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Books like The Man Who Solved the Market
The best books like The Man Who Solved the Market are When Genius Failed, Liar's Poker, and The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman is about quantitative finance, financial markets, mathematics and science. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- When Genius Failed
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Roger Lowenstein · Economics
When Genius Failed is Roger Lowenstein's account of Long-Term Capital Management, the hedge fund that almost took down the global financial system in 1998.
A kindred biography read.
Read the summary → - Liar's Poker
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Michael Lewis · Business
Liar's Poker is Michael Lewis's account of his years as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s, the decade when Wall Street stopped being a gentleman's club and became something closer to a casino.
A kindred biography read.
Read the summary → - The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis · Economics
The Big Short is Michael Lewis's account of the 2008 financial crisis as seen through the eyes of a handful of contrarians who saw the collapse coming, bet against the American housing market, and were right.
A kindred biography read.
Read the summary → - Fooled by Randomness
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Psychology
Fooled by Randomness is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument that humans are wired to misread luck as skill, noise as signal, and random outcomes as the product of ability or effort.
A kindred biography read.
Read the summary → - Poor Charlie's Almanack
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Charlie Munger · Business
Poor Charlie's Almanack is a compilation of speeches, essays, and interviews from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's longtime business partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.
A kindred biography read.
Read the summary → - The House of Getty
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Russell Miller · Biography
The House of Getty is Russell Miller's investigative biography of J.
Both dig into wealth.
Read the summary → - Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
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Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
John Brooks · Business
Business Adventures is a collection of twelve long-form New Yorker profiles originally published between 1959 and 1969.
Both dig into financial markets.
Read the summary → - Market Wizards
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Jack D. Schwager · Business
Market Wizards is Jack Schwager's collection of interviews with some of the most successful traders of the 1970s and 1980s — Michael Marcus, Bruce Kovner, Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, and others who generated extraordinary returns over extended periods in futures, currencies, and equities.
Both dig into financial markets.
Read the summary → - Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire
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Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire
Andrew Wilkinson · Memoir
Never Enough is Andrew Wilkinson's memoir about building a small empire of internet companies — Tiny, the holding company he co-founded, has acquired dozens of businesses — and discovering that accumulating wealth at a level he'd once have considered unimaginable didn't resolve the anxiety that had driven him to pursue it.
Both dig into wealth.
Read the summary → - The 5 Types of Wealth
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Sahil Bloom · Self-help
The 5 Types of Wealth is Sahil Bloom's argument that financial wealth is one of five forms of wealth that actually matter, and that pursuing financial wealth at the expense of the other four produces a life that looks successful from the outside but feels hollow from the inside.
Both dig into wealth.
Read the summary → - The Alchemy of Finance
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George Soros · Economics
The Alchemy of Finance is George Soros's attempt to explain both the theory behind his investment decisions and the practice of applying it during the years he ran the Quantum Fund.
Both dig into financial markets.
Read the summary → - The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
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John Coates · Science
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf is John Coates's argument that financial markets are driven partly by biology, and specifically by the hormonal systems — testosterone and cortisol in particular — that evolved to prepare the body for physical challenges and that now operate on traders making millisecond decisions.
Both dig into financial markets.
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Books like The Man Who Solved the Market: quick answers
What are the best books like The Man Who Solved the Market?
The best books like The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman are When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein, Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Man Who Solved the Market, such as quantitative finance, financial markets, mathematics and science.
What should I read after The Man Who Solved the Market?
A natural next read after The Man Who Solved the Market is When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein. A kindred biography read. Other strong choices are Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
What books are similar to The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman?
The Man Who Solved the Market centers on quantitative finance, financial markets, mathematics and science. Books with a similar feel include When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein, Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger, The House of Getty by Russell Miller — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
