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Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

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Here is my list (from https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/912138-alex-givant?rea...): Memoirs: - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Bourdain, Anthony, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidenti... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidenti..). - Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Land, Stephanie, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39218350-maid - Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Bourdain, Anthony, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40409969-medium-raw - Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS by Yancey, Rick, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196519.Confessions_of_a_... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196519.Confessions_of_a_..). - The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir by Steffanie Strathdee, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36589701-the-perfect-pre... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36589701-the-perfect-predator) Politics:…
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released this year and great reads: * Bad Blood - mentioned tons of times * Billion Dollar Whale - story of the 1MDB scandal * Black Edge - chronicles insider trading on wall street * The Billionaire Raj - about India's income inequality and ruling oligarchy