Attending the American Finance Association places you with a group of people which I for one would likely have never met otherwise.

While conversating with the attendees, primarily finance and economic professors I gathered recommendations for books to read by the general public not necessarily too analytical. Below is the result:

Freakonomics by  Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt.

The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner.

A Very Short Introduction to Game Theory by Ken Binmore.

The Naked Economist by Charles Wheelan.

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial FollyBook by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff.

Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our KidsBook by Fabrizio Zilibotti and Matthias Doepke.

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson.

*Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre.

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Including a Life-Cycle Guide to Personal Investing by Burton Malkiel.

New Ideas from Dead Economists by Todd G. Buchholz.

The Black SwanBook by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Economics by Sam Watson.

Economic Literacy by  Jacob De Rooy.

The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success in Business & Life by Avinash Dixit.

Journal Of Economic Perspective.

Take what value you can from every situation.

*This book was most highly recommended to me by a professor from Purdue! Excited to read it.