Book Reviews

“Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you don’t know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan

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Investing (28)

Economics (7)

Business (17)

Berkshire Hathaway (16)

History (8)

Psychology (11)

Mental Models (4)

Compilations (10)

Flights of Fancy

January 13, 2023

Damn Right! — Behind the Scenes with Charlie Munger

January 1, 2023

What I’ve Been Reading

December 23, 2022

What I’ve Been Reading

September 28, 2022

Railroader: The Unfiltered Genius of Hunter Harrison

September 20, 2022

What I’ve Been Reading

June 28, 2022

Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life

June 20, 2022

Trillions: The Pioneers of Passive Investing

April 20, 2022

What I’ve Been Reading

April 2, 2022

A Shot to Save the World

March 24, 2022

Becoming Trader Joe

February 17, 2022

The Lords of Easy Money

January 29, 2022

The Revolution That Wasn’t

December 14, 2021

James Madison: America’s First Politician

December 9, 2021

Atomic Habits

February 8, 2021

The Psychology of Money

October 11, 2020

Capital Allocation: The Financials of a New England Textile Mill

July 27, 2020

Lighthouse: Women Leading the Way in Finance

July 20, 2020

The Buffalo News: From Butler to Buffett

June 29, 2020

Summer Book Recommendations for 2020

June 22, 2020

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

June 12, 2020

The Joys of Compounding

June 1, 2020

Man’s Search for Meaning

May 26, 2020

Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?

May 19, 2020

Farnam Street’s Great Mental Models, Volume 2

May 12, 2020

The Great Influenza of 1918

April 12, 2020

Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products

March 30, 2020

Alchemy by Rory Sutherland

February 10, 2020

Farnam Street’s Great Mental Models

January 20, 2020

Margin of Trust: The Berkshire Business Model

January 13, 2020

The Ride of a Lifetime

January 6, 2020

The Man Who Solved The Market

December 28, 2019

How to Lie With Statistics

December 23, 2019

T. Rowe Price: The Sage of Baltimore

December 10, 2019

Holiday Book Recommendations for 2019

November 26, 2019

Loonshots: How to Nurture Crazy Ideas

November 21, 2019

Non-Consensus Investing: Being Right When Everyone Else Is Wrong

November 14, 2019

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

November 5, 2019

The Giles Resolutions: Scandal and Bailouts in the 1790s

July 4, 2019

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

June 20, 2019

American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

June 12, 2019

Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

January 25, 2019

Holiday Book Recommendations for 2018

November 21, 2018

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

October 21, 2018

Mastering the Market Cycle

October 13, 2018

Early Bird: The Power of Investing Young

January 9, 2018

University of Berkshire Hathaway

November 8, 2017

The Man Who Sold America

October 30, 2017

Blockchain Revolution

April 13, 2017

A Man For All Markets

March 24, 2017

There’s Always Something to Do: The Peter Cundill Investment Approach

March 12, 2017

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

January 18, 2017

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

December 15, 2016

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

December 9, 2016

Intelligent Fanatics Project: How Great Leaders Build Sustainable Businesses

November 30, 2016

My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan

November 21, 2016

How to Build a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy: The R.C. Willey Story

November 8, 2016

The Buffett Essays Symposium

October 27, 2016

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

October 21, 2016

Inside the Investments of Warren Buffett: Twenty Cases

October 13, 2016

Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism

June 18, 2016

Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules

May 27, 2016

Habit of Labor: Lessons from a Life of Struggle and Success

May 15, 2016

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

November 13, 2015

Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values

November 5, 2014

The Education of a Value Investor

October 2, 2014

A Manual on Common Stock Investing

March 28, 2014

Fizz — How Soda Shook Up the World

December 26, 2013

Short Stories from the Stock Market

November 1, 2013

The Manual of Ideas

September 27, 2013

The Value Investors: Lessons from the World’s Top Fund Managers

September 26, 2012

What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett

January 19, 2011

In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules

January 8, 2011

Holiday Book Recommendations for 2010

December 5, 2010

What Investors Really Want

November 30, 2010

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

July 14, 2010

Summer Book Recommendations for 2010

July 4, 2010

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

June 27, 2010

The End of Wall Street by Roger Lowenstein

June 7, 2010

The Big Short by Michael Lewis

May 19, 2010

Behind the Berkshire Hathaway Curtain: Lessons from Warren Buffett’s Top Business Leaders

April 27, 2010

The Basics of Understanding Financial Statements

April 24, 2010

Buffett Beyond Value: Why Warren Buffett Looks to Growth and Management When Investing

April 3, 2010

13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

March 21, 2010

Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain

February 7, 2010

Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy

February 2, 2010

Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin

January 5, 2010

Pleased But Not Satisfied by David Sokol

December 15, 2009

Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market?

December 9, 2009

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

November 23, 2009

Top Books for Investors

October 31, 2009

You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt

July 17, 2009

Personal History by Katharine Graham

July 15, 2009

Digital Barbarism: A Writer’s Manifesto

July 13, 2009

Selecting a Buffett Biography: Lowenstein vs. Schroeder

May 20, 2009

Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd

May 18, 2009

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

April 25, 2009

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America

April 19, 2009

The Interpretation of Financial Statements by Benjamin Graham

February 25, 2009

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

February 22, 2009

While America Aged by Roger Lowenstein

February 16, 2009