2018 Book List

Below are the books that we’ve read cover-to-cover in 2018.  The accompanying links will take you to Amazon.com if you’re interested in buying the books.  Don’t forget to check out our 2017, 2016 and Dow Theory Letters book lists.

The top three must read books from the latest list are:

The above three books are highlighted in bold red.

Title  Author
A First-Class Catastrophe Diana B. Henriques
Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Atomic Adventures James Mahaffey
Barons of the Sea Steven Ujifusa
Basic Economics Thomas Sowell
Behave Robert M. Sapolsky
Being Wagner Simon Callow
Blood Moon John Sedgwick
But What If We're Wrong Chuck Klosterman
Casey Stengel Mary Appel
Einstein's Dice and Schrodinger's
Cat
Paul Halpern
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern
Economy
Tim Harford
Flash Boys Michael Lewis
Fooled by Randomness Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Isaac Newton James Gleick
King Con Paul Willetts
Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson
Meltdown Chris Clearfield
Mindhunter John E. Douglas
Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman
Patient Zero Richard A. McKay
Playing Dead Elizabeth Greenwood
Scale Geoffrey West
Six Women of Salem Marilynne K. Roach
Skin in the Game Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Bettencourt Affair Tom Sancton
The Big Short Michael Lewis
The Book That Changed
America
Randall Fuller
The China Mission Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
The Genius of Judaism Bernard-Henri Levy
The Great Halifax Explosion John U. Bacon
The Happiness Equation Neil Pasricha
The Knowledge Illusion Steven Sloman
The Last Wild Men of Borneo Carl Hoffman
The Laws of Medicine Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Marshall Plan Benn Steil
The Men Who United the
States
Simon Winchester
The Origin of Species Charles Darwin
The Price of Everything Eduardo Porter
The Quantum Labyrinth Paul Halpern
The Road to Jonestown Jeff Guinn
The Secret Token Andrew Lawler
The Shipwreck Hunters David L. Mearns
The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert
The Stowaway Laurie Gwen Shapiro
The Warren Buffett Way Robert Hagstrom
Too Big to Fail Andrew Ross Sorkin
Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose
When  Daniel Pink
When Mountezuma Met Cortez Matthew Restall
Without Precedent Joel Richard Paul
Young Washington Peter Stark

 

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