recommended by Arianna Huffington , Mark Cuban , Tony Robbins , Nassim Taleb , Carl Icahn , Peter Schiff
79. The Count of Monte Cristo: (by Alexandre Dumas). Recommended by Mike Maples, Jr. , Patrick Collison , PewDiePie , Nassim Taleb , James Clear
80. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger (by Peter Bevelin). Recommended by Derek Sivers , Jason Fried , Nassim Taleb , Shane Parrish , Tai Lopez