Reading Lists?
What are everybody's reading lists of finance/non-finance related books you'd like to read in the near future, or books you've already read that you liked a lot?
I'll start with my current "To-Read" list:
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"Manias, Panics, and Crashes" - Kindleberger (I swear this was on my list before the virus outbreak)
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"Biblioteca Historica" - Siculus
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"Outliers" - Galdwell
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"The Ascent of Money" - Ferguson
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"Conservative Investors Sleep Well" - Fisher
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"The Aeneid, by Virgil" - Fagles
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"Ride of a Lifetime" - Iger
Some books I've read recently that I quite enjoyed are:
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"Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits" - Fisher
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"The Making of an American Capitalist" - Lowenstein
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"All the Devils are Here" - McLean, Nocera
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"The Challenger Sale" - Adamson
Outliers is excellent.
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole) is the most enjoyable book I’ve read recently.
I recently read "the Man Who Solved the Market" and "The Buyside", both were pretty good. The latter is really sad, but good motivation to stay away from drugs.
For a non-finance book, I just finished "City of Thieves" and it was amazing. It was written by David Benioff (the guy who wrote GOT shows). Highly recommend
I loved City of Thieves. Great book. It motivated me to start learning how to play chess.
So good. Just read Benioff's "25th Hour" and that was great too
Tackled the following since the start of the year: What it Takes, Expected Returns, The Harder You Work The Luckier You Get, Essentialism, and Never Split the Difference. The following are on my list for next: Range, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, Atomic Habits, The Last TYcoons.
How was Never split the Difference? Bought it awhile back, haven't gotten around to reading yet.
Excellent. Most useful book of that stack, tied with expected returns. especially in this business, everything’s a negotiation.
Business / Leadership / Productivity: - Pitch Anything - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - Tools of Titans - What You Do is Who You Are - Dichotomy of Leadership - The Innovator's Dilemma
Everything Else: - The 4 Hour Body - Sapiens - Thinking Fast and Slow - The Gulag Archipelago - A Brief History of Time - You Have the Right To Remain Innocent
How was the Gulag Archipelago? Been meaning to start that
Some favorites: Teatro Grottesco, Catcher in the Rye, Vineland, The Elementary Particles, The Black Dahlia, Lost Illusions
I finished The Ascent of Money last week and I'm reading The Cash Nexus now, I have to say, Ferguson's style has improved over the years. I'd be also quite curious to ask him a few questions about the book, because I'm fairly sure his opinion on a few things changed.
Also read: The Future of Capitalism by Collier. Dignity by Arnade The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Cipolla Zero to One by Thiel
I have to check what's in my upcoming folder because I forgot.
Dignity is fantastic and the timing is also fantastic given what is going on in the service economy.
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" - recommended by GS partner 5 years ago, read it 3x...pretty relevant right now
Currently Reading:
Some Favorites:
Damn my guy, 5 books at once?
Yeah - unfortunately books come out faster than I read them. My Goodreads account has all of the above at 50%.
While the catalog of the president's crimes is long and growing, undoing Trumpism -- the political platform of racism, authoritarianism, and plutocracy that gave rise to Trump and defines the Republican Party -- is a long and continuing fight. Through a craven, cynical strategy engineered by Mitch McConnell, funded by the Kochs, and fueled by Fox News propaganda, Republicans have rigged American politics to drown out the voices of the people in favor of the powerful. Without an aggressive response that recognizes who the Republicans are and what they have done, American democracy as we know it won't survive this moment and a conservative, shrinking, mostly white minority will govern the country for decades.
Un-Trumping America dismantles toxic Trumpism and offers a way forward. Dan Pfeiffer worked for nearly twenty years at the center of Democratic politics, from the campaign trail to Capitol Hill to Barack Obama's White House. But it was Trump's victory and Republicans' incessant aiding and abetting of Trumpism that has radicalized his thinking. Here, Pfeiffer urges Democrats to embrace bold solutions -- from fixing the courts to abolishing the electoral college to eliminating the filibuster -- in order to make America more democratic (and Democratic).
Un-Trumping America is a powerful call for Democrats and progressives to get smarter, tougher, and more aggressive without becoming a paler shade of orange. '' XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXCXXX
This is legitimately a book written by a hyperventilating anger driven ideologue who doesn't understand what conservatives believe in, has no interest in it and whose declared goal is to prevent them from ever obtaining power again in the name of '''''''''''''''''''''''''democracy'''''''''''''''''''''''', where democracy he means simply that his side does whatever it wants all the time. Anything less that, he'll call it fascism. Oh and he's also racially motivated by hatred against white people too.
