curated list
books recommended by investors
What the world's most successful investors actually read — from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger to Ray Dalio, Howard Marks, Naval Ravikant, and the modern generation of VCs.
Aggregated across 19 people we track · 60 books ranked by how many on this list have publicly recommended each one.
most recommended books on this list
- 4 people
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 2015
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2018
4 recommenders
- 3 people
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2025
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson · 2004
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD · 2006
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
edited by Peter Kaufman · 2006
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2007
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz · 2014
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
Clayton M. Christensen · 2003
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric Ries · 2011
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State
James Dale Davidson · 1999
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel · 2014
3 recommenders
- 2 people
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky · 2017
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty · 2014
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson · 2007
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic
Alfred Lansing · 1999
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
Nancy Forbes · 2014
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2005
2 recommenders
- 2 people
From Bacteria to Bach and Back
Daniel C. Dennett · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Genome (text only) First American Edition edition by M. Ridley
Matt Ridley · 2006
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
James Wallace · 1993
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari · 2017
2 recommenders
- 2 people
How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Matt Ridley · 2020
2 recommenders
- 2 people
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollan · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Steven Levy · 2011
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Victor Sebestyen · 2017
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
Kamal Ravikant · 2012
2 recommenders
- 2 people
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Erin Meyer & Reed Hastings · 2020
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant · 2016
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Security Analysis
Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd · 2004
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Siddhartha: A Novel. Complete edition with original illustrations
Hermann Hesse · 1981
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
Carlota Perez · 2003
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin · 2004
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Neal Stephenson · 2000
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
Jimmy Soni · 2022
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
Matt Mochary · 2019
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups
Randall Stross · 2012
2 recommenders
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