Hi Everyone,
With the spring semester of college almost wrapping up and free time, I thought that I would take the time to catch up on some reading. I wanted to share some of my favourite books and see if I could discover some new books for summer reading through the recommendation of the wso community.
Here are some of the books that have changed my life:
Finance
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (Fisher) – historical investment book The Intelligent Investor (Graham) – Buffet’s mentor Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco – The beginning of big LBO’s When Genius Failed & The End of Wall Street – LTCM & financial crisis Den of thieves – 80s insider trading
Psychology
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie) – best book on improving your social skills Outliers, Blink, Tipping Point (Gladwell) – Human psyche Influence - The Power of Persuasion, by Robert B. Cialdini – haven’t read it but a lot marketing b-school professors like it why we buy –psyche of human purchasing Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger – fun read with good quotes
Strategy
The Prince (Machiavelli) – Retaining control (I didn’t love it, but it’s a classic) The Book of Five Rings (Mushashi) – samurai strategy Essence of Decision Making: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (Allison, Zelikow) – decision making
Fiction
Kane and Abel (Archer) – slow at the beginning but great, fun fiction The Count of Monte Cristo – a great story of love and revenge (don’t watch the movie! Read the book) The Fountainhead (Rand) – capitalism at its greatest
Biographies
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt – 26th President of the U.S. biography (often ranked with Washington and Lincoln as top Presidents of all time) Titan: The life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow (Rockefeller was worth $318.3 billion (based on 2007 US dollar); he donated 50% of it.)
What are some of your favourites and why? Any recommendations on any genre/subjects would be greatly appreciated.
Hard to go wrong with Malcolm Gladwell or Nassim Taleb
I studied many books related to the history of Britain. So, I have a great interest in the Britain history so I read all books related to it.
Yes to reading fiction. I read and re-read Tolkien.
Genealogy of Morals
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