We believe that reading is a very important part of long-term equity investment process. Here we list down some books that we believe can add value to the repertoire of an investor. Notably, we have not yet read many of these books though they are in our bucket list. On the other hand, we have read many of these books more than once and some of them act as reference material quite regularly.
Investments
One up on wall street - Peter Lynch
Beating the Street - Peter Lynch
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits - Philip Fisher
Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham
The Manual of Ideas - John Mihajlevic
Education of a Value Investor - Guy Spier
The Dhandho Investor - Mohnish Pabrai
Autobiography/Biography
The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the business of life - Alice Shroeder
The Warren Buffet Way - Robert Hagstrom
Buffet: The Making of an American Capitalist - Roger Lowenstein
Tap dancing to Work: Warren Buffet on practically Everything - Carol Loomis
Seeking Wisdom - From Darwin to Munger - Peter Bevelin
Poor Charlie's Almanac - Warren Buffet
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller - Ron Chernow
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
The House of Morgan - Ron Chernow
Three Merchants of Bombay - Lakshmi Subramanian
The Story of my experiments with Truth - M.K.Gandhi
Seneca - Letters from a Stoic
Lenin - Robert Service
The Last Mughal - Willaim Dalrymple
Genghis Khan - John Man
Lords of Finance - Liaquat Ahamed
Hedgehogging - Barton Biggs
Risk
Against the Gods - Peter Bernstein
A Demon of our design - Richard Bookstaber
The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets - Benoit Mandelbrot
The Most Important Thing - Howard Marks
Behavioral Economics
Irrational Exuberance - Robert Shiller
A Random Walk Down Street - Burton Malkiel
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Misbehaving - Richard Thaler
Wisdom of the Crowds - James Suroweicki
Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
Behave - Robert Sapolsky
The Little Book of Behavioral Investing - James Montier
Superforecasting - Tetlock, Gardner
Before You know it - John Bargh
Valuations
Damodaran on Valuation - Aswath Damodaran
Corporate Valuation - Koller, Goedhart , Wessels
Creating shareholder Value - Alfred Rappaport
Economics
Capital in the Twenty First Century - Thomas Piketty
Das Capital - Karl Marx
Essays in Persuasion - John Maynard Keynes
Macroeconomics - Dornbusch, Fischer , Startz
Strategy
The Art of Strategy - Dixit, Nalebuff
Competitive Strategy - Michael Porter
Military History
Berlin - Antony Beevor
Stalingrad - Antony Beevor
Europe at War - Norman Davies
Is Paris Burning - Collins, Lapierre
Financial History
The Great Crash 1929 - John K Galbraith
Wealth, War and Wisdom - Barton Biggs
Bull ! - Maggie Mahar
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay
Anatomy of the Bear - Russel Napier
History
Empires of the Word - Nicholas Ostler
Guns,Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
Freedon at Midnight - Collins, Lapierre
O Jerusalem - Collins, Lapierre
The Wonder that was India - A.L. Basham
The Wonder that was India - SAA Rizvi
Early India - Romila Thapar
A History of the World in 100 Objects - Neil Macgregor
The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings - Robert Ferguson
1491: New Revelations Before Columbus- Charles C Mann
Germania - Simon Winder
A Textbook of Historiography - E Sreedharan
Others
Introvert Entrepreneur - Beth Buelow
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a world that can't stop talking - Susan Cain
Influence - Robert Cialdini
Arthashahstra by Kautilya
The Revenge of Geography - Robert D Kaplan