About a month ago, my wife and I made an unpleasant discovery. The small room where we had temporarily stored memorabilia from the kids and my investment books during the move had become damp.
The books hadn’t gotten directly wet, but due to the moisture in the room over some time, almost all of them became moldy, resulting in a very strong odor.
I’m still trying to save my old edition of Poor Charlie's Almanack. I bought the new edition last year in Omaha during the Berkshire Meeting.
While sorting through and discarding more than 90 books, I made a list of the ones I want to repurchase—maybe they’ll interest you too.
While sorting through and unfortunately discarding more than 90 books, I also made a list of the ones I plan to repurchase.
In other words, these are the books I find worth spending money on twice, even though I've already gained the knowledge from them. Keep in mind that these nearly 100 books were already a selection from before the move, when we had given away some as well.
Fortunately, a few books could still be saved, though it was limited to these seven, which I would also repurchase if needed:
Valuation: McKinsey
Warren Buffett Speaks: Janet Lowe
Buffett the making of an American Capitalist: Roger Lowenstein
Beating the Street: Peter Lynch
The Snowball: Alice Schroeder
Het beleggersbrein: Luc Kroeze
Soul in the Game: Vitaliy Katsenelson
These are mainly older books, as I started reading 25 years ago. Recommendations for more recent good investment books, biographies, or business stories are always welcome.
Books I’m buying again (in a random order):
The little book that beats the market: Joel Greenblatt
You can be a stock market genius: Joel Greenblatt
The most important thing Illuminated: Howard Marks
Richer, wiser, happier: William Green
The education of a value investor: Guy Spier
De kaviaarformule: Luc Kroeze (In English known as The Art of Quality Investing
(In English known as The Art of Quality Investing)
The intelligent investor: Benjamin Graham (Engelse editie)
Common stocks and uncommon profits: Philip A. Fisher
The essays of Warren Buffett: Lawrence A. Cunningham
The Joys of Compounding: Gautam Baid
One up on Wall Street: Peter Lynch
The Warren Buffett way: Robert Hagstrom
Thinking fast and slow: Daniel Kahneman
(ook in het Nederlands beschikbaar onder Ons Feilbare Denken)
Narratives and Numbers: Aswath Damodaran
The Dhando investor: Mohnish Pabrai
Acquirers multiple: Tobias Carlisle
Contrarian investment strategies: David Dreman
Value investing from Graham to Buffett and beyond: Bruce Greenwald
The theory of investment value: John Burr
Checklist manifesto: Atul Gawande
When genius failed: Roger Lowenstein
Financial shenanigans: Howard Schilit
Thanks for the list!
Excellent list. I have read most of them. I hope you can recover and replace them. The new version of Poor Charlie’s Almanack is fabulous too.