Ten Books+

A lot of the premises of Fooled by Randomness can be found in The Black Swan. I'd replace that with The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Reading it in 1990 changed my view of the world. Also, much of Harari's research in Sapiens is based on Jared Diamond's article about the neolithic revolution, The Worst Mistake in Human History, which in a 15 minute read lays out the bad bargain humanity unintentionally made in trading quality of calories for certainty of calories, which changed us from triathletes to couch potatoes.

I'd also add EJ Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes: the Short 20th Century and Why Nations Fail to understand the current planetary civil war between reality and science-denying toxic testosterone pluto-populism (Trump/Erdogan/Putin/Orban/ Duterte/Bolsonaro/BoJo...) and the often female-led govts that have more successfully responded to COVID19 (Tsai, Marin, Merkel, Ardern...). The Hudson Institute's Kleptocracy Project tells you what you're up against: mafias and family businesses with flags that I call institutional transvestites.