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Annie Duke books: every book Annie Duke wrote and recommended
Across 8 podcasts. Every show Annie Duke appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by Annie Duke
Annie Duke’s most recommended books
- Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
- Nudge by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Anguished English by Richard Lederer
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
- Discipline Is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
- Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler
- The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
Anne LaBarr Duke is an American former professional poker player and author in cognitive-behavioral decision science and decision education. She holds a World Series of Poker gold bracelet from 2004 and used to be the leading money winner among women in WSOP history; she remains in the top five as of April 2023, despite having retired from poker and last cashing at a tournament in 2010. Duke won the 2004 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the National Heads-Up Poker Championship in 2010. She has written a number of instructional books for poker players, including Decide to Play Great Poker and The Middle Zone, as well as an autobiography, and two books on decision-making, Thinking in Bets and How to Decide. During podcast appearances on ChooseFI, The Jordan Harbinger Show, EconTalk, and Conversations with Tyler, Duke discussed and recommended several influential works. She highlighted Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow as a central piece of decision-making literature that everyone should read. She also recommended Philip Tetlock's Superforecasting, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's Freakonomics, Angela Duckworth's Grit, and Richard Lederer's Anguished English. Furthermore, she discussed reader feedback on her own book Thinking in Bets and mentioned Richard Thaler's Nudge when exploring concepts of mental accounting.
Books recommended by Annie Duke
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Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets is an insightful guide that applies poker strategies and decision-making frameworks to everyday life, teaching readers how to navigate uncertainty and avoid cognitive traps.
Discussed“and the answer is exactly what you said it was because of conversations that I had with my readers who had read thinking in bats”
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Superforecasting
Philip E.
Recommended“one of the first conversations I had with Phil telek who wrote super forecasting um which is a wonderful book people should get it”
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Into Thin Air
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer is a gripping and tragic non-fiction account detailing the author's harrowing participation in the disastrous 1996 Mount Everest climbing expedition that resulted in the deaths of several climbers.
Discussed“and it was called Into Thin Air by James Brown”
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How to Decide
How to Decide by Annie Duke is a practical guide that offers simple tools and mental frameworks to help readers make better choices by separating decision quality from outcome quality.
Discussed“So, you know, both of my books kind of start a little bit in the same place and then they diverge from each other.”
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman explores the dual systems of the human mind that drive how people think, make choices, and commit cognitive errors.
Discussed“as I was looking around the space I realized that there's kind of a gap in this literature that's you know I would say thinking fast and slow is like the center piece of this literature which is such obviously an incredible book that everybody should read”
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Quit
Quit by Annie Duke is a strategic decision-making guide that explores the psychological barriers to walking away from failing endeavors and champions the power of knowing when to pivot.
Discussed“well knowing you I would feel complimented because you've just written a new book and it's called quit the power of knowing when to walk away”
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Anguished English
Anguished English by Richard Lederer is a humorous and entertaining collection that explores the hilarious blunders, fractured syntax, and amusing oddities of the English language.
Recommended“that being said i will recommend to everybody that if you haven't read anguished english it's a really hilarious book”
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Freakonomics
Freakonomics by Steven D.
Recommended“and this actually comes from Stephen Stephen Levitt you know Freakonomics oh yeah and whatnot yeah uh go go see his TED Talks read Freakonomics he's wonderful”
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Grit
Grit by Angela Duckworth is a psychology-based exploration of the roles that passion and perseverance play in achieving long-term success, independent of innate talent.
Recommended“um so let me just first say that I really don't have any quibble with the book grit I think everybody should go and read it”
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Discipline Is Destiny
Discipline Is Destiny by Ryan Holiday is a compelling book that examines the power of self-control through historical examples and Stoic philosophy.
Discussed“because even when I, when I was reading the advanced copy of Discipline is Destiny, there were, you know, there were some typos I was finding in there and for sure.”
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Misbehaving
Misbehaving by Richard H.
Discussed“Here's this thing, you know, actually a place I just saw it was in Richard Thaler's misbehaving and he's got it right there pretty early in the book, like this sentence about, you know, how you learn.”
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The Secret
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is a bestselling self-help phenomenon centered on the law of attraction, which posits that positive visualization and focused intention can manifest wealth, health, and happiness directly into a person's life.
Discussed“and one of the issues that i have with the the literature and the power of positive thinking which i think ultimately expresses itself through the book the secret are you familiar with the book the secret”
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When Prophecy Fails
When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, Henry W.
Discussed“so a lot of people are familiar with when prophecy fails Leon festinger followed the Seekers from the 1950s”
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Appearances
Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
“during covid Phil tetlock who wrote super forecast day sure reached out to me and asked me to do some research on counterfactual forecasting with him”
“and we talked about thinking in bets way back then and I'm so appreciative of you giving that book a platform”
“I actually have a whole chapter on that and how to decide.”
“actually i would say that uh how to decide i wrote how to decide because of people who wrote to me um and were asking me about thinking in bets”
“I think that that all revealed itself to me later as I went along. I think that it particularly revealed itself to me when I started talking on these topics that really eventually ended up as Thinking in Bets is the book.”