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Investors, Traders and Gamblers

Lives, memoirs and interview collections of investors, fund managers, speculators and professional gamblers, including Buffett, Munger, Graham, Soros, Templeton and Livermore.

88 books on Investors, Traders and Gamblers, 4 of them tier 1, recommended by 35 people including Mohnish Pabrai and Andrew Wilkinson.

88 books · 8 parts · 53 experts

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  1. Market Wizards: Interviews with Top TradersJack D. Schwager, 1989
  2. Buffett: The Making of an American CapitalistRoger Lowenstein, 1995
  3. A Man for All MarketsEdward O. Thorp, 2017
  4. The Man Who Solved the MarketGregory Zuckerman, 2019
  5. The Money MastersJohn Train, 1980

The best books on Investors, Traders and Gamblers 88

Jack D. Schwager · 1989
Interviews that introduced the trend followers to a general audience.
“Marks names Schwager's interviews with top traders among his recommended reads.”Howard Marks
Roger Lowenstein · 1995
The pre-Snowball standard; OL record is the 2008 reissue.
“In Roger Lowenstein's excellent book on Warren Buffett, the author recounts the exchange between Buffett and the newly appointed president of Berkshire Hathaway”Michael Mauboussin
Edward O. Thorp · 2017
Thorp applied Kelly to blackjack, then to convertible arbitrage.
Gregory Zuckerman · 2019
The only substantial book on the firm.
Recommended byAndrew Wilkinson
John Train · 1980
Profiles of nine investors including Graham, Buffett and Fisher
“all these people really were helpful in forming and getting me involved in investing”Joel Greenblatt
Robert G. Hagstrom · 1994
Method book; OL record is a later edition.
“Cited among Greenblatt's recommended/favorite investing reads.”Joel Greenblatt
Philip L. Carret, Philip Carret · 1995
Reflections from a fund manager with a fifty-five-year record
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
John Train · 2000
Profiles of the great money managers and their differing methods.
Michael T. Kaufman · 2002
Written with Soros's cooperation; strongest on Hungary and philanthropy.
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
Spencer E. Ante · 2008
Georges Doriot and the invention of the modern VC firm.
Recommended byPatrick Collison
Carol J. Loomis · 2012
Fortune coverage by Buffett's longtime editor and friend.
“Carol Loomis, who has been invaluable to me in editing this letter since 1977, has recently authored Tap Dancing to Work”Warren Buffett
Bill Browder · 2015
Insider account by the largest foreign portfolio investor of the era, and its end.
“my favorite read of the year, Bill Browder's terrific Red Notice... I highly recommend the read”Christopher Bloomstran
Mary Childs · 2022
Bill Gross and PIMCO; no Open Library work record found for this title.
Recommended byAndrew Wilkinson
Paul Sarnoff · 1967
The first outside biography; thin, but the earliest attempt at the facts.
William Proctor · 1983
Templeton's method: buying at the point of maximum pessimism worldwide
“There are a few books - really not that many which I believe are indispensable reading for every serious investor: The Templeton Touch by William Proctor.”Peter Cundill
Mark Stevens · 1993
The only full biography; Icahn cooperated then repudiated it.
Janet Lowe · 1994
Part life, part method; based on interviews with his circle.
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
Andrew Kilpatrick · 1994
Sprawling, repeatedly expanded compendium of Buffett material.
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
George Soros · 1995
Open Library lists the short title "Soros on Soros".
Robert Slater · 1996
The only biography; stops two decades before indexing won.
Robert Slater · 1996
Journalistic and secondary; Soros declined to participate.
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
Roy R. Neuberger · 1997
Memoir of a hedged-equity pioneer's seven decades on Wall Street
“I sometimes reread older books like 'So Far, So Good - the First 94 Years,' written by Roy Neuberger in 1997. It always fascinates me how things are basically the same on Wall Street. Sound…”Francois Rochon
Janet Lowe · 2000
The only full biography; written with Munger's cooperation.
“Great book. Highly Recommended.”Mohnish Pabrai
Richard Smitten · 2001
The fullest straight biography, drawing on family sources.
Manuel P. Asensio, Jack Barth · 2001
An activist short seller's account of his campaigns.
John Rothchild · 2001
Three generations compounding a fortune through insurance stocks
“One of the great investors I've tried to learn from is Shelby Davis.”Thomas Gayner
Ben Mezrich · 2002
The MIT blackjack team; dramatised and disputed in places.
Daniel A. Strachman · 2004
Tiger Management, the firm that set the long-short template.
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
Chuck Sudetic · 2011
Authorised account of the Open Society foundations, his second career.
Christopher Risso-Gill · 2011
Peter Cundill's deep-value practice, drawn from his own journals.
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
Maneet Ahuja · 2012
Profiles of the managers who ran the strategy at scale after 2008.
Joe Carlen · 2012
The only full biography; workmanlike rather than definitive.
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
Whitney Tilson, John Heins · 2013
Open Library unreachable from this session; Wiley edition confirmed elsewhere.
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
Guy Spier · 2014
Spier on the psychology and habits behind durable value investing.
“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.”Andrew Wilkinson
Tren Griffin · 2015
Synthesis of his mental-models framework, not a life.
“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.”Andrew Wilkinson
Jeremy C. Miller · 2016
Miller reconstructs Buffett's partnership-era rules and results.
Julian Guthrie · 2019
Four women venture capitalists and the deals the industry forgot
Cornelius C. Bond · 2019
Biography of the man who named and institutionalised growth investing.
Stephen A. Schwarzman · 2019
Subtitled Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence.
Edwin Lefevre · 1925
Based on the career of broker John K. Wing.
Irving Kahn, Robert D. Milne · 1977
Short monograph by a student and colleague.
Benjamin Graham · 1996
Published posthumously; edited by Seymour Chatman.
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
Peter J.Tanous · 1997
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
John Neff, S. L. Mintz · 1999
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
Richard Smitten · 1999
Smitten's first Livermore volume, largely superseded by his 2001 biography.
Nolan Dalla · 2005
Recommended byJason Calacanis
Tom Rubython · 2015
Popular retelling; foreword by Paul Tudor Jones.
William Green, Michael O'Brien · 2015
Green wrote and edited the 33 profiles; O'Brien supplied the photographs. Open Library unreachable
Recommended byGuy Spier

Experts 53

The people who wrote this page's books, and the people who recommend them.

Authors 21

JL
Janet Lowewrote 5 books here
JT
John Trainwrote 3 books here
George Soroswrote 2 books here
JD
Jack D. Schwagerwrote 2 books here
Jim Rogerswrote 2 books hereBenjamin Grahamwrote 1 book here
EO
Edward O. Thorpwrote 1 book here
Edwin Lefevrewrote 1 book here
RL
Roger Lowensteinwrote 1 book here
Warren Buffettwrote 1 book here
GZ
Gregory Zuckermanwrote 1 book here
John Neffwrote 1 book here
Show all 21

Recommenders 35

MP
Mohnish Pabrairecommends 58 books here
AW
Andrew Wilkinsonrecommends 6 books here
CB
Christopher Bloomstranrecommends 5 books here
Howard Marksrecommends 3 books hereWarren Buffettrecommends 3 books hereGuy Spierrecommends 3 books herePatrick Collisonrecommends 3 books here
PC
Peter Cundillrecommends 3 books here
JG
Joel Greenblattrecommends 2 books here
SP
Shane Parrishrecommends 2 books here
Bill Gatesrecommends 2 books hereJason Calacanisrecommends 2 books here
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