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title: "48 Books Recommended by Charlie Munger"
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# 48 Books Recommended by Charlie Munger

**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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> **Disclaimer**: This article is for reference only and does not constitute any investment advice.
