“In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time — none, zero. You’d be amazed at how much Warren (Buffett) reads — 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, Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
In honor of The Daily Journal Conference we decied to update our Munger book list today – stay tuned for our notes and possible book recommendations there as we are at the event live – say hi to Raul if you are there and reading this
Although, he has never authored a book (I think), Charlie Munger has recommended a lot of books over the years. We were curious to find out how many in total and came up with 59 names. To our knowledge, no one has completed a record so vast and comprehensive, so we hope you enjoy and appreciate our work and please inform us if we missed any by contacting us info@valuewalk.com. Additionally, like Bill Gates, Charlie Munger focuses on a wide variety of topics, so this is not just investment books, and some names are out of the box – issues are vast and include investing but also science, history, politics and even fiction. We also want to mention that we earn an affiliate fee if you purchase the book through these links it’s not enough to buy a share of Berkshire A and probably not enough to afford a copy of Berkshire B but hopefully enough to buy a coke.
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| Book Name |
Author |
Publish Date |
Source |
| Poor Charlie's Almanack |
Charlie Munger |
2005 |
Google.com |
| On Success |
Charlie Munger |
2009 |
Google.com |
| Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger |
Peter Bevelin |
2004 |
valuewalk.com |
| Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger |
Januaret Lowe |
2000 |
valuewalk.com |
| A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market |
Ed Thorp |
2017 |
valuewalk.com |
| Getting It Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge |
Roger Fisher and Alan Sharp |
1998 |
valuewalk.com |
| Of Permanent Value |
Andrew Kilpatrick |
1994 |
valuewalk.com |
| Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics |
Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon |
2014 |
medium.com |
| Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity |
John Gribbin |
2004 |
medium.com |
| Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader |
Frank Partnoy |
1999 |
medium.com |
| Ice Age |
John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin |
2015 |
medium.com |
| How the Scots Invented the Modern World |
Arthur Herman |
2001 |
medium.com |
| Models of My Life |
Herbert A. Simon |
1991 |
medium.com |
| A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe |
Gino Claudio Segrè |
2002 |
medium.com |
| Andrew Carnegie |
David Nasaw |
2006 |
medium.com |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies |
Jared Diamond Ph.D. |
1997 |
medium.com |
| The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal |
Jared Diamond |
1991 |
medium.com |
| Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion |
Robert Cialdini |
1984 |
medium.com |
| Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos |
Garrett Hardin |
1993 |
medium.com |
| The Selfish Gene |
Richard Dawkins |
1976 |
medium.com |
| Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. |
Ron Chernow |
1998 |
medium.com |
| The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor |
David Landes |
1998 |
medium.com |
| The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy |
Robert G. Hagstrom |
1999 |
medium.com |
| Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters |
Matt Ridley |
1999 |
medium.com |
| Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In |
Roger Fisher & William Ury |
1981 |
medium.com |
| Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information |
Robert Wright |
1988 |
medium.com |
| Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company |
Andrew Grove |
1996 |
medium.com |
| No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality |
Judith Rich Harris |
2006 |
medium.com |
| Darwin’s Blind Spot: Evolution Beyond Natural Selection |
Frank Ryan |
2002 |
medium.com |
| Man’s Search For Meaning |
Viktor Frankl |
2006 |
medium.com |
| The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design |
Richard Dawkins |
2012 |
medium.com |
| Judgment in Managerial Decision Making |
Max H. Bazerman |
1986 |
medium.com |
| The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language |
Steven Pinker |
1994 |
medium.com |
| Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner |
Connie Bruck |
1994 |
medium.com |
| In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives |
Steven Levy |
2011 |
medium.com |
| A Universe out of Nothing |
Lawrence M. Krauss |
2012 |
medium.com |
| Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco |
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar |
1989 |
medium.com |
| The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success |
William N. Thorndike |
2012 |
medium.com |
| Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It, with an Introduction to Teledyne Technologies |
G. A. Roberts |
2007 |
medium.com |
| Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire |
James Wallace |
1992 |
medium.com |
| Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street |
William Poundstone |
2005 |
medium.com |
| Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story |
Kurt Eichenwald |
2005 |
medium.com |
| The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century |
Istvan Hargittai |
2006 |
medium.com |
| Einstein: His Life and Universe |
Walter Isaacson |
2007 |
medium.com |
| Getting It Done: How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge |
Roger Fisher & John Richardson |
1998 |
medium.com |
| The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
Benjamin Franklin |
1971 |
medium.com |
| Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going |
Les Schwab |
1986 |
goodreads.com |
| The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History |
Gregory Zuckerman |
2009 |
goodreads.com |
| The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns |
John C. Bogle |
2007 |
goodreads.com |
| Den of Thieves |
James B. Stewart |
1991 |
goodreads.com |
| Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street |
William Poundstone |
2005 |
goodreads.com |
| Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive |
Noah J. Goldstein Ph.D. & Steve J. Martin & Robert Cialdini Ph.D. |
2009 |
goodreads.com |
| Outliers: The Story of Success |
Malcolm Gladwell |
2008 |
goodreads.com |
| How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It |
Arthur L. Herman |
2001 |
goodreads.com |
| Darwin's Blind Spot: Evolution Beyond Natural Selection |
Frank Ryan |
2002 |
goodreads.com |
| The Origin of Species |
Charles Darwin |
2003 |
goodreads.com |
| A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing |
Lawrence M. Krauss |
2012 |
goodreads.com |
| Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor (Columbia Business School Publishing) |
Tren Griffin |
2015 |
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| Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World |
Bethany McLean |
2018 |
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| The Future Is Asian |
Parag Khanna |
2019 |
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