Over the past years, I have read (or listened) to hundreds of books spanning finance, investing, history, philosophy and economics.
Like Charlie Munger says, it's the big ideas that really carry most of the freight (think Pareto principle).
Of all the books, the ones I have gleaned the most from and which meaningfully impacted my thinking and actions are below.
This is not to say that the other books I have read are not worthwhile - in many cases, they often echo the same important ideas - and it is useful to have some of these ideas banged into one's head as many times as possible - but I have a preference for going straight to the horse's mouth for wisdom whenever possible.
I will be adding/editing the list as I continue to read and learn. These are the books that are worth reading, re-reading and re-re-reading. It should come as no surprise that many of these books show up on reading lists of multiple billionaires.
Investing
Benjamin Graham: Security Analysis (Warren Buffett has read this 4 times), The Interpretation of Financial Statements
Warren Buffett's partnership and Berkshire Hathaway (yes, all of them)
Peter Bevelin: Seeking Wisdom, A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes, Tell me where I"m going to Die so I don't go there
Poor Charlie's Almanack (Mohnish Pabrai says he has read this 7-8 times)
Joel Greenblatt: You can Be a Stock Market Genius, The Little Book that Still beats the Market, The Big Secret for the Small Investor
Warren Buffett books: The Snowball, Warren Buffett's Ground Rules, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, Warren Buffett Way, Warren Buffett portfolio
Financial Shenanigans
Deep Value
What Works on Wall Street
Money Masters
Supermoney
The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
Quality of Earnings
Philosophy
Nassim Taleb: Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled By Randomness
Misbehavior of Markets
Where are the Customer's Yachts?
The Dao of Capital
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
The Dhandho Investor
Business/Management
The Outsiders
Zero to One
Double Your Profits in 6 months or less
Creativity Inc
Work Rules!
Sam Walton: Made in America
Behind the cloud
So you want to start a hedge fund
Story by McKee
Ten Commandments of Business Failure
Hidden Champions
Roger Fisher - Getting To Yes, Getting it Done
Competition Demystified
Clayton Christensen - The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Prescription
Biographies/History
Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs, The Innovator's
Becoming Steve Jobs
Elon Musk
The Everything Store
Dream Big
Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger
The Davis Dynasty
Templeton Touch
Short History of financial Euphoria
Delivering Happiness
Michael Lewis- The Big Short
Psychology
Robert Cialdini: Influence, Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive, the Small Big
Contagious
Hooked
Predictably Irrational
Thinking Fast and Slow
Art of Thinking Clearly
Alchemy of Finance
Richard Thaler - Nudge, Misbehaving
Dan Pink - Drive, To Sell is Human
Heath Brothers - Decisive, Switch, Made to Stick
The Design of Everyday Things
Superforecasting
Charisma Myth
How to Lie with Statistics
Malcolm Gladwell - Blink, David and Goliath, Outliers
Real Estate
William Poorvu - The Real Estate Game, Creating and growing Real estate Wealth
Frank Galinelli - What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to know about cash flow,
Economics/Politics
Everything Lee Kuan Yew has written - especially Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights and One Man's View of the World, Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going
Atul Gawande - Being Mortal, Checklist Manifesto
World Order by Kissinger
Eric Topol - The Creative Destruction of Medicine
Like Charlie Munger says, it's the big ideas that really carry most of the freight (think Pareto principle).
Of all the books, the ones I have gleaned the most from and which meaningfully impacted my thinking and actions are below.
This is not to say that the other books I have read are not worthwhile - in many cases, they often echo the same important ideas - and it is useful to have some of these ideas banged into one's head as many times as possible - but I have a preference for going straight to the horse's mouth for wisdom whenever possible.
I will be adding/editing the list as I continue to read and learn. These are the books that are worth reading, re-reading and re-re-reading. It should come as no surprise that many of these books show up on reading lists of multiple billionaires.
Investing
Benjamin Graham: Security Analysis (Warren Buffett has read this 4 times), The Interpretation of Financial Statements
Warren Buffett's partnership and Berkshire Hathaway (yes, all of them)
Peter Bevelin: Seeking Wisdom, A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes, Tell me where I"m going to Die so I don't go there
Poor Charlie's Almanack (Mohnish Pabrai says he has read this 7-8 times)
Joel Greenblatt: You can Be a Stock Market Genius, The Little Book that Still beats the Market, The Big Secret for the Small Investor
Warren Buffett books: The Snowball, Warren Buffett's Ground Rules, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, Warren Buffett Way, Warren Buffett portfolio
Financial Shenanigans
Deep Value
What Works on Wall Street
Money Masters
Supermoney
The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
Quality of Earnings
Philosophy
Nassim Taleb: Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled By Randomness
Misbehavior of Markets
Where are the Customer's Yachts?
The Dao of Capital
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
The Dhandho Investor
Business/Management
The Outsiders
Zero to One
Double Your Profits in 6 months or less
Creativity Inc
Work Rules!
Sam Walton: Made in America
Behind the cloud
So you want to start a hedge fund
Story by McKee
Ten Commandments of Business Failure
Hidden Champions
Roger Fisher - Getting To Yes, Getting it Done
Competition Demystified
Clayton Christensen - The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Prescription
Biographies/History
Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs, The Innovator's
Becoming Steve Jobs
Elon Musk
The Everything Store
Dream Big
Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger
The Davis Dynasty
Templeton Touch
Short History of financial Euphoria
Delivering Happiness
Michael Lewis- The Big Short
Psychology
Robert Cialdini: Influence, Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive, the Small Big
Contagious
Hooked
Predictably Irrational
Thinking Fast and Slow
Art of Thinking Clearly
Alchemy of Finance
Richard Thaler - Nudge, Misbehaving
Dan Pink - Drive, To Sell is Human
Heath Brothers - Decisive, Switch, Made to Stick
The Design of Everyday Things
Superforecasting
Charisma Myth
How to Lie with Statistics
Malcolm Gladwell - Blink, David and Goliath, Outliers
Real Estate
William Poorvu - The Real Estate Game, Creating and growing Real estate Wealth
Frank Galinelli - What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to know about cash flow,
Economics/Politics
Everything Lee Kuan Yew has written - especially Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights and One Man's View of the World, Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going
Atul Gawande - Being Mortal, Checklist Manifesto
World Order by Kissinger
Eric Topol - The Creative Destruction of Medicine
