Book Wish List
I currently use Amazon to track by book wish list.
Amazon Wish List
Advantages:
- Amazon wish lists will be supported forever
- Buy most of my books on Amazon
- Tracks day when the book as addded to the wish list
Disadvantages:
- My wish list is split across Amazon.com and Amazon.ca
- No way to note why I added the book to wish list
- No way to easily tag books or categorize them
- Closely linked with Amazon
read.gift https://read.gift/u/visakanv
The StoryGraph
OpenLibrary Book list
- This looks like what I am searching for but I still can’t add the reason why I added to the list
- There are book notes, which are private. I could use that as the reason I want to read abook. But reason there is now way in the UI to see all of the book notes at once
Todo:
- Copy over Book list from Amazon
- This is not data dense enough, make I should use a table
- Add ont poli books
Books I want to read:
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
By: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-11
Reason Added: An interesting story about modern history and a failure of high modernism
Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song
By: Jenny T. Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams, and Andrew Lane
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-12
Reason Added: Found it on Tardis — Fandom. Thought it would be an interesting continuation of the TV show
Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880
By: Graham D. Taylor
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-14
Reason Added: I am interested in the history of Canadian business. There are so many stories about American business, both historically and in the present, but we are missing those stories for Canada
One Man in His Time...: A Memoir
By: Michael Audain
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-14
Reason Added: Written by prominent vancouver real estate developer Michael Audain
Building Artistry
By: Ian Gillespie
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-14
Reason Added: Written by prominent vancouver real estate developer Ian Gillespie. There doesn’t see to by any copies for sale but there are some copies available at the Vancouver Library
Raising The Bar: The Life and Work of Gerald D. Hines
By: Mark Seal
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-14
Reason Added: Writen about real esate developer Gerald D. Hines. I see a large Hines sign at CIBC SQUARE redevelopment
The Making of Bill Knapp
By: William B Friedricks
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-14
Reason Added: Written about Bill Knapp founder of Iowa Realty
It Is What It Is: A True Manhattan Real Estate Nightmare With a Silver Lining
By: Colin Rath
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-14
Reason Added: A Memoir about a failed real estate development deal in New York. See Real Deal review
Jim Rouse: Capitalist/Idealist
By: Paul Marx
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-14
Reason Added: About a real esate developer
Merchant of Illusion: James Rouse: America's Salesman of the Businessman's Utopia
By: Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-14
Reason Added: About a real esate developer. James Rouse built Columbia, Maryland
Liquor, Lust and the Law: The Story of Vancouver's Legendary Penthouse Nightclub
By: Aaron Chapman
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-17
Reason Added: It’s about an iconic Vancouver nightclub. I am interested in the history of Canada and cities
Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea's Most Iconic Bank
By: Weijian Shan
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2022-12-28
Where I found: Recommended by Byrne Hobart
Reason Added: The book covers an American PE firm’s restructuring of Korea First Bank
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
By: Richard Hamming
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-17
Reason Added: Published by Stripe Press. Seems cool
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2021-11-22
Where I found: Reviewed by Scott Alexander
Reason Added: From my quake articles, Book Review: Seeing Like A State by Scott Alexander
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
By: Andrei Lankov
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-18
Where I found: Recommended by Bryne Hobart
Reason Added: Hobart argues that North Korea has a quasi-Coasian economy through corruption
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) In The Future Tense
By: David Brooks
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-18
Where I found: Quoted by Steve Randy Waldman in Predatory Precarity—Interfluidity
Reason Added: I’m interested in class and social economic mobility. David Brooks also wrote Bobos in Paradise
Subimperial Power: Australia in the International Arena
By: Clinton Fernandes
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-24
Where I found: Recommended by Misha Saul on Twitter
Reason Added: What is the role of middle powers in the 21st century? How does Australia think of itself? Is that different from Canada?
500 Lines or Less
By: Amy Brown and Michael DiBernardo
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-24
Where I found: Recommended by Cal Paterson in An oral history of Bank Python.
Reason Added: I want to get better an system design
Good Flag, Bad Flag
By: Ted Kaye
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-24
Where I found: Mentioned by CGPGrey in Minnesota’s Final Flag
Reason Added: It’s the iconic flag rules book
Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction
By: Susan T. Fiske and Hazel Rose Markus
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-26
Where I found: Mentioned by Rob Henderson
Reason Added: I’m interested in class and social economic mobility.
