Books Recommended by Charlie Munger
Who is Charlie Munger: Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, closest partner of Warren Buffet, renowned for his intellect and wordly wisdom.
What’s on the list: Books he endorsed and recommended to his friends, co-workers and family.
Books by Charlie Munger: He has not written books himself, but his essential wisdom is most famously collected in these two:
Poor Charlie Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert Cialdini
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, by David S. Landes
Pride in Performance: Keep It Going!, by Les Schwab
Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader, by Frank Partnoy
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, by Roger Fisher
Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, by James Wallace
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics, by Nancy Forbes
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity, by John Gribbin
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing, by Lawrence M. Krauss
A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class, by Joe Nocera
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Walter Isaacson
Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information, by Robert Wright
Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos, by Garrett Hardin
Models of My Life, by Herbert A Simon
Master of the Game, by Connie Bruck
Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive, by Robert Cialdini
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, by Steven Pinker
Getting It Done: How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge, by Roger Fisher
The Third Chimpanzee: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, by Jared Diamond
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., by Ron Chernow
The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century, by Istvan Hargittai
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, by John C. Bogle
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, by Steven Levy
Andrew Carnegie, by Joseph Frazier Wall
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, by Bryan Burrough
The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham
The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality, by Judith Rich Harris