There is tremendous value to be gained in education and learning lessons from the past. Below we provide a list of some of the books, videos and podcasts that have been influential to us, or provided us with great entertainment over the years.
Top Investment Picks
The Alchemy of Finance, George Soros
Speech at the Lost Tree Club, Stanley Druckenmiller
Interview with Kiril Sokoloff, Stanley Druckenmiller
The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham
Letters of the Buffett Partnership and Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Edwin Le Fevre
The Changing World Order, Ray Dalio
Big Debt Crises, Ray dalio
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Philip Fisher
100 Baggers, Christopher Mayer
Druckenmiller, Soros & Rogers
Soros on Soros, George Soros
Street Smarts, Jim Rogers
A Gift to my Children, Jim Rogers
Investment Biker, Jim Rogers
A Bull in China, Jim Rogers
Adventure Capitalist, Jim Rogers
The Almanac of Stanley Druckenmiller, Rui Zhi Dong
In Defense of Open Society and Open Society, George Soros
The Age of Fallibility, George Soros
The Tragedy of the European Union, George Soros
The Soros Lectures, George Soros
The Crash of 2008 and What it Means, George Soros
George Soros on Globalisation, George Soros
Financial Turmoil, George Soros
The Crisis in Global Capitalism, George Soros
The Bubble of American Supremacy, George Soros
Underwriting Democracy, George Soros
Historical / Macro
Keeping at It, Paul Volcker
The Man who Knew, Sebastian Mallaby
Firefighting, Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson Jr
Reagan, Ronald Reagan
Suezo’s Substack, David Hum
The Courage to Act, Ben Bernanke
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Paul Kennedy
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap? Graham Allison
Oil Leaders, Ibrahim AlMuhanna
The Prize, Daniel Yergin
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Keynes
Promises to Keep, Joe Biden
Lords of Finance, Liaquat Ahamed
World Order, Henry Kissinger
The Limits of Partnership, Angela Stent
A Promised Land, Barack Obama
A Monetary History of the United States, Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz
The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Robert Gordon
The Penguin History of the World, Roberts and Westad
Dealing with China, Henry Paulson
The Hundred Year Marathon, Michael Pillsbury
More Money than God, Sebastian Mallaby
Conservative Investors Sleep Well, Phil Fisher
Paths to Wealth through Common Stocks, Phil Fisher
Sapiens, Yuval Harari
Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller
Peddling Protectionism, Douglas Irwin
Duty, Robert Gates
The Age of Deficits, Iwan Morgan
The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant
Corporate Growth and Success
Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
Power Play, Tim Higgins
The Everything Store, Brad Stone
Inside the Publishing Revolution, Pamela Pfiffner
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
Great by Choice, Jim Collins
Good to Great, Jim Collins
Turning the Flywheel, Jim Collins
How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins
The Leadership Secrets of Nick Saban, John Tatly
Chaos Monkeys, Antonio Martinez
Scale, Geoffrey West
Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built, Duncan Clark
Competitive Advantage, Michael Porter
Philosophy & Psychology
Principles, Ray Dalio
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
Discourses and Selected Writings, Epictetus
Transformed by Trauma, Tedeschi and Moore
Humble, Daryl Tongeren
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frenkl
If, Rudyard Kipling
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bronnie Ware
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey
Mindset, Carol Dweck
Daring Greatly, Brene Brown
The Monk who Sold his Ferrari, Robin Sharma
The Road less Travelled, M. Scott Peck
Letters from a Stoic, Lucius Seneca
The Analects, Confucius
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
The Upside of Uncertainty, Nathan and Susannah Furr
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
Alone on the Wall, Alex Honnold
Start with Why, Simon Sinek
Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee
Open, Andre Agassi
Pressure is a Privilege, Billy Jean King
Can’t Hurt Me, David Goggins
Ben Crowe Bounce Back Interview, Dr Andrew Rochford
The Science of Meditation, Goleman and Davidson
The Courage to be Disliked, Fumitake Kishimi
The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper
The Open Society and its Enemies, Karl Popper
Other Books on Investing
The Dhando Investor, Mohnish Prabai
Security Analysis, Graham and Dodd
The Outsiders, William N. Thorndike Jr
Mastering the Market Cycle, Howard Marks
Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Charlie Munger
The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway, Adam Mead
Charlie Munger, Trent Griffin
The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville Essay, Warren Buffett
Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader, Peter Brandt on Technical Analysis
The World Almanac and Book of Facts published each year, World Almanac Books
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay
The Crowd, Gustave Le Bon
Essays on Inflation and the US Dollar, Warren Buffett
The Almanac of Michael Burry, Rui Zhi Dong
How to Invest: Masters of their Craft, David Rubenstein
The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Snowball, Alice Schroeder
Diary of a Hedgehog, Barton Biggs
Beat the Dealer, Ed Thorp
Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke
The Most Important Thing, Howard Marks
Anatomy of the Bear, Russell Napier
The Big Short, Michael Lewis
Panic, Michael Lewis
Boomerang, Michael Lewis
How to Trade in Stocks, Jesse Livermore
The Little Book that Beats the Stock Market, Joel Greenblatt
Big Mistakes, Michael Batnick
This Time is Different, Reinhart and Rogoff
The Market Wizards Series, Jack Schwagger
Superforecasting, Gardner and Tetlock
Corporate Valuation, McKinsey and Company
Miscellaneous
A Shot to Save the World, Gregory Zuckerman
The Happiest Man Alive, Eddie Jaku
Red Notice, Bill Browder
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates
Chip War, Chris Miller
This is How they Tell me the World Ends, Nicole Perlroth
Janesville, Amy Goldstein
Any Ordinary Day, Leigh Sales
Mythos, Stephen Fry
Heroes, Stephen Fry
The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley
The Originals, Adam Grant
The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg
Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
Gut, Giulia Enders
The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan
The New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan
The Square and the Tower, Niall Ferguson
Homo Deus, Yuval Harari
Stocks for the Long Run, Jeremy Siegel
Cashless: China’s Digital Currency Revolution, Richard Turrin
Winning on Wall Street, Marty Zweig
One up on Wall Street, Peter Lynch
What it Takes, Stephen Schwartzman
The End of Alchemy, Mervyn King
The Shifts and the Shocks, Martin Wolf
Against the Gods, Peter Bernstein
Podcasts / Videos
How the Economic Machine Works, Ray Dalio
Acquired, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
All In with Chamath, Jason, Sachs & Friedberg, Jason Calcanis
How I built This, Guy Raz
American Scandal, Wondery
How Leaders Lead, David Novak
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