More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
By: Molly Roden Winter
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-27
Reason Added: I’m interested in memoirs about people diffrent from me
The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions
By: James White and Victor Haghani
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-27
Where I found: Dave Friedman on Twitter
Reason Added: I am interested social economic mobility. Seems like a great addtion to Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Victor Haghani was one of the founding partners of Long-Term Capital Management
Moral Basis of a Backward Society
By: Edward C. Banfield
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-29
Where I found: Recommended by Ariele
Reason Added: I am interested in why some places are rich and others are poor
Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons
By: Edward J. Renehan Jr.
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-29
Where I found: Recommended by Amanda Orson
Reason Added: Business biography, from the robber baron era
Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile
By: John C. G. Röhl, Sheila de Bellaigue, and Roy Bridge
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-31
Where I found: Recommended by The Mind Scourge to Misha Saul.
Reason Added: ‘This final volume of John C. G. Röhl’s acclaimed biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II reveals the Kaiser’s central role in the origins of the First World War’ I am interested is bismark
The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
By: Elbridge A. Colby (
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-31
Where I found: Steven Glinert’s realism reading list
Reason Added: I am interested in geopolitics
The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia
By: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-31
Where I found: Steven Glinert’s realism reading list
Reason Added: I am interested in geopolitics
We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
By: Sean A Mirski
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-31
Where I found: Steven Glinert’s realism reading list
Reason Added: I am interested in geopolitics
South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since The End Of Apartheid
By: John Psmith
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-31
Where I found: Misha Saul recommended the book and the review by John Psmith
Reason Added: I am interested in regime change
The Alchemy of Finance
By: George Soros
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-31
Where I found: Recommended by Bryne Hobart in The Cynic’s Guide to Reading Business Books
Reason Added: Writen by Soros himself
Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
By: Matthew Symonds and Larry Ellison
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2023-12-31
Where I found: Recommended by Bryne Hobart in The Cynic’s Guide to Reading Business Books
Reason Added: Ellison resonds in the footnotes
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
By: John Davies and Alexander J. Kent
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 20240-01-03
Where I found: Was the source for Jay Foreman’s Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain?
Reason Added: I am interested in geopolitics
The Gene: An Intimate History
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-07
Where I found: Recommended by Pradyumna
Reason Added: Seems interesting
Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore
By: Beng Huat Chua
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-07
Where I found: Recommended by Pradyumna when I asked about SG housing
Reason Added: I am interested in Singapore, housing and geopolitics
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
By: Ramachandra Guha
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-07
Where I found: Recommended by Pradyumna when I ask about a political history of India
Reason Added: I am intrested in India and geopolitics
Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
By: Stephen Dando-Collins
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-10
Where I found: Recommended by cruelsardaukar
Reason Added: At thhe intersection of two of my favourite topics: geopolitics and business strategy
On the Old West Coast: Being Further Reminiscences of a Ranger
By: Horace Bell
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-10
Where I found: Recommended by cruelsardaukar
Reason Added: Appreantly about geopolitics and business strategy
Equality and Authority: a Study of Class, Status and Power in Australia
By: S. Encel
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-10
Where I found: Mentioned in Misha Saul
Reason Added: I’m interested in class and social economic mobility
Percentages of Guilt
By: Michael Niemann
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-10
Where I found: Written by the author of this article, about the Russian laundromat
Reason Added: I am interested in white collar crime and stories about power
Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur: What It Takes to Win in High-Stakes Commercial Real Estate: What it Takes to Win in High-Stakes Commercial Real Estate
By: James Randel and Jim Randel
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-13
Where I found: Mentioned by SnufferBottle in a thread about a firm which optioned some land, upzoned and reaped a massive profit
Reason Added: I am intrested in real estate
A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
By: Edward O. Thorp
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-13
Where I found: Made a huge impact on The Rational Walk
Reason Added: I am intrested in finance and biographies
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy
By:
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-13
Where I found: From this tweet by Jared Rubin
Reason Added: I am interested in political economy
Pimp: The Story of My Life
By: Iceberg Slim
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-15
Where I found: Mentioned by David Chappelle in this bit
Reason Added: I am interested in biographies and crime
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
By: Rich Cohen
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-15
Where I found: According to Cedric Chin, ‘best business biography I’ve ever read’
Reason Added: I am interested in business biographies
The Asylum: Inside the Rise and Ruin of the Global Oil Market
By: Leah McGrath Goodman
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-22
Where I found: Byrne Hobart shared an anecdote about a trader for whom ‘making money was so euphoric for him that sometimes, the day after a big win, he’d have his morning coffee without any Jack Daniel’s.’
