Warren Buffett Books: Recommended Reading List

Over Warren Buffett’s lifetime, “The Oracle of Omaha” has suggested several books that he thinks is valuable to the investor.

Below is a list of Warren Buffett’s recommended reading list:

• 1989 — Essays In Persuasion by John Maynard Keynes
• 1992 — The Theory of Investment Value by John Burr Williams
• 1994 — The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham
• 1994 — The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
• 1994 — The People v. Clarence Darrow: The Bribery Trial of America’s Greatest Lawyer by Geoffrey Cowan
• 1995 — A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class by Joseph Nocera
• 1996 — The Money Masters by John Train
• 1996 — Paths to Wealth Through Common Stocks by Philip Fisher
• 1997 — Science of Hitting by Ted Williams
• 1997 — Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company : 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 and Other Writings by Philip Fisher
• 2000 — The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America Lessons for Corporate America by Lawrence A. Cunningham
• 2001 — The Warren Buffett CEO: Secrets from the Berkshire Hathaway Managers 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 by Arthur Levitt
• 2003 — First A Dream by Jim Clayton
• 2003 — Bull: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004 by Maggie Mahar
• 2003 — The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
• 2003 — In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington by Bob Rubin
• 2003 — sam Walton: Made In America
• 2004 — Financial Times , Amercian Edition Newspaper
• 2004 — The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money 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 by Peter Bevelin
• 2007 — Where Are the Customers’ Yachts: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street by Fred Schwed, Jr
• 2007 — Supermoney by Adam Smith
• 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 Investorby Ayano Morio
• 2008 — The Essays of Warren Buffett by Lawrence Cunningham
• 2008 — Foods You Will Enjoy – The Story of Buffett’s Store , by Bill Buffett
• 2008 — Pleased But Not Satisfied by David Sokol (Note: Warren Buffett did not recommend this book, but he has written its foreword!)

More books recommended by Warren Buffett (Years Unkown):

• Benjamin Graham on Value Investing: Lessons from the Dean of Wall Street: 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 by John C. Bogle
• The Real Warren Buffett: Managing Capital, Leading People by James O’Loughlin
• Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett by Andrew Kilparrick
• Will America Grow up Before it Grows Old by Peter G. Peterson
• 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 Gutby 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 Valleyby 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 by John C. Bogle

Buffett gave Alice Schroeder access to him for her book The Snowball, which is a very in depth tale of Buffett’s life. One can assume Buffett would endorse the book.

Some other great books about Buffett include; The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom, The Warren Buffett Way by Prem Jain, Buffettology by Mary Buffett, and Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein.

Big H/T to http://warrenbuffettresource.wordpress.com/the-man/books-recommended/ for putting together this fabulous, and lengthy list.