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Twenty books you should have read by now:

1. The Outsiders by William Thorndike.

2. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

3. Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter

4. The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence by Benoit Mandelbrot

5. Influence by Robert Cialdini
6-9, The Success Equation, Expectations Investing, Think Twice and More than you Know by Michael Mauboussin.

10. Poor Charlie's Almanack by Peter Kaufman

11. Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin

12. The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb

13. Andrew Carnegie by Joseph Wall
14. A Man for All Markets by Ed Thorp

15. Models of My Life by Hebert Simon

16. Einstein by Walter Isaacson

17. Steve Jobs by Isaacson

18. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Feynman

19. When Genius Failed by Lowenstein

20. The Essays of Warren Buffett by Cunningham
Five more:

21. Complexity, Melanie Mitchell

22. Grit, Angela Duckworth

23. Mindset by Carol Dweck

24. Getting to Yes, Fisher and Ury

23. Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke google.com/amp/s/25iq.com…
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