Books Recommended by Charlie Munger
Deep Simplicity
John Gribbin
Source: "It's pretty hard to understand everything, but if you can't understand it, you can always give it to a more intelligent friend." - Charlie Munger
The Greatest Trade Ever
Gregory Zuckerman
Source: "He made a lot of money from entirely legal ways but may have created a lot of trouble for himself in the process." - Charlie Munger
Yes!
Robert B. Cialdini PhD
Source: "I suggest [this book]." - Charlie Munger
Models of My Life
Herbert A Simon
Source: Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Source: Dwayne Johnson said he was reading this book in an interview with Andy Warhol.
A Matter of Degrees
Gino Segre
Source: Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.
Titan
Ron Chernow
Source: "One of the best business biographies I have ever read." - Charlie Munger
Living within Limits
Garrett Hardin
Source: Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.
Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew S. Grove
Source: Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.
The Outsiders
William N. Thorndike
Source: "Details the extraordinary success of CEOs who took a radically different approach to corporate management." - Charlie Munger
The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins
Source: "Marvelous." - Charlie Munger
Ice Age
John Gribbin
Source: "Best work of science exposition and history that I've read in many years!" - Charlie Munger
Genome
Matt Ridley
Source: "I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's]." - Nick Szabo
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Source: "[The author] didn’t mean to write his autobiography. He wanted to write a note to his family about what he’d learned in his experiments." - Cory Booker
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Source: "An explanation of evolution since the beginning of life that explains things from the perspective of individual genes." - MMM
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
Arthur Herman
Source: Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
John C. Bogle
Source: "Read any book by [this author], the founder of Vangard." - MMM
The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond
Source: Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
Source: "A brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning book about how the modern world was formed, analyzing how societies developed differently on different continents." - Daniel Ek
Fiasco
Frank Partnoy
Source: Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.
