Books
HOW WOULD YOU FIGHT A HORSE-SIZED DUCK?
Secrets to Succeeding at Interview Mind Games and Getting the Job You Want
New York: Little, Brown 2021
The Doomsday Calculation
How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
New York: Little, Brown, 2018
HEAD IN THE CLOUD
Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
New York: Little, Brown, 2016
Rock Breaks Scissors
A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody
New York: Little, Brown, 2014
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?
Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need to Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy
New York: Little, Brown, 2012
Priceless
The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)
New York: Hill and Wang, 2010
Gaming the Vote
Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It)
New York: Hill and Wang, 2008
Fortune’s Formula
The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
New York: Hill and Wang, 2005
How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
Microsoft’s Cult of the Puzzle—How the World’s Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
New York: Little, Brown, 2003
Carl Sagan
A Life in the Cosmos
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1999
Biggest Secrets
More Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know
New York: William Morrow, 1993
Prisoner’s Dilemma
John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb
New York: Doubleday, 1992
The Ultimate
New York: Doubleday, 1990
Labyrinths of Reason
Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge
New York: Doubleday, 1988
Bigger Secrets
More Than 125 Things They Prayed You'd Never Find Out
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986
The Recursive Universe
Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge
New York: William Morrow, 1984. Reprint, New York: Dover 2013.
Big Secrets
The Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know
New York: William Morrow, 1983
Reprints, Criticism, Curiosities
What to Think About Machines That Think
Edited by John Brockman
New York: Harper, 2015
Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}
Jessica Pressman, Mark C. Marino, and Jeremy Douglass
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015
Dream Journal
Amazon and iPad eBook, 2011
The Game Design Reader
A Rules of Play Anthology
Edited by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006
New Media Poetics
Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories
Edited by Adelaide Morris and Thomas Swiss
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006
A to Izzard
A Harry Stephen Keeler Companion
Edited by Fender Tucker, with contributions by Francis Nevins, Richard Polt, and many others
Shreveport, LA: Ramble House, 2002
The Big Book of Big Secrets
New York: Barnes & Noble, 2001
(Reprint of Big Secrets and Biggest Secrets)