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This is how I answered this last time it was asked:

 

http://www.cornerofberkshireandfairfax.ca/forum/general-discussion/what-books-do-you-periodically-re-read/msg63492/#msg63492

 

 

"How to Win Friends and Influence People", by Dale Carnegie

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values", by Robert M. Pirsig

"Civil Disobedience", "Life Without Principle", and "Waldon",  all by Henry David Thoreau

"Atlas Shrugged" and "Anthem", by Ayn Rand

"For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto", by Murray N. Rothbard

"The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism", by David Friedman

"The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" and "Stranger in a Strange Land", both by Robert A. Heinlein

"The Illuminatus! Trilogy", by Robert Anton Wilson

"Pallas", "Tom Paine Maru", and "The Probability Broach", all by L. Neil Smith

"Cryptonomicon", "The Diamond Age", and "Anathem", all by Neal Stephenson

"The Law" by Frederic Bastiat

"No Treason, by Lysander Spooner

 

Posted

This is how I answered this last time it was asked:

 

http://www.cornerofberkshireandfairfax.ca/forum/general-discussion/what-books-do-you-periodically-re-read/msg63492/#msg63492

 

 

"How to Win Friends and Influence People", by Dale Carnegie

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values", by Robert M. Pirsig

"Civil Disobedience", "Life Without Principle", and "Waldon",  all by Henry David Thoreau

"Atlas Shrugged" and "Anthem", by Ayn Rand

"For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto", by Murray N. Rothbard

"The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism", by David Friedman

"The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" and "Stranger in a Strange Land", both by Robert A. Heinlein

"The Illuminatus! Trilogy", by Robert Anton Wilson

"Pallas", "Tom Paine Maru", and "The Probability Broach", all by L. Neil Smith

"Cryptonomicon", "The Diamond Age", and "Anathem", all by Neal Stephenson

"The Law" by Frederic Bastiat

"No Treason, by Lysander Spooner

 

Crap, I forgot Carnegie & Anthem (we didn't forget, I forgot.)

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In no particular order:

 

Poor Charlie's Almanack every year

Buffett's letters--Partnership and BRK

Cialdini, Persuasion

5 Elements of Effective Thinking

Bevelin, Seeking Wisdom

Peter Drucker's big three--Innovation, Managing for Results, and the Effective Executive

I try to see a live Shakespeare play at least once per year, but read it beforehand.

 

 

  • 3 months later...
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The greatest investment book ever written (and as everyone insists on pointing out, the one with the worst title): Greenblatt's You can be a Stock Market Genius. Peter Lynch's books are also exceptionally good.

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In no particular order:

 

Poor Charlie's Almanack every year

Buffett's letters--Partnership and BRK

Cialdini, Persuasion

5 Elements of Effective Thinking

Bevelin, Seeking Wisdom

Peter Drucker's big three--Innovation, Managing for Results, and the Effective Executive

I try to see a live Shakespeare play at least once per year, but read it beforehand.

 

Not to be that kind of person, who quotes himself ;) ....but I generally reread Poor Charlie's Almanack before the annual BRK meeting but, gulp didn't this year. Ok it's time to throw everything off the night stand and get cracking.

  • 2 weeks later...
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The greatest investment book ever written (and as everyone insists on pointing out, the one with the worst title): Greenblatt's You can be a Stock Market Genius. Peter Lynch's books are also exceptionally good.

 

I re-read these every couple of years. 

 

I also periodically reread Margin of Safety by Klarman, Poor Charlie's Almanack and (has nothing to do with investing) Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

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Where are the customers' yachts?

 

The timelessness truths of the follies of market participants makes me want to re-read this again. I recommend this to everyone in my circles as a way to start getting educated in managing their own wealth. Reading Schwed is necessary to avoid the same mistakes made over the past 100 years. The humor certainly helps! Wish every author could write like that!

 

 

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