Book Recommendations
"There is no teacher better than history in determining the future… there are answers worth billions of dollars in a $30 history book." - Bill Gross
Education is the great equalizer, and one of the best means to an education is books. My reading journey started in 2007 and will hopefully continue the remainder of my life.
Below is a list of books I recommend to get started. Please feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions or are looking for another recommendation. For example, many 'quick reads' can be packed with useful information like all of Malcolm Gladwell's books.
Want a chance to win one of the books below?? If you subscribe to receive my free weekly articles, you'll automatically be entered into a montly book giveaway drawing! Only rules - I can only send books to the US, and I'm not giving away Poor Charlie's Almanack (because everyone would get it, and then I would go broke!!).
My book list:
| Book Title | Read Date |
| Poor Charlie's Almanack | 19-Jun-07 |
| A Matter of Degrees | 19-Jun-07 |
| Ben Franklin Autobiography | 19-Jun-07 |
| How the Scots Invented the Modern World | 19-Jun-07 |
| The Selfish Gene | 19-Jun-07 |
| Cicero | 4-Jul-07 |
| The Wealth and Poverty of Nations | 27-Aug-07 |
| The Warren Buffett Portfolio | 4-Oct-07 |
| Living Within Limits | 15-Oct-07 |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel | 1-Dec-07 |
| The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | 1-Feb-08 |
| If the Buddha Got Stuck | 30-Apr-08 |
| Atlas Shrugged | 14-May-08 |
| 48 Days to the Work you Love | 8-Jun-08 |
| China Shakes the World | 1-Jul-08 |
| The Rise and Fall of the British Empire | 24-Aug-08 |
| Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion | 24-Aug-08 |
| The Third Chimpanzee | 18-Sept-08 |
| Your Money or Your Life | 2-Nov-08 |
| Genome | 16-Nov-08 |
| Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth | 9-Jan-09 |
| Tesla, Man of Time | 19-Jan-09 |
| Seeking Wisdom - from Darwin to Munger | 30-Jan-09 |
| Three Scientists and Their Gods | 23-Feb-09 |
| Men to Match My Mountains | 24-Mar-09 |
| The Theory of Moral Sentiments | 22-May-09 |
| How the Mind Works | 28-Jul-09 |
| Every Man a King | 10-Sep-09 |
| The Road to Monticello | 19-Jan-10 |
| Ecclesiastes | 2-Feb-10 |
| Get Off your Buts | 11-Feb-10 |
| Titan | 5-Apr-10 |
| Alas, Babylon | 18-May-10 |
| The Philosophy of Civilization | 18-May-10 |
| Dumbing us Down | 30-Jun-10 |
| Psychiatry, the Ultimate Betrayal | 5-Aug-10 |
| The Five People you Meet in Heaven | 5-Aug-10 |
| Weapons of Mass Instruction | 5-Aug-10 |
| Walden; or Life in the Woods | 17-Aug-10 |
| Self-Reliance, and other Essays | 7-Nov-10 |
| Out of the Labyrinth | 22-Nov-10 |
| 1491 | 11-Jan-11 |
| The Call | 11-Jan-11 |
| Thou Shall Prosper | 22-Mar-11 |
| The Element | 30-May-11 |
| Collapse | 22-Jul-11 |
| Your Body's Many Cries for Water | 26-Aug-11 |
| The Celestine Prophecy | 11-Oct-11 |
| Free Gulliver | 13-Oct-11 |
| Waiting for "Superman" | 30-Oct-11 |
| Lincoln | 5-Jan-12 |
| The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team | 12-Jan-12 |
