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Author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.
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The Innocent AnthropologistBook Nigel Barley
There’s a book, I’ve never seen anybody talk about it or write about it, but when I read it, I thought, in a funny way, it was helpful for Liar’s Poker. It was a book called The Innocent Anthropologist.
The Tim Ferriss Show, "Michael Lewis — Inside the Mind of the Iconic Writer (#427)"; asked whether they gift any nonfiction. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.
2020-05-14·tim.blog ↗
The Long ShipsBook Frans G. Bengtsson
it’s one of these books that, it’s just a miracle of a book. It’s called The Long Ships, and it’s by a Scandinavian historian.
The Tim Ferriss Show, "Michael Lewis — Inside the Mind of the Iconic Writer (#427)"; asked which books besides their own they have gifted most. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.
2020-05-14·tim.blog ↗
A Gentleman in MoscowBook Amor Towles
The other book, my pandemic reading gift I’ve been giving to people, because it’s a perfect pandemic novel, is Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow
The Tim Ferriss Show, "Michael Lewis — Inside the Mind of the Iconic Writer (#427)"; asked which books besides their own they have gifted most. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.
2020-05-14·tim.blog ↗
Unreliable MemoirsBook Clive James
There are memoirs that I’ve given more than once to people. Clive James’ Unreliable Memoirs. Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals, essentially comic memoirs.
The Tim Ferriss Show, "Michael Lewis — Inside the Mind of the Iconic Writer (#427)"; asked whether they gift any nonfiction. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.
2020-05-14·tim.blog ↗
My Family and Other AnimalsBook Gerald Durrell
There are memoirs that I’ve given more than once to people. Clive James’ Unreliable Memoirs. Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals, essentially comic memoirs.
The Tim Ferriss Show, "Michael Lewis — Inside the Mind of the Iconic Writer (#427)"; asked whether they gift any nonfiction. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.
2020-05-14·tim.blog ↗
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