Reason Added: I am interested in business
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
By: Rose George
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-22
Where I found: Mentioned by this now deleted tweet
Reason Added: I am intrested in business and geopolitics
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
By: Marc Levinson
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-22
Where I found: I’ve heard this book mentioned in several places. Note there is a 2nd edition with an extra chapter
Reason Added: This seems like an interesting piece of business history.
Vancouver Ltd.
By: Donald Gutstein
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-25
Where I found: I just saw it on Amazon
Reason Added: I am interested in real esate development in Canada
Folding Beijing
By: Hao Jingfang
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-01-25
Where I found: Mentioned by Tyler Cowen as an important piece of Chinese science fiction and unique science fiction during Converstions with Typer Cowen with Rebecca F. Kuang on National Literatures
Reason Added: I am intrested in science fiction, I trust Tyler Cowen as a picker of intresting things
War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction Get access Arrow
By: Alex Roland
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-02
Where I found: Recommended by Soul0Engineer
Reason Added: I am intrested in how technology effects war.
The Night Manager
By: John le Carré
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-04
Where I found: Saw a part of the TV show The Night Manager based on the book
Reason Added: I want to read more fiction. I (think) like spy thrillers
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
By: Roberto Saviano
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-04
Reason Added: It’s a book about the Camorra— Neapolitan mafia. I am interested in crime.
ZeroZeroZero
By: Roberto Saviano
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-04
Reason Added: It’s a book about the global cocaine trade. I am interested in crime.
The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
By: Mancur Olson Jr.
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-06
Where I found:
| Recommended by Brendan Miller in [The Economics Idea That Will Defeat The Housing Mafia | Logic of Collective Action, Explained](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKEbxd_F7gE) |
Reason Added: I am intrested in YIMBYism and political economy.
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
By: Charles Seife
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-14
Reason Added: Seems like an interesting concept
Sotheby's: Bidding for Class
By: Robert Lacey
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-14
Where I found: Mentioned in this Vanity Fair article about Christie’s and Sotheby’s fee collusion scandal
Reason Added: I am interested in business biographies but was published in 1998
The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby's-Christie's Auction House Scandal
By: Christopher Mason
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-14
Where I found: From the Wikipedia article for A. Alfred Taubman
Reason Added: I am interested in business biographies, and crimes
Threshold Resistance: The Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing Pioneer
By: A. Alfred Taubman
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-14
Where I found: From the Wikipedia article for A. Alfred Taubman
Reason Added: I am interested in business biographies. Related to above 2 books
The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955)
By: Robert Lacey
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-14
Reason Added: I am interested in history. I watched the first two seasons of The Crown, it was very intrested. I learned a lot about early post-WW2 UK politics.
The Battlefield of Ontario Politics: An Autobiography
By: Greg Sorbara
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-25
Where I found: In Line 1 Yonge–University—Wikipedia, it is mentioned that in his memoir he talks about his support for the Vaughan Subway Stop
Reason Added: I am interested in memoirs and recent ontario political history
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
By: Peter Biskind
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-26
Where I found: Mentioned in this Youtube video about Harvey Weinstein’s Shakespeare in Love Oscar campaign
Reason Added: Chronicling the rise Sundance (founded by Robert Redford) and Miramax (founded by Harvey and Bob Weinstein)
Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s
By: Alisa Perren
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-26
Where I found: Mentioned in this Youtube video about Harvey Weinstein’s Shakespeare in Love Oscar campaign
Reason Added: Chronicling the rise of Miramax (founded by Harvey and Bob Weinstein)
Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World
By: Bethany McLean
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-02-27
Where I found: Mentioned by Byrne Hobart in Fracking: The Alchemy of Turning High-Yield Bonds into Low-Inflation Growth, but he does say ‘Saudi America was kind of disappointing; fairly brief, poorly-edited, not a ton of new information, but it does articulate the financial engineering thesis of fracking.’
