Books

I periodically receive inquiries as to what books I have read/am reading. I try to be disciplined as opposed to ordering every book I think might be interesting. In some cases, I may read a book only once. For the most part, however, I may re-read in whole or in part, the books I have in my office. I can breeze through some books but some are a 'challenge'; I have to read them a chapter at a time and sometimes with several days in between each chapter.

Rather than try to create some sort of finished list of books, my plan here is simply to share a selection of books I have found to be entertaining and/or thought-provoking; a few are still on my list of books to read.

100 Baggers Stocks that Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them - Chris Mayer

100 to 1 in the Stock Market A Distinguished Security Analyst Tells How to Make More of Your Investment Opportunities - Thomas William Phelps

7 Powers - The Foundations of Business Strategy - Hamilton Helmer

A Short History of Financial Euphoria - John Kenneth Galbraith

A Visual Guide to Financial Statements Overview for Non-Financial Managers and Investors - Thomas R. Ittelson

Alienated America - Timothy P Carney

Bad Blood - John Carreyrou

Barefoot To Billionaire - Jon M Huntsman Sr

Battlefield Cyber - How China and Russia are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security - William J Holstein Michael G McLaughlin

Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders 1965 - 2012

Billion Dollar Whale - The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

Black Edge Inside Information Dirty Money and The Quest To Bring Down The Most Wanted Man On Wall Street - Sheelah Kolhatkar

Blood in the Streets - Investment Profits in A World Gone Mad - James Dale Davidson

Buffett and Munger - A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon Common Sense - Peter Bevelin

Built From Scratch How A Couple Of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot From Nothing To $30 Billion - Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, and Bob Andelman

Butler to the World The Book the Oligarchs Don’t Want You to Read – How Britain Helps the World’s Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything - Oliver Bullough

Can't Hurt Me Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - David Goggins

Capital Allocators How the World’s Elite Money Managers Lead and Invest - Ted Seides

Capital Returns - Edward Chancellor

Chaos Kings How Wall Street Traders Make Billions In The New Age Of Crisis - Scott Patterson

Charlie Munger The Complete Investor - Tren Griffin

Chatter Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping - Patrick Radden Keefe

Collu$ion - How Central Bankers Rigged The World - Nomi Prins

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings - Philip A. Fisher

Conspiracy Of Fools - A True Story - Kurt Eichenwald

Copart - Junk to Gold - Lessons I Learned as told by Willis Johnson - founder of Copart (CPRT) and written by Marla J. Pugh

Creating a Portfolio like Warren Buffett: A High Return Investment Strategy - Jeeva Ramaswamy

Cuckooland Where the Rich Own the Truth - Tom Burgis

Damn Right Behind The Scenes With Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger - Janet Lowe

Daring to Succeed: How Alain Bouchard Built the Couche-Tard & Circle K Convenience Store Empire by Guy Gendron

Dark Genius of Wall Street - Edward J Renehan Jr

Dead in the Water A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy - Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel

Devil Take the Hindmost - A History of Financial Speculation - Edward Chancellor

Dopesick Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America - Beth Macy

Empire of Pain The Secret History of The Sackler Dynasty - Patrick Radden Keefe

End Game An Insurgency On Wall Street - Sheelah Kolhatkar

Expectations Investing - Michael J Mauboussin

Financial Intelligence - Karen Berman, Joe Knight, John Case

Financial Intelligence A Manager's Guide To Knowing What The Numbers Really Mean - Karen Berman and Joe Knight

Financial Shenanigans How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports, Fourth Edition - Howard M Schilit Jeremy Perler Yoni Engelhart

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue - David Einhorn

Fortune's Formula The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street - William Poundstone

Free Capital - How 12 Private Investors Made Millions In The Stock Market - Guy Thomas

From Zero To Millionaire - Nicolas Berube

Get Better at Anything 12 Maxims for Mastery - Scott H. Young

How to Become a People Magnet - Marc Reklau

How To Get Rich One Of The World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets - Felix Dennis

How To Get Rich Without Getting Lucky - Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi

How to Read a Financial Report - Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers - John A. Tracy

I Will Teach You To Be Rich Second Edition - Ramit Sethi

If You Can - How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly - William J Bernstein

Just Keep Buying Proven Ways To Save Money And Build Your Wealth - Nick Maggiulli

King of Capital - The Remarkable Rise Fall and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone - David Carey and John E. Morris

