Charlie Munger's own recommended books, the appendix list

The 20 titles from the back of Poor Charlie's Almanack. Working through them roughly in order.

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin

Andrew Carnegie - Joseph Frazier Wall

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

he's said he had to read it twice before it clicked

Getting to Yes - Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton

Influence - Robert B. Cialdini

shows up on every business list, deservedly for once

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - David S. Landes

Three Scientists and Their Gods - Robert Wright

Only the Paranoid Survive - Andy Grove

out of print more than once, worth hunting a used copy

Models of My Life - Herbert A. Simon

The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond

Living Within Limits - Garrett Hardin

the least famous one here and probably the most argued-with

Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond

Titan - Ron Chernow

Rockefeller's biography, and a long one. worth its own weekend

F.I.A.S.C.O. - Frank Partnoy

Genome - Matt Ridley

The Warren Buffett Portfolio - Robert G. Hagstrom

more useful than another Buffett biography would be

How the Scots Invented the Modern World - Arthur Herman

Ice Age - John and Mary Gribbin

A Matter of Degrees - Gino Segre

Deep Simplicity - John Gribbin

the last one on the list and the one I haven't finished yet

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