100 Best Gambling Books of All Time

Carol DweckYou would think that the relationship between training and skill would be utterly obvious in sports, but apparently it isn’t. (Source)

David PapineauIt’s a parable of the disinclination of people in general to base their practices on evidence, a parable for evidence-based policy in general. (Source)

Ed SmithThis is about a guy using econometrics to predict which baseball players will do better in advancing wins, a remarkable use of economic thinking. (Source)

Howard Marks[Howard Marks has this book on his shelf.] (Source)

Sergey BrinBrin told the Academy of Achievement: "Aside from making really big contributions in his own field, he was pretty broad-minded. I remember he had an excerpt where he was explaining how he really wanted to be a Leonardo [da Vinci], an artist and a scientist. I found that pretty inspiring. I think that leads to having a fulfilling life." (Source)

Larry PageGoogle co-founder has listed this book as one of his favorites. (Source)

Peter AttiaThe book I’ve recommended most. (Source)

P. D. Mangan@MarquisDeMarche @natstewart5 Great book. (Source)

Charles DuhiggThrough wonderful storytelling and sly wit, Annie Duke has crafted the ultimate guide to thinking about risk. We can all learn how to make better decisions by learning from someone who made choices for a living, with millions on the line. (Source)

Marc AndreessenCompact guide to probabilistic domains like poker, or venture capital. Best articulation of "resulting", drawing bad conclusions from confusing process and outcome. Recommend for people operating in the real world. (Source)

Seth GodinBrilliant. Buy ten copies and give one to everyone you work with. It's that good. (Source)

Ben MacintyreI think it’s the best of them, and it’s wonderful because it reveals what I think is the essential Bond. (Source)

Gail KellyMember of the Group of 30, and former CEO of Westpac will be spending her summer months reading a memoir, a novel and historical non-fiction. Lab Girl—Hope Jahren Pachinko—Min Jin Lee The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics—Daniel James Brown (Source)

Lynda La PlanteI like this novel due to the extraordinary background on how it was written, at the same time as he was writing Crime and Punishment. He had a certain time frame and a page count of 160 pages to submit within four months.  He had agreed a contract in September that he had to submit a new novel to the publishers, Stellovsky, by the first of November.  In the event of failure to produce this book... (Source)

Johann HariIf you wanted to design a system that would make addiction worse, you’d design the system we have now. (Source)

Bill GatesAnyone interested in politics may be attracted to Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don't. Silver is the New York Times columnist who got a lot of attention last fall for predicting—accurately, as it turned out–the results of the U.S. presidential election. This book actually came out before the election, though, and it’s about predictions in many... (Source)

Mohsin HamidWe think of Hemingway as an American writer, but much of his writing is set outside of the United States, just as much of his life was set outside of the United States. (Source)

Janine di GiovanniThe fact that Hemingway writes it as an old, rather bitter man trapped in his Idaho home with a bullying wife while he dreams of his youth in Paris with his first wife and child is so touching to me. (Source)

Wai Chee DimockThis is a memoir by Hemingway about his time in Paris, which includes sketches of people like F Scott Fitzgerald. (Source)

Howard MarksSo good. (Source)

Jason ZweigIn the book, he explores risk at every conceivable level – what it is mathematically and what it is psychologically, how it has played out historically, how people have thought to measure it and also to control it. (Source)

John Lanchesterit’s an absolutely fascinating, for-the-layman account of how humanity mastered risk and came to understand probability. (Source)

Victoria Coren MitchellI say to the younger generation that you should go out and see the world, seduce beautiful women, read books, have a job and play poker as well. (Source)

Victoria Coren MitchellThis is a technical strategy book from a while ago. Now there are millions of these but most of them are boring and just have sexy new terms for things poker players have been doing for 200 years. (Source)

Aaron Klein@danielcrosby My Director of Finance just told me about this book! Looks like a great read. (Source)

Stephen MayneHere is the great ⁦@CLjeSuppose⁩ in Natasha Schull’s 2012 book, “Addiction by Design”, describing how machine gamblers in the zone suspend clock time. https://t.co/mAg0ERJY2t (Source)

Dan Davies@amoralelite @d_spiegel It's a great book. I thought it was like coming home because I've always tried to avoid calculation due to the dyspraxia and it was just "yes, that's how you think about it" (Source)

Steve Burns@RampCapitalLLC @mjmauboussin I’m reading this now, great book! (Source)

Victoria Coren MitchellTony’s book is an experiment. He goes out to try to spend a year as a professional poker player. (Source)

Matthew O’BrienIt’s about a young girl who moves out here with her boyfriend. Then they break up and she’s in need of work and unsure what to do, and she comes across a job opportunity as an assistant to a sports bettor. It’s about her experiences in this male dominated sports betting world. (Source)