I made the mistake of reading the two Taleb books on my list out of order. In fact, had I read Fooled By Randomness first, I could have skipped reading The Black Swan since the bulk of the material is covered in the first book (and covered better in my opinion.) That is not to say that there was no new material in the second book, but rather that the new material was not enough to justify spending the time to read through the re-hash. As far as readability goes, I would recommend Fooled By Ra