Favorites

• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin LeFevre
• The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
• The Outsiders by William Thorndike
• Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them by Gary Belsky

Investor Behavior

I group anything having to do with how human’s behave in this category.  Some are explicit studies around behavioral finance.  Others are more reflective on meaning of the human condition.

Favorites

• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
• No Easy Day by Mark Owen
• Reminsciences of a stock operator by Edwin Lefevre
• The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness – Morgan Housel’s book is a best seller for a reason – enough said

Others

• 48 laws of power by Robert Green
• Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
• Better by Atul Gawande
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• Catch me if you can by Frank Abagnale
• Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
• Confidential by John Nolan
• Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
• David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
• Give and Take by Adam Grant
• How to think like Shakespeare by Scott Newstok
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl
• Marine Sniper by Charles Henderson
• Medium Rare by Anthony bourdain
• Moneyball by Michael Lewis
• More than you know by Michael Mauboussin
• Night by Elite Weisel
• No Hero by Mark Owen
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
• Quiet by Suain Cain
• Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel
• Range by David Epstein
• Rejection Proof by Jia Jiang
• Sources of Power by Gary Klein
• Switch by Dan and Chip Heath
• Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
• The art of deception by Kevin Mitnick
• The art of learning by Josh Waitzkin
• The Game by Neil Strauss
• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
• The Reading Mind by Daniel Willingham
• The Score Takes Care of itself by Bill Walsh
• The Stranger in the Wood by Michael Finkel
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
• The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
• Think Twice by Michael Mauboussin
• Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
• Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• What Every Body Is Saying by Joe Navarro
• What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
• Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes by Gary Belsky

Economics

• Capitalism Without Capital by Haskel and Westlake
• Completing Capitalism by Roche and Jakub
• Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
• Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
• History of Economic Thought by Lionel Robbins
• Next 100 Years by George Friedman
• Technological revolutions and financial capital by Carlota Perez
• The Worldly Philsophers by Robert Heilbroner
• Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes
• Wealth of Man by Peter Jay
• Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
• World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
• When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency

Investor Profiles

There are so many amazing profiles of successful investors.

Favorites

• Buffet: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
• Damn Right: Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe
• Dream Big – 3G Capital by Cristiane Correa
• I Love Capitalism by Ken Langone
• The King of Cash by Christopher Winans
• There’s Always Something to do by Christopher Risso-Gill

Others

• A Man for All Markets by Ed Thorpe
• A Passion to Win by Sumner Redstone
• Active Value investing in range bound markets by Vitaly Katsenelson
• Am I Being Too Subtle by Sam Zell
• Bad Blood by Carreyou
• Biography of Bernard Baruch by James Grant
• Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar
• Capital by Charles Ellis
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher
• Confessions of a street adict by James Cramer
• Confidence Game by Christine Richard
• Dhando Investor by Monish Pabrai
• Distress investing by Whitman and Diz
• Do Business with People You Can Trust by L. J. Rittenhouse
• Education of a speculator by Victor Niederhoffer
• Expectations Investing by Michael Maubossin
• Fooling some people all the time by David Einhorn
• Hedge Fund Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
• Hedge Hogging by Barton Biggs
• Hedge Hunters by Katherine Burton
• Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
• Investment Philosophies by Aswath Damodaran
• Julian Robertson – A Tiger in the Land of Bulls and Bears by Daniel Strachman
• King Icahn by Mark Stevens
• Letters to Corporate America by Lawrence Cunningham
• Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
• Mastering market cycle by howard marks
• Masters of the Universe by Daniel Kablec
• Mergers and Acquisitions Playbook by Mark A. Filippell
• Money masters by John Train
• Money Masters of our time by John Train
• New Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
• No Bull by Michael Steinhardt
• One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch
• Poor Charlie’s Almanac by Gregory Zuckerman
• Stock Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
• The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros
• The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing: by Pat Dorsey
• The Little Book that Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt
• The man who solved the markets by Greg zuckerman
• The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital by Robert Finkel
• The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
• The Quants by Scott Patterson
• The Snowball by Alice Schroder
• The Templeton Touch by William Proctor
• The Vulture Investors by Hilary Rosenberg
• Think Twice by Michael Maubossin
• Value Investing by Bruce Greenwald
• Value Investing With Benjamin Graham by Janet Lowe
• Value Investing with the Masters by Kirk Kazanjian
• Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond by Bruce Greenwald
• Where Money Is King – Ron Perelman by Richard Hack
• You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt

Market Function

• Against the Gods by Peter Bernstein
• Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
• FIASCO by Frank Partnoy
• Fortune’s Formula by William Poundstone
• Money Ball by Michael Lewis
• Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
• Confessions of a Street Addict by Jim Cramer
• Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
• Greatest Trade Ever by Gregory Zuckerman
• House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
• In an Uncertain World by Robert Rubin
• Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
• Origins of the Crash by Roger Lowenstein
• The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan
• The Big Short by Michael Lewis
• The Great Crash by John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Money Game by Adam Smith
• The Predator’s Ball by Connie Bruck
• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
• Too Big Too Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• Trading with the Enemy by Nicholas Maier
• Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich
• Wall Street Meat by Andy Kessler
• When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
• When Markets Collide by Mohammed El Arain
• Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort

Portfolio Management

• Art of Value Investing by Whitney Tilson
• Education of a Value Investor by Guy Spier
• Foundation & Endowment Investing by Lawrence Kochard, Cathleen Rittereiser
• Pioneering Portfolio Management by David Swensen
• The Ivy Portfolio by Mebane Faber, Eric Richardson
• Top Hedge Fund Investors by Lawrence Kochard, Cathleen Rittereiser
• What I learned losing a million dollars by Jim Paul
• Winning the Losers Game by Charles Ellis

Security Analysis

• Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel by K. Scott Proctor
• Common Stocks, Uncommon Profits by Phil Fisher
• HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business by Ruback and Yudkoff
• Investment Valuation by Damodaran
• Quality of Earnings by Thornton O’Glove
• Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd
• The Wall Street Journal Complete Money and Investing Guidebook  by Wall Street Journal
• Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies by McKinsey and Company
• When stocks crash nicely by Katherine Staley