You read this and you are guaranteed to know less than before. Congratulations. It's also why we need to give up on liberals. They just hate us, everything we believe in and simply want to destroy us.
Funny how triggered a person can get over a book
Considering how much anger your author throws at us, I'm not the one triggered. You want the battle between good and evil? So be it. You also don't get to whine about division when it's clearly your side demonizing us.
Sir, this is an Arby’s
Love the projection! All CRE did was post his reading list; you're the one who chose to criticize it in the terms of someone personally offended by it. And even if you are correct, why shouldn't liberals have as much right to be "a hyperventilating anger driven ideologue who doesn't understand" what their opponents believe in as a conservative does? We're only a dozen years from the senior-most conservative political leader declaring that the good of the country was immaterial, and the only purpose of his party was to keep a POTUS from the other side of the aisle from winning a second term. Sounds like Mr Pfeiffer is merely playing catch up
Besides, I'm not sure what's inaccurate in that recap. It's a fact that the 2010 census saw Republican gerrymandering to preserve the power of conservatives, who are mostly white. We may see the same in reverse for Democrats if they hold on to their 2018 gains in 2020, so it's not even so much a criticism of one faction being worse that the other. We just have specific evidence in the one case, and not in the other. Or that Mitch McConnell has long since abdicated any allegiance to his duty to uphold the Constitution in favor of maintaining the power of what is, statistically speaking, a party with a declining demographic - his refusal to hold hearings for Merrick Garland was the first and last proof we needed of that, though his blatantly unconstitutional conduct during the impeachment proceedings (announcing his intent to acquit Mr Trump before formally hearing the evidence against him can hardly be construed any other way) just reinforced it.
What else is there to dispute? I guess you may think that the current GOP is an aberration and not the "logical extension" of the modern GOP. And maybe you think Mr Trump isn't a racist, isn't an authoritarian, isn't a plutocrat - but those are obviously opinions, and that's why Mr. Pfeiffer is writing the book in first place, I'd suppose.
In other words, get a hold of yourself, snowflake! So what if someone calls you a racist or a proto-fascist, they're just words, right?
How did you like the book about Hines? That one's on my list. I read ULI's biography of Trammell Crow, which felt like it wasn't written all that well and didn't feel very cohesive, although there were some good bits.
Currently reading "Ego is the Enemy" - Ryan Holiday
Really good book, pair it up w/ resilience after you're done
For anyone who likes series of books as opposed to books that are just read alone, I've liked the following:
The Dark Tower Series, Stephen King - This combines the fantasy, science fiction, and western genres in a way that doesn't feel forced. I felt the quality dips in the last 2 books since King seemed to run out of steam but still well worth it imo
A Song of Ice and Fire, George RR Martin - Pretty self explanatory, the source material for GOT. Oddly enough, I don't have HBO so I don't know how the books stack up with the series but I loved the books.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan - I read these as a young adult but I still feel the series would be enjoyable for adults who like Greek mythology. I'd tack on the Kane Chronicles by the same author. as they deal with Egyptian mythology and I really liked these as well. I think these are a fun way to learn about mythology since they cover a lot of ground.
The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer - Maybe not a series in the traditional sense since the stories may not even be from the same author, but still very worth it if you're interested in Greek mythology. If you only want to read one of these I'd recommend The Odyssey
> The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer - Maybe not a series in the traditional sense since the stories may not even be from the same author, but still very worth it if you're interested in Greek mythology. If you only want to read one of these I'd recommend The Odyssey
100% absolutely worth it. Get the Fagles translation.
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I would add "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator " to your list.
Here are a few more:
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar
The Money Formula: Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science, and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets by Paul Wilmott & David Orrell
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals by Frank Partnoy
The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, Baffled the FBI, Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale by Thomas Giacomaro
King Con: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Impostor by Paul Willetts
Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Streets Great Foreclosure Fraud by David Dayen
Thanks for the recommendations!
Kind of shocked (or not, I guess) how heavily these reading lists trend towards finance-oriented topics.
I would think there is far more value in reading a random selection of non-industry books. Sure, I find the odd real-estate focused book to be interesting, but those don't help me grow intellectually or personally. We all have to interface with people from all sorts of walks of life - being able to discourse intelligently about things other than finance and famous (read: wealthy) financiers is kind of crucial.
I also read one of Taleb's main books (Black Swan/Antifragile or Skin in the Game) once a year, there's simply too much counter-intuitive yet applicable content you can't find elsewhere.
"Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" was a very eye-opening read, great general life advice.
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