Here I list what I like to call Peter's Canon: a list of books and articles I have read and consider important. If I get time, I will annotate at least some of them.

Cognitive sciences, behavior, psychology

  • Judgment Under Uncertainty
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • Inevitable Illusions
  • Willful Blindness
  • Why We Do What We Do
  • Consciousness Explained. Daniel Dennett.
  • Solitude. A Return to the Self. Anthony Storr.
  • The Sile Effect: The Peril of Expertie. Gillian Tett.
  • Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of over 300 Logical Fallacies, Bo Bennett.
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Math, probability, statistics

  • Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions. Gerd Gigerenzer.
  • How Not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. Jordan Ellenberg.
  • Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences. John Allen Paulos.

 

Medical math, probability, statistics

  • Naked Statistics. Charles Whelan.
  • Know Your Chances. Understanding Health Statistics. Steven Woloshin.

 

Science

  • Ignorance
  • Second Hand Knowledge: An Inquiry Into Cognitive Authority. Patrick Wilson.
  • Human. The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique. Michael Gazzaniga.
  • The Islanbd of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning. Marcelo Gleiser.

 

Literature

 

History

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolution
  • Diffusion of Innovations
  • They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45. Milton Mayer.
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Huankind. Yuval Noah Harari. 

 

Biography

 

Management

  • The Future of Management. Gary Hamel.
  • Cultivating Communities of Practice. Etienne Wenger.
  • The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error. Sidney Dekker.
  • Systemantics: The Systems Bible. John Gall. 
  • The Difference: How The Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools and Societies. Scott E. Page.
  • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. General Stanley McChrystal.
  • Engage the Fox: A Business Fable about Thinking Critically. Jen Lawrence.

 

Medicine

  • Critical Decisions
  • How Doctors Think
  • Your Medical Mind
  • Of Two MInds
  • Medicine in Denial
  • The Social Transformation of American Medicine.
  • What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear. Danielle Ofri.
  • An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business. Elisabeth Rosenthal.
  • Overdiagnosed. Gilbert Welch.
  • Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Health Care. Dr. Gilbert Welch. 
  • Talking to Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Communication. Zackary Berger, MD.
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Literature and Medicine

  • The Last Lecture
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
  • The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy. Naoki Higashida.
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Philosophy and ethics

  • Responsibility and Judgment. Hannah Arendt.
  • Evil in Modern Thought. Susan Neiman.

 

 

Topic
Psychology and behavioral economics