Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord
odd-lots-books.netlify.app35 points by muggermuch 5 hours ago
35 points by muggermuch 5 hours ago
If you enjoy the podcast or the newsletters, I do recommend the Discord (https://discord.gg/oddlots) - the folks there are generally very smart and it is a great place to discuss everything from the economy to climate to transportation to defense.
Odd Lots is a podcast hosted at Bloomberg, and so the discord is about analyzing market crazes and important economic trends.
This explains why the book recommendations appear to be heavily focused on understanding history and economics at a deep level.
That makes more sense. I was thinking about the big box discount store Big Lots and my first thought was "they have a Discord?" followed by "they talk about books!?!".
Where do you source the book covers from? Is there a library to look them up or something?
Does "recommended" just mean "mentioned" or is this curated?
It's everything mentioned that's then filterable via tags, there's a joe-recommended tag for books that are directly recommended by one of the cohosts.
800 books? That seems too large of a list to be useful, even for the most voracious reader.
Who wrote the blurbs?
The book that I looked at had the same blurb on odd-lots-books.netlify.app as was used in my local library catalogue, so I assume it's the standard publisher's blurb?
What's Odd Lots?