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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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