Books Warren Buffett recommends

Warren Buffett's list of books he recommends would be
almost essential reading given current market turmoil.


I have read just 4 of the long list below, "The Intelligent Investor" my Favourite by far and plan to read some of the others when I slow down or become independently wealthy!

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The List


*1989 -- Essays in Persuasion by John Maynard Keynes


The Theory of Investment Value (Contrary Opinion Library) by John Burr Williams
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The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series) by John Maynard Keynes
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• 1994 -- The People V. Clarence Darrow : The Bribery Trial of America's Greatest Lawyer by Geoffrey Cowan (in OID)
• 1995 -- A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class by Joseph Nocera (in OID)
• 1996 -- The Money Masters by John Train
• 1996 -- Paths to wealth through common stocks by Philip Fisher (in OID)
  
• 1997 -- The Science of Hitting by Ted Williams
• 1997 -- Only the Paranoid Survive : How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by Andrew S. Grove (in OID)
  
• 1998 -- The Expanded Quotable Einstein by Albert Einstein
  
• 2000 -- The Farmer From Merna by Karl Schriftgeisser
• 2000 -- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher
• 2000 -- The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America by Lawrence A. Cunningham
  
• 2001 -- The Warren Buffett CEO by Robert P Miles
• 2001 -- Security Analysis by Ben Graham and Dave Dodd
• 2001 -- Personal History by Katharine Graham
• 2002 -- Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know. What you can do to fight back by Arthur Levitt
• 2003 -- First a Dream by Jim Clayton
• 2003 -- Bull! by Maggie Mahar
• 2003 -- The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
• 2003 -- In an Uncertain World by Bob Rubin

The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) by Benjamin Graham
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Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton
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Bull: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004 by Maggie Mahar
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• Market--and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles by Maggie Mahar
• 2003 -- Science of Hitting by Ted Williams and John Underwood
• 2004 -- The Intelligent Investor
• 2004 -- The Financial Times, Amercian Edition Newspaper
• 2004 -- The General Theory by John Maynard Keynes
• 2004 -- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  
• 2004 -- Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T. Munger
• 2004 -- Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison
• 2005 -- F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood In The Water On Wall Street by Frank Partnoy
• 2005 -- Travels with Barley: A Journey Through Beer Culture in America by Ken Wells
  
• 2006 -- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger (Third Edition) by Peter Bevelin

Where Are the Customers' Yachts? or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street (A Marketplace Book) by Fred Schwed
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Supermoney (Wiley Investment Classics) by Adam Smith
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• 2007 -- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
• 2007 -- Warren Buffett: An Illustrated Biography of the World's Most Successful Investor by Ayano Morio
  

• Benjamin Graham on Value Investing: Lessons from the Dean of Wall Street by Janet Lowe
• Do Business with People You Can Trust: Balancing Profits and Principles by L. J. Rittenhouse
• John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years by John C. Bogle
• Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor by John C. Bogle

The Real Warren Buffett: Managing Capital, Leading People by James O'Loughlin
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Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett/2007 International Edition/in 2 volumes by Andrew Kilparrick
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• Will America Grow up Before it Grows Old : How the Coming Social Security Crisis Threatens You, Your Family and Your Country by Peter G. Peterson (Source: Of Permanent Value, Literary Edition page 197)
• Father, Son & Co : My Life at IBM and Beyond by Thomas, Jr. Watson
• Memos from the Chairman by Alan "Ace" C. Greenberg
• Jack Welch Speaks: Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader by Janet Lowe
• Quality Financial Reporting by Paul B. W. Miller & Paul R. Bahnson
• Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch
• Epidemic of Care : A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care by George C. Halvorson
• Running On Empty: How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It" by Peter G. Peterson
• The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley by Leslie Berlin
• Speculative Contagion: An Antidote for Speculative Epidemics by Frank Martin
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (Little Book Big Profits) by John C. Bogle
  

Thanks, Mr. Ashish Pandey for this compilation


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