This is a list of my favorite business / investing books split into various subjects. It isn’t presented in any specific order - just a list of books that I love. I plan to update it in the future as well.
Please send recommendations for things that I should read / that should be on this list!
Accounting / Fraud
Howard Schlitt - Financial Shenanigans
Thornton O’Glove - Quality of Earnings
Jonathan Kwitny - The Fountain Pen Conspiracy
Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind - The Smartest Guys in the Room
Christine Richard - Confidence Game
Raw, Page & Hodgson - Do You Sincerely Want To Be Rich?
David Einhorn - Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
Frank Partnoy - The Match King
John Carreyrou - Bad Blood
Tom White & Bradley Hope - The Billion Dollar Whale
Dean Jobb - Empire of Deception
Central Banking / Macroeconomics
Niall Ferguson - The Ascent of Money
Neil Irwin - The Alchemists
Alan Greenspan - The Age of Turbulence
Liaquat Ahamed - Lords of Finance
Timothy Geithner - Stress Test
Henry Paulson - On the Brink
Adam Fergusson - When Money Dies
Benn Steil - The Battle of Bretton Woods
Ken Rogoff & Carmen Reinhart - This Time is Different
Stock Investing
Seth Klarman - Margin of Safety
Howard Marks - The Most Important Thing
Joel Greenblatt - You Can Be A Stock Market Genius
Jeremy Miller - Ground Rules
Lawrence Cunningham - Essays of Warren Buffett
Peter Lynch - One Up on Wall Street
Philip Fisher - Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
Burt Malkiel - A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Roger Lowenstein - Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Alice Schoeder - The Snowball
Wall Street
James Steward - Den of Thieves
Frank Partnoy - FIASCO
Michael Lewis - Liar’s Poker
Michael Lewis - The Big Short
Gregory Zuckerman - The Greatest Trade Ever Made
Gregory Zuckerman - The Man Who Solved the Market
Scott Patterson - The Quants
Maggie Mahar - Bull!
Bryan Burrough & John Helyar - Barbarians at the Gate
Fred Schwed - Where are the Customers’ Yachts
General Business
Paul Carroll & Chunka Mui - Billion Dollar Lessons
Marc Levison - The Great A&P
J. Paul Getty - How to Be Rich
Ron Chernow - Titan
Mark Robichaux - Cable Cowboy
Phil Knight - Shoe Dog
Ray Kroc - Grinding it Out
Katherine Graham - Personal History
Howard Schultz - Onward
David Nasaw - Andrew Carnegie
Andy Grove - Only the Paranoid Survive
Jack Welch - Winning
Sam Walton - Made in America
William Thorndike - The Outsiders
TJ Styles - The First Tycoon
Alfred Sloan - My Years With General Motors
Mark Pendergrast - For God, Country & Coca-Cola
Julie Macintosh - Dethroning the King
Marc Randolph - That Will Never Work
James B. Stewart - Disney War
Bob Iger - Ride of a Lifetime
Bradley Birkenfeld - Lucifer’s Banker
Gregory Zuckerman - The Frackers
Oliver Bullough - Moneyland
Atul Gawande - The Checklist Manifesto
Christiane Correa - Dream Big
Ace Greenberg - Memos from the Chairman
Brad Stone - The Everything Store
Jim Collins - Built to Last
Jim Collins - Good to Great
Ben Horowitz - The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Scott Galloway - The Four
Scott Galloway - Post Corona
Clayton Christensen - The Innovator’s Dilemma
Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace - Creativity Inc
Psychology / Statistics
Peter Bernstein - Against the Gods
Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast & Slow
Michael Lewis - The Undoing Project
Daniel Pink - Drive
Robert Cialdini - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell - Blink
Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell - What the Dog Saw
Nassim Taleb - Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Taleb - Antifragile
Nassim Taleb - Skin in the Game
Nassim Taleb - The Black Swan
David Epstein - Range
Charles Duhig - The Power of Habit
James Clear - Atomic Habit
Nate Silver - The Signal and the Noise
Adam Grant - Originals
Adam Grant - Think Again
Chip & Dan Heath - Switch
Morgan Housel - The Psychology of Money
Random
Atul Gawande - Being Mortal
Scott Galloway - The Algebra of Happiness
Michael Lewis - Moneyball
Eliyahu Goldratt - The Goal
Stephen Greenblatt - The Swerve
Jordan Peterson - 12 Rules for Life