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Simon's 150 Essential Books of Non-Fiction (Old List)

The top 150 non-fiction any erudite will need to read to understand business, psychology, physics, history, biographies, economics, politics, current affairs, and science.
The main reason for adding the long list was that all current list's were uninteresting and/or substandard. This list is tilted toward currently available non-fiction in English.
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Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed.. (Gillian Tett)
Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed..
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Gillian Tett
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
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Animals Make Us Human (Temple Grandin)
Animals Make Us Human
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Temple Grandin
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Steven Pinker)
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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Steven Pinker
Liar's Poker
Liar's Poker
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Leonard Mlodinow)
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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Leonard Mlodinow
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera)
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
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Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
The Wisdom of Psychopaths (Kevin Dutton)
The Wisdom of Psychopaths
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Kevin Dutton
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior (Leonard Mlodinow)
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
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Leonard Mlodinow
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind)
Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind
How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company... (William Poundstone)
How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company...
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William Poundstone
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein)
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-The-Sce​Nes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street... (Gregory Zuckerman)
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-The-Sce​Nes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street...
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Gregory Zuckerman
Luck Factor (Richard Wiseman)
Luck Factor
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Richard Wiseman
Animal Liberation
Animal Liberation
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Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises (Tim Geithner)
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
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Tim Geithner
Manias, Panics, and Crashes
Manias, Panics, and Crashes
19
Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson
Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–For Life (David Perlmutter, Kristin Loberg)
Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–For Life
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David Perlmutter, Kristin Loberg
Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff (Christine S. Richard)
Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff
22
Christine S. Richard
ELON MUSK (Ashlee Vance)
ELON MUSK
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Ashlee Vance
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-Like Riddles, Insanely Difficult... (William Poundstone)
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-Like Riddles, Insanely Difficult...
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William Poundstone
God: The Failed Hypothesis
God: The Failed Hypothesis
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Christopher Hitchens)
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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Christopher Hitchens
Letter to a Christian Nation (Sam Harris)
Letter to a Christian Nation
27
Sam Harris
The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)
The God Delusion
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Richard Dawkins
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (John J. Ratey, Eric Hagerman)
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
29
John J. Ratey, Eric Hagerman
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Roger Lowenstein)
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
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Roger Lowenstein
Open: An Autobiography (Andre Agassi)
Open: An Autobiography
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Andre Agassi
Dreams From My Father (Barack Obama)
Dreams From My Father
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Barack Obama
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard P. Feynman (James Gleick)
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard P. Feynman
33
James Gleick
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin)
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla
35
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Richard Feynman)
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Richard Feynman
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard Feynman)
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
37
Richard Feynman
Iwoz (Steve Wozniak)
Iwoz
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Steve Wozniak
Kissinger: A Biography (Walter Isaacson)
Kissinger: A Biography
39
Walter Isaacson
The Compass of Pleasure
The Compass of Pleasure
40
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