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Name Author Topic
1 - The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It Kelly McGonigal Habit formation
2 - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Charles Duhigg Habit formation
3 - The Courage to Be Paul Tillich Human experience
4 - The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Matt Ridley Economic history
5 - The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking Edward B. Burger Human experience
6 - Capital in the Twenty First Century Thomas Pikkety Economic history
7 - The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Gregory Zuckerman Economic history
8 - What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People Joe Navarro Body Language
9 - Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant Chan W. Kim Business Strategy
10 - The E-Myth Revisited Michael Gerber Business Strategy
11 - Tao Te Ching Unnamed Human experience
12 - Peace is Every Step Thich Nhat Hanh Human experience
13 - Ghandi: An Autobiography Mahatma Gandhi Human experience
14 - Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela Politics
15 - How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie Social psychology
16 - Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb Philosophy
17 - The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous Josephy Heinrich Social psychology
18 - Tough: My Journey to True Power Terry Crews Memoir
19 - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World Niall Ferguson Finance
20 - The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be Jack Canfield Psychology

Spirituality

Soul
Profound wisdom.

Data Science Applied to Finance


An army of the best quants will beat the market by a small percentage and make the best hedge fund.

Humor


I laughed so hard so many times while reading this.