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1.		The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable from Penguin Books Ltd Price: £5.34 Customer Review: This is one of the most enjoyable and interesting books I have ever read. I have now read it about 20 times but keep finding something new every time I read it. I have also noticed that now after the credit crunch everything he says has additional meaning though the book itself was written before... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets from Penguin Books Ltd Price: £6.54 Customer Review: If you nkow the basics of statistics, you'll find nothing new and amazing in this book. However it is a time passing reading and gives the opportunity to remind you of the things you normally attribute to ability and skill. Sometime we tend to overstimate people. I think it is well worth the money... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Taleb on Risk: Dynamic Hedging from John Wiley & Sons Price: £41.99 Customer Review: This is without a doubt the best book that has ever been written on professional options trading and I simply cant understand why anyone would give a less than glowing review. If there is anything better out there (and i dont mean a pricing book that leaves the reader to infer his own trading... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		The Volatility Surface: A Practitioner's Guide (Wiley Finance) from John Wiley & Sons Price: £27.99 Customer Review: Excellent book. I used Jim's lecture notes before the book was published, they were (and still are) the best notes for equity quants. The book essentially contains published lecture notes and I bought it as an aknowledgment to his contribution to equity quant comunity.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable from Allen Lane Customer Review: The central issue, which is sound, is reiterated almost to the point of boredom. Which is a shame because the style is entertaining and the critique of modern portfolio theory is pretty devastating. He could have said it in half the number of words and added more in the way of constructive... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets from Penguin Books Ltd Customer Review: If you nkow the basics of statistics, you'll find nothing new and amazing in this book. However it is a time passing reading and gives the opportunity to remind you of the things you normally attribute to ability and skill. Sometime we tend to overstimate people. I think it is well worth the money... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable from Random House Customer Review: The central issue, which is sound, is reiterated almost to the point of boredom. Which is a shame because the style is entertaining and the critique of modern portfolio theory is pretty devastating. He could have said it in half the number of words and added more in the way of constructive... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and the Markets from Texere Publishing,US Customer Review: This is a very good book for the right target audience - traders who successfully speculate with their own funds. There aren't many of them, estimates rarely go above 10,000 worldwide. Small wonder then, that the publisher chooses to market the book on a larger scale, and that's where it gets... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets from Random House USA Inc Customer Review: Fooled by Randomness is based on a basic truth about humans: we are not very good at statistics, especially if we simply rely on our instincts. For example, we fear airplanes, sharks and terrorists, yet we rarely think about mundane risks like cancer and car accidents. Similarly, we are not good at... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets from Random House Customer Review: Fooled by Randomness is based on a basic truth about humans: we are not very good at statistics, especially if we simply rely on our instincts. For example, we fear airplanes, sharks and terrorists, yet we rarely think about mundane risks like cancer and car accidents. Similarly, we are not good at... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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