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List of books I have read
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The books are unsorted and listed in random order. Reading interests span a wide variety of subjects…
* The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)
* Puzzles of Finance : Six Practical Problems and Their Remarkable Solutions (Wiley Investment)
* Currency Strategy: A Practitioner's Guide to Currency Trading, Hedging and Forecasting
* Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics)
* House of Lies : How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time
* The Power of Gold : The History of an Obsession
* Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
* International Investments
* Analysis of Derivatives for the CFA Program
* Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
* Numbers Guide: The Essentials of Business Numeracy, Fifth Edition (The Economist Series)
* Guide to Financial Markets, Third Edition (The Economist Series)
* Guide to Economic Indicators: Making Sense of Economics, Fifth Edition (The Economist Series)
* Ugly Americans : The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions
* The Wisdom of Crowds
* Nation of Rebels : Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
* When genius failed : the rise and fall of Long-Term Capital Management, Roger Lowenstein, Random House, 2001
* The mystery of capital : why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else, Hernando de Soto, Basic Books, 2003
* Technological revolutions and financial capital: the dynamics of bubbles and golden ages, Carlota Perez, Edward Elgar Pub, 2002
* Monkey business : swinging through the Wall Street jungle, John Rolfe and Peter Troob, Warner Books, 2001
* Journey to the ants: a story of scientific exploration, Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson, Balknap, 1995
* Biotechnology, Susan R, Barnum Brooks, 1997
* Body bazaar: the market for human tissue in the biotechnology age, Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin, Crown, 2001
* The Book of life: An illustrated history of the evolution of life on earth, Stephen Jay Gould, Norton and Company, 2001
* Cracking the genome: inside the race to unlock human DNA, Kevin Davies, Free Press, 2001
* Genome: the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters, Matt Ridley,Harper Collins,2001
* Transducing the genome : information, anarchy, and revolution in the biomedical sciences, Gary Zweiger, McGraw Hill, 2002
* Darwin among the machines: the evolution of global intelligence, George B. Dyson, Perseus Books, 1998
* Quantitative methods for investment analysis Richard A. Defusco AIMR 2001
* Futures, options, and swaps Robert W. Kolb Blackwell 2002
* Lean thinking James P. Womack and Daniel T. J Free Press 2000
* The illusion of reality: Topics in Information Science Howard L. Resnikoff Springer Velag 1989
* CFA basics: The Schweser Study Guide to Getting Started Bruce Kuhlman Kaplan 2001
* The machine that changed the world: The story of Lean production James Womack, Daniel Jones, Daniel Roos Harper Collins 1991
* What management is : how it works and why it’s everyone’s business Joan Magretta Free Press 2002
* The Lexus and the olive tree: Understanding Globalization Thomas L. Friedman Anchor Books 2000
* What would Machiavelli do? : the ends justify the meanness Stanley Bing Harper Business 2002
* Selling the Dream Guy Kawasaki Harper Business 1992
* The Monk and the Riddle : The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Randy Komisar and Kent L. Lineback HBS Press 2000
* The Age of Spiritual Machines : When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence Ray Kurzweil Penguin USA 2000
* Crossing The Chasm Moore, Geoffrey A. Harper Business 1995
* Being Digital Negroponte, Nicholas Knopf 1995
* Electronic Commerce: A Manager’s Guide Kalakota, Ravi Whinston, Andrew Addison-Wesley 1996
* The Innovator’s Dilemma Christensen, Clayton M. HBS Press 1997
* The Entrepreneurial Mindset Rita Gunther McGrath Ian MacM HBS Press 2000
* The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea William J. Broad Simon and Schuster 1997
* Wall Street Meat: Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, Mary Meeker, Henry Blodget and me Andy Kessler Escape Velocity Press 2003
* Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets Frank Partnoy Times Books 2003
* The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market, L. Levy, E. Linden, Public Affairs 2002
* Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life Nassim Nicholas Taleb Texere 2001
* Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip Jim Rogers Random House 2003
* 1982 Tom Peters and Robert Waterman: In Search of Excellence
* The Harvard Business School guide to careers in finance Ying Liu HBS Press 2002
* Searching for a corporate savior : the irrational quest for charismatic CEOs Rakesh Khurana Princeton University Press 2002
* Harvard business review on entrepreneurship Amar Bhide at al HBS Press 1999
* 1980 Michael Porter: Competitive Strategy
* The Accidental Theorist: and other dispatches from the dismal science Paul Krugman Norton and Company 1999
* The Maverick and his Machine: Thomas Watson Sr., and the Making of IBM Kevin Maney John Wiley and Sons 2003
* In Defense of Globalization Jagdish Bhagwati Oxford University Press 2004
* King of Capital: Sandy Weill and the Making of Citigroup Amey Stone, Mike Brewster John Wiley and Sons 2004
* The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown Doubleday 2003
* FIASCO: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader Frank Partnoy Penguin Books 1998
* Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street Peter Bernstein Free Press 1992
* Bluestreak : inside JetBlue, the upstart that rocked an industry, Barbara S. Peterson.
