Barry Ritholtz, Columnist

10 Books on Thinking About Thinking

Here’s a winter reading list that might give a little more insight into why we get so many things wrong.

December 14, 2019 at 1:00 PM UTC

Barry Ritholtz is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and was previously chief market strategist at Maxim Group. He is the author of “Bailout Nation.”

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Thanksgiving is behind us, Christmas is around the corner and the rest of the long, dark winter lies ahead -- and that means peak reading season is upon us.

So here are a few books I will read, or at least start. What attracted me to these books is how they approach thinking about thinking: Each tries to tease out why our general understanding on a subject is so often wrong; they explore better cognitive frameworks that could help us comprehend issues more clearly; they consider unique perspectives in securities trading, national security, genetics and artificial intelligence.

On to the reading: