Contents
- 1 Books That BuildA Sharper Mind.
- 1.1 Each Domain Has One or Two BooksThat Beat the Rest.
- 1.1.1 Learn to Compound Patiently.
- 1.1.2 Understand Your Own Soil.
- 1.1.3 Read the Numbers Behind the Story.
- 1.1.4 Master Risk Before Reward.
- 1.1.5 Spot Your Own Blind Spots.
- 1.1.6 Think Like an Owner, Not a Buyer.
- 1.1.7 See the Larger Machine.
- 1.1.8 Borrow Decades of Hard-Won Wisdom.
- 1.1.9 Build Wealth You Actually Keep.
- 1.1.10 Respect What You Can’t Control.
- 1.2 Ten Shelves, One Library.
- 1.3 Investing & Stock Markets
- 1.3.1 The Psychology of Money
- 1.3.2 The Intelligent Investor
- 1.3.3 One Up on Wall Street
- 1.3.4 Common Stocks & Uncommon Profits
- 1.3.5 Beating the Street
- 1.3.6 A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- 1.3.7 The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
- 1.3.8 Stocks for the Long Run
- 1.3.9 Margin of Safety
- 1.3.10 The Most Important Thing
- 1.3.11 Mastering the Market Cycle
- 1.3.12 You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
- 1.3.13 The Little Book That Beats the Market
- 1.3.14 100 Baggers
- 1.3.15 Quality Investing
- 1.3.16 The Outsiders
- 1.3.17 Buffettology
- 1.3.18 The Warren Buffett Way
- 1.3.19 The Dhandho Investor
- 1.4 Markets & Investing — Local Editions
- 1.4.1 Let's Talk Money
- 1.4.2 Coffee Can Investing
- 1.4.3 Diamonds in the Dust
- 1.4.4 The Unusual Billionaires
- 1.4.5 Behold the Leviathan
- 1.4.6 Value Investing & Behavioral Finance
- 1.4.7 Stocks to Riches
- 1.4.8 Bulls, Bears and Other Beasts
- 1.4.9 How to Avoid Loss and Earn Consistently
- 1.4.10 Money Wise — The Aam Aadmi's Guide
- 1.5 Accounting & Financial Statements
- 1.5.1 Financial Shenanigans
- 1.5.2 Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements
- 1.5.3 Financial Intelligence
- 1.5.4 The Essays of Warren Buffett
- 1.5.5 Valuation (McKinsey)
- 1.5.6 Accounting Made Simple
- 1.5.7 The Interpretation of Financial Statements
- 1.5.8 Damodaran on Valuation
- 1.5.9 The Little Book of Valuation
- 1.5.10 Narrative and Numbers
- 1.5.11 Investment Banking
- 1.5.12 Quality of Earnings
- 1.5.13 Creative Cash Flow Reporting
- 1.5.14 Financial Statement Analysis
- 1.5.15 The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing
- 1.6 Trading, TA & Derivatives
- 1.6.1 Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
- 1.6.2 Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques
- 1.6.3 How to Make Money in Stocks
- 1.6.4 Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard
- 1.6.5 Options as a Strategic Investment
- 1.6.6 Option Volatility & Pricing
- 1.6.7 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- 1.6.8 Market Wizards
- 1.6.9 The New Market Wizards
- 1.6.10 Hedge Fund Market Wizards
- 1.6.11 Stock Market Wizards
- 1.6.12 Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns
- 1.6.13 Mastering the Trade
- 1.6.14 Way of the Turtle
- 1.6.15 Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom
- 1.6.16 The Disciplined Trader
- 1.6.17 Trading for a Living
- 1.7 Psychology & Behaviour
- 1.7.1 Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 1.7.2 Trading in the Zone
- 1.7.3 Predictably Irrational
- 1.7.4 Misbehaving
- 1.7.5 Nudge
- 1.7.6 Influence
- 1.7.7 Pre-Suasion
- 1.7.8 Atomic Habits
- 1.7.9 Deep Work
- 1.7.10 The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- 1.7.11 Poor Charlie's Almanack
- 1.7.12 The Art of Thinking Clearly
- 1.7.13 Fooled by Randomness
- 1.7.14 The Black Swan
- 1.7.15 Antifragile
- 1.7.16 Skin in the Game
- 1.7.17 Mindset
- 1.8 Business, Startups & Strategy
- 1.8.1 Zero to One
- 1.8.2 The Lean Startup
- 1.8.3 Good to Great
- 1.8.4 Built to Last
- 1.8.5 How the Mighty Fall
- 1.8.6 Competitive Strategy
- 1.8.7 Blue Ocean Strategy
- 1.8.8 The Innovator's Dilemma
- 1.8.9 Crossing the Chasm
- 1.8.10 Shoe Dog
- 1.8.11 Sam Walton: Made in America
- 1.8.12 The Everything Store
- 1.8.13 Amazon Unbound
- 1.8.14 Hard Thing About Hard Things
- 1.8.15 High Output Management
- 1.8.16 Measure What Matters
- 1.8.17 The Mom Test
- 1.8.18 Originals
- 1.9 Economics & Macro
- 1.9.1 Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- 1.9.2 Principles: Life and Work
- 1.9.3 The Big Debt Crises
- 1.9.4 The Ascent of Money
- 1.9.5 This Time Is Different
- 1.9.6 Lords of Finance
- 1.9.7 Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- 1.9.8 The Wealth of Nations
- 1.9.9 Capitalism and Freedom
- 1.9.10 Basic Economics
- 1.9.11 Economics in One Lesson
- 1.9.12 Naked Economics
- 1.9.13 Freakonomics
- 1.9.14 Why Nations Fail
- 1.10 Biographies & Letters
- 1.10.1 The Snowball: Warren Buffett
- 1.10.2 Damn Right!