* Why globalization works, Martin Wolf.
* 1995 David Packard: The H-P Way
* Irrational exuberance, Robert J. Shiller.
* Manias, panics, and crashes : a history of financial crises, Charles P. Kindleberger
* Devil take the hindmost : a history of financial speculation, Edward Chancellor.
* Buffett : the making of an American capitalist, Roger Lowenstein.
* Soros : the life, times & trading secrets of the world’s greatest investor, Robert Slater.
* Soros on Soros : Staying ahead of the curve, George Soros.
* Soros : the life and times of a Messianic billionaire, Michael T. Kaufman.
* The modern firm : organizational design for performance and growth, John Roberts.
* Investment management, edited by Peter L. Bernstein and Aswath Damodaran.
* Den of thieves, James B. Stewart.
* 1986 Akio Morita: Made in Japan
Below are some books I want to read
again in random order
* The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith (1955).
* Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (1841).
* Funny Money by Mark Singer (1985).
* The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street’s Bullish ’60s by John Brooks (1973).
* Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar (1990).
* Built to Last: successful habits of visionary companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras (1994).
* Chainsaw: The Notorious Career of Al Dunlap in the Era of Profit-at-Any-Price by John Byrne (1999).
* Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? by Louis V. Gerstner (2002).
* Annapurna: A Woman’s Place by Arlene Blum (1980). T
* The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam (1972).
* In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick (2000).
* The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1974).
* Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy (1969).
* Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter (1942).
* Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets by Robert Kuttner (1996).
* The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, Chapter 12 by John Maynard Keynes (1936).
* Pop Internationalism by Paul Krugman (1996).
* The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776).
* Den of Thieves by James Stewart (1991).
* The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald (2000).
* Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing by Joseph L. Badaracco (2002).
* The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind (2003).
* The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (1875).
* Beijing Jeep: The Short, Unhappy Romance of American Business in China by Jim Mann (1989).
* Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (1999).
* Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright (2000).
* The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin (1991).
* Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age by Sebastio Salgado (1993).
* The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America compiled by Lawrence Cunningham (1997).
* The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham (1949).
* Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (2003).
* Never Give In: The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches edited by grandson Winston S. Churchill (2003).
* On Leadership by John Gardner (1990).
* Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (1988).
* Personal History by Katharine Graham (1997).
* Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. by Ron Chernow (1998).
* A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr (1995).
* The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker (1966).
* Remember Every Name Every Time by Benjamin Levy (2002).
* Taken for a Ride: How Daimler-Benz Drove Off with Chrysler by Bill Vlasic and Bradley A. Stertz (2000).
* Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever (2003).
* Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller (2003).
* The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind (2004).
* The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1513).
* Something Happened by Joseph Heller (1974).
* Father Son & Co: My Life at IBM and Beyond by Thomas Watson Jr. and Peter Petre (1990).
* The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Keister (1998).
* Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street by David McClintick (1982).
* Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini (1993).
* The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro (1974).
* American Steel: Hot metal men and the resurrection of the rust belt by Richard Preston (1991).
* The Billion-Dollar Molecule: One Company’s Quest for the Perfect Drug by Barry Werth (1994).
* Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner (1990).
* The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1986).
* The Art of War by Sun Tzu (circa 500 B.C.).
* Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden (1999).
* Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian (1997).
* Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove (1996).
* The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2000).
* The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television by Evan I. Schwartz (2002).
* New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America by Richard Tedlow (1990).
* They Made America: Two Centuries of Innovation from the Steam Engine to the Search Engine by Harold Evans (2004).
* Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton with John Huey (1992).
* The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the 19th Century’s On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage (1998).
* Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein (1996).
* Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse (1999).
* Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lef«evre (1923).
* Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? by Fred Schwed Jr. (1940).
* Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2001).
* Reclaiming the Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout by Steven Berglass (2001).
* The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild (1997).
* Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel (1974).
* 1970 Robert Townsend: Up the Organization
* 1973 Henry Mintzberg: The Nature of Managerial Work
* 1978 Chris Argyris and Donald Schon: Organizational Learning
* 1978 James MacGregor Burns: Leadership
* 1978 Taiichi Ohno: Toyota Production System
* 1979 Reg Revans: Action Learning
* 1980 Alvin Toffler: The Third Wave
* 1981 Richard Pascale and