The Economist named this a “Best Book of 2015,” and Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal called it “the most important book on decision making since Daniel Kahneman’s ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow.’” I am looking forward to seeing what Tetlock has learned over the course of decades studying the subject.

4. “Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception,” by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller

Perhaps the flip side of better decision making is this question: Why are economic players so easily manipulated and deceived? Written by two Nobel laureates, it explores a radical idea in economics: that markets are not benign places of exchange, but are either positive or negative.

“Phishing for Phools” has won too many awards and accolades to list here. But when narrowing down my list, I noted that Bob Shiller (hear the Masters in Business interview here) co-wrote this -- what else do you need to know?

5. “Investment: A History,” by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing

I get asked to blurb books all the time, and I mostly pass. There are so many published books I want to read that I don’t have time to sift through the countless unpublished ones. But thumbing through this historical look at the past 4,000 years of investing history, I got sucked in. I was engrossed by the chapter on the emergence of investment theory -- it is a tour de force, and that alone was worth the price of admission. I hope to finish this soon.

6. “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” by Yuval Noah Harari

I mentioned to a friend from South America how much I enjoyed “Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived,” and he gave me “Sapiens” as a follow-up read. It answers a big question: “How did Homo sapiens evolve from an unexceptional savannah-dwelling primate to become the dominant force on the planet, emerging as the lone survivor out of six distinct, competing hominid species?”

The book is a sweeping history of the human species, its violent emergence and eventual planetary domination. Any time a book is called “the most surprising and thought-provoking book I read this year,” you have my full attention.

7. “Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World,” by Mark Miodownik