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An Unconventional Book List in the Spirit of Charlie Munger
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Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
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Timothy Ferriss (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 44,297 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Robert B. Cialdini (Goodreads Author)
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life
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Caroline Webb (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 3,497 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Robert B. Cialdini (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 172,610 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger
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The 48 Laws of Power
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Robert Greene (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 214,620 ratings
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The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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Moneyball
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When Breath Becomes Air
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Ego Is the Enemy
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Ryan Holiday (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 85,613 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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10% Happier
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Dan Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 113,951 ratings
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Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger
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4.16 avg rating — 2,888 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution
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4.35 avg rating — 1,016 ratings
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Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
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4.02 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
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3.96 avg rating — 3,868 ratings
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Models of My Life
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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Judgment In Managerial Decision Making
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Max H. Bazerman (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Getting It Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge
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3.52 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 92,920 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 22,368 ratings
score: 148,
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
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3.94 avg rating — 6,663 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 199,062 ratings
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Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner
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3.69 avg rating — 124 ratings
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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Steven Levy (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 29,943 ratings
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Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
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Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader
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3.92 avg rating — 2,240 ratings
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Conspiracy of Fools
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Kurt Eichenwald (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 6,549 ratings
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Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going
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4.11 avg rating — 174 ratings
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No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality
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4.13 avg rating — 431 ratings
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The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century
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3.82 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
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3.97 avg rating — 12,353 ratings
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Latticework: The New Investing
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4.14 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
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The Detective and the Investor: Uncovering Investment Techniques from the Legendary Sleuths
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3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career
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3.98 avg rating — 10,273 ratings
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
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4.28 avg rating — 42,855 ratings
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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3.94 avg rating — 30,453 ratings
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The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
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Gregory Zuckerman (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 7,421 ratings
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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4.30 avg rating — 168,828 ratings
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
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4.14 avg rating — 89,351 ratings
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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns
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4.15 avg rating — 25,361 ratings
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Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett
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4.07 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
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3.82 avg rating — 63,289 ratings
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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The Power of Persuasion: How We're Bought and Sold
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3.88 avg rating — 438 ratings
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University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting
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Daniel Pecaut (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 3,487 ratings
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The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
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The Last Lecture
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 148,332 ratings
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The Origin of Species / The Voyage of the Beagle
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Darwin's Blind Spot: The Role of Living Interactions in Evolution
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Frank Ryan (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 190,074 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 41,322 ratings
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Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information
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Ice Age: The Theory That Came In From The Cold!
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A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe
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How the Irish Became White
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Andrew Carnegie
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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
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Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
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The Warren Buffett Portfolio
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
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Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It
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Benjamin Franklin Volume 1
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Benjamin Franklin 2
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On the Genealogy of Morals
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
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Civilization and Its Discontents
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The Denial of Death
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