Which of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's books are essential must-reads?

>>9932473
He has his niche. If his concerns approximate your own then all. Black Swan is his most literary, however.

Black Swan and Antifragile. Anti is his best work IMO. Black Swan is still good.

His Twitter. Don't bother with the books.

Oh he's the black swan, dude. My friend who reads nothing but self help and pop-psych books enjoyed that.

Try not to be on his level, OP.

>>9933311
Great numbers. Then in his general reading- or among his books- Taleb's Black Swan is itself a black swan. It's a fine book, anon.

Fooled by randomness

Just pick a random one from the library - or - read his chapters available online for Skin In The Game

>>9932473
I started with Antifragile, and have now read Fooled by Randomness and Black Swan. It seems his later books give a brief summary of the content in the previous ones, enough that you don't have to read the previous book to understand how they relate to the new one. So I would read Antifragile and see how much the concepts interest you.

All of them in order.

You could just read his bibliography in the books to see how he came up with nothing and merely dumbed down already known concepts in finance for an audience of BASED populist intellectuals who hate academics! Means you get to skip his boring digressions into his life, and risible philosophical insights. But, reading the bibliography material is good.

All of them

Call him an arab, I dare you!

Antifragile is the only one you need to read. In his own words each one of his books is basically a rehash of the older books touching on the same general subject, but with ever broadening and deeper perspectives. You could just wait until Skin in the Game comes out.