- 1.10.3 Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor
- 1.10.4 Tap Dancing to Work
- 1.10.5 Steve Jobs
- 1.10.6 Elon Musk
- 1.10.7 Einstein: His Life and Universe
- 1.10.8 The Innovators
- 1.10.9 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- 1.10.10 Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller
- 1.10.11 Hamilton
- 1.10.12 Richer, Wiser, Happier
- 1.10.13 Big Mistakes
- 1.11 Personal Finance & Wealth
- 1.11.1 Rich Dad Poor Dad
- 1.11.2 The Millionaire Next Door
- 1.11.3 Your Money or Your Life
- 1.11.4 I Will Teach You to Be Rich
- 1.11.5 The Simple Path to Wealth
- 1.11.6 The Total Money Makeover
- 1.11.7 The Richest Man in Babylon
- 1.11.8 Think and Grow Rich
- 1.11.9 Your Money & Your Brain
- 1.11.10 Die With Zero
- 1.11.11 The Geometry of Wealth
- 1.12 Risk, Probability & Quant Finance
- 1.13 Read More. Pay Nothing.
- 1.14 One Good Book a Month. For a Decade.
- 1.1 Each Domain Has One or Two BooksThat Beat the Rest.
Books That Build
A Sharper Mind.
A hand-picked library for serious students of money — investing, trading, accounting, psychology, business and macro. Every title links directly to its Amazon page in ₹.
Each Domain Has One or Two Books
That Beat the Rest.
Most finance books are noise. The ones below are the canonical works in their domains — the books that working investors, fund managers, accountants and traders keep coming back to. Read across all ten domains and you’ll have a mental model for almost every money decision life will throw at you.
Learn to Compound Patiently.
Investing books teach you the most underrated skill in finance — doing nothing. You learn margin of safety, intrinsic value, and why most “hot tips” are actually expensive lessons in disguise.
Graham · Lynch · Marks · KlarmanUnderstand Your Own Soil.
Imported wisdom only goes so far. Books written for our markets cover the specific tax regimes, regulatory frameworks and listed companies you’ll actually be investing in — with ₹ examples, not dollar ones.
Mukherjea · Parikh · Halan · MehraRead the Numbers Behind the Story.
Every business is a story told in three statements. Once you can read a balance sheet and smell aggressive accounting, you stop relying on news anchors and start forming your own opinions on companies.
Schilit · Damodaran · McKinsey · GrahamMaster Risk Before Reward.
The best trading books are 80% psychology and risk management, 20% setups. They teach you that survival is the only edge that compounds — and that position sizing matters more than entry timing.
Schwager · Murphy · McMillan · MinerviniSpot Your Own Blind Spots.
You can know every financial concept and still lose money to your own biases. These are the books that have rewired how Nobel laureates, fund managers and behavioural economists think about decisions under uncertainty.
Kahneman · Thaler · Taleb · MungerThink Like an Owner, Not a Buyer.
If you own a stock you own a slice of a business — so think like a builder of one. These books decode moats, unit economics, strategy and the operator mindset that separates good companies from great ones.
Thiel · Porter · Collins · ChristensenSee the Larger Machine.
Markets don’t exist in a vacuum. Interest rates, debt cycles and central-bank policy quietly set the rules for every portfolio. The books on this shelf are how you start reading those rules.
Dalio · Ferguson · Sowell · FriedmanBorrow Decades of Hard-Won Wisdom.
Reading the biography of Buffett, Munger, Rockefeller or Jobs gives you 50 years of pattern-matching in a weekend. These are the cheapest mentors you’ll ever find.
Schroeder · Isaacson · Chernow · GreenBuild Wealth You Actually Keep.
