Joe Ochman

9 books

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile

Incerto #4

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

519 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction business economics philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Incerto #2

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

366 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction business economics philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-loving New York by Richard Zacks

Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-loving New York

Richard Zacks

465 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer

Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

Carl Zimmer

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays history science emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Revolution Was Televised: How the Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Lost, and Other Groundbreaking Dramas Changed TV Forever by Alan Sepinwall

The Revolution Was Televised: How the Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Lost, and Other Groundbreaking Dramas Changed TV Forever

Alan Sepinwall

400 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction informative fast-paced
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

Carl Zimmer

672 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need to Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy by William Poundstone

Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need to Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy

William Poundstone

304 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction business psychology self help informative fast-paced
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Reform Sin-loving New York by Richard Zacks

Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Reform Sin-loving New York

Richard Zacks

464 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction young adult dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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