📚 100 Great books for Life and Investing

Summer is just around the corner.

Are you still looking for reading inspiration?

In this article you’ll find my favorite 100 books for life and investing.

Is this too much for you? I am sharing my favorite ones at the bottom of this article.

Investment Classics

• Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy Siegel

• The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks

• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

• One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch

• The Outsiders by William Thorndike

• The Boglehead’s Guide to Investing by Mel Lindauer

• The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros

• Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman

• The Little Book of Value Investing by Christopher Browne

• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher

• The Dhando Investor by Mohnish Pabrai

• Mastering the Cycle by Howard Marks

• Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin

• The Investment Checklist by Michael Shearn

• Deep Value by Tobias Carlisle

• You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt

• A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel

• The Joys of Compounding by Gautam Baid

• Where Are the Customers' Yachts? by Fred Schwed

• Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green

• The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman

• Expectations Investing by Michael Mauboussin

• The Education of a Value Investor by Guy Spier

• Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham

• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre

• What Works on Wall Street by Jim O’Shaugnessey

• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein

• The Big Secret from the Small Investor by Joel Greenblatt

• Seeking Wisdom - From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin

• How to Make Money in Stocks by William O’Neil

• The Four Pillars of Investing by William Bernstein

• Beating the Street by Peter Lynch

• The Art of Execution by Lee Freeman-Shor

• The Little Book that Still Beats The Market by Joel Greenblatt

• The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins

• The Smart Money Method by Stephen Clapham

• The Little Book that Builds Wealth by Pat Dorsey

• 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How To Find Them by Chris Mayer

• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Bogle

• Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing by Pat Dorsey

Quality Investing

• Investing for Growth by Terry Smith

• Quality Investing by Lawrence Cunningham

• Quality Shareholders by Lawrence Cunningham

• Good to Great by Jim Collins

• Competition Demystified by Bruce Greenwald

• In Search for Excellence by Tom Peters & Robert Waterman

• Quality First Investing by Björn Fahlén

• How to Pick Quality Shares by Phil Oakly

• Only the Best Will Do by Peter Seilern

Personal Finance

• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley

• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

• I Will Teach You to be Rich by Ramit Sethi

• Money Master the Game by Tony Robbins

• Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

• The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason

• Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

• Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

• Your Money Or Your Life by Joseph R. Dominguez and Vicki Robin

Biographies

• Benjamin Graham: The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street by Seymour Chatman

• The Davis Dynasty: Fifty Years of Successful Investing on Wall Street by John Rothschild

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

• Shoe Dog - A memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight

• Tim Cook - The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level by Leander Kahney

• Onward - How Starbucks Fought for its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Shultz

• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance

• Junk to Gold: From Salvage to the World’s Largest Online Auto Auction by Willis Johnson (book about Copart)

• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger

• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

Risk management

• Antifragile by Nicholas Taleb

• Fooled by Randomness by Nicholas Taleb

• Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller

• Against the Gods by Peter Bernstein

• The Black Swan by Nicholas Taleb

Investment Psychology

• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• The Little Book of Behavioral Investing by James Montier

• Your Money and Your Brain by Jason Zweig

• The Behavioral Investor by Daniel Crosby

• Nudge by Richard Thaler

• Dollars and Sense by Dan Ariely

General wisdom

• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

• 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

• Atomic Habits by James Clear

• Deep Work by Cal Newport

• Outliers - A story for Success by Malcolm Gladwel

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

• Factfulness by Hans Rosling

• Essays In Persuasion by John Keynes

• Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Books on Warren Buffett

• The Snowball by Alice Schroeder

• The Essays of Warren Buffett by Lawrence Cunningham

• The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom

• The Warren Buffett CEO: Secrets from the Berkshire Hathaway Managers by Robert Miles

• Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein

Books on Charlie Munger

• Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

• Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth by David Clark

• Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin

My favorite ones per theme

• Investment classics: Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy Siegel

• Quality investing: Only the Best Will Do by Peter Seilern

• Personal finance: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

• Biographies: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

• Risk management: Against the Gods by Peter Bernstein

• Investment psychology: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• General wisdom: Atomic Habits by James Clear

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