My List of Books Worth Reading
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Charlie Munger said: "In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero." Here is my list of books worth reading. Please, feel free to recommend me some good books to add to the list.
Investing
Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C. Bogle
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard S. Marks
Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side by Howard S. Marks
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America by Buffett, Warren, and Lawrence A. Cunningham
The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William Thorndike
The Warren Buffett Way by Robert G. Hagstrom
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Including a Life-Cycle Guide to Personal Investing by Burton Malkiel
Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor by John C. Bogle
University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting by Corey Wrenn and Daniel Pecaut
Dear Shareholder: The Best Executive Letters from Warren Buffett, Prem Watsa and Other Great CEOs by Lawrence A. Cunningham
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Arthur Fisher
Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason
Stay the Course by John Bogle
The Essays of Warren Buffet by Lawrence Cunningham
Biography
Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
Poor Charlie's Almanack by Peter D. Kaufman
Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution by John C. Bogle
Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013 by Carol Loomis
Napoléon III by Pierre Milza
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark
Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry by Carlye Adler
Bloomberg by Bloomberg by Mike Bloomberg
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson
Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knigh
Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty by Daniel Schulman
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew by Lee Kuan Yew
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Friedrich Hayek – A Biography by Alan Ebenstein
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr by Ron Chernow
Damn Right on Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe
The Tao of Charlie Munger by David Clark
Economics
Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles Book by Jesús Huerta de Soto
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany by Adam Fergusson
The Denationalization of Money by Friedrich Hayek
Choice in Currency by Friedrich Hayek
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
Competition and Entrepreneurship by Israel Kirzner
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
The Ethics of Money Production by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
The Origins of Money by Carl Menger
Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard
Philosophy
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen
Enough: True measures of Money, business, and life by John Bogle
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson
Law, Legislation, and Liberty by Friedrich Hayek
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
Individualism and Economic Order by Friedrich Hayek
Civil Disobedience/On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Essay by Henry David Thoreau
The Law by Frédéric Bastiat
Harmonies of Political Economy by Frédéric Bastiat
Economic Sophisms ; And, What is Seen and what is Not Seen by Frédéric Bastiat
Life Without Principle Essay by Henry David Thoreau
The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
The black swan: The impact of the highly improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooled by randomness: The hidden role of chance in life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Exit, voice, and loyalty: Responses to decline in firms, organizations, and states by Albert O.Hirschman
Vices Are Not Crimes by Lysander Spooner
Novel
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Personal Development
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Rhiannon Beaubien and Shane Parrish
The Great Mental Models, Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry by Rhiannon Beaubien and Shane Parrish
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
Make your bed by William H. McRaven
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
Business
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton Christensen and Michael E. Raynor
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice by Clayton Christensen, David S. Duncan, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book by Clayton Christensen
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by James C. Collins
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
The Dichotomy of Leadership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth by John Doerr
Zero to One by Blake Masters and Peter Thiel
Warfighting by Marine Corps US Marine Corps
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras
High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
High output management by Andrew Grove
Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew Grove
Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley by Geoffrey Moore
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
The Science of Success: How Market Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company by Charles Koch
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Chris Yeh and Reid Hoffman
From Impossible to Inevitable: How SaaS and Other Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin
Understanding Michael Porter by Joan Magretta
The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig
The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
History
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
The fate of empires and search for survival by John Bagot Glubb
Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
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