Monday, December 31, 2018

Best books and blogs of 2018

So here are the most significant books of 2018 for me.  Just the opinion of a truck-loading, Uber driving, equities trader--take it for what it is.

Not all were necessarily written in 2018, I just happened upon them for the first time this year. Where 2017 was my year of Deirdre McCloskey, 2018 was the year that I finally picked up Nassim Nicholas Taleb and realized what I had been missing out on.

The best bloggers remain to be Dean Baker's Beat the Press and Edward Harrison at Credit Writedowns.  The best podcast is Tyler Cowen's Conversations with Tyler.

Nonfiction

Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South by Erin Stewart Mauldin 

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard

The Rise of Superman Decoding the Science of Ultimate Performance by Steve Kotler

The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson

Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games by Ian Bogost

Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

How History Gets Things Wrong  The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories by Alex Rosenberg

The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work by Eli J Finkel

The State, the Market and the Euro: Chartalism Versus Metallism in the Theory of Money by Stephanie A. Bell (Editor), Edward J. Nell (Editor)

Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel

A Treatise On Probability by John Maynard Keynes

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson

Fiction and Poetry:

Twilight of the Gods by Robert C. Covel

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

I Praise my Destroyer by Diane Ackerman

After the Plague: and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle

A Little Larger than the Entire Universe by Fernando Pessoa

See you next year!


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