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Investing reading list

The Investor's Bookshelf

The core books for learning to value businesses and allocate capital wisely.

Who this is for

Anyone serious about investing or thinking in terms of value, risk, and the long term.

The list

1 · Books

The Intelligent Investor

Start here: margin of safety, Mr Market, and the temperament that underlies everything.

2 · Books

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Munger's latticework of mental models — the thinking behind the investing.

3 · Books

The Snowball

See the principles compound across a whole life at Berkshire.

4 · Books

Good to Great

How disciplined companies sustain greatness — useful for judging what to own.

5 · People

Warren Buffett

The profile that ties the ideas to the practitioner.

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