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Books like The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King
The best books like The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King are Liar's Poker, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts, and Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King by Michael Craig is about poker, risk, gambling. 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.
- 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.
Both dig into risk.
Read the summary → - Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Annie Duke · Psychology
Thinking in Bets is Annie Duke's argument that most decisions in life share a fundamental feature with poker hands: you're choosing under uncertainty, with incomplete information, and luck will affect the outcome regardless of how well you reasoned.
Both dig into risk.
Read the summary → - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis · Business
Moneyball is Michael Lewis's account of how Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, used statistical analysis to compete against teams with payrolls three times larger.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - A Man for All Markets
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Edward O. Thorp · Memoir
A Man for All Markets is Edward Thorp's memoir of a life spent finding mathematical edges — first in casinos and later in financial markets.
Both dig into gambling.
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.
Both dig into risk.
Read the summary → - Blue Ocean Strategy
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W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne · Business
Blue Ocean Strategy is Kim and Mauborgne's case that the most successful companies don't compete in existing markets by beating rivals at their own game — they create new market spaces where competition is irrelevant.
Both dig into competition.
Read the summary → - Competitive Strategy
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Michael E. Porter · Business
Competitive Strategy is Michael Porter's foundational framework for analyzing industries and developing competitive strategy.
Both dig into competition.
Read the summary → - Good Strategy Bad Strategy
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Richard Rumelt · Business
Good Strategy Bad Strategy is Richard Rumelt's indictment of the strategic planning process as it is practiced in most organizations, and his articulation of what genuine strategy actually requires.
Both dig into competition.
Read the summary → - Leadership on the Line
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Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky · Business
Leadership on the Line is Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky's more accessible treatment of adaptive leadership, aimed at practitioners rather than scholars.
Both dig into risk.
Read the summary → - Never Split the Difference
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Chris Voss · Business
Never Split the Difference is Chris Voss's argument that the rational, compromise-based negotiation frameworks taught in business schools miss something fundamental about how people actually make decisions.
Both dig into psychology.
Read the summary → - Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
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Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
Roger L. Martin and A.G. Lafley · Business
Playing to Win is Roger Martin and A.G.
Both dig into competition.
Read the summary → - Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
Al Ries and Jack Trout · Business
Positioning, first published in 1981 and revised in 2000, introduced an idea that restructured how strategists think about marketing: the real competition is not in the marketplace but in the customer's mind.
Both dig into competition.
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Books like The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: quick answers
What are the best books like The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King?
The best books like The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King by Michael Craig are Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, A Man for All Markets by Edward O. Thorp, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King, such as poker, risk, gambling.
What should I read after The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King?
A natural next read after The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King is Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis. Both dig into risk. Other strong choices are Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, A Man for All Markets by Edward O. Thorp.
What books are similar to The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King by Michael Craig?
The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King centers on poker, risk, gambling. Books with a similar feel include Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, A Man for All Markets by Edward O. Thorp, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