Reason Added: I like business and geopolitics
Without A Badge: Undercover in the World's Deadliest Criminal Organization
By: Jerry Speziale
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-03-01
Where I found: Mentioned in this Twitter from Alex Elliott
Reason Added: It’s about financial crime and mentioned by Patio11: * Quentin Tarantino could not have written a better character or scene. It’s like the Wolf was on the good guys’ side.*
Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom
By: Elaine Scarry
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-03-03
Where I found: Mentioned by QuoProQuid in this thread
Reason Added: Thermonuclear Monarchy is a very interesting phrase
Profiles in Leadership
By: CIA
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-03-16
Where I found: I was looking to add photos to Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, I found this interesting book
Reason Added: An overview of the CIA seems quite interesting
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
By: Mitchell M. Waldrop
Buy: Amazon US Amazon Canada
Date Added: 2024-03-30
Where I found: Josh Wolfe mentions that Bill ‘Gurley credits @sfiscience + book ‘Complexity’ for most influencing his worldview
Reason Added: I respect Bill Gurley
| Title | Author | Recommendation | Reason Added | Date Added | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad | An interesting story about modern history and a failure of high modernism | 2023-12-11 | |||
| Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song | Jenny T. ColganJacqueline RaynerSteve LyonsGuy AdamsAndrew Lane | Found it on Tardis — Fandom. Thought it would be an interesting continuation of the TV show | 2023-12-12 | |||
| Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880 | Graham D. Taylor | I am interested in the history of Canadian business. There are so many stories about American business, both historically and in the present, but we are missing those stories for Canada | 2023-12-14 | |||
| One Man in His Time...: A Memoir | Michael Audain | Written by prominent vancouver real estate developer Michael Audain | 2023-12-14 | |||
| Building Artistry | Ian Gillespie | Written by prominent vancouver real estate developer Ian Gillespie. There doesn’t see to by any copies for sale but there are some copies available at the Vancouver Library | 2023-12-14 | |||
| Raising The Bar: The Life and Work of Gerald D. Hines | Mark Seal | Writen about real esate developer Gerald D. Hines. I see a large Hines sign at CIBC SQUARE redevelopment | 2023-12-14 | |||
| The Making of Bill Knapp | William B Friedricks | Written about Bill Knapp founder of Iowa Realty | 2023-12-14 | |||
| It Is What It Is: A True Manhattan Real Estate Nightmare With a Silver Lining | Colin Rath | A Memoir about a failed real estate development deal in New York. See Real Deal review | 2023-12-14 | |||
| Jim Rouse: Capitalist/Idealist | Paul Marx | About a real esate developer | 2023-12-14 | |||
| Merchant of Illusion: James Rouse: America's Salesman of the Businessman's Utopia | Nicholas Dagen Bloom | About a real esate developer. James Rouse built Columbia, Maryland | 2023-12-14 | |||
| Liquor, Lust and the Law: The Story of Vancouver's Legendary Penthouse Nightclub | Aaron Chapman | It’s about an iconic Vancouver nightclub. I am interested in the history of Canada and cities | 2023-12-17 | |||
| Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea's Most Iconic Bank | Weijian Shan | Recommended by Byrne Hobart | The book covers an American PE firm’s restructuring of Korea First Bank | 2022-12-28 | ||
| The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn | Richard Hamming | Published by Stripe Press. Seems cool | 2023-12-17 | |||
| Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed | James C. Scott | Reviewed by Scott Alexander | From my quake articles, Book Review: Seeing Like A State by Scott Alexander | 2021-11-22 | ||
| The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia | Andrei Lankov | Recommended by Bryne Hobart | Hobart argues that North Korea has a quasi-Coasian economy through corruption | 2023-12-18 | ||
| On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) In The Future Tense | David Brooks | Quoted by Steve Randy Waldman in Predatory Precarity—Interfluidity | I’m interested in class and social economic mobility. David Brooks also wrote Bobos in Paradise | 2023-12-18 | ||
| Subimperial Power: Australia in the International Arena | Clinton Fernandes | Recommended by Misha Saul on Twitter | What is the role of middle powers in the 21st century? How does Australia think of itself? Is that different from Canada? | 2023-12-24 | ||
| 500 Lines or Less | Amy BrownMichael DiBernardo | Recommended by Cal Paterson in An oral history of Bank Python. | I want to get better an system design | 2023-12-24 | ||
| Good Flag, Bad Flag | Ted Kaye | Mentioned by CGPGrey in Minnesota’s Final Flag | It’s the iconic flag rules book | 2023-12-24 | ||
| Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction | Susan T. FiskeHazel Rose Markus | Mentioned by Rob Henderson | I’m interested in class and social economic mobility. | 2023-12-26 | ||
