The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

By Gregory Zuckerman (2019) Pages: 357, Final verdict: Great-read Jim Simmons is one of the most secretive and fascinating man in Wall Street. A mathematician and former code breaker for the US government, he is the founder of Renaissance Technologies, one of the world’s most lucrative hedge funds. In... Read more

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An Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth

By M.K. Gandhi (1926) Pages: 454, Final verdict: Great-read "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the Earth in flesh and blood." (Albert Einstein about M.K. Gandhi) An Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth is the autobiographical work of Mohandas... Read more

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Titan: The Life Of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

By Ron Chernow (1998) Pages: 679, Final verdict: Great-read Hero or thief? What does it take to become the second world's richest historical figure? Titan is the biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., one the world's richest figures, who made his fortune by building Standard Oil, the company that grew... Read more

Biography

When Breath Becomes Air

By Paul Kalanithi (2016) Pages: 225, Final verdict: Great-read What makes life worth living in the face of death? This is the question asked by Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon diagnosed with cancer at age 36. When Breath Becomes Air is Kalanithi's powerful, unfinished memoir, written during the time he was... Read more

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Without Their Permission

By Alexis Ohanian (2013) Pages: 245, Final verdict: Don't-read Without Their Permission is a memoir-meets-entrepreneurship-advice book written by Alexis Ohanian at the age 30. From the founding of the social news webpage Reddit to the political fight for a free internet, Alexis recounts the many moments which led him to... Read more

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