Favorite Books

Personal Development

1. How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
2. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
3. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
4. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
5. The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker



Career

1. Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez
2. The Pathfinder by Nicholas Lore



Economics

1. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
2. The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Peter L. Bernstein
3. Why Globalization Works by Martin Wolf



History

1. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
2. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
3. A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren



Business and Management

1. The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
2. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins



Investing

1. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
2. The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Peter L. Bernstein
3. Capital Ideas by Peter L. Bernstein
4. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Investors and Managers by Lawrence A. Cunningham
5. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher
6. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
7. Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd
8. The Interpretation of Financial Statements by Benjamin Graham
9. Latticework by Robert G. Hagstrom
10. The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein
11. The Four Pillars of Investing by William Bernstein
12. Common Sense on Mutual Funds by John Bogle
13. The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You'll Ever Need by Larry E. Swedroe
14. Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller
15. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life by Nassim Taleb
16. Valuing Wall Street: Protecting Wealth in Turbulent Markets by Andrew Smithers and Stephen Wright
17. Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns by Elroy Dimson
18. Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds by Charles MacKay
19. Devil Take The Hindmost: A History Financial Speculation by Edward L. Chancellor
20. The Art of Asset Allocation by David Darst
21. Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation by David Dreman
22. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
23. Origins of the Crash by Roger Lowenstein
24. Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset by Aswath Damodaran
25. Investment Fables: Exposing the Myths of Can't Miss Investment Strategies by Aswath Damodaran
26. Investment Philosophies: Successful Investment Philosophies and the Greatest Investors Who Made Them Work by Aswath Damodaran



Psychology and Decision Making

1. Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
2. How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich
3. Beyond Greed and Fear: Finance and the Psychology of Investing by Hersh Shefrin
4. Judgment under Uncertainty : Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman
5. Rational Choice in an Uncertain World : The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making by Robyn M. Dawes
6. Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes-And How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics by Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich



Biographies

1. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
2. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Peter D. Kaufman



Science

1. Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin



Fiction

1. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle



Adventure and Travel Books

1. Endurance by Alfered Lansing
2. The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
3. Maui Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook by Andrew Doughty