Quarantine Library
Updated: Jun 1
My favorite
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. Michael Lewis. A bit outdated now but probably the most enlightning book of the last 5 years
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.
ROD the autobiography. I LOVED it.
Life. James Fox and Keith Richards. I loved it too.
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life. Michael Caine
Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL's Guide. John David Mann. Il liked it
Stop Being reasonable. Eleanor Gordon Smith. Book. Okish.
10 Billion. Stephen Emmott. quick read
Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense. Okish
Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men who Blew Up the British Economy
The Man Who Knew. Sebastian Mallaby
Business Strategy, Economy and finance.
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor. Howard S. Marks. Very useful
The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse. Mohamed A. El-Erian. Worth a read
Good Strategy. Bad Strategy. Richard Rumelt UCLA MBA. I liked it.
Radical Uncertainty. Mervyn King. John Kay. I love everything King writes.
What it takes. Stephen A. Schwarzman. (History of Blackstone) Intro and PDF
Mastering the market cycle. Howard Marks. Marks is a luminaire of the investment management
The handbook of Equity Market Anomalies. An interesting book highlighting the basics of market anomalies.
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought. Andrew Lo
SCALE. Geoffrey West (Review: How Laws of Physics Govern Growth in Business and in Cities).
Tools and weapons. Brad Smith ( Microsoft’s chief lawyer and diplomat). Interesting a by superficial
Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future. Paul Krugman always a good reading.
Skin in the game. Nassim Taleb. The latest version of the Black Swan theory.
Coming apart. Charles Murray. I liked this book but I understand it created some stir.
Chaos Monkeys. Antonio García Martínez.
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction: English,
Novels
The Plague, La Peste: English, Italiano
Stoner. A novel. Wikipedia
Biographies and history
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years. John Guy. Very complete and a nice read.
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History. Boris Johnson. Nice read.
The making of the first world war. Ian Beckett. VERY interesting
FDR by Ted Morgan (Biography of Franklin D Roosevelt)
The wisdom of crowds. James Surowiecki
The madness of crowds. Douglas Murray
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS. Joby Warrick. Interesting
The Republic of Gupta. Pieter-Louis Myburgh.
Psychotherapy
John Bowlby and attachment theory. A classic
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