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