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I really enjoyed The Buyside by Turney Duff (my personal favorite), Den of Thieves (milken book), Discussion Materials, big short, more money than god, confidence game, red notice (highly recommend), For the love of Money, Bad Blood
I love how Den of Thieves stays current as a top read in business/finance. I really enjoyed the read - not enough to read it twice, but enough to remember that it was eye opening for me in certain ways at the time. Definitely recommended.
Another good Milken book is Predators' Ball. Den of thieves does cover a lot of Milken but it is ultimately more about a larger group of insiders that included Milken, Siegel, Boesky etc. Predators' Ball is more of an actual Milken biography that covers his life starting with the beginning of his career when he spent the whole of his commute (2 hr each way) reading 10Ks and prospectuses with a miner's headlamp on his head (because buses during those days apparently didn't have interior lights).
the buyside book review: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/blog/the-buyside-a-monkeys-review
Currently going through “Manias, Panics, and Crashes” by Kindleberger, which I highly recommend. Some that I’ve read recently that I quite enjoyed are “All the Devils Are Here”, “Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits”, and “When Genius Failed”.
nice! an original, I remember studying Kindleberger back in the day... may have to redelve into this one! thank you for the inspiration
Mastering the Market Cycle (Howard Marks)
Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar
The Signal and The Noise (Nate Silver fivethirtyeight founder's book), Narrative Economics (Robert Shiller), Facebook: Inside Story (Steven Levy), and Who is Michael Ovitz? have been my reads so far
Love these! Would also add Nassim Taleb's classic Incerto series to these - highly thought-provoking novels
The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
Hedge Hogs by Barbara Dreyfuss
Liar's Ball -- fascinating read about history of GM building / RE world (big focus on Macklowe)
Rogue Trader
Discussion Materials
The Ascent of Money
What It Takes
More Money Than God
King of Capital
Straight to Hell
Anyone have good recommendations for non-finance / business books? Trying to broaden my horizons
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I’m a huge fan of Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms is a good place to start.
Man's search for meaning
https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/080701429X
A couple of all-time classics and personal favourites that spring to mind:
Catcher in the Rye Heart of Darkness Lord of the Flies Lucky Jim Three Men in a Boat Black Mischief
Did anyone read Predator's Ball and Den of Thieves? Wondering which one of the two I should go for as they seem to be similar?
I already added a post above that compares the two books, but here it is again:
Den of thieves does cover a lot of Milken but it is ultimately more about a larger group of insiders that included Milken, Siegel, Boesky etc. Predators' Ball is more of an actual Milken biography that covers his life starting with the beginning of his career when he spent the whole of his commute (2 hr each way) reading 10Ks and prospectuses with a miner's headlamp on his head (because buses during those days apparently didn't have interior lights). Both are great so I recommend reading both (personally like Predator's Ball better because I find Milken's career fascinating)
really enjoying Barbarians At The Gate so far
Rich Dad Poor Dad if you havent read it already, in my opinion whenever someone gets their first paying gig( internship/job) they should get this book along with their offer letter
Not finance related, but Shoe Dog by Phil Knight is one of my personal favorites, incredibly motivating story on the grind and hard work it takes to reach your goals. It's the quote "Get knocked down 7 times, get back up 8" in true story form.
Souvent listened to the audiobook of this on my commute and loved it! A similar recommend would be "Bounce" by Matthew Syed if you haven't read it
Shoe Dog is by far my favorite non-finance book. Def worth a read. Very inspiring especially.
same
Check out Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke. All about making good decisions with a limited set of facts. Wasn’t written as a finance book, but definitely has major takeaways for finance among many other things.
Enjoyed Flash Boys and pretty much all of Michael Lewis’ other books
I would recommend "The Art of Living" by Thich Nhat Hahn. It is essentially a book about mindfulness written by a Vietnamese monk. I might disagree with some things in a book but it is a very nice read to stop and reflect and relax :)
Also "Willpower" by Baumeister - for people who found themselves in tough place with the pressure of lockdown to accomplish million things.
Some of my recent favorites: Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America (Christopher Leonard)
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Peter Frankopan)
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Daniel Immerwahr)
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region (Joe Studwell)
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice (Bill Browder)
Red Notice is a really interesting book, but I suggest try doing some background research on Bill Browder. There are a lot of things about him that is not as it seems in the book that he wrote - e.g., the sketchy tax practices engaged by Browder's Russian shell corporations (before Browder lost his access to enter Russia) and the role that Sergei Magnitsky (who is not actually a "tax lawyer" as Browder says) played relating to that tax practice. There is a several hours long deposition of Browder on Youtube where Browder gets grilled on these facts and the stuff that he said in his book and it's quite illuminating (the deposition and other reports about Browder generally show that, despite running around on a high horse esp. with the Magnitsky Act, Browder seems to have a very sketchy background).
Harry Potter. Chronicles of Narnia. The Stand. Damn near anything by Stephen King. The Great Gatsby. The Sound and the Fury.
You have superhuman patience to get through Sound & Fury. Kudos to you. I tried hard with that one and had to give up and go with cliff notes. Faulkner’s style is tough.
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if anyone majored in Economics, can’t recommend Fortune’s Formula more. It is a unique combination of famous economists’ theory with investments in the stock market with gambling. Top read.
A few non finance books that I have really enjoyed are:
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss (highly recommended if you want to learn negotiations)
Some of my favorite finance related books that are not mentioned above
Mastering the Market Cycle - Howard Marks
Too Big to Fail - Andrew Ross Sorkin
Monkey Business - John Rolfe
Since the finance books are a bit oversaturated at this point, here's a mix of both:
Pachinko (for all the non targets trying to break into BB's or MF PE's, read the author's backstory if you want a motivational boost on making it against seemingly insurmountable odds)
King of Capital (interesting look into Blackstone's comeup)
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles (true mind fuck)
Severance (a story about a pandemic written in ~2018. eerily accurate down to the n-95 masks...)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (interesting social commentary on how racial intolerance can shape people)
Dune (sci fi)
Julius Caesar by Philip Pullman (if there was ever a biography that made you feel unaccomplished)
Ride of a Lifetime (Bob Iger's autobio. This man is running for president one day)
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