Investing is hard.
But thankfully there's an incredible library of content out there to become more informed about business, investing, yourself, and the world. Below is a list of resources I've come across over the years. If I've forgotten a resource, or if you have general feedback, please let me know here.
Resources in bold are ones I consider the classics.
1981 The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder Link
1984 The Little Kingdom Michael Mortiz Link
1991 Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey Moore Link
1992 Hard Drive James Wallace & Jim Erickson Link
1995 The Road Ahead Bill Gates Link
1995 The HP Way David Packard Link
1997 The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison Mike Wilson Link
1997 The Innovators Dilemma Clayton Christensen Link
2000 The New New Thing Michael Lewis Link
2000 eBoys Randall Stross Link
2002 Engines that Move Markets Alisdair Nairn Link
2002 Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital Carlota Perez Link
2003 Softwar Matthew Symonds Link
2003 The Innovators Solution C Christensen & M Raynor Link
2004 The PayPal Wars Eric Jackson Link
2009 Behind the Cloud Marc Benioff & Carlye Adler Link
2010 Delivering Happiness Tony Hsieh Link
2011 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Link
2011 The Lean Startup Eric Ries Link
2013 Hatching Twitter Nick Bilton Link
2013 The Everything Store Brad Stone Link
2014 How Google Works Eric Schmidt & J Rosenberg Link
2014 The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz Link
2014 The Innovators Walter Isaacson Link
2014 Zero to One Peter Thiel & Blake Masters Link
2014 The Intel Trinity Michael Malone Link
2015 Elon Musk Ashlee Vance Link
2015 Startupland Mikkel Svane & Carlye Adler Link
2016 Alibaba Duncan Clark Link
2016 Chaos Monkeys Antonio Martinez Link
2016 The JD.com Story Li Zhigang Link
2017 Angel Jason Calacanis Link
2017 Hit Refresh Satya Nadella Link
2019 Spotify Teardown Various Link
2019 That Will Never Work Marc Randolph Link
2020 No Filter Sarah Frier Link
2020 No Rules Rules Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer Link
2020 Samsung Rising Geoffrey Cain Link
2021 Genius Makers Cade Metz Link
1954 The Practice of Management Peter Drucker Link
1963 Confessions of an Advertising Man David Ogilvy Link
1963 My Years with General Motors Alfred Sloan Link
1963 Ogilvy on Advertising David Ogilvy Link
1980 Competitive Strategy Michael Porter Link
1983 High Output Management Andy Grove Link
1983 Made in America Sam Walton Link
1984 Going for Broke Michael Moritz & B. Seaman Link
1985 Competitive Advantage Michael Porter Link
1990 Barbarians at the Gate Bryan Burrough & John Helyar Link
1990 The House of Morgan Ron Chernow Link
1991 The Prize Daniel Yergin Link
1992 Built to Last Jim Collins Link
1996 Only the Paranoid Survive Andy Grove Link
1997 Bloomberg by Bloomberg Michael Bloomberg Link
1998 Titan Ron Chernow Link
1998 Nuts! Kevin Freiberg & Jackie Freiberg Link
1999 Built from Scratch Bernie Marcus & Arthur Blank Link
1999 The Trust Susan Tifft & Alex Jones Link
2001 Good to Great Jim Collins Link
2002 Cable Cowboy Mark Robichaux Link
2002 Who Says Elephants Can't Dance Lou Gerstner Link
2003 The Smartest Guys in the Room Bethany McLean Link
2006 Setting the Table Danny Meyer Link
2006 Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox Charles Ellis Link
2006 Walt Disney Neal Gabler Link
2008 The Partnership Charles Ellis Link
2009 The King of Madison Avenue Kenneth Roman Link
2010 The Lords of Strategy Walter Kiechel Link
2010 The Man who Sold America Jeffrey Cruishank, Arthur Schultz Link
