Introduction
Investing is about more than just numbers—it’s about understanding people, systems, and the world around us. This diverse collection of 100 essential books spans topics like finance, economics, history, psychology, leadership, and innovation. From timeless investment principles to groundbreaking insights on human behavior and decision-making, these books provide a well-rounded education for anyone looking to excel not only as an investor but also as a thinker and leader. Whether you’re seeking wisdom from Warren Buffett, lessons in negotiation from Chris Voss, or a deeper understanding of societal dynamics from Yuval Noah Harari, this list has something to inspire and challenge every reader.
| Nr. | Author | Book |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Yuval Noah Harari | Sapiens |
| #2 | Jeremy Miller | Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules |
| #3 | David Swensen | Pioneering Portfolio Management |
| #4 | Dan McCrum | Money Men |
| #5 | Howard Marks | The most important thing |
| #6 | Ben Horowitz | The Hard Thing about hard things |
| #7 | Michael Mauboussin | More than you know |
| #8 | Daron Acemoglu / James Robinson | Why Nations Fail |
| #9 | Peter Kaufman | Poor Charlies Almanach |
| #10 | Eric Jorgenson | The Almanack of Navan Ravikant |
| #11 | Chris Voss | Never Split the Difference |
| #12 | Lee Freeman-Shor | The Art of Execution |
| #13 | Peter Thiel | Zero to One |
| #14 | Robert Iger | The Ride of a Lifetime |
| #15 | William Thorndike | The Outsiders |
| #16 | Annie Duke | Thinking in Bets |
| #17 | Hans Rosling | Factfulness |
| #18 | Daniel Coyle | The Culture Code |
| #19 | Jack Schwager | Unknown Market Wizards |
| #20 | Jocko Willink | Extreme Ownership |
| #21 | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Too big to fail |
| #22 | Philip Fisher | Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits |
| #23 | Clayton Christensen | Innovators Dilemma |
| #24 | Youngme Moon | Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd |
| #25 | Kai-Fu Lee | AI Superpowers |
| Nr. | Author | Book |
|---|---|---|
| #26 | Jacob Taylor | The Rebel Allocator |
| #27 | Philip Tetlock | Superforcasting |
| #28 | Robert Miles | The Warren Buffett CEO |
| #29 | Andrew Grove | Only the Paranoid survive |
| #30 | Andrew McAfee | More from less |
| #31 | Sam Zell | Am I being too subtle |
| #32 | Phil Knight | Shoe Dog |
| #33 | Daniel Kahnemann | Thinking Fast and Slow |
| #34 | Norman Dixon | On the Psychology of Military Incompetence |
| #35 | Danny Meyer | Setting the Table |
| #36 | Christoph Mayer | 100 Baggers |
| #37 | Eric Schmidt | Trillion Dollar Coach |
| #38 | Morgan Hounsel | The Psychology of Money |
| #39 | Jim Collins | Good to Great |
| #40 | Greg McKeown | Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less |
| #41 | Ed Thorp | A Man for all markets |
| #42 | Pulak Prasat | What I Learned About Investing from Darwin |
| #43 | Mitchell Waldrop | The Dream Machine |
| #44 | John Doerr | Measure what matters |
| #45 | Scott Page | The Diversity Bonus |
| #46 | Terry Smith | Investing for Growth |
| #47 | Bruce Greenwald | Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy |
| #48 | Josh Waitzkin | The Art of Learning |
| #49 | Nassim Taleb | Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life |
| #50 | Benjamin Graham | The intelligent investor |
| Nr. | Author | Book |
|---|---|---|
| #51 | Gautam Baid | The Joys of Compounding |
| #52 | Marc Benioff | Trailblazer |
| #53 | William Green | Richer, Wiser, Happier |
| #54 | Robert Kiyosaki | Rich Dad, Poor Dad |
| #55 | Hamilton Helmer | 7 Powers |
| #56 | Brad Stone | Amazon Unbound |
| #57 | Michael Lewis | Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt |
| #58 | Alice Schroeder | The Snowball |
| #59 | Ben Horowitz | What you do is who you are |
| #60 | David Epstein | Range |
| #61 | Viktor Frankl | Man’s Search for meaning |
| #62 | Simon Simek | Start with why |
| #63 | Stephen Schwarzman | What it takes |
| #64 | Clayton M Christensen | Competing against luck |
| #65 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Be Useful: 7 Tools for Life |
| #66 | Howard Marks | Mastering the market cycle |
| #67 | Peter Drucker | The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done |
| #68 | Annie Duke | Quit |
| #69 | Jimmy Soni | The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley |
| #70 | Sun Tzu | The Art of War |
| #71 | Bryan Burrough and John Helyar | Barbarians at the Gate |
| #72 | Morgan Housel | Same as Ever |
| #73 | Edwin Lefevre | Reminiscence of a Stock Operator |
| #74 | Joel Greenblatt | You can be a Stock Market Genius |
| #75 | Phil Huber | The Allocator’s Edge |
| Nr. | Author | Book |
|---|---|---|
| #76 | Dr Peter Attia | Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity |
| #77 | Giuseppe A. Paleologo | Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant’s Guide for Fundamental Investors |
| #78 | Richard H. Lawrence Jr. | The Model: 37 Years Investing in Asian Equities |
| #79 | Rob Copeland | The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates and the Unravelling of a Wall Street Legend |
| #80 | Jacob McDonough | Capital Allocation |
| #81 | Rassie Erasmus | Rassie: Stories of Life and Rugby |
| #82 | Michael Mauboussin | The success equation |
| #83 | Daniel Kahnemann | Noise |
| #84 | Robert Hagstrom | The Warren Buffett Portfolio |
| #85 | Kevin Leman | The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You are |
| #86 | James Clear | Atomic Habits |
| #87 | Robert Cialdini | Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion |
| #88 | Lawrence E. Kochard and Cathleen M. Rittereiser | Foundation and Endowment Investing: Philosophies and Strategies of Top Investors and Institutions |
| #89 | Felix Oberholzer-Gee | Better, simpler strategy |
| #90 | Shane Parrish | Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results |
| #91 | Michael Lewis | The big short |
| #92 | Ted Seides | Capital Allocators |
| #93 | Héctor García und Francesc Miralles | Ikigai |
| #94 | Walter Isaacson | Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography |
| #95 | Andrew W. Lo and Ruixun Zhang | The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis |
| #96 | Adam Seessel | Where the Money Is: Value Investing in the digital age |
| #97 | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | The Black Swan |
| #98 | Adam Grand | Think Again |
| #99 | Jonathan Knee | The Platform Delusion |
| #100 | Seth Klarman | Margin of Safety |
