# The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

- **Author:** Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- **Read:** May 2008
- **Topic:** Science and Math
- **Published:** 2005
- **Pages:** 475
- **Picked by:** Dan
- **ISBN-13:** 9780593243657
- **Open Library:** https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3295030W
- **Cover:** https://rwbookclub.com/assets/images/covers/the-black-swan-329.jpg
- **Canonical page:** https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-black-swan/

## Synopsis

From the critically acclaimed author of Fooled by Randomness, a book about the impact of improbable events on every aspect of life.