[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1481022550037{background-image: url(/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/AF-website-look4_bkgd_1.png?id=951) !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Attributes” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left|color:%23395775″ google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:600%20bold%20regular%3A600%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]What follows is a brief list of additional books that I’ve found intriguing and enriching for countless reasons. Are they relevant to our education as an investor? Some, yes. Some, not so much. But I’ve found all of these books richly rewarding.
- BUSINESS
- ECONOMICS
- GAMES
- INVESTING
- LITERATURE
- MISCELLANEOUS
- PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
- PSYCHOLOGY
- SCIENCE
- SELF-HELP
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BUSINESS
Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values
by Lawrence Cunningham
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
by Tony Hsieh
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
by Young me Moon
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
by Roger Fisher,William Ury,and Bruce Patton
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
by Adam Grant
How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling
by Frank Bettger
Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
by Tim Sanders
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm
by Verne Harnish
Matsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th Century’s Most Remarkable Entrepreneur
by John Kotter
Ogilvy on Advertising
by David Ogilvy
Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry
by Steven Rattner
Sam Walton: Made in America
by Sam Walton with John Huey
Ten Commandments for Business Failure
by Donald Keough
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by Marc Levinson
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
by Warren Buffett and Lawrence Cunningham
The Go-Giver: A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea
by Bob Burg and John David Mann
The Halo Effect and the Eight Other Business Delusions that Deceive Managers
by Phil Rosenzweig
The King of Cash: The Inside Story of Laurence Tisch
by Christopher Winans
The One Minute Manager
by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses
by Amar Bhidé
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by Charles Duhigg
The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs
by William Draper
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born: It’s Grown, Here’s How
by Daniel Coyle
Whale Done! The Power of Positive Relationships
by Kenneth Blanchard, Thad Lacinak, Chuck Tompkins, and Jim Ballard
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
by Spencer Johnson
Working Together: Why Great Partnerships Succeed
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ECONOMICS
Modern International Economics
by Shelagh Heffernan and Peter Sinclair
The Economy as an Evolving Complex System
by Philip Anderson, Kenneth Arrow, and David Pines
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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GAMES
500 Master Games of Chess
by S. Tartakower and J. du Mont
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
by Johan Huizinga
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
by Jane McGonigal
Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors
by Lou Hays
Wise Choices: Decisions, Games, and Negotiations
by Richard Zeckhauser, Ralph Keeney, and James Sebenius[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
INVESTING
A Zebra in Lion Country
by Ralph Wanger with Everett Mattlin
Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets
by Vitaliy Katsenelson
Beating the Street
by Peter Lynch
Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor
by Tren Griffin
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
by Philip Fisher
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story
by David Einhorn and Joel Greenblatt
Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System that Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
by William Poundstone
Investing: The Last Liberal Art
by Robert Hagstrom
Investing Between the Lines: How to Make Smarter Decisions by Decoding CEO Communications
by L.J. Rittenhouse
Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers
by Jim Rogers
More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times
by Whitney Tilson and Glenn Tongue
Mosaic: Perspectives on Investing
by Mohnish Pabrai
More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places
by Michael Mauboussin
Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett
by Andrew Kilpatrick
Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment
by David Swensen
Security Analysis
by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
by Peter Bevelin
Short Stories from the Stock Market: Uncovering Common Themes Behind Falling Stocks to Find Uncommon Ideas
by Amit Kumar
The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
by Howard Marks
The Warren Buffett Way
by Robert Hagstrom
Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond
by Bruce Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul Sonkin, and Michael van Biema
Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? Or, A Good Hard Look at Wall Street
by Fred Schwed
Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich
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LITERATURE
100 Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Donne: Poems
by John Donne
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
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MISCELLANEOUS
Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with the Truth
by Mahatma Gandhi
City Police
by Jonathan Rubinstein
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
by William Deresiewicz
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh
Kissinger
by Niall Ferguson
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela
Metaphors We Live By
by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by John Derbyshire
Reagan: A Life in Letters
by Ronald Reagan
Symmetry and the Monster: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics
by Mark Ronan
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
The New British Constitution
by Vernon Bogdanor
The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
Trolling Euclid: An Irreverent Guide to Nine of Mathematics’ Most Important Problems
by Tom Wright
Vor 1914: Erinnerungen an Frankfurt geschrieben in Israel
by Selmar Spier
Walden: or, Life in the Woods
by Henry David Thoreau
Why America Is Not a New Rome
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PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
A Theory of Justice
by John Rawls
Anarchy, the State, and Utopia
by Robert Nozick
Destination Torah: Reflections on the Weekly Torah Readings
by Isaac Sassoon
Halakhic Man
by Joseph Soloveitchik
Letters from a Stoic
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
Pirke Avot: A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics
by Leonard Kravits and Kerry Olitzky
Plato, not Prozac! Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems
by Lou Marinoff
Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tsu
The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton
The Middle Way: Finding Happiness in a World of Extremes
by Lou Marinoff
The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ and Other Essays
by Jay Haley
The Zohar[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
PSYCHOLOGY
Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self
by Allan Schore
Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self
by Allan Schore
Attachment and Loss
by John Bowlby
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why; True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death
by Laurence Gonzales
Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
by Antonio Damasio
Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood through Adulthood
by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey
EMDR: The Breakthrough Eye Movement Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma
by Francine Shapiro
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
by Gerd Gigerenzer
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by Robert Cialdini
Love, Medicine & Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon’s Experience with Exceptional Patients
by Bernie Siegel
Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
by David Hawkins
Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
by Gerd Gigerenzer and Peter Todd
The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions
by Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven
The Art of Thinking Clearly
by Rolf Dobelli
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
by Daniel Siegel
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
by Antonio Damasio
The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain
by Louis Cozolino
There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Stories of Our Lives
by Robert Hopcke
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
by Peter Levine with Ann Frederick
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
SCIENCE
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
by Stuart Kauffman
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
by John Gribbin
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
by Steven Johnson
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality
by Per Bak
Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration
by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
by Albert-László Barabási
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee
Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology
by Ricard Solé and Brian Goodwin
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
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SELF-HELP
A Message to Garcia
by Elbert Hubbard
A Simple Act of Gratitude: How Learning to Say Thank You Changed My Life
by John Kralik
Acres of Diamonds
by Russell Conwell
As a Man Thinketh
by James Allen
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
by Brené Brown
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal Newport
Focusing
by Eugene Gendlin
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples
by Harville Hendrix
Getting There: A Book of Mentors
by Gillian Zoe Segal
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
How Will You Measure Your Life?
by Clayton Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon
Keeping the Love You Find: A Personal Guide
by Harville Hendrix
Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want
by Wayne Dyer
The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings on Authenticity, Connection, and Courage
by Brené Brown
Success: Advice for Achieving Your Goals from Remarkably Accomplished People
by Jena Pincott
Thanks!: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier
by Robert A. Emmons
The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to Be One
by Peter Kyne
The Laws of Lifetime Growth: Always Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past
by Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura
The Power of Positive Thinking
by Norman Vincent Peale by M. Scott Peck
Think and Grow Rich
by Napoleon Hill
Thrift and Generosity: The Joy of Giving
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