Holiday Reading List

Title Author Count

1 Talent is Overrated Geoff Colvin 4
2 A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation Richard Bookstaber 3
3 Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger Janet Lowe 3
4 Outliers Malcom Gladwell 3
5 Think Twice Michael Mauboussin 3
6 A Gift to my Children Jim Rogers 2
7 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 2
8 Genius Explained Michael J. A. Howe 2
9 How We Decide Jonah Lehrer 2
10 Miracle - The Epic Story of Asia's Quest for Wealth Michael Schuman 2
11 Mr. Market Miscalculates Jim Grant 2
12 The Greatest Trade Ever Greg Zuckerman 2
13 The Talent Code David Coyle 2
14 Too Big to Fail Andrew Ross Sorkin 2
15 Andrew Carnegie David Nasaw
16 Animal Spirits George Akerlof & Robert Shiller
17 Asia's Investment Prophets: Top Money Managers and Their Secrets of Success Clair Barnes
18 Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Atul Gawande
19 Birth of Plenty William Bernstein
20 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond
21 Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation Edward Chancellor
22 Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman
23 Finding the Next Starbucks Michael Moe
24 Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance Perry Mehrling
25 Fooled By Randomness Nassim Taleb
26 Fooling Some of the People, All of the Time David Einhorn
27 Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits Leslie Crutchfield & Heather McLeod Grant
28 From shtetl to steelmaking: The story of three immigrant families and a family business Mendel Kaplan
29 Gods at War Steven Davidoff
30 Good Calories, Bad Calories Gary Taubes
31 How Life Imitates Chess Garry Kasparov
32 How to Read a Book Mortimer Adler
33 Its When You Sell That Counts Donald Cassidy
34 Latticework Robert Hagstrom
35 Letters from a Stoic Seneca
36 Merchants of Grain Daniel Morgan
37 Power, Faith , and Fantasy: American in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present Michael Oren
38 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefevre
39 Robot's Rebellion Keith Stanovich
40 Sam Brannan and the California Mormons Paul Bailey
41 Superfreakeconomics Steven Levitt & Steven Dubner
42 The Accidental Guerilla David Kilcullen
43 The Art of Strategy Avinash K. Dixit & Barry J. Nalebuff
44 The Black Swan Nassim Taleb
45 The Business of Value Investing Sham Gad
46 The Conquest of Happiness Bertrand Russell
47 The Consolations of Philosophy Alain de Botton
48 The Crowd Gustave LeBon
49 The Dhandho Investor Mohnish Pabrai
50 The Drunkard's - How Randomness Rules Our Lives walk Leonard Mlodinow
51 The Evolution of God Robert Wright
52 The First Tycoon TJ Stiles
53 The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression Amity Shlaes
54 The Gold Ring : Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869 Kenneth Ackerman
55 The Great Upheaval: American and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788 - 1800 Jay Winik
56 The Halo Effect Phil Rosenzweig
57 The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates Peter T. Leeson
58 The Margin of Safety Seth Klarman
59 The Mathematics of Gambling Ed Thorp
60 The Merchant of Power, Sam Insul, Thomas Edison and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis John Wasik
61 The Misbehavior of Markets Benoit Mandelbrot
62 The Myth of the Rational Market Justin Fox
63 The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses Amar Bhide
64 The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm Robert Bruner & Sean Carr
65 The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
66 The Virtue of Selfishness Ayn Rand
67 Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happening to You Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead
68 This Time Is Different Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff
69 Titan Ron Chernow
70 Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan Jake Adelstein
71 Wall Street, A History Charles Geisst
72 What the Dog Saw: and Other Adventures Malcom Gladwell
73 Winning the Loser's Game Charles Ellis
74 Wriston: Walter Wriston, Citibank and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy Phillp Zweig