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books recommended by investors

What the world's most successful investors actually read — from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger to Ray Dalio, Howard Marks, Naval Ravikant, and the modern generation of VCs.

Aggregated across 19 people we track · 60 books ranked by how many on this list have publicly recommended each one.

most recommended books on this list

  1. Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed.)
    4 people

    Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed.)

    Ayn Rand · 1999

    4 recommenders

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  2. Only the Paranoid Survive
    4 people

    Only the Paranoid Survive

    Andrew S. Grove · 1998

    4 recommenders

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  3. The Lord of the Rings
    4 people

    The Lord of the Rings

    J. R. R. Tolkien · 2005

    4 recommenders

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  4. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
    4 people

    Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

    Peter Thiel · 2014

    4 recommenders

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  5. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
    3 people

    1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation

    Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2025

    3 recommenders

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  6. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
    3 people

    Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

    Walter Isaacson · 2004

    3 recommenders

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  7. High Output Management
    3 people

    High Output Management

    Andrew S. Grove · 1995

    3 recommenders

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  8. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
    3 people

    Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

    Robert B. Cialdini, PhD · 2006

    3 recommenders

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  9. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
    3 people

    Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition

    edited by Peter Kaufman · 2006

    3 recommenders

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  10. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    3 people

    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    Yuval Noah Harari · 2015

    3 recommenders

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  11. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto)
    3 people

    Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto)

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2018

    3 recommenders

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  12. Snow Crash: A Novel
    3 people

    Snow Crash: A Novel

    Neal Stephenson · 2018

    3 recommenders

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  13. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
    3 people

    The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

    Ben Horowitz · 2014

    3 recommenders

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  14. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
    3 people

    The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)

    Clayton M. Christensen · 2003

    3 recommenders

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  15. The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State
    3 people

    The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State

    James Dale Davidson · 1999

    3 recommenders

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  16. Thinking, Fast and Slow
    3 people

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · 2011

    3 recommenders

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  17. Who We Are and How We Got Here
    3 people

    Who We Are and How We Got Here

    David Reich · 2018

    3 recommenders

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  18. 12 Rules for Life
    2 people

    12 Rules for Life

    Jordan B. Peterson · 2018

    2 recommenders

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  19. Against the Gods
    2 people

    Against the Gods

    Peter L. Bernstein · 1998

    2 recommenders

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  20. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
    2 people

    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012

    2 recommenders

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  21. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
    2 people

    Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

    Robert M. Sapolsky · 2017

    2 recommenders

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  22. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    2 people

    Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    Thomas Piketty · 2014

    2 recommenders

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  23. Economics in One Lesson
    2 people

    Economics in One Lesson

    Henry Hazlitt · 1979

    2 recommenders

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  24. Einstein: His Life and Universe
    2 people

    Einstein: His Life and Universe

    Walter Isaacson · 2007

    2 recommenders

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  25. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic
    2 people

    Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic

    Alfred Lansing · 1999

    2 recommenders

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  26. Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
    2 people

    Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics

    Nancy Forbes · 2014

    2 recommenders

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  27. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
    2 people

    Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2005

    2 recommenders

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  28. Foundation
    2 people

    Foundation

    Isaac Asimov · 2004

    2 recommenders

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  29. Genome (text only) First American Edition edition by M. Ridley
    2 people

    Genome (text only) First American Edition edition by M. Ridley

    Matt Ridley · 2006

    2 recommenders

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  30. Guns, Germs, and Steel
    2 people

    Guns, Germs, and Steel

    Jared Diamond · 2005

    2 recommenders

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  31. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
    2 people

    Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

    James Wallace · 1993

    2 recommenders

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  32. History Has Begun
    2 people

    History Has Begun

    Bruno Macaes · 2020

    2 recommenders

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  33. Holy Bible
    2 people

    Holy Bible

    - · 2018

    2 recommenders

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  34. How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
    2 people

    How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

    Matt Ridley · 2020

    2 recommenders

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  35. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
    2 people

    In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

    Steven Levy · 2011

    2 recommenders

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  36. Lenin
    2 people

    Lenin

    Victor Sebestye · 2017

    2 recommenders

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  37. Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
    2 people

    Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

    Victor Sebestyen · 2017

    2 recommenders

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  38. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
    2 people

    Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It

    Kamal Ravikant · 2012

    2 recommenders

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  39. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
    2 people

    No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

    Erin Meyer & Reed Hastings · 2020

    2 recommenders

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  40. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
    2 people

    Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

    Adam Grant · 2016

    2 recommenders

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  41. Outliers: The Story of Success
    2 people

    Outliers: The Story of Success

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2008

    2 recommenders

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  42. Play Nice But Win
    2 people

    Play Nice But Win

    Michael Dell, James Kaplan · 2021

    2 recommenders

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  43. Principles: Life and Work
    2 people

    Principles: Life and Work

    Ray Dalio · 2017

    2 recommenders

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  44. Security Analysis
    2 people

    Security Analysis

    Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd · 2004

    2 recommenders

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  45. Siddhartha: A Novel. Complete edition with original illustrations
    2 people

    Siddhartha: A Novel. Complete edition with original illustrations

    Hermann Hesse · 1981

    2 recommenders

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  46. Steve Jobs
    2 people

    Steve Jobs

    Walter Isaacson · 2011

    2 recommenders

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  47. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
    2 people

    Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

    Nick Bostrom · 2014

    2 recommenders

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  48. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
    2 people

    Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages

    Carlota Perez · 2003

    2 recommenders

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  49. The Art o f War
    2 people

    The Art o f War

    Sun Tzu · 2005

    2 recommenders

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  50. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    2 people

    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin · 2004

    2 recommenders

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  51. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
    2 people

    The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2007

    2 recommenders

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  52. The Book of Elon
    2 people

    The Book of Elon

    Eric Jorgenson · 2026

    2 recommenders

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  53. The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
    2 people

    The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

    Neal Stephenson · 2000

    2 recommenders

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  54. The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
    2 people

    The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

    Jimmy Soni · 2022

    2 recommenders

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  55. The Fountainhead
    2 people

    The Fountainhead

    Ayn Rand · 1996

    2 recommenders

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  56. The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
    2 people

    The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

    Matt Mochary · 2019

    2 recommenders

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  57. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    2 people

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

    Douglas Adams · 2005

    2 recommenders

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  58. The Intelligent Investor
    2 people

    The Intelligent Investor

    Benjamin Graham · 2006

    2 recommenders

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  59. The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups
    2 people

    The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups

    Randall Stross · 2012

    2 recommenders

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  60. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
    2 people

    The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

    Eric Ries · 2011

    2 recommenders

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