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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 FinanceGeorge Soros
- Speech at the Lost Tree ClubStanley Druckenmiller
- Interview with Kiril SokoloffStanley Druckenmiller
- The Intelligent InvestorBenjamin Graham
- Letters of the Buffett Partnership and Berkshire HathawayWarren Buffett
- Reminiscences of a Stock OperatorEdwin Le Fevre
- The Changing World OrderRay Dalio
- Big Debt CrisesRay Dalio
- Common Stocks and Uncommon ProfitsPhilip Fisher
- 100 BaggersChristopher Mayer
Druckenmiller, Soros & Rogers
- Soros on SorosGeorge Soros
- Street SmartsJim Rogers
- A Gift to my ChildrenJim Rogers
- Investment BikerJim Rogers
- A Bull in ChinaJim Rogers
- Adventure CapitalistJim Rogers
- The Almanac of Stanley DruckenmillerRui Zhi Dong
- In Defense of Open Society and Open SocietyGeorge Soros
- The Age of FallibilityGeorge Soros
- The Tragedy of the European UnionGeorge Soros
- The Soros LecturesGeorge Soros
- The Crash of 2008 and What it MeansGeorge Soros
- George Soros on GlobalisationGeorge Soros
- Financial TurmoilGeorge Soros
- The Crisis in Global CapitalismGeorge Soros
- The Bubble of American SupremacyGeorge Soros
- Underwriting DemocracyGeorge Soros
Historical / Macro
- Keeping at ItPaul Volcker
- The Man who KnewSebastian Mallaby
- FirefightingBernanke, Geithner, Paulson Jr
- ReaganRonald Reagan
- Suezo’s SubstackDavid Hum
- The Courage to ActBen Bernanke
- The Rise and Fall of the Great PowersPaul Kennedy
- Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap?Graham Allison
- Oil LeadersIbrahim AlMuhanna
- The PrizeDaniel Yergin
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyJohn Keynes
- Promises to KeepJoe Biden
- Lords of FinanceLiaquat Ahamed
- World OrderHenry Kissinger
- The Limits of PartnershipAngela Stent
- A Promised LandBarack Obama
- A Monetary History of the United StatesMilton Friedman and Anna Schwartz
- The Rise and Fall of American GrowthRobert Gordon
- The Penguin History of the WorldRoberts and Westad
- Dealing with ChinaHenry Paulson
- The Hundred Year MarathonMichael Pillsbury
- More Money than GodSebastian Mallaby
- Conservative Investors Sleep WellPhil Fisher
- Paths to Wealth through Common StocksPhil Fisher
- SapiensYuval Harari
- Irrational ExuberanceRobert Shiller
- Peddling ProtectionismDouglas Irwin
- DutyRobert Gates
- The Age of DeficitsIwan Morgan
- The Lessons of HistoryWill and Ariel Durant
Corporate Growth and Success
- Shoe DogPhil Knight
- Power PlayTim Higgins
- The Everything StoreBrad Stone
- Inside the Publishing RevolutionPamela Pfiffner
- Steve JobsWalter Isaacson
- Great by ChoiceJim Collins
- Good to GreatJim Collins
- Turning the FlywheelJim Collins
- How the Mighty FallJim Collins
- The Leadership Secrets of Nick SabanJohn Tatly
- Chaos MonkeysAntonio Martinez
- ScaleGeoffrey West
- Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma BuiltDuncan Clark
- Competitive AdvantageMichael Porter
Philosophy & Psychology
- PrinciplesRay Dalio
- The Power of NowEckhart Tolle
- Discourses and Selected WritingsEpictetus
- Transformed by TraumaTedeschi and Moore
- HumbleDaryl Tongeren
- Man’s Search for MeaningViktor Frenkl
- IfRudyard Kipling
- The Top Five Regrets of the DyingBronnie Ware
- Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman
- Being MortalAtul Gawande
- GreenlightsMatthew McConaughey
- MindsetCarol Dweck
- Daring GreatlyBrene Brown
- The Monk who Sold his FerrariRobin Sharma
