VALAD Plus® Booklist

1. Seeking Wisdom, From Darwin to Munger - Bevel *
2. Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion - Cialdini
3. Wealth of Nations - Smith
4. Poor Charlie's Almanac - Kaufman
5. Man’s Search for Meaning - Frankl
6. Ubiquity – Buchanan
7. Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor - Griffin
8. The Selfish Gene - Dawkins *
9. Guns, Germs, and Steel - Diamond
10. Buffett, The Making of an American Capitalist - Lowenstein
11. Ben Franklin - Van Doren
12. Modern Times - Johnson
13. Heisenberg’ War - Powers
14. The Wisdom of Crowds - Surowiecki
15. Einstein - Issacson
16. Jobs - Issacson
17. The Road to Serfdom - Hayek
18. Outlive - Attia *
19. Meditations - Aurelius
20. The Complete Strategist, Being a Primer on the theory of Games of Strategy - Williams
21. When Genius Failed - Lowenstein
22. The End of Certainty - Prigogine
23. The Intelligent Investor - Graham
24. Against the Gods, the Remarkable Story of Risk - Bernstein
25. The Tipping Point - Gladwell
26. Chaos, Making a New Science - Gleick
27. Freakonomics - Levit and Dubner
28. A History of Economic Genius - Strathern
29. Models of My Life - Simon
30. Financial Shenanigans - Schilit
31. Free to Choose - Friedman
32. The Practice of Management - Drucker
33. The New Economics - Demming
34. Flow, The Psychology of the Optimal Experience - Csikszentmihalyi *
35. The Little Book that Beats the Market - Greenblatt (Recommending the beginning of book on fundamental Risk/Reward analysis in first five chapters)
36. The Code Breaker - Isaacson
37. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - Landes
38. Zero to One - Theil
39. A Radical's Guide to Economic Reality - Black
40. The Improbability Principle - Hand
41. The Power of Habit - Prehigg
42. 12 Rules for Life - Peterson
43. House of Morgan - Chernow
44. Sea Wolves - Brownworth
45. India after Gandhi - Guha
46. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon - Stone/Larkin
47. The Frackers - Zuckerman
48. Issac Newton - Gleick
49. Living with Limits - Hardin
50. Lee Kuan Yew - Graham/Blackwill/Wyne/Kissinger…
51. The Great Escape - Marton
52. 22 immutable Laws of Branding - Reis
53. Carnage & Culture - Hanson
54. The First Three Minutes - Weinberg
55. The Inner Game of Tennis - Galloway
56. Genome - Ridley
57. The Last Lion - Winston Spencer Churchill, Vision of Glory 1874 - 1932; The Last Lion - Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932 - 1940 - Manchester
58. John Maynard Keynes 1883 - 1946 - Skidelsky
59. Paris 1919 - McMillian
60. Berkshire Annual Reports Including Owner’s Manual and Acquisition criteria
61. Money Mischief - Friedman
62. Pre - Suasion - Cialdini
63. The Undoing Project - Lewis
64. A Man for All Markets - Thorp
65. Nudge - Thaler *
66. Thinking in Bets - Duke
67. The Order of Time - Rovelli (be prepared for a headache)
68. The Fall of the House of Fifa - Conn
69. The Great Game - Hopkirk
70. What Every Body is Saying – Navarro
71. The Improbability Principle - Hand
72. The First Tycoon - Stiles
73. Red Notice - Browder
74. I Contain Multitudes - Yong
75. The Innovator's Prescription - Christensen
76. The Presidents Club - Gibbs
77. Thinking Fast Thinking Slow - Kahneman *
78. Range - Epstein
79. Talking to Strangers - Gladwell
80. Internal Time – Roenneberg
81. Atomic Habits - Clear
82. The Obstacle is the Way - Holiday
83. Caffeine - Pollan
84. Chasing the Sun - Geddes
85. How Innovation Works - Ridley
86. Conspiracy - Holiday
87. Cable Cowboy - Robichaux
88. Why We Sleep - Walker
89. Mastering Mental Math - Benjamin
90. Breath - Nestor
91. When Brains Dream - Zadra and Stickgold
92. The Last Days of Night - Moore
93. Sea People - Thompson
94. The Wager - Grann
95. 1491 - Mann
96. John Quancy Adams - Unger
97. So, Anyway – Cleese
98. The Intelligent Investor - Graham
99. The Last Man who Knew Everything - Schwartz
100. The Accidental Superpower - Zeihan *
101. Hitch 22 - Hitchens
102. Bad Blood - Carreyrou
103. Bernoulli’s Fallacy - Clayton
104. The Dream Machine - Waldrop
105. The Nature of the Beast - Anderson
106. Reality Is Not What It Seems - Rovelli
107. The Boys in the Boat - Brown
108. The Huberman Podcast - Huberman *
109. The Man from the Future - Bhattacharya
110. Can’t Hurt Me - Goggins
111. The Last Kings of Shanghai - Kaufman
112. John Marshall - Unger
113. The Code Breaker – Isaacson
114. Wooly - Mezrich *
115. The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don't – Fisher
116. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Weatherford
117. Talk to Strangers – Gladwell
118. Alexander Hamilton - McDonald
119. Fish That Ate the Whales – Cohen
120. Documentary Film, A Very Short Introduction - Aufderheide
121. The Art of Living – Epictetus
122. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China - Vogel
123. The Prosperity Paradox – Christensen
124. Atlas Shrugged - Rand
125. The Drunkard’s Walk – Mlodinow
126. Cool It - Lomborg
127. When to Rob a Bank – Levitt and Duben
128. Tools of Titans – Ferriss
129. Filters Against Folly - Hardin
130. The Data Detective – Harford
131. The Expectation Effect – Robson
132. Thinking Fast and Slow – Kahneman
133. Foundation Series - Asimov
134. Fortune's Formula - Poundstone
135. The Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn
136. Prisoner's Dilemma - Poundstone
137. Quit - Annie Duke
138. The New Map - Daniel Yergin
139. Peak - Anders Ericsson
140. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything – Nate Silver 

* Denotes VPIA™ Book of the Year


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