VALUEx Book Recommendations 2015-2016

Our two book recommendations are:

Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street

1920-1938 by John Brooks

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humanity by Yuval Harari

The most recommended books

4 MENTIONS• Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin• Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock • The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike

3 MENTIONS• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham • The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Published in 2015:• Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin• Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock • Phishing for Phools by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Techniques for Retraining your Brain by James Satterfield (lecture series) • Doing Good Better by William Macaskill • Es kommt der Tag, da bist Du frei by Viktor E. Frankl • Goal based Wealth Management by Jean Brunel• Hubris by Michael Hart • Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler• The Charisma Myth by Greg Adenauer • The Courage to Act by Ben Bernanke • The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard • The Road to Character by David Brooks • Work Rules by Laszlo Bock

Book recommendations by each Individual:

PAUL TSCHISCHIK • Letters to Shareholders by Warren Buffett• Financial Shenanigans by Howard M. Schilit • Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

THOMAS HAARMANN • The Dhandho Investor by Mohnish Pabrai

KANAV SHARMA • Dream Big by Cristiane Correa

JOSE RODRIGUEZ ROTH • The Little Book of Sideways Market by Vitaliy N. Katsenelson• A Financial History of Western Europe by Charles Poor Kindleberger• Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin• Family Life: A Novel by Akhil Sharma

TOMISLAV KOVALISKO • Ray Dalio’s Principles by Larry Holzwarth• Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charles T. Munger• Torah with Rashi’s commentary• Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of the crowds by Charles Mackay

PETER LUCAS • The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World by Mark Spitznagel

RAHUL PARIKH • Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb• The Little Book of Valuation by Aswath Damodaran• Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin

MARCELLO SOLIDA • The Birth of Plenty by William J. Bernstein

QI WEN • Business Adventures by John Brooks• The New Buffettology by Mary Buffett and David Clark

SEAN SACKS • Everyday Holiness by Alan Morinis • Raising Your Child’s Financial IQ by Robert Kiyosaki

HENRIQUE LAMIM • Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren J. Griffin• The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks• Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman• Value Investing: From Graham to Buffet and Beyond by Bruce C.N Greenwald

MICHAEL LEWELLEN • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

VIET-DUNG DUONG • Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner• Mr Market Miscalculates by James Grant• The Vulture Investors by Hilary Rosenberg• Security Analysis Sixth Edition by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd

PAVEL KADERA • The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike

IDAN GENAD • Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher• Endgame by John Mauldin• One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch

JIN WANG • The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

RAJESH VORA • The Intuitive Investor by Jason Apollo Voss

NHU ANH MAI • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck• How will you measure your life by Clayton M. Christensen and James Allworth • Seeking wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin

MICHAŁ SUJKA • The Power of Gold by Peter L. Bernstein

DENIS KOSOR • Small Giants by Bo Burlingham• The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike• The Dhandho Investor by Mohnish Pabrai

ARTURO PINA • E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction by David Foster Wallace• A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin

CHIN-KAI YEH • Quality of Earnings by Thornton O’Glove

TED BRIGGS • Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

HARMAN PATIAL • Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity by John Gribbin

BRIAN HERTZOG • Influence the Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini• The Social Animal by David Brooks • Anything You Want by Derek Sivers• Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugene Harrigel• Relentless by Tim Grover • The Road to Character by David Brooks

JAIME ORTEGA SUCRE • The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard• Confusion de confusiones by José de la Vega (oldest book written on stock exchange)

DAVID WOLTERS • The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham• Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock• Influence the Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

RICHARD HUMMEL • The (Mis)Behavior of Markets by Benoit B. Mandelbrot

ROBERT MIKLO • Pioneering Portfolio Management by David F. Swensen

EZRA CRANGLE • Deep Value Investing: Finding Bargain Shares with Big Potential by Jeroen Bos• Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

ERIC BURNSIDE • Les Schwab: Pride in Performance by Les Schwab• The Perfect Store: Inside Ebay by Adam Cohen• The Loyalty Effect by Frederick Reichheld• How Google Works by Eric Schmidt• Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos

NICOLA PERALI • Goals-Based Wealth Management by Jean Brunel• Phishing for Phools by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller• Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler• Money and Power by William D. Cohan

