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I. Biographies
Munger believes that biography is a way to more easily connect the life and personality of a thinker with their ideas. "If you spend your life associating with the wise dead, you will live a better and more educated life. This is much better than just talking about big principles."
1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Author: (US) Benjamin Franklin
2. Benjamin Franklin, Author: (US) Carl Van Doren
3. Poor Charlie's Almanack, Author: (US) Peter D. Kaufman
4. Einstein: His Life and Universe, Author: (US) Walter Isaacson
5. Models of My Life, Author: (US) Herbert A. Simon (The only management scientist among Nobel Prize in Economics winners)
6. John Adams, Author: (US) David McCullough
7. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Author: (US) Robert A. Caro
8. Andrew Carnegie, Author: (US) Joseph Frazier Wall
9. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Author: (US) Ron Chernow
10. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, Author: (US) James Wallace, Jim Erickson
11. Pride in Performance: Keep Going, Author: (US) Les Schwab
12. Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner, Author: (US) Connie Bruck
II. Natural Sciences
Munger also enjoys popular science books, especially those about evolution. He believes that in investing, "biological reasoning can help predict the outcome of business evolution processes. Business and biological evolution have many similarities."
13. On the Origin of Species, Author: (UK) Charles Darwin
14. Darwin's Blind Spot, Author: Frank Ryan
15. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, Author: (UK) Jared Diamond
16. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Author: Matt Ridley
17. The Selfish Gene, Author: (UK) Richard Dawkins
18. The Blind Watchmaker, Author: (UK) Richard Dawkins
19. Temperature, Deciding Everything, Author: Gino Segrè
20. The Language Instinct, Author: (US) Steven Pinker
21. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Author: Judith Rich Harris
22. Ice Age, Author: (DE) Rainer Crummenerl
23. Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity, Author: (UK) John Gribbin
24. The Spark of Science, Author: Peter Bevelin
25. Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information, Author: (US) Robert Wright
III. Social Sciences
Munger believes that stock picking is a branch of the art of worldly wisdom and must be understood as part of one's ability to navigate the world.
27. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Author: (US) Jared Diamond
28. Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos, Author: (US) Garrett Hardin
29. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It, Author: (US) Arthur Herman
30. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, Author: (US) David S. Landes
31. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Author: (US) Robert B. Cialdini
32. Man's Search for Meaning, Author: (AT) Viktor E. Frankl
33. Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, Author: (US) Max H. Bazerman
34. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Author: (US) Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton
35. Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company, Author: (US) Andrew S. Grove
36. Getting It Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge, Author: (US) Roger Fisher, Alan Sharp
37. Outliers: The Story of Success, Author: (US) Malcolm Gladwell
IV. Finance & Economics
Munger once said, "I think Warren and I have learned more from good business magazines than from any other source."
38. The Intelligent Investor, Author: (US) Benjamin Graham
39. Security Analysis, Author: (US) Benjamin Graham
40. The Rediscovered Benjamin Graham: Selected Writings of the Wall Street Legend, Author: (US) Janet Lowe
41. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Author: (US) Philip A. Fisher
42. Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business, Author: (US) Rich Rockwood
43. The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy, Author: (US) Robert G. Hagstrom
44. Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street, Author: (US) William Poundstone
45. F.I.A.S.C.O.: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader (also translated as 泥鸽靶), Author: (US) Frank Partnoy
46. Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story, Author: (US) Kurt Eichenwald
47. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, Author: (US) Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
48. Den of Thieves, Author: (US) James B. Stewart
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