Kleptopia - Tom Burgis

Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis

Manipulation - What People High in Dark Triad Traits Know About - Neil Morton

Marquet Report on Ponzi Schemes

Master Your Learning - Thibaut Meurisse

Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side - Howard Marks

Misbehaving The Making of Behavioral Economics - Richard H Thaler

Money Works The Guide To Financial Literacy - Abhijeet Kolapkar

Moneyland - The Inside Story Of The Crooks And Kleptocrats Who Rule The World by Oliver Bullough

More Money Than God Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite - Sebastian Mallaby

More Than You Know - Michael Mauboussin

Nobody’s Fool Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It - Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris

Nudge The Final Edition - Richard Thaler Cass R Sunstein

Pain Killer An Empire Of Deceit And The Origin Of America's Opioid Epidemic - Barry Meier

Plunder - Private Equity's Plan To Pillage America - Brendan Ballou

Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order Why Nations Succeed and Fail - Ray Dalio

Quit - The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away - Annie Duke

Richer, Wiser, Happier How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life - William Green

Rogues True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks - Patrick Radden Keefe

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea  - Gary Kinder

Shoe Dog A Memoir By The Creator Of Nike - Phil Knight

Stocks For The Long Run - Jeremy Siegel

Stop Acting Rich - Thomas J Stanley

Surprise Kill Vanish - The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies Operators and Assassins - Annie Jacobsen

Tap Dancing to Work Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012 A Fortune Magazine Book - Carol J. Loomis

The Art of Quality Investing: How To Invest In The Best Companies In The World - Luc Kroeze and Compounding Quality

The Art of Stock Picking - Charlie Munger

The Black Swan The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Box How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Marc Levinson

The Breaking Point - James Dale Davidson

The Coming Wave - Mustafa Suleyman Michael Bhaskar

The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway - Adam J Mead

The Dealmaker Lessons from a Life in Private Equity - Guy Hands

The Education of a Value Investor - My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment - Guy Spier

The Fund Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend - Rob Copeland

The House of Morgan An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance - Ron Chernow

The Intelligent Quality Investor How To Invest In The World’s Best Companies - Long Equity

The Invisible Gorilla And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us - Christopher Chabris

The Laws of Wealth Psychology and the Secret to Investing Success - Daniel Crosby

The Little Book That Beats The Market - Joel Greenblatt

The Little Book That Still Beats the Market - Joel Greenblatt and Andrew Tobias

The Looting Machine - Tom Burgis

The Millionaire Next Door The Surprising Secrets Of America's Wealthy - Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D. and  William D. Danko Ph.D

The Money Trap Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble - Alok Sama

The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor - Howard Marks and Bruce Greenwald

The Next Millionaire Next Door Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth - Thomas J Stanley & Sarah Stanley Fallaw

The Outsiders - William N Thorndike Jr

The Practice Of Value Investing - Li Lu

The Prize - The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power - Daniel Yergin

The Quality Growth Investor - 2024 Edition: The Ultimate Playbook For Quality Growth Investing - Long Investing

The Single Best Investment: Creating Wealth with Dividend Growth - Lowell Miller

The Snowball - Warren Buffett and The Business of Life - Alice Schroeder

The Spider Network How a Math Genius and a Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History - David Enrich

The Spoils of War - Andrew Cockburn

The Success Equation - Untangling Skill and Luck in Business Sports and Investing - Michael J Mauboussin

The Trading Game A Confession - Gary Stevenson

The Undoing Project A Friendship That Changed Our Minds - Michael Lewis

The Warren Buffett Portfolio - Robert G. Hagstrom

The World For Sale - Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter The Earth's Resources - Javier Blas and Jack Farchy

Think Twice - Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition - Michael J Mauboussin

Titan The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. - Ron Chernow

Tools of Titans - Tim Ferriss

Tulipmania - Anne Goldgar

Warren Buffett on Business Principles from the Sage of Omaha - Richard J. Connors

What It Takes Lessons In The Pursuit Of Excellence - Stephen A Schwarzman

When Genius Failed - The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management - Roger Lowenstein

I wish you much success on your journey to financial freedom!

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Disclaimer: I do not know your circumstances and do not provide individualized advice or recommendations. I encourage you to make investment decisions by conducting your research and due diligence. Consult your financial advisor about your specific situation.

I do not receive compensation for any books nor from any author mentioned herein.