- The Road less TravelledM. Scott Peck
- Letters from a StoicLucius Seneca
- The AnalectsConfucius
- MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
- The Upside of UncertaintyNathan and Susannah Furr
- The Hero with a Thousand FacesJoseph Campbell
- Alone on the WallAlex Honnold
- Start with WhySimon Sinek
- Go Set a WatchmanHarper Lee
- OpenAndre Agassi
- Pressure is a PrivilegeBilly Jean King
- Can’t Hurt MeDavid Goggins
- Ben Crowe Bounce Back InterviewDr Andrew Rochford
- The Science of MeditationGoleman and Davidson
- The Courage to be DislikedFumitake Kishimi
- The Logic of Scientific DiscoveryKarl Popper
- The Open Society and its EnemiesKarl Popper
Other Books on Investing
- The Dhando InvestorMohnish Prabai
- Security AnalysisGraham and Dodd
- The OutsidersWilliam N. Thorndike Jr
- Mastering the Market CycleHoward Marks
- Poor Charlie’s AlmanackCharlie Munger
- The Complete Financial History of Berkshire HathawayAdam Mead
- Charlie MungerTrent Griffin
- The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville EssayWarren Buffett
- Diary of a Professional Commodity TraderPeter Brandt on Technical Analysis
- The World Almanac and Book of Factspublished each year, World Almanac Books
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of CrowdsCharles Mackay
- The CrowdGustave Le Bon
- Essays on Inflation and the US DollarWarren Buffett
- The Almanac of Michael BurryRui Zhi Dong
- How to Invest: Masters of their CraftDavid Rubenstein
- The Black SwanNassim Nicholas Taleb
- Fooled by RandomnessNassim Nicholas Taleb
- AntifragileNassim Nicholas Taleb
- The SnowballAlice Schroeder
- Diary of a HedgehogBarton Biggs
- Beat the DealerEd Thorp
- Thinking in BetsAnnie Duke
- The Most Important ThingHoward Marks
- Anatomy of the BearRussell Napier
- The Big ShortMichael Lewis
- PanicMichael Lewis
- BoomerangMichael Lewis
- How to Trade in StocksJesse Livermore
- The Little Book that Beats the Stock MarketJoel Greenblatt
- Big MistakesMichael Batnick
- This Time is DifferentReinhart and Rogoff
- The Market WizardsSeries, Jack Schwagger
- SuperforecastingGardner and Tetlock
- Corporate ValuationMcKinsey and Company
Miscellaneous
- A Shot to Save the WorldGregory Zuckerman
- The Happiest Man AliveEddie Jaku
- Red NoticeBill Browder
- How to Avoid a Climate DisasterBill Gates
- Chip WarChris Miller
- This is How they Tell me the World EndsNicole Perlroth
- JanesvilleAmy Goldstein
- Any Ordinary DayLeigh Sales
- MythosStephen Fry
- HeroesStephen Fry
- The Rational OptimistMatt Ridley
- The OriginalsAdam Grant
- The Ascent of MoneyNiall Ferguson
- OutliersMalcolm Gladwell
- The Power of HabitCharles Duhigg
- Why We SleepMatthew Walker
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckMark Manson
- GutGiulia Enders
- The Silk RoadsPeter Frankopan
- The New Silk RoadsPeter Frankopan
- The Square and the TowerNiall Ferguson
- Homo DeusYuval Harari
- Stocks for the Long RunJeremy Siegel
- Cashless: China’s Digital Currency RevolutionRichard Turrin
- Winning on Wall StreetMarty Zweig
- One up on Wall StreetPeter Lynch
- What it TakesStephen Schwartzman
- The End of AlchemyMervyn King
- The Shifts and the ShocksMartin Wolf
- Against the GodsPeter Bernstein
Podcasts / Videos
- How the Economic Machine WorksRay Dalio
- Becoming Warren BuffettHBO
- AcquiredBen Gilbert and David Rosenthal
- All In with Chamath, Jason, Sachs & FriedbergJason Calcanis
- How I built ThisGuy Raz
- American ScandalWondery
- How Leaders LeadDavid Novak