Scott Patterson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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WSJ investigative reporter focused on climate tech and all things energy. Author of The Quants, Dark Pools, and Chaos Kings. DM for Signal.

6 books

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

Scott Patterson

Chaos Kings is an “illuminating investigation…The author has a knack for translating complicated financial maneuvers into easily comprehensible terms…Detailed yet accessible, this will appeal to fans of Michael Lewis’s The Big Short.” —@PublishersWkly https://t.co/sCDIrZLi24

Paperback, 2011

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Poker Face of Wall Street

Aaron Brown

Scott Patterson

“Fast paced like a thriller...thought-provoking...Chaos Kings tracks the adventures of contrarian investors who, rather than hide from chaos and confusion seek it out.” -Aaron Brown, The Poker Face of Wall Street https://t.co/LVoKPnbrrA

Paperback, 2007

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

Scott Patterson

I caught up with Delton Chen, creator of the Global Carbon Reward that inspired the carbon coin concept in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future. https://on.wsj.com/3hQHjgI

Paperback, 2021

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Money: A Suicide Note (Penguin Ink)

Martin Amis

Scott Patterson

@carney Martin Amis, Money

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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard

Joan Didion

Scott Patterson

@nntaleb @RupertRead Only Nassim could complain about sipping single malts in an East Anglia pub! And thanks Nassim...I may be a perpetrator of the narrative fallacy, but we all need our stories now and again. (Or as I quote Joan Didion in Chaos Kings: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”)

Hardcover, 2006

$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis

Scott Patterson

Check out this pod I did with @Clay_Finck on We Study Billionaires about my new book, Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis https://t.co/PZIWaUjCvM

Hardcover, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book