There's quite the difference between a textbook and an investing book. If you read my comment again, you will notice that I recommend getting textbooks.

Damodaran's Corporate Finance is a textbook. Taleb's books and any other "philosophy of investing" are junk. Some philosophy of investing books provide some value but only after the reader already has quite the knowledge and experience.

tl;dr - Read the curriculum, not amazon's top section.

Check out the works of Paul Wilmott, which include textbooks and a magazine of the same name which is (or at least used to be) the most expensive magazine subscription there is.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wilmott

Documentary on "quants" featuring him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2FWNWwE3I

For finance in general, I recommend "Corporate Finance" by Berk & de Marzo or the CFA study material, which is quite accessible (at least for Level 1).

If your objective is to be quant, I will suggest removing Corporate Finance and Security Analysis books from your reading list. "Trading and Exchanges" is a good addition.

A learning strategy that has served me well is to look at syllabus and recommended texts for an academic program closely aligned to my interest. Going through recommended texts in these programs on my own has helped me gain more structured knowledge on the topic of interest. Each successive module builds on previous modules.

In your case, you want to check out academic programs related to financial engineering and computational finance such as at Baruch, Carnegie-Mellon, UW etc. Here is a link to UW Computational Finance and Risk Management curriculum: http://depts.washington.edu/compfin/content/ms-degree/curric.... The link to course description shows the recommended textbooks. Going through these books will prepare your well to be a Quant.

In case you want to see recommended readings from other programs, check out list of financial engineering program at https://www.quantnet.com/mfe-programs-rankings/. I am sure some of them have detailed syllabus and recommended readings available on Interest.

A few other resources for recommended readings:

Quant net Forum Book section https://www.quantnet.com/forum/books.37/

Quant net Master Reading List https://www.quantnet.com/threads/master-reading-list-for-qua...

End to End exploration and explanation of how and why global economy works.
- Peter Dicken, Global Shift https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/global-shift/book242137

Any corporate finance textbook, probably;
Brearly Myers, Corporate Finance, https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Corporate-Finance-Richard-...

Watch the Yale/Stanford lectures opencourseware on Financial Markets with Schiller; http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-252-11

Nicholas Taleb, Black Swan; https://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness-Frag...

Harry Markopolos, Nobody Would Listen, https://www.amazon.com/No-One-Would-Listen-Financial/dp/0470...

Michael Lewis, Liars Poker, https://www.amazon.com/Liars-Poker-Norton-Paperback-Michael/...

"Leveraged Sellout", Damn It Feels Good To Be A Banker, https://www.amazon.com/Damn-Feels-Good-Be-Banker/dp/14013096...