JONATHAN LIM • Good to Great by Jim Collins • Build, Borrow or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma by Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell

ANDREW CORRIE • The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler

EUSTIS CORRIGAN • How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

ADAM BLOCK • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck• The Management Myth by Matthew Stewart

ROBERT KARAS • Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin

LUKAS NEELY • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel• Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes

JONATHAN PEREZ • Business Adventures by John Brooks• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, • David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell• Made to Stick by Chip Heath

MATEJ SALAJ • Rule #1 by Phil Town • How to Create and Manage a Hedge Fund by Stuart A. McCrary • Money: Master The Game by Anthony Robbins

TIM MELVIN • Seeking Wisdom from Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin• Speculative Contagion by Frank Martin

JONATHAN HONDA • Sovereign by David Roche

MYRNA I. QUINONES-MESSERLI • The Charisma Myth by Greg Adenauer• Dead Companies Walking by Scott Fearon and Jesse Powell

MIGUEL DE JUAN FERNÁNDEZ • Web of Debt by Ellen Hodgson

TOBY SHUTE • The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee• The Unwinding by George Packer• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl• The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs

JUSTIN FOEPPEL • The Social Animal by David Brooks• Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely• Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R Covey• The Diamond Cutter by Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson• The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

CARLO GIOJA • A Blueprint for Better Banking by Niels Kroner• The Great Wave by David Hackett Fischer• Give and Take by Adam Grant• Evening in the Palace of Reason by James R. Gaines

KRISHNAN SUBRAHMANYAM • The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike

NING DUANMU • Risk Intelligence by Dylan Evans• Work Rules by Laszlo Bock• The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman• Phishing for Phools by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller• Art of War by Sun Tzu

JASON YIYANG ZHANG • Quality of Earnings by Thornton L. O’glove

OLIVER BLUM • Security Analysis Sixth Edition by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd

JASON LINCOLN • The Manual of Ideas by John Mihaljevic• The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks• Innovators Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen

MICHAEL DEMARIA • Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

THOMAS MICHAELIS • Creating a Learning Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald

SAM NAMIRI • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel

DANIEL MEYER • Deep Value by Tobias E. Carlisle

NAVIN KRISHNAN • Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman• Deep Value Investing: Finding bargain shares with big potential by Jeroen Bos• The Most Important Thing Illuminated by Howard Marks• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher

CONNOR O’MARA • The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike

PAUL MASI • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Techniques for Retraining your Brain by James Satterfield (lecture series)

RODRIGO COBOS • Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb

PRZEMYSLAW KULA • The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey• Pop: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays

JEFFREY FRIEDMAN • Strategic Logic by Carlos Jarillo

MICHAEL COOK • Raised Healthy Wealthy & Wise by Coventry Edwards-Pitt

ARNO GRÜTER • Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner

LARS CHRISTIAN HAUGEN • Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

MARTIN CONDER • In The Plex by Steven Levy

CHRIS COCHELLA • Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner• Getting to Plan B by John Mullins

FREDERICK MYERS• Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

SHAI DARDASHTI • Ubiquity by Mark Buchanan

HORST BROCKMUELLER • Doing Good Better by William Macaskill• Die Schrecklichen Kinder der Neuzeit by Peter Sloterdijk

THOMAS SCHEIRLYNCK • Stardust – The Cosmic Recycling of Stars, Planets and People by John Gribbin

SAMUEL WEBER • The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris

DAN SHEEHAN • Hubris by Michael Hart• Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner

MILO JONES • The Improbable War by Christopher Coker• The Moon and the Ghetto by Richard R. Nelson

BARBARA C. WOLFF • The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason• The Congress of Vienna by Brian E. Vick

CHRISTIAN DECKART • The Story of American Business by Nancy F. Koehn and New York Times Company• How to Measure Anything by Douglas W. Hubbard• Es kommt der Tag, da bist Du frei by Viktor E. Frankl• Mehr als eine Handvoll Worte by Regine Fehlings de Acurio

ALEX LOPEZ • Titan the Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow

BRAD GILLESPIE • The Courage to Act by Ben Bernanke• The Money Game by Adam Smith• Moats: The Competitive Advantage by Bud Labitan• Dream Big by Cristiane Correa