“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