2011 Onward Howard Shultz & Joanne Gordon Link
2012 The Outsiders William Thorndike Link
2013 Dream Big Cristiane Correa Link
2013 What it Takes Charles Ellis Link
2014 Creativity, Inc. Ed Catmull Link
2016 7 Powers Hamilton Helmer Link
2016 Powerhouse James Miller Link
2016 Shoe Dog Phil Knight Link
2019 Kochland Christopher Leonard Link
2019 The Ride of a Lifetime Robert Iger Link
2019 Who is Michael Ovitz Michael Ovitz Link
2021 Becoming Trader Joe Joe Coulombe Link
1923 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefevre Link
1934 Security Analysis Benjamin Graham, David Dodd Link
1949 The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham Link
1960 Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits Philip Fischer Link
1967 Beat the Market Edward Thorpe Link
1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street Burton Malkiel Link
1973 The Go Go Years John Brooks Link
1980 The Money Masters John Train Link
1987 The Alchemy of Finance George Soros Link
1989 Liars Poker Michael Lewis Link
1989 One Up on Wall Street Peter Lynch Link
1991 Margin of Safety Seth Klarman Link
1993 Beating the Street Peter Lynch Link
1994 Stocks for the Long Run Jeremy Siegel Link
1995 Soros on Soros George Soros Link
1996 Against the Gods Peter Bernstein Link
1998 Winning the Losers Game Charles Ellis Link
2000 Irrational Exuberance Robert Shiller Link
2000 Pioneering Portfolio Management David Swensen Link
2000 When Genius Failed Roger Lowenstein Link
2004 Capital Charles Ellis Link
2004 The Misbehavior of Markets Beniot Mandelbrot Link
2005 Poor Charlie's Almanack Peter Kaufman Link
2005 Unconventional Success David Swensen Link
2007 The Dhando Investor Mohnish Pabrai Link
2007 The Little Book of Common Sense Investing John Bogle Link
2008 The Snowball Alice Schroeder Link
2009 The Greatest Trade Ever Gregory Zuckerman Link
2009 This Time is Different Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff Link
2010 King of Capital David Carey, John Morris Link
2011 The Most Important Thing Howard Marks Link
2012 Excess Returns Frederik Vanhaverbeke Link
2012 Market Wizards Jack Schwager Link
2012 Hedge Fund Market Wizards Jack Schwager Link
2014 Flash Boys Michael Lewis Link
2014 Zeckendorf William Zeckendorf Link
2015 Capital Returns Edward Chancellor Link
2017 Am I Being too Subtle? Sam Zell Link
2017 A Man for all Markets Edward Thorpe Link
2016 So You Want to Start a Hedge Fund Ted Seides Link
2018 Letters to Shareholders Warren Buffett Link
2018 Mastering the Market Cycle Howard Marks Link
2019 The Man who Solved the Markets Gregory Zuckerman Link
2019 What it Takes Stephen Schwarzman Link
1954 The Great Crash of 1929 John Kenneth Galbraith Link
1992 Changing Fortunes Paul Volcker, Toyoo Gyohten Link
2005 The Tycoons Charles Morris Link
2007 Age of Turbulence Alan Greenspan Link
2010 Too Big to Fail Andrew Ross Sorkin Link
2014 Capital in the 21st Century Thomas Piketty Link
2014 Stress Test Timothy Geithner Link
2015 The Courage to Act Ben Bernanke Link
2016 The End of Alchemy Mervyn King Link
2017 A History of the United States in Five Crashes Scott Nations Link
2018 Big Debt Crises Ray Dalio Link
2018 The Perfectionists Simon Winchester Link
1974 The Power Broker Robert Caro Link
2004 Boyd Robert Coram Link
2005 Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Link
2012 How will you Measure your Life? Clayton Christensen Link
2015 Superforecasting Philip Tetlock Link
2016 Let My People Go Surfing Yvon Chouinard Link
2016 Never Split the Difference Chris Voss Link
2017 Principles Ray Dalio Link