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.

LAST UPDATED 2/23

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 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
• 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
• 2020 - Margin of Trust by Larry Cunningham
• 2020 - Common Stocks as Long Term Investments by Edgar Lawrence Smith

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 by Prem Jain and Buffettology by Mary Buffett.

Big H/T to WarrenBuffettResource for putting together this fabulous, and lengthy list.