I periodically receive inquiries about great reading material. This is a list of excellent thought provoking books on various topics I recommend.
In some cases, I may read a book only once. For the most part, however, I re-read in whole or in part the books on this list. In addition, I will often have 4 – 5 books ‘on the go’.
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
Against The Gods – Peter L Bernstein
Alienated America – Timothy P Carney
All The Devils Are Here – Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
Bad Blood – John Carreyrou
Bad Company – Private Equity And The Death Of The American Dream – Megan Greenwell
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 and Oil – Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck
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 $30 Billion – Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, and Bob Andelman
Built Not Born Founder Of Paychex – Tom Golisano
Butler to the World The Book the Oligarchs Don’t Want You to Read – How Britain Helps the World’s Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything – Oliver Bullough
Can’t Hurt Me Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds – David Goggins
Capital Allocation – David R Giroux
Capital Allocators How the World’s Elite Money Managers Lead and Invest – Ted Seides
Capital Returns – Edward Chancellor
Changing The Way You Think To Fulfil Your Potential – Carol S Dweck
Chaos Kings How Wall Street Traders Make Billions In The New Age Of Crisis – Scott Patterson
Chaos Monkeys – Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley – Antonio Garcia Martinez
Charlie Munger The Complete Investor – Tren Griffin
Chasing Shadows Cyber Espionage Subversion and The Global Fight For Democracy – Ronald J Deibert
Chatter Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping – Patrick Radden Keefe
Collu$ion – How Central Bankers Rigged The World – Nomi Prins
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings – Philip A. Fisher
Confidence Game – Christine S Richard
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
Creating Shareholder Value – Alfred Rappaport
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
Directorate S – Steve Coll
Don’t Fall For It A Short History Of Financial Scams – Ben Carlson
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
Fool Me Once – Kelly Richmond Pope
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
Ghost Wars – Steve Coll
House of Huawei The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company – Eva Dou
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
How To Retire Debt-Free and Wealthy – Christine Ibbotson
How To Retire 20 Lessons – Christine Benz
I Will Teach You To Be Rich Second Edition – Ramit Sethi
If You Can – How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly – William J Bernstein
Investing For Growth – Terry Smith
Job Moves 9 Steps For Making Progress In Your Career – Ethan 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
Liver Rescue – Anthony William
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
Millionaire Mission – Brian Preston
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
Never Enough – Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Never Finished Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War – David Goggins
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
One Up On Wall Street – Peter Lynch
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
Power Failure – William D Cohan
Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order Why Nations Succeed and Fail – Ray Dalio
Private Empire ExxonMobil and American Power – Steve Coll
Private Equity Deals Lessons In Investing, Dealmaking, and Operations From Private Equity Professionals – Ted Seides
Quality Of Earnings – Thornton L O’Glove
Quality Shareholders – Lawrence A Cunningham
Quit – The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away – Annie Duke
Range Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World – David Epstein
Reckless Endangerment – Gretchen Morgenson
Retire Before Mom and Dad – Rob Berger
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
Same As Ever – Morgan Housel
Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind – Harv Eker
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea – Gary Kinder
Shoe Dog A Memoir By The Creator Of Nike – Phil Knight
Start With Why – Simon Sinek
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 Achilles Trap – Steve Coll
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 Bin Ladens – Steve Coll
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 5 Types Of Wealth – Sahil Bloom
The Folly Of Fools – Robert Trivers
The Fund Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend – Rob Copeland
The Gone Fishin Portfolio – Alexander Green
The House of Morgan An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance – Ron Chernow
The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
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 Oligarch’s Daughter – Joseph Finder
The Outsiders – William N Thorndike Jr
The Panama Papers – Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier
The Power Broker – Robert A Caro
The Practice Of Value Investing – Li Lu
The Psychology of Human Misjudgement – Charlie T. Munger
The Psychology Of Money – Morgan Housel
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 Self-Driven Child – Dr William Stixrud and Ned Johnson
The Simple Path To Wealth – JL Collins
The Simple Path To Wealth Series Get Rich Or Die Poor The Choice is Yours – Omar Johnson
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 Success Principles – Jack Canfield
The Success Principles Workbook – Jack Canfield
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 Wealth Ladder – Nick Maggiulli
The Wealthy Gardener – John Soforic
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
Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Thinking Fast and Slow in 30 Minutes – Daniel Kahneman
Titan The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. – Ron Chernow
Tools of Titans – Tim Ferriss
Tulipmania – Anne Goldgar
Valuation Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies – McKinsey
Warren Buffett on Business Principles from the Sage of Omaha – Richard J. Connors
What Do You Care What Other People Think – Richard P Feynman
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
When The Clock Broke – John Ganz
Where The Money Is Value Investing In The Digital Age – Adam Seessel
Who Gets In and Why – Jeff Selingo
Winning The Loser’s Game – Charles Ellis
World Without Mind – Franklin Foer
Your Money Or Your Life – Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez
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.
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