Actionable Intelligence Alert Reading List

"Read 500 pages per day"- Charlie Munger to Stanford MBA graduating class

I am often asked to provide a list of books I recommend reading for those who want to learn more about investing. Below are some recommendations. I will likely add to the list over time.

Investment Books

Poor Charlies Almanack The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T Munger Charles Munger, Peter Kaufman

The Most Important Thing Howard Marks

One Up On Wall Street Peter Lynch

The Outsiders William Thorndike

You Can Be A Stock Market Genius Joel Greenblatt

The Joys Of Compounding Gautam Baid

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefèvre

100 Baggers Stocks that Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them Chris Mayer

The Millionaire Next Door The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D.

Martin Zweig’s Winning on Wall Street Martin Zweig

John Neff on Investing John Neff

Stock Market Scams Swindles and Successes Bryan Taylor

Manias Panics and Crashes A History of Financial Crises Eighth  Robert Z. Aliber

A Man for All Markets From Las Vegas to Wall Street How I Beat the Dealer and the Market Edward Thorpe

The Richest Man in Babylon The Original 1926 Edition George Clason

Energy Books

The Prize The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power Daniel Yergin

Energy and the English Industrial Revolution E.A. Wrigley

Energy Return on Investment Charles Hall

The World for Sale Money Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earths Resources Javier Blas

Biographies

Hetty Green The Genius and Madness of America’s First Female Tycoon Charles Slack

Makers of History Hernando Cortez John S. Abbott

When Money Grew on Trees AB Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron Greg Gordon

The King Of California JG Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman

The Richest Man Who Ever Lived The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger Greg Steinmetz

Miscellaneous

The Little Ice Age How Climate Made History 1300-1850 Brian Fagan

Always With Honor Pyotr Wrangel

Mine Were of Trouble A Nationalist Account of the Spanish Civil War Peter Kemp

The Art of Thinking Clearly Rolf Dobelli

The Art of Contrary Thinking Humphery Neill

Logically Fallacious The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies Bo Bennett

When Money Dies The Nightmare of Deficit Spending Devaluation and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany Adam Fergusson

The Black Book of Communism Jean-Louise Panne, Andrzej PaczKowski,

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