Every year at the Berkshire annual meeting, Warren Buffett offers a handpicked selection of books. I dug up this year’s list from the meeting and I thought I’d list all of them below.
I’ve read several books on the list, own (still need to read) a couple more, and added several new ones to my wish list. Many, as you might guess, are about him. A few are about Charlie Munger. The rest are on investing, biographies, history…I’ll let you check out the rest.
About Warren Buffett
- Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values by Lawrence Cunningham
- Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders: 1965-2015 by Max Olsen
- Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
- Buffett’s Bites: The Essential Investor’s Guide to Warren Buffett’s Shareholder Letters by Laura Rittenhouse
- The Essays of Warren Buffett, Lessons for Corporate America by Lawrence Cunningham
- A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers from Warren E. Buffett by Peter Bevelin
- My Warren Buffett Bible: A Short and Simple Guide to Rational Investing: 284 Quotes from the World’s Most Successful Investor by Robert Bloch
- Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett- 50 Years and Beyond by Andrew Kilpatrick
- The Oracle & Omaha: How Warren Buffett and His Hometown Shaped Each Other by Steve Jordan
- Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything by Carol Loomis
- Warren Buffett: An Illustrated Biography of the World’s Most Successful Investor by Ayano Morio
- Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha by Richard Connors
- Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World’s Greatest Investor by Jeremy C. Miller
- Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World’s Greatest Investor by Janet Lowe
- The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom
About Charlie Munger
- Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
- Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger edited by Peter Kaufman
On Investing
- Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks
- Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation by John Bogle
- The Great Crash: 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
- The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham
- The Intelligent Investor (Revised Edition) revised by Jason Zweig
- Investing Between the Lines: How to Make Smarter Decisions by Decoding CEO Communications by Laura Rittenhouse
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock by John Bogle
- The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William Thorndike
- Strategic Value Investing: Practical Techniques of Leading Value Investors by Stephen Horan, Robert Johnson, and Thomas Robinson
- The Ten Commandments for Business Failure by Donald R. Keough
- Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? Or a Good Hard Look at Wall Street by Fred Schwed, Jr.
General Interest
- All I Want To Know Is Where I’m Going to Die So I’ll Never Go There by Peter Bevelin
- Dream Big by Cris Correa
- Forty Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World by Howard G. Buffett
- Getting There: A Book of Mentors by Gillian Zoe Segal
- Giving It All Away: The Doris Buffett Story by Michael Zitz
- Habit of Labor: Lessons from a Life of Struggle and Success by Stef Wertheimer
- Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment by Peter Buffett
- Limping on Water: My 40-year Adventure with One of America’s Outstanding Communications Companies by Peter Beuth
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin
- The Women of Berkshire Hathaway: Lessons from Warren Buffett’s Female CEOs and Directors by Karen Linder
Source: BRK Annual Selection 2016 (PDF)
Last Call
- Fund Fees Predict Future Success or Failure – Morningstar
- The Worst Bear Market That Nobody Ever Talks About – Irrelevant Investor
- Don’t Confuse Price with Business Momentum – Institutional Investor
- Shrinkage vs. Growth – Investor Field Guide
- Listen Carefully for Hints of the Next Global Recession – R. Shiller
- Wonderful Worlds (That Never Existed) – M. Housel
- Ten Lessons from Bill Campbell – Medium
- Ten Things I Learned From Tony Hawk – Medium
- Roundtable With Leon Cooperman, Joel Greenblatt, Richard Pzena – Valuewalk
- When Bitcoin Grows Up – J. Lanchester
- John Wooden: Values, Victory, and Peace of Mind (video) – Youtube
