Suggested reading for book report

Weapons of math destruction by Cathy O'Neal.
This discusses how Big Data is misused accross today's society. A warning for any modeler-in-training.
The Big Short by Michael Lewis.
This discusses what caused the 2008 financial crisis. Note you cannot select this if you already read this book with me in Math 537.
The signal and the noise by Nate Silver
An excellent book on the applications of Bayes formula to a range of topics.
Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone.
A quite entertaining book about betting systems, casinos, Wall street.
The theory that would not die by Sharon Bertsch Mcgrayne
All about Bayes rule and its applications.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb
Why events which have very small probability matter.
Gaming the vote by William Poundstone.
A book on whether elections are fair and how to design fair elections.
The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable by James Owen Weatherall
How math came to be used in Finance.
Demystifying climate models: a users guide to earth systems models by Andrew Gettelman and Richard Rood.
Weather changing more radically, not just growing warmer. Ebook is free from Springer.
The drunkard's walk. How randomness rules our lives by Leonard Mlodinov
For the probability inclined.
Chances are.... Adventures in Probability by Leonard Mlodinov
For the probability inclined.
The selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
A classic book on, among other things, why game theory matters in biology.
The Information: A history, a theory, a flood by James Gleick.
A book on information theory. The mathematical concept of "information" plays an increasing role in many applications.

maybe more to come ...