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Bruce Berkowitz: 15 Books That Every Investor Should Read

Sunday, December 2, 2018 · Johnny Hopkins

Bruce Berkowitz’s Recommendations

This week we’re going to take a look at recommended books from superinvestor Bruce Berkowitz. Taken from his writings, interviews, lectures, and shareholder letters over the years. Here’s his list:

1. Security Analysis, 6th Edition (Benjamin Graham and David Dodd)

2. The Essays of Warren Buffett (Lawrence Cunningham)

3. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Peter Kaufman, Charlie Munger)

4. The Intelligent Investor (Benjamin Graham)

5. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert B. Cialdini)

6. The Tipping Point. How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Malcolm Gladwell)

7. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Charles Mackay)

8. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre)

9. Benjamin Franklin (Carl Van Doren)

10. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 (William Manchester)

11. Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen (Mark Buchanan)

12. The Great Crash of 1929 (John Kenneth Galbraith)

13. Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives (Satyajit Das)

14. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (Daniel Levitin)

15. The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market (Leon Levy, Eugene Linden)

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