My Book Recommendations (Random)

I’ve been asked for book recommendations so I decided to jot down a list of books I’ve enjoyed over the years. It serves as a personal record and something I can share with anyone who’s interested.

[Note: I’ll try to update this list from time to time with more recent books]

Here’s a selection, in no particular order:

Finance & Investing

• Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
• One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch
• The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
• Essays of Warren Buffett
• How to Invest by David Rubenstein
• Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
• Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
• The Little Book of Behavioral Investing by Michael Mauboussin
• The Success Equation by Michael Mauboussin
• Think Twice by Michael Mauboussin
• More Than You Know by Michael Mauboussin
• Inside the House of Money by Steven Drobny
• The King of Capital by David Carey and John E. Morris
• The Bond King by Mary Childs
• The Biography of John Paulson by Greg Zuckerman
• The Rise and Fall of a $30 Billion Hedge Fund by Henny Sender
• Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis by Edwin J. Elton, Martin J. Gruber, and Stephen J. Brown
• Portfolio Management: Theory and Practice by William F. Sharpe and Gordon J. Alexander
• Investments by Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, and Alan J. Marcus
• Financial Markets and Institutions by Frederic S. Mishkin and Stanley G. Eakins
• Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing by Andrew Ang
• Investment Management by Frank Fabozzi
• The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities by Frank J. Fabozzi
• Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor
• Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund by Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
• Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt

Business 

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger
• Business Adventures by John Brooks
• Behind the Cloud by Marc Benioff
• Made in America by Sam Walton
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
• The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt
• The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital by Robert A. Finkel
• Chip War: The Quest to Dominate the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
• The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
• The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs by William N. Thorndike
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
• The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success by Jeff Olson
• Fluke: Chances, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
• Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Dan Heath
• Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
• Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
• Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
• The Originals by Adam Grant
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
• Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
• Never Enough by Andrew Wilkinson
• The Price of Time by Edward Chancellor
• The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen
• Free to Choose by Milton and Rose Friedman

History

• The Endurance by Alfred Lansing
• 1776 by David McCullough
• The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
• The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
• The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
• George Washington: Dealmaker-In-Chief by Cyrus Ansary
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
• Mayflower by by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II by Alex Kershaw
• D-Day: June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose
• Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor
• The First World War by John Keegan
• Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears
• Civilization by Niall Ferguson
• The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy
• The Pioneers by David McCullough
• The Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper
• The Right Stuff – Test Pilots and the US Space Program by Tom Wolfe
• Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson
• The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
• Witness by Whittaker Chambers
• The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich
• Alone at Dawn by Dan Schilling and Lori Longfritz
• Liberty and Civilization by Roger Scruton
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
• The U.S. Constitution by James Madison, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton

Biographies

• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
• Eisenhower: Soldier and President by Stephen Ambrose
• Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
• Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
• The Great Investor by Janet Lowe
• Iacocca: An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca
• The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
• The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
• The Singapore Story by Lee Kuan Yew
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Parallel Lives by Plutarch
• Total Recall – True Story of My Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Philosophy 

• The Great Conversation by Norman Melchert
• Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
• The Metaphysics by Aristotle
• On the Shortness of Life – Lucius Seneca
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine
• Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer
• The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer
• The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
• Our Knowledge of the External World by Bertrand Russell
• The Almanack by Naval Ravikant

Psychology

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
• Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Sports

• The Dynasty by Jeff Bennett
• Moneyball by Michael Lewis
• The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
• Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success by Phil Jackson
• Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time by Ian O’Connor
• Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football by Michael Holley
• The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer by Christopher Clarey
• Relentless: A Memoir by Julian Edelman
• Leadership of Nick Saban by John Talty
• Francona: The Red Sox Years by Terry Francona
• The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter by Ian O’Connor
• Earn the Right to Win by Tom Coughlin
• The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh
• The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World’s Greatest Teams by Sam Walker
• Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections by John Wooden
• Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby
• Alex Ferguson – Learning from the Life and My Years Leading at Manchester United by Alex Ferguson and Michael Moritz
• How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life by Dr. Bob Rotella
• The Champion’s Mind by Jim Afremow
• Gridiron Genius by Michael Lombardi
• The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams by Ben Bradlee Jr.
• Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect by Dr. Bob Rotella
• Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict
• The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever by Mark Frost
• Peak by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

Math & Science

• The Nature and Power of Mathematics by Donald Davis
• Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics by Richard Feynman
• The Ten Equations That Rule the World by David Sumpter
• The Greatest Story Ever Told – So Far: Why Are We Here by Lawrence M. Krauss
• Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by Mitchell Waldrop
• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail by Nate Silver
• The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
• Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures by David Sumpter
• When We Cease to Understand the World Paperback by Benjamin Labatut

Other

• Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown
• Factfulness by Hans Rosling
• The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
• 100 Hikes of a Lifetime: The World’s Ultimate Scenic Trails by Kate Siber
• The Bucket List: 1000 Adventures Big & Small by Kath Stathers
• Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
• Good Energy by Case Means
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
• The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma by Gurcharan Das
• Humanly Possible: 700 years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope by Sarah Bakewell
• The World Walk: 7 Years. 28,000 Miles. 6 Continents by Tom Turcich