The Charlie Munger Reading List

Charlie Monger's suggested path to wisdom includes voracious reading. With that in mind, here is his suggested reading list from "Poor Charlie's Almanack" (first edition).

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• Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
• F.I.A.S.C.O.: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader
• Ice Age
• How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
• Models of My Life
• A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe
• Andrew Carnegie
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
• The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
• The Selfish Gene
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
• The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
• The Warren Buffet Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy
• Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
• Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information
• Only the Paranoid Survive