A friend recently shared the contents of his bookshelf with me and I thought it was a great way to generate conversations about books we've read and discover ones we hadn't. 

Below are the business, finance, and investing books I own or checked out from the library.

The books in bold are those that jumped to mind as instant recommendations for someone new to investing and business analysis.

If you have any reading suggestions not found below, please let me know!

Company-Specific 
  • Investor 100 (Investor AB)
  • Kitchens, or Sink – Matthew Ingle (Howdens Joinery)
  • One From Many – Dee Hock (Visa)
  • Made in America – Sam Walton (Wal-Mart)
  • Junk to Gold – Willis Johnson (Copart)
  • Alibaba’s World – Porter Erisman (Alibaba)
  • Invested – Charles Schwab (Schwab)
  • Becoming Trader Joe – Joe Coulombe (Trader Joe's)
  • Pour Your Heart Into It – Howard Schultz (Starbucks)
  • Brick by Brick – David Robertson (Lego)
  • Work Hard, Have Fun, Make Money – Nelson Eddy (Tractor Supply)
  • Shoe Dog – Philip Knight (Nike)
  • Built from Scratch – Bernie Marcus (Home Depot)
  • The Everything Store – Brad Stone (Amazon)
  • Daring to Succeed – Guy Gendron (Couche-Tard)
  • Ask Iwata – Hobonichi (Nintendo)
  • Let My People Go Surfing - Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia)

Written by active investors/investing firms
  • Harriman’s Book of Investing Rules - Christopher Parker
  • How to Pick Quality Shares – Phil Oakley
  • Invest in the Best – Keith Ashworth-Lord (Buffettology Fund)
  • Mastering the Market Cycle – Howard Marks
  • The Most Important Thing – Howard Marks
  • Why Moats Matter – Heather Brilliant and Elizabeth Collins 
  • The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing – Pat Dorsey
  • The Little Book that Builds Wealth - Pat Dorsey
  • Common Stocks, Uncommon Profits - Philip Fisher
  • Capital Returns – Edward Chancellor
  • The Joys of Compounding – Gautam Baid
  • Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts – James Valentine, CFA
  • Concentrated Investing – Allen Benelllo, Michael Van Biema, Tobais Carlisle
  • The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
  • Full of Bull – Stephen McClellan
  • Deep Value Investing – Jeroen Bos
  • The Little Book that Beats the Market – Joel Greenblatt
  • The Big Secret for the Small Investor – Joes Greenblatt
  • Beating the Street - Peter Lynch
  • One Up on Wall Street – Peter Lynch
  • Big Money Thinks Small – Joel Tillinghast
  • Ron’s Road to Wealth – Ron Muhlenkamp
  • Investing the Templeton Way – Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips
  • Inside the Investments of Warren Buffett – Yefei Lu
  • A Man for All Markets – Edward O. Thorpe
  • Investing for Growth – Terry Smith
  • The Zulu Principle – Jim Slater
  • Investing Against the Tide – Anthony Bolton
  • The Ultimate Dividend Playbook – Josh Peters
  • Quality Investing - Lawrence Cunningham, Torkell T. Eide, and Patrick Hargreaves (AKO Capital)

General investing
  • Poor Charlie’s Almanack – Peter Kaufman
  • Valuation – McKinsey
  • Expectations Investing – Michael Mauboussin, Alfred Rappaport
  • More Than You Know – Michael Mauboussin
  • The Success Equation – Michael Mauboussin
  • The Dark Side of Valuation – Aswath Damodaran
  • The Little Book of Valuation – Aswath Damodaran
  • The Warren Buffett Shareholder – Lawrence Cunningham
  • Dear Shareholder – Lawrence Cunningham
  • The Rebel Allocator – Jake Taylor
  • The Little Book of Common Sense – Jack Bogle
  • Enough – Jack Bogle
  • Stay the Course – Jack Bogle
  • The Warren Buffett Portfolio – Robert Hagstrom
  • Investing: The Last Liberal Art - Robert Hagstrom
  • Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor – Tren Griffin
  • The Snowball – Alice Schroeder
  • Big Mistakes – Michael Batnick
  • The Sages – Charles R. Morris
  • Buffett: The Making of An American Capitalist – Roger Lowenstein
  • Firms of Endearment – Raj Sisodia, David Wolfe, and Jag Sheth
  • The Future for Investors – Jeremy Siegel
  • 100 to 1 in the Stock Market – Thomas William Phelps
  • The Halo Effect – Philip M. Rosenzweig
  • The Warren Buffett CEO – Robert P. Miles
  • The Outsiders – William Thorndike
  • What’s Behind the Numbers? – John Del Vecchio and Tom Jacobs

Business / Industry
  • Against the Gods – Peter L. Bernstein
  • Scale – Geoffrey West
  • Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - Richard P. Rumelt
  • Thinking in Bets – Annie Duke
  • The Founder’s Mentality – Chris Zook and James Allen
  • One Up – Joost Van Dreunen
  • Capitalism Without Capital – Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
  • Six Billion Shoppers – Porter Erisman
  • Lessons from Century Club Companies – Vicki TenHaken
  • Console Wars – Blake Harris
  • Modern Monopolies – Alex Moazed and Nicholas Johnson
  • Rockonomics – Alan Krueger
  • The Box – Marc Levinson
  • Game Over – David Sheff
  • Door to Door – Edward Humes
  • Competition Demystified – Bruce Greenwald
  • Alchemy – Rory Sutherland
  • Farsighted – Steven Johnson
  • The Model Thinker – Scott Page
  • Blitzscaling – Reid Hoffman
  • Platform Revolution – Geoffrey Parker , Marshal Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary
  • Creating the Twentieth Century – Vaclav Smil
  • Never Split the Difference – Chris Voss
  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds – Charles Mackay
  • The Signal and the Noise – Nate Silver
  • Triumph of the Optimists – Elroy Dimson
  • Blockchain Revolution – Don Tapscott
  • The Upstarts – Brad Stone
  • Permission Marketing – Seth Godin
  • The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse – Marianne Jennings
  • Lessons from the Titans – Scott Davis, Carter Copeland, Rob Wertheimer (Industrials)
  • Superforecasting – Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
  • The Price of Time – Edward Chancellor
  • Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. – Ron Chernow
  • The Great Inflation and its Aftermath – Robert J. Samuelson
  • The New Map – Daniel Yergin
  • Deals from Hell – Robert F. Bruner
  • Football Hackers – Christoph Biermann
  • The Ascent of Money – Niall Ferguson
  • The Big Short – Michael Lewis
  • Liar’s Poker – Michael Lewis

Personal / Career
  • The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
  • Early Bird: The Power of Investing Young – Maya Peterson
  • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living – Dale Carnegie
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
  • The Millionaire Next Door – Thomas Stanley and William Danko
  • I Will Teach You to be Rich – Ramit Sethi
  • It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be – Paul Arden
  • Influence – Robert Cialdini
  • Pre-suasion – Robert Cialdini
  • The Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande
  • The Dip – Seth Godin
  • Clear Thinking – Shane Parrish
  • Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
  • Richer, Wiser, Happier – William Green
  • Soul in the Game – Vitaliy Katsnelson
  • A Wealth of Common Sense – Ben Carlson

Books not about investing, applicable to investing
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig 
  • Walden - Henry David Thoreau
  • Prisoners of Geography – Tim Marshall
  • Pattern Recognition – William Gibson
  • Sandworm – Andy Greenberg

​...More to come