Beyond markets — earning well, spending intentionally and avoiding the lifestyle traps that quietly eat 60% of every pay rise. These books are about the boring, durable habits that build real wealth.
Kiyosaki · Sethi · Stanley · PerkinsRespect What You Can’t Control.
Probability, tail risk and the geometry of compounding — the books that teach you why one bad year can erase a decade, and how the world’s best risk-takers stay in the game.
Bernstein · Lewis · Taleb · IlmanenTen Shelves, One Library.
Investing & Stock Markets
Build wealth with clarity — from beginner classics to the deep value canon.
The Psychology of Money
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The Intelligent Investor
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One Up on Wall Street
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Common Stocks & Uncommon Profits
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Beating the Street
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
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Stocks for the Long Run
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Margin of Safety
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The Most Important Thing
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Mastering the Market Cycle
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You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
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The Little Book That Beats the Market
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100 Baggers
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Quality Investing
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The Outsiders
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Buffettology
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The Warren Buffett Way
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The Dhandho Investor
View on Amazon →Markets & Investing — Local Editions
Books written for our markets — taxes, regulation, and listed equities at home.
Let's Talk Money
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Coffee Can Investing
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Diamonds in the Dust
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The Unusual Billionaires
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Behold the Leviathan
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Value Investing & Behavioral Finance
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Stocks to Riches
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Bulls, Bears and Other Beasts
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How to Avoid Loss and Earn Consistently
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Money Wise — The Aam Aadmi's Guide
View on Amazon →Accounting & Financial Statements
Read a balance sheet, smell aggressive accounting, and value any business.
Financial Shenanigans
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Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements
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Financial Intelligence
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The Essays of Warren Buffett
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Valuation (McKinsey)
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Accounting Made Simple
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The Interpretation of Financial Statements
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Damodaran on Valuation
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The Little Book of Valuation
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Narrative and Numbers
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Investment Banking
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Quality of Earnings
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Creative Cash Flow Reporting
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Financial Statement Analysis
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The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing
View on Amazon →Trading, TA & Derivatives
Charts, options, and the operator mindset — from candlestick basics to volatility.
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
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Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques
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How to Make Money in Stocks
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Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard
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Options as a Strategic Investment
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Option Volatility & Pricing
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
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Market Wizards
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The New Market Wizards
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Hedge Fund Market Wizards
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Stock Market Wizards
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Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns
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Mastering the Trade
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Way of the Turtle
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Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom
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The Disciplined Trader
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Trading for a Living
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Why we misjudge, panic, and FOMO — and how to think more clearly.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Trading in the Zone
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Predictably Irrational
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Misbehaving
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Nudge
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Influence
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Pre-Suasion
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Atomic Habits
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Deep Work
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Poor Charlie's Almanack
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The Art of Thinking Clearly
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Fooled by Randomness
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The Black Swan
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Antifragile
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Skin in the Game
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Mindset
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Build companies, study moats, and learn from operators who actually did it.
Zero to One
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The Lean Startup
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Good to Great
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Built to Last
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How the Mighty Fall
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Competitive Strategy
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Blue Ocean Strategy
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The Innovator's Dilemma
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Crossing the Chasm
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Shoe Dog
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Sam Walton: Made in America
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The Everything Store
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Amazon Unbound
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Hard Thing About Hard Things
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High Output Management
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Measure What Matters
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The Mom Test
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Originals
View on Amazon →Economics & Macro
Markets do not exist in a vacuum — interest rates, debt, and how the world really works.
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
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Principles: Life and Work
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The Big Debt Crises
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The Ascent of Money
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This Time Is Different
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Lords of Finance
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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The Wealth of Nations
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Capitalism and Freedom
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Basic Economics
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Economics in One Lesson
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Naked Economics
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Freakonomics
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Why Nations Fail
View on Amazon →Biographies & Letters
Investing wisdom hidden inside the lives of the people who built fortunes.
The Snowball: Warren Buffett
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Damn Right!
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Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor
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Tap Dancing to Work
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Steve Jobs
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Elon Musk
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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The Innovators
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller
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Hamilton
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Richer, Wiser, Happier
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Big Mistakes
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Beyond the markets — earn well, spend well, and keep what you build.
Rich Dad Poor Dad
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The Millionaire Next Door
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Your Money or Your Life
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I Will Teach You to Be Rich
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The Simple Path to Wealth
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The Total Money Makeover
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The Richest Man in Babylon
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Think and Grow Rich
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Your Money & Your Brain
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Die With Zero
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The Geometry of Wealth
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The math behind the markets — risk, returns, and the geometry of compounding.
Against the Gods
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Capital Ideas
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When Genius Failed
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Liar's Poker
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Flash Boys
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The Big Short
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Boomerang
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Going Infinite
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More Money Than God
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Quantitative Value
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Expected Returns
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