“In my whole life, I have know no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time- none, zero. You’d be amazed at how much Warren reads- and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out” Charlie Munger
My friend Patrick O’Shaughnessy has inspired me to become a better reader. The book club he started has blossomed into something really special and I encourage everyone to sign up. Following his lead, I want to share a list from one of the most brilliant minds of our lifetime, Charlie Munger. The following list comes from Poor Charlie’s Almanack
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (John Gribbin)
FIASCO.: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader (Frank Partnoy)
Ice Age (John & Mary Gribbin)
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It (Arthur Herman)
Models of My Life (Herbert A. Simon)
A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe (Gino Segre)
Andrew Carnegie (Joseph Frazier Wall)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared M. Diamond)
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Jared M. Diamond)
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert B. Cialdini)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin)
Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economic, and Population Taboos (Garrett Hardin)
The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Ron Chernow)
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (David S. Landes)
The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy (Robert G. Hagstrom)
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Matt Ridley)
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton)
Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information (Robert Wright)
Only the Paranoid Survive (Andy Grove)
