“In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”

-Charlie Munger

Book Recommendations from Our Team

Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger & Berkshire Hathaway

  • Buffett's Early Investments: A New Investigation into the Decades When Warren Buffett Earned His Best Returns by Brett Gardner

  • Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe

  • Dear Shareholder: The Best Executive Letters from Warren Buffett, Prem Watsa and Other Great CEOs by Lawrence A. Cunningham

  • Invested: How Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Taught Me to Master My Mind, My Emotions, and My Money by Danielle Town

  • Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Peter D. Kaufman

  • Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012 by Carol Loomis

  • Tao of Charlie Munger by David Clark

  • The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Investors and Managers by Lawrence A. Cunningham

  • The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

  • The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom

  • Warren Buffett: In His Own Words by David Andrews

  • Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters by Jeremy C. Miller

Value Investing & Capital Allocation

  • A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Edward O. Thorp

  • Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments by Michael Batnick

  • Capital Allocation: The Financials of a New England Textile Mill 1955 - 1985 by Jacob McDonough

  • Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher

  • Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation by David Dreman

  • Investing for Growth: How to Make Money by Only Buying the Best Companies in the World by Terry Smith

  • Investing the Templeton Way by Lauren Templeton

  • John Neff on Investing by John Neff

  • Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor by Seth Klarman

  • One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch

  • Pitch the Perfect Investment by Paul D. Sonkin

  • Quality Investing: Owning the Best Companies for the Long Term by Lawrence A. Cunningham, Torkell T. Eide, Patrick Hargreaves

  • Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham

  • The Aggressive Conservative Investor by Martin Whitman

  • The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros

  • The Clash of Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation by John C. Bogle

  • The Einstein of Money by Joe Carlen

  • The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

  • The Little Book That Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt

  • The Little Book That Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments by Pat Dorsey

  • The Man Who Beats the S&P: Investing with Bill Miller by Janet Lowe

  • The Manual of Ideas by John Mihaljevic

  • The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks

  • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike

  • The Zulu Principle: Making Extraordinary Profits from Ordinary Shares by Jim Slater

  • There’s Always Something to Do by Christopher Risso-Gill

  • Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond by Bruce Greenwald

  • What I Learned About Investing from Darwin by Pulak Prasad

  • Why Moats Matter: The Morningstar Approach to Stock Investing by Heather Brilliant

  • You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits by Joel Greenblatt

Behavioral Science & Decision Making

  • Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford

  • Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life by Rory Sutherland

  • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz

  • Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger

  • Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

  • May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases by Alex Edmans

  • Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford

  • Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler

  • Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

  • More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places by Michael J. Mauboussin

  • Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

  • Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner

  • The Art of Execution: How the World’s Best Investors Get It Wrong and Still Make Millions by Lee Freeman-Shor

  • The Art of Spending Money

  • The Art of the Good Life: 52 Surprising Shortcuts to Happiness, Wealth, and Success by Rolf Dobelli

  • The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli

  • The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind by John Coates

  • The Little Book of Behavioral Investing: How not to be your own worst enemy by James Montier

  • The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel

  • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don’t by Nate Silver

  • The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing by Michael J. Mauboussin

  • The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis

  • The Why Axis by Uri Gneezy and John A. List

  • The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life by Richard Thaler

  • Think Like a Freak by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

  • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

  • Wait by Frank Partnoy

Corporate Strategy & Business History

  • Built from Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion by Bernie Marcus

  • Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks

  • Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business by Mark Robichaux

  • Competition Demystified by Bruce Greenwald

  • Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore

  • Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh

  • DREAM BIG: How the Brazilian Trio behind 3G Capital Acquired Anheuser-Busch, Burger King and Heinz by Cristiane Correa

  • Foundations Of Corporate Success: How Business Strategies Add Value by John Kay

  • How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins

  • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

  • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

  • No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer

  • Out of the Desert: My Journey From Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi

  • Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon by William D. Cohan

  • SAP Nation 3.0: Manifest Destiny by Vinnie Mirchandani

  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight

  • The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie

  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone

  • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson

  • The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

  • The Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands by Jean-Noël Kapferer, Vincent Bastien

  • The Platform Delusion: Who Wins and Who Loses in the Age of Tech Titans by Jonathan A. Knee

  • The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby

  • The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization by Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith

  • What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence by Stephen A. Schwarzman

Markets, Activism & Financial History

  • 1929: Inside the Crash by Andrew Ross Sorkin

  • Barbarians in the Boardroom: Activist Investors and the Battle for Control... by Owen Walker

  • Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles by William Quinn

  • Capital Returns: Investing Through the Capital Cycle by Edward Chancellor

  • Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism by Jeff Gramm

  • Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond by Alasdair G. M. Nairn

  • Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis

  • Investing with Keynes by Justyn Walsh

  • Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis

  • Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

  • Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises by Robert Z. Aliber

  • Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre

  • Selling America Short: The SEC and Market Contrarians in the Age of Absurdity by Richard C. Sauer

  • The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson

  • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

  • The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters by Gregory Zuckerman

  • The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s by John Brooks

  • The Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith

  • The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street... by Gregory Zuckerman

  • This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart

  • Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System... by Andrew Ross Sorkin

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

  • When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany by Adam Fergusson

Fraud, Short Selling & Accounting

  • Built on a Lie: The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England’s Money by Owen Walker

  • Dead Companies Walking: How a Hedge Fund Manager Finds Opportunity in Unexpected Places by Scott Fearon

  • Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports by Howard M. Schilit

  • Fooling Some of the People All of the Time by David Einhorn

  • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis

  • Investing Between the Lines: How to Make Smarter Decisions By Decoding CEO Communication by L. J. Rittenhouse

  • Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse by Duncan Mavin

  • Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum

  • The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion by Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell

  • The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers by Baruch Lev

  • The Key Man: How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale by Simon Clark, Will Louch

  • The Signs Were There: The Clues for Investors that a Company is Heading for a Fall by Tim Steer

Economics, Society & Misc.

  • Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson

  • Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Updated and Expanded) by David Graeber

  • Goodnight Trump: A Parody by Gan Golan

  • How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough

  • Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government by Paul A. Volcker, Christine Harper

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

  • Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West

  • The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

  • The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton

  • The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything by Gottfried Leibbrandt

  • The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich

  • The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return by Mihir A. Desai