| More: A Memoir of Open Marriage | Molly Roden Winter | I’m interested in memoirs about people diffrent from me | 2023-12-27 | |||
| The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions | James WhiteVictor Haghani | Dave Friedman on Twitter | I am interested social economic mobility. Seems like a great addtion to Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Victor Haghani was one of the founding partners of Long-Term Capital Management | 2023-12-27 | ||
| Moral Basis of a Backward Society | Edward C. Banfield | Recommended by Ariele | I am interested in why some places are rich and others are poor | 2023-12-29 | ||
| Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons | Edward J. Renehan Jr. | Recommended by Amanda Orson | Business biography, from the robber baron era | 2023-12-29 | ||
| Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile | John C. G. RöhlSheila de BellaigueRoy Bridge | Recommended by The Mind Scourge to Misha Saul. | ‘This final volume of John C. G. Röhl’s acclaimed biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II reveals the Kaiser’s central role in the origins of the First World War’ I am interested is bismark | 2023-12-31 | ||
| The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict | Elbridge A. Colby ( | Steven Glinert’s realism reading list | I am interested in geopolitics | 2023-12-31 | ||
| The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia | Sheila Miyoshi Jager | Steven Glinert’s realism reading list | I am interested in geopolitics | 2023-12-31 | ||
| We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus | Sean A Mirski | Steven Glinert’s realism reading list | I am interested in geopolitics | 2023-12-31 | ||
| South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since The End Of Apartheid | John Psmith | Misha Saul recommended the book and the review by John Psmith | I am interested in regime change | 2023-12-31 | ||
| The Alchemy of Finance | George Soros | Recommended by Bryne Hobart in The Cynic’s Guide to Reading Business Books | Writen by Soros himself | 2023-12-31 | ||
| Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle | Matthew SymondsLarry Ellison | Recommended by Bryne Hobart in The Cynic’s Guide to Reading Business Books | Ellison resonds in the footnotes | 2023-12-31 | ||
| The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World | John DaviesAlexander J. Kent | Was the source for Jay Foreman’s Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain? | I am interested in geopolitics | 20240-01-03 | ||
| The Gene: An Intimate History | Siddhartha Mukherjee | Recommended by Pradyumna | Seems interesting | 2024-01-07 | ||
| Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore | Beng Huat Chua | Recommended by Pradyumna when I asked about SG housing | I am interested in Singapore, housing and geopolitics | 2024-01-07 | ||
| India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy | Ramachandra Guha | Recommended by Pradyumna when I ask about a political history of India | I am intrested in India and geopolitics | 2024-01-07 | ||
| Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer | Stephen Dando-Collins | Recommended by cruelsardaukar | At thhe intersection of two of my favourite topics: geopolitics and business strategy | 2024-01-10 | ||
| On the Old West Coast: Being Further Reminiscences of a Ranger | Horace Bell | Recommended by cruelsardaukar | Appreantly about geopolitics and business strategy | 2024-01-10 | ||
| Equality and Authority: a Study of Class, Status and Power in Australia | S. Encel | Mentioned in Misha Saul | I’m interested in class and social economic mobility | 2024-01-10 | ||
| Percentages of Guilt | Michael Niemann | Written by the author of this article, about the Russian laundromat | I am interested in white collar crime and stories about power | 2024-01-10 | ||
| Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur: What It Takes to Win in High-Stakes Commercial Real Estate: What it Takes to Win in High-Stakes Commercial Real Estate | James RandelJim Randel | Mentioned by SnufferBottle in a thread about a firm which optioned some land, upzoned and reaped a massive profit | I am intrested in real estate | 2024-01-13 | ||
| A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market | Edward O. Thorp | Made a huge impact on The Rational Walk | I am intrested in finance and biographies | 2024-01-13 | ||
| The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy | From this tweet by Jared Rubin | I am interested in political economy | 2024-01-13 | |||
| Pimp: The Story of My Life | Iceberg Slim | Mentioned by David Chappelle in this bit | I am interested in biographies and crime | 2024-01-15 | ||
| The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King | Rich Cohen | According to Cedric Chin, ‘best business biography I’ve ever read’ | I am interested in business biographies | 2024-01-15 | ||
| The Asylum: Inside the Rise and Ruin of the Global Oil Market | Leah McGrath Goodman | Byrne Hobart shared an anecdote about a trader for whom ‘making money was so euphoric for him that sometimes, the day after a big win, he’d have his morning coffee without any Jack Daniel’s.’ | I am interested in business | 2024-01-22 | ||
| Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate | Rose George | Mentioned by this now deleted tweet | I am intrested in business and geopolitics | 2024-01-22 | ||
| The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger | Marc Levinson | I’ve heard this book mentioned in several places. Note there is a 2nd edition with an extra chapter | This seems like an interesting piece of business history. | 2024-01-22 | ||
| Vancouver Ltd. | Donald Gutstein | I just saw it on Amazon | I am interested in real esate development in Canada | 2024-01-25 | ||
| Folding Beijing | Hao Jingfang | Mentioned by Tyler Cowen as an important piece of Chinese science fiction and unique science fiction during Converstions with Typer Cowen with Rebecca F. Kuang on National Literatures | I am intrested in science fiction, I trust Tyler Cowen as a picker of intresting things | 2024-01-25 | ||
| War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction Get access Arrow | Alex Roland | Recommended by Soul0Engineer | I am intrested in how technology effects war. | 2024-02-02 | ||
| The Night Manager | John le Carré | Saw a part of the TV show The Night Manager based on the book | I want to read more fiction. I (think) like spy thrillers | 2024-02-04 | ||
| Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System | Roberto Saviano | It’s a book about the Camorra— Neapolitan mafia. I am interested in crime. | 2024-02-04 | |||
| ZeroZeroZero | Roberto Saviano | It’s a book about the global cocaine trade. I am interested in crime. | 2024-02-04 | |||
| The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups | Mancur Olson Jr. |
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I am intrested in YIMBYism and political economy. | 2024-02-06 | ||
| Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea | Charles Seife | Seems like an interesting concept | 2024-02-14 | |||
| Sotheby's: Bidding for Class | Robert Lacey | Mentioned in this Vanity Fair article about Christie’s and Sotheby’s fee collusion scandal | I am interested in business biographies but was published in 1998 | 2024-02-14 | ||
| The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby's-Christie's Auction House Scandal | Christopher Mason | From the Wikipedia article for A. Alfred Taubman | I am interested in business biographies, and crimes | 2024-02-14 | ||
| Threshold Resistance: The Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing Pioneer | A. Alfred Taubman | From the Wikipedia article for A. Alfred Taubman | I am interested in business biographies. Related to above 2 books | 2024-02-14 | ||
| The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955) | Robert Lacey | I am interested in history. I watched the first two seasons of The Crown, it was very intrested. I learned a lot about early post-WW2 UK politics. | 2024-02-14 | |||
| The Battlefield of Ontario Politics: An Autobiography | Greg Sorbara | In Line 1 Yonge–University—Wikipedia, it is mentioned that in his memoir he talks about his support for the Vaughan Subway Stop | I am interested in memoirs and recent ontario political history | 2024-02-25 | ||
| Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film | Peter Biskind | Mentioned in this Youtube video about Harvey Weinstein’s Shakespeare in Love Oscar campaign | Chronicling the rise Sundance (founded by Robert Redford) and Miramax (founded by Harvey and Bob Weinstein) | 2024-02-26 | ||
| Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s | Alisa Perren | Mentioned in this Youtube video about Harvey Weinstein’s Shakespeare in Love Oscar campaign | Chronicling the rise of Miramax (founded by Harvey and Bob Weinstein) | 2024-02-26 | ||
| Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World | Bethany McLean | Mentioned by Byrne Hobart in Fracking: The Alchemy of Turning High-Yield Bonds into Low-Inflation Growth, but he does say ‘Saudi America was kind of disappointing; fairly brief, poorly-edited, not a ton of new information, but it does articulate the financial engineering thesis of fracking.’ | I like business and geopolitics | 2024-02-27 | ||
| Without A Badge: Undercover in the World's Deadliest Criminal Organization | Jerry Speziale | Mentioned in this Twitter from Alex Elliott | It’s about financial crime and mentioned by Patio11: * Quentin Tarantino could not have written a better character or scene. It’s like the Wolf was on the good guys’ side.* | 2024-03-01 | ||
| Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom | Elaine Scarry | Mentioned by QuoProQuid in this thread | Thermonuclear Monarchy is a very interesting phrase | 2024-03-03 | ||
| Profiles in Leadership | CIA | I was looking to add photos to Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, I found this interesting book | An overview of the CIA seems quite interesting | 2024-03-16 | ||
| Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos | Mitchell M. Waldrop | Josh Wolfe mentions that Bill ‘Gurley credits @sfiscience + book ‘Complexity’ for most influencing his worldview | I respect Bill Gurley | 2024-03-30 |