smd123 Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I have sometimes heard friends say "I like to read this book" once every year or two. Wondering what books, if any, would you put in to such a category. To kick things off, the following come to my mind: 1. Poor Charlie's Almanack 2. Snowball / American Capitalist 3. Man's Search for Meaning 4. Dale Carnegie's How To... 5. Ben Franklin's biography (or autobiography) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretium Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 The Outsiders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smreitz Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 The Most Important Thing -Howard Marks : Provides in under 200 pages, a crisp way of looking at what value investing with cycles and pendulum imagery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Here's a few that come to mind looking at my shelves. Not every year, but worth re-reading. Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas R. Hofstadter The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman - Richard P. Feynman American Prometheus (biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer) Lolita, ADA - Vladimir Nabokov The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles Memoirs - Hector Berlioz The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander American Ceasar: Douglas MacArthur - William Manchester With the Old Breed - E.G. Sledge Your Money or Your Life - Joe Domingez and Vicky Robin When Heaven and Earth Changed Places/ Child of War, Woman of Peace - Le Ly Hayslip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookie71 Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 WEB's Berkshire letters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borgesian Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Oaktree Memos - Howard Marks Margin of Safety - Seth Klarman Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Poor Charlie's Almanac - Charlie Munger Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letters - Warren Buffett Wesco Financial Annual Letters - Charlie Munger Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustabound Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I plan to re-read both The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis regularly , even if it's every couple of years. In 8 or 9 years I've been through them both twice.......... I'm going through them both again now, third time's a charm right. I'm finding it easier to read slowly and take breaks now and then to absorb what I just read and it seems to really help. On the re-read list (I don't know if any of these are continual re-reads or not but I plan to read them one more time); Charlie Munger's Psychology of Human Misjudgment. Margin of Safety - Seth Klarman Influence - Robert Cialdini (Munger mentions this multiple times in the Psychology of Human Misjudgment speech) The Most Important Thing - Howard Marks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin4u2 Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Born to be worthless - Kevin Solomons The six pillars of self esteem - Nathaniel Branden Investing books are great but these books can change your life. I speak from experience. I have read a dozen books by Branden and learn something new in every one. The Art of Living Consciously is a great follow up to the six pillars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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