Over Warren Buffett’s lifetime, “The Oracle of Omaha” has suggested several books that he thinks is valuable to the investor. When the information is available we also note where, when and why Buffett recommended these books.
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
- 1994 — The Warren Buffett Way
by Robert Hagstrom
- 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
by 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, Second Edition
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
by Sam Walton
- 2004 — Financial Times
, American Edition Newspaper
- 2004 — The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- 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
- 2006 — Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini
- 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 Investor
by Ayano Morio
- 2008 — The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Second Edition 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!)
- 2008 — Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
- 2009 — The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
The years above are WHEN Warren Buffett recommended these books.
More books recommended by Warren Buffett (Years Unkown):
- 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
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 Kilpatrick
- 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 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
by John C. Bogle
Books recommended by Warren Buffett found at 'Infinite Dream Publishing' Youtube channel:
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings 2nd Edition by Philip A. Fisher
- Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street by Fred Schwed Jr.
- Personal History by Katharine Graham
- Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks
- Essays In Persuasion by John Maynard Keynes
- The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike
- The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) (Collins Business Essentials) by Benjamin Graham
Some other great books about Buffett include The Warren Buffett Way
Big H/T to WarrenBuffettResource for putting together this fabulous, and lengthy list.