The Investor's Shelf — one person
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Burry taught himself value investing in public, on a 1996 Silicon Investor forum thread and in MSN Money columns; both survive only in web archives.
Book recommendations listed on their Good Books profile 7
Investing 3
Financial History 2
Fiction 1
General History 1
Silicon Investor 'Value Investing' thread, msg 1569363 (June 10, 1997) — archived 3
Investing 2
Janet Lowe
“My bias is value investing, and I highly recommend Janet Lowe's Value Investing Made Easy as a primer.”
William H. Pike
“I highly recommend Janet Lowe's Value Investing Made Easy as a primer. I'd follow that book with Why Stocks Go Up (and Down) by William Pike.”
Finance and Markets 1
Louis Lowenstein
“When you think you've got it all figured out, try Sense and Nonsense in Corporate Finance.”
MSN Money Strategy Lab journal, March 2, 2001 — archived 1
Financial History 1
Michael Lewis
“I do believe, as Michael Lewis writes in his intriguing 1989 book, "Liar's Poker," that it is unlikely that an individual unable to buck convention in one's life will suddenly be able to buck…”
MSN Money Strategy Lab — Value Doc strategy page (archived June 2001) 1
Investing 1
Benjamin Graham, David L. Dodd
“All my stock picking is 100% based on the concept of a margin of safety, as introduced to the world in the book "Security Analysis," which Graham co-authored with David Dodd.”