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Investing in the stock market can be a daunting task for many, but with the right knowledge and resources, anyone can become a successful investor. One of the best ways to gain that knowledge is by reading books on investing and finance. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned pro, there's always something new to learn.

On this page, we've compiled a list of recommended books on investing and finance that have been highly recommended by our hosts, community, and experts in the industry.

In addition to books on investing, we've also included titles on business, biographies, and history. These books offer valuable insights and lessons that can be applied to investing and financial decision making.

We hope that this list of recommended books will serve as a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve their investing knowledge and skills. Happy reading!


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Don't Stress, Just Invest

By Alec Renehan and Bryce Leske

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Get Started Investing

By Alec Renehan and Bryce Leske

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One Up On Wall Street

By Peter Lynch

8 recommendations

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The Intelligent Investor

By Benjamin Graham

5 recommendations

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The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Investors and Managers

By Lawrence A. Cunningham

4 recommendations

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The Little Book That Still Beats the Market

By Joel Greenblatt

3 recommendations

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Good To Great

By Jim Collins

3 recommendations

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Thinking, Fast And Slow

By Daniel Kahneman

3 recommendations

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The Great Rupture: Three Empires, Four Turning Points, and the Future of Humanity

By Viktor Shvets

2 recommendations

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

By Hans Rosling

2 recommendations

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Guerilla Games

By Gar Wilson

2 recommendations

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Liar's Poker

By Michael Lewis

2 recommendations

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Catcher in the Rye

By J. D. Salinger

2 recommendations

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South: The Endurance Expedition

By Ernest Shackleton

2 recommendations

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Security Analysis

By Benjamin Graham

2 recommendations

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Shoe Dog

By Phil Knight

2 recommendations

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Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders

By Jack D. Schwager

2 recommendations

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Capital Returns: Investing Through the Capital Cycle

By Edward Chancellor

2 recommendations

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Big Debt Crises

By Ray Dalio

2 recommendations

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Investing: The Last Liberal Art

By Robert G. Hagstrom

2 recommendations

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The Acquirer's Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market

By Tobias E. Carlisle

2 recommendations

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Buffettology

By Mary Buffett

2 recommendations

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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

By Nancy MacLean

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The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders

By Jack D. Schwager

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Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture

By Bruce Pascoe

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Superpower: Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity

By Ross Garnaut

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Exponential Organizations

By Salim Ismail

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By Michael Lewis

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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

By Michael Lewis

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You Can be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits

By Joel Greenblatt

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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management

By Roger Lowenstein

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100 Baggers: Stocks that Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

By Christopher Mayer

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Beating the Street

By Peter Lynch

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

By Mark Manson

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A Bigger Picture

By Malcolm Turnbull

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The Barefoot Investor

By Scott Pape

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Nice Girls Don't Get Rich: 75 Avoidable Mistakes Women Make with Money

By Lois P. Frankel

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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions

By Dan Ariely

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The Warren Buffett Book of Investing Wisdom

By Robert L Bloch

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Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

By Roger Lowenstein

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Competitive Advantage

By Michael E. Porter

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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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King Icahn: The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist

By Mark Stevens

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The White Sharks of Wall Street: Thomas Mellon Evans and the Original Corporate

By Diana Henriques

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Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber

By Edward J. Renehan Jr.

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Catch 22

By Joseph Heller

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The History of the Peloponnesian War

By Thucydides

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The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns

By Mohnish Pabrai

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Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything

By Carol Loomis

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The End of History and the Last Man

By Francis Fukuyama

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The Fountainhead

By Ayn Rand

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Finance for Normal People: How Investors and Markets Behave

By Meir Statman

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Hedgehogging

By Barton Biggs

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Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

By Alice Schroeder

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What Works on Wall Street, Fourth Edition: The Classic Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time

By James O'Shaughnessy

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Bulls, Bears and a Croupier: The Insider's Guide to Profiting from the Australian Stockmarket

By Matthew Kidman

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Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations

By Tobias E. Carlisle

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

By Malcolm Gladwell

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The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an Unknowable Future

By Mervyn King

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John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific, and Reinventing Australia

By John Edwards

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The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor

By Howard Marks

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

By Angela Duckworth

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Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

By Timothy Ferriss

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The Money Miners: The Great Australian Mining Boom

By Trevor Sykes

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The Outsiders

By S E Hinton

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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

By Gregory Zuckerman

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A Beautiful Mind

By Sylvia Nasar

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Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders, 2018

By Warren Buffett

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Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

By Patty McCord

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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

By Edwin E. Catmull

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That Will Never Work

By Marc Randolph

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The Billion Dollar Whale

By Tom Wright & Bradley Hope

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Options as a Strategic Investment

By Lawrence G. McMillan

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Iron War: Two Incredible Athletes. One Epic Rivalry. The Greatest Race of All Time.

By Matt Fitzgerald

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Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

By Peter Thiel

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Kochland

By Christopher Leonard

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

By Ben Horowitz

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Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond: 396

By Bruce C. Greenwald

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The Count of Monte Cristo

By Alexandre Dumas

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The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World

By Paul Gilding

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Big Money Thinks Small: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing

By Joel Tillinghast

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Investing Against the Tide: Lessons from a Life Running Money

By Anthony Bolton

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It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be

By Paul Arden

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The Complete Yes Minister

By Jonathan Lynn & Antony Jay

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Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor

By Seth Klarman

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How to Win Friends and Influence People

By Dale Carnegie

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Genghis Khan: A Captivating Guide to the Founder of the Mongol Empire and His Conquests Which Resulted in the Largest Contiguous Empire in History

By Gengis Khan

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Mindset: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential

By Carol Dweck

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The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New

By Jeremy Siegel

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Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

By Tom Copeland

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Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm

By Verne Hamish

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A Short History of Financial Euphoria

By John Galbraith

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Poor Charlie's Almanack

By Charlie Munger

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Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns, Revised and Updated

By Michael Mauboussin & Alfred Rappaport

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The Contrarian

By Peter Thiel

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The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

By Barbara Minto

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Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion

By Robert B. Cialdini

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The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way

By Wayne W. Dyer

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As the Crow Flies

By Jeffrey Archer

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The Alchemist

By Paulo Coelho

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Damodaran on Valuation: Security Analysis for Investment and Corporate Finance

By Aswath Damodaran

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The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy

By Stephanie Kelton

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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

By Henry Marsh

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Mastering Megatrends: Understanding and Leveraging the Evolving New World

By Doris Naisbitt

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches

By David Drummond

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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

By Niall Ferguson

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The Wisdom of Crowds

By James Surowiecki

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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

By David E Sanger

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Rich Dad Poor Dad

By Robert T. Kiyosaki

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Fourth Estate

By Jeffrey Archer

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes

By Steven Pinker

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The Warren Buffett Way

By Robert G. Hagstrom

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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

By James C Collins

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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

By Erik Brynjolfsson

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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

By Burton G. Malkiel

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Uncommon Sense: Investment Wisdom Since the Stock Market's Dawn

By Michael Kemp

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Behavioural Investing: A Practitioner's Guide to Applying Behavioural Finance

By James Montier

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Mao's Last Dancer

By Li Cunxin

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The Trick: Why Some People Can Make Money and Other People Can't

By William Leith

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A Little Life

By Hanya Yanagihara

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Red Notice | How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy

By Bill Browder

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The Silent Patient

By Alex Michaelides

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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

By Oliver Burkeman

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Verity

By Colleen Hoover

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The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street Hardcover – 16 March 2021

By Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap

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The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch

By Paddy Manning

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Greenlights

By Matthew McConaughey

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The Ethical Investor

By Nicole Haddow

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Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune

By Patrick O'Shaughnessy

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Sort Your Career Out: And Make More Money

By Shelley Johnson, Glen James

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Triumph of the Optimists

By Elroy Dimson

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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

By Kenneth O. Stanley

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Just Keep Buying

By Nick Maggiulli

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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

By John C. Bogle

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Broke Millennial Takes On Investing: A Beginner’s Guide to Levelling Up Your Money

By Erin Lowry

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The Ride of a Lifetime

By Robert Iger

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The Selfish Gene

By Richard Dawkins

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Information Economics

By Urs Birchler

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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

By Charles Duhigg

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Mind Over Money

By Evan Lucas

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The Iliad

By Homer

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Same As Ever

By Morgan Housel

Everyone wants to see the future. Few are good at it. From business to economics, politics to social trends, we're just not very good at predicting what happens next.

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