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All of the books on this page are important and have such exceedingly high intellectual and literary qualities that they merit inclusion on a list of worthwhile reading for anyone who seeks to expand their own mind. Each title has been carefully read in its entirety and considered for selection by one or more members of tkscm, limited. NO sponsorship offers, endorsements, donations, bribes, or any type of financial or economic gain are accepted for including authors or titles on this list, nor do we have personal relationships with any of the authors or publishers prior to them being represented herein. This list is not permanent.

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Reading List category code (^{B,E,L,U,M,I, S, H}) key:

^B = Business

^E = Economics

^L = Logic/Reason

^U = Uncertainty/Randomness

^M = Math/Statistics/Probability

^I = Investing/Asset Management

^S = Science/Physics/Quantum

^H = Human Behavior

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Nonfiction Books by Title

• 21 Lessons for the 21^st Century by Yuval Noah Harari ^{(B, E, L, U, S, H)}
• 21^st Century Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke ^{(B, E, L, U, M, I, H)}
• 8 Billion and Counting by Jennifer D. Sciubba ^{(E, L, U, M, H)}
• Adaptive Markets by Andrew Lo ^{(B, E, L, U, M, I, S, H)}
• Afterburn by Richard Heinberg ^{(L, U, S, H)}
• A Natural History of the Future by Rob Dunn ^{(B, E, L, U, S, H)}
• An Immense World by Ed Yong ^{(L, U, S, H)}
• Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ^{(E, L, U, M, I, H)}
• Antitrust by Amy Klobuchar ^{(B, E, L, I)}
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama ^(H)
• Asymmetric Returns by Alexander M. Ineichen ^{(U, M, I)}
• Becoming by Michelle Obama ^(H)
• Becoming Ms. Burton by Susan Burton ^{(U, H)}
• Behemoth by Joshua B. Freeman ^{(B, H)}
• Blockchain and the Law by Primavera de Filippi and Aaron Wright ^{(B, I, H)}
• Bound by War by Christopher Capozzola ^{(U, H)}
• Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollman ^{(B, U, S, H)}
• Carry On by John Lewis ^(H)
• Carving Out A Humanity by various geniuses ^(H)
• Chocolate Cities by Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria Robinson ^(H)
• Credible by Deborah Tuerkheimer ^(H)
• Dark Money by Jane Mayer ^{(B, E, I, H)}
• Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ^{(L, H)}
• Down to Earth by Bruno Latour ^{(L, H)}
• Earthlings by Adrian Parr ^{(L, U, S, H)}
• Economism by James Kwak ^{(B, E, H)}
• Factfulness by Hans Rosling ^{(E, L, M, H)}
• First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Zizek ^{(L, H)}
• Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman and Joe Knight ^{(B, E, L, M, I)}
• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ^{(B, E, L, U, I, H)}
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis ^{(U, H)}
• Fundamental by Frank Wilczek ^{(L, U, S)}
• Geopolitical Alpha by Marko Papic ^{(B, E, I, H)}
• Heavy by Kiese Laymon ^(H)
• How to Bake Pi by Eugenia Cheng ^(M)
• How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr ^{(E, H)}
• iGen by Jean M. Twenge, PhD. ^{(B, H)}
• Inefficient Markets by Andrei Schleifer ^{(B, E, L, U, M, I, H)}
• Investment Banking by J. Rosenbaum and J. Pearl ^{(B, M, I)}
• Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller ^{(B, E, U, M, I, H)}
• Leap by Howard Yu ^{(B, E, I)}
• Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo ^(H)
• Minority Leader by Stacey Abrams ^{(B, H)}
• Misbehaving by Richard Thaler ^{(B, E, U, M, H)}
• More From Less by Andrew McAfee ^{(E, I, S)}
• Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein ^(H)
• Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein ^{(L, U, H)}
• On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed ^(H)
• Other People’s Money by John Kay ^{(B, E, I, H)}
• Owning Our Future by Marjorie Kelly ^{(B, E, I, H)}
• People, Power, and Profits by Joseph E. Stiglitz ^{(B, E, I, H)}
• Phishing for Phools by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller ^{(E, U, H)}
• Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall ^{(E, L, U, S, H)}
• Quantum Electrodynamics by Richard Feynman ^{(L, U, S)}
• Race For Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ^{(B, E)}
• Rest in Power by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin ^{(U, H)}
• Rethinking Consciousness by Michael S. A. Graziano ^{(L, S, H)}
• Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ^{(B, E, L, U, M, H)}
• Slavery by Another Name by Douglas E. Blackmon ^(H)
• Something for Nothing by Maureen O’Hara ^{(B, I, H)}
• Spite by Simon McCarthy-Jones ^(H)
• Stress Test by Timothy Geithner ^{(B, E, U, I)}
• Super Tall by Stefan Al ^{(E, L, S, H)}
• The Age of Sustainable Development by Jeffrey D. Sachs ^{(B, E, U, S, H)}
• The Black Presidency by Michael Eric Dyson ^{(E, H)}
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ^{(E, L, U, M, I, H)}
• The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran ^{(B, E, H)}
• The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu ^{(B, E, I)}
• The Disordered Mind by Eric Kandel ^{(S, H)}
• The Economics of Inequality by Thomas Piketty ^{(B, E, M, I, H)}
• The Elements We Live By by Anja Royne ^{(L, S, H)}
• The End of the Asian Century by Michael R. Auslin ^{(B, E, U, I, H)}
• The End of White Politics by Zerlina Maxwell ^(H)
• The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis ^{(B, L, U, I, H)}
• The Future is Asian by Parag Khanna ^{(B, E, L, U, M, I, H)}
• The Future is Faster Than You Think by P. Diamandis and S. Kotler ^{(B, E, L, U, M, S)}
• The Hidden Wealth of Nations by Gabriel Zucman ^{(B, E, I, H)}
• The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben ^(S)
• The Long Defeat by Akiko Hashimoto ^{(U, H)}
• The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman ^{(M, I)}
• The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates ^{(B, E, L, H)}
• The Narcissism Epidemic by Jean M. Twenge, PhD. and W. Kieth Campbell PhD. ^{(B, H)}
• The New Breed by Kate Darling ^{(B, S, H)}
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander ^{(B, E, H)}
• The People’s Republic of Wal-mart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski ^{(B, E, I, H)}
• The Privileged Poor by Anthony Abraham Jack ^{(E, H)}
• The Quest by Daniel Yergin ^{(B, E, U, S, H)}
• The Reality Bubble by Ziya Tong ^{(L, U, S, H)}
• There Plant Eyes by M. Leona Godin ^(H)
• The Revolutionary Genius of Plants by Stefano Mancuso ^(S)
• The Sun’s Influence on Climate by Joanna D. Haigh and Peter Cargill ^{(L, U, M, S, H)}
• The Triumph of Injustice by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman ^{(B, E, L, M, I, H)}
• The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis ^{(B, L, U, H)}
• The Unrules by Igor Tulchinsky ^{(L, U, M, I, H)}
• The World For Sale by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy ^{(B, E, L, U, M, I, S, H)}
• Twice as Hard by Opeyemi and Raphael Sofoluke ^{(L, H)}
• Two and Twenty by Sachin Khajura ^{(B, E, M, I, H)}
• Upside by Kenneth Gronback ^{(E, L, U, M, H)}
• Visual Intelligence by Amy E. Herman ^{(S, H)}
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD. ^{(L, H)}

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[For ease of legibility, and because so many of them are so lengthy, we have removed book subtitles from the Reading List. We sincerely apologize to the authors for this cruel truncation.]