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.

I have a hard copy of some books on this list but provide links to pdf versions where possible. Some pdf files are too large so I have saved one book under various pdf files.

Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders 1965 - 2012 (pages 1 - 520)

Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders 1965 - 2012 (pages 521 - 1031)

Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders 1965 - 2012 (pages 1032 - 1259)

The Warren Buffett Portfolio - Robert G. Hagstrom

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

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

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

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

Stop Acting Rich - Thomas J Stanley

100 to 1 in the Stock Market A Distinguished Security Analyst Tells How to Make More of Your Investment Opportunities (pages 1 - 177) - Thomas William Phelps

100 to 1 in the Stock Market A Distinguished Security Analyst Tells How to Make More of Your Investment Opportunities (pages 178 - 306) - Thomas William Phelps

The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway (pages 1 - 365) - Adam J Mead

The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway (pages 366 -516) - Adam J Mead

The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway (pages 517 - 801) - Adam J Mead

The Little Book That Beats The Market - Joel Greenblatt

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

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

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

Titan The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (pages 1 - 500) - Ron Chernow

Titan The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (pages 501 - 750) - Ron Chernow

Titan The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (pages 751 - 922) - Ron Chernow

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

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

Billion Dollar Whale - The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (pages 1 - 167) - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

Billion Dollar Whale - The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (pages 168 - 277) - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

Billion Dollar Whale - The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (pages 278 - 299) - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

Billion Dollar Whale - The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (pages 300 - 332) - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

Billion Dollar Whale - The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (pages 333 - 339) - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

Billion Dollar Whale - The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (pages 340 - 346) - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

Billion Dollar Whale - The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (pages 347 - 354) - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

Billion Dollar Whale - The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (pages 355 - 360) - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

Billion Dollar Whale - The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (pages 361 - 368) - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

Billion Dollar Whale - The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (pages 369 - 374) - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

Billion Dollar Whale - The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (pages 375 - 382) - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

Conspiracy Of Fools - A True Story - Kurt Eichenwald

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

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

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

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

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

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

End Game An Insurgency On Wall Street - Sheelah Kolhatkar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis

Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order Why Nations_Succeed and Fail (pages 1 - 200)

Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order Why Nations_Succeed and Fail (pages 201 - 400)

Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order Why Nations_Succeed and Fail (pages 401 - 525)

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 (pages 1 - 300) - Ron Chernow

The House of Morgan An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (pages 301 - 650) - Ron Chernow

The House of Morgan An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (pages 651 - 843) - Ron Chernow

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

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

A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

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

What It Takes Lessons In The Pursuit Of Excellence (pages 1 - 200) - Stephen A Schwarzman

What It Takes Lessons In The Pursuit Of Excellence (pages 201 - 276) - Stephen A Schwarzman

What It Takes Lessons In The Pursuit Of Excellence (pages 340 - 370) - Stephen A Schwarzman

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

Charlie Munger The Complete Investor - Tren Griffin

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

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

Kleptopia - Tom Burgis

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

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

Empire of Pain The Secret History of The Sackler Dynasty (pages 1 - 350) - Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain The Secret History of The Sackler Dynasty (pages 351 - 642) - Patrick Radden Keefe

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

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

Dopesick Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (pages 1 - 180) - Beth Macy

Dopesick Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (pages 181 - 364) - Beth Macy

Dead in the Water A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy (pages 1 - 150) - Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel

Dead in the Water A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy (pages 151 - 270) - Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel

Dead in the Water A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy (pages 271 - 275) - Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel

Dead in the Water A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy (pages 276 - 279) - Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel

Dead in the Water A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy (pages 280 - 283) - Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel

Dead in the Water A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy (pages 284 - 286) - Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel

Dead in the Water A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy (pages 287 - 288) - Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel

Dead in the Water A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy (pages 289) - Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel

Dead in the Water A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy (pages 290 - 349) - Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel

Quality Investing Owning the Best Companies for the Long Term - Lawrence A. Cunningham Torkell T Eide Patrick Hargreaves

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

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

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

The Looting Machine - Tom Burgis

Cuckooland Where the Rich Own the Truth - Tom Burgis

Bad Blood - John Carreyrou

The Outsiders - William N Thorndike Jr

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

Think Twice - Michael J Mauboussin

Expectations Investing - Michael J Mauboussin

The Next Millionaire Next Door - Michael J Mauboussin

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

The Spoils of War - Andrew Cockburn

Dark Genius of Wall Street - Edward J Renehan Jr

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

Tulipmania - Anne Goldgar

ShipNudge The Final Edition - Richard Thaler Cass R Sunstein of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder

7 Powers - The Foundations of Business Strategy - Hamilton Helmer

Alienated America - Timothy P Carney

The Art of Stock Picking - Charlie Munger

The Breaking Point - James Dale Davidson

Stocks For The Long Run - Jeremy Siegel

The Practice Of Value Investing - Li Lu

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

Marquet Report on Ponzi Schemes

Misbehaving The Making of Behavioral Economics - Richard H Thaler

Nudge The Final Edition - Richard Thaler Cass R Sunstein

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

The Coming Wave - Mustafa Suleyman Michael Bhaskar

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

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

From Zero To Millionaire - Nicolas Berube

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

Money Works The Guide To Financial Literacy - Abhijeet Kolapkar

The Trading Game A Confession - Gary Stevenson

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

Financial Shenanigans How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports, Fourth Edition (pages 1 - 160)

Financial Shenanigans How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports, Fourth Edition (pages 161 - 337)

Can't Hurt Me Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (pages 1 - 35) - David Goggins

Can't Hurt Me Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (pages 36 - 90) - David Goggins

Can't Hurt Me Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (pages 91 - 192) - David Goggins

Can't Hurt Me Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (pages 193 - 249) - David Goggins

Can't Hurt Me Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (pages 250 - 305) - David Goggins

Capital Returns - Edward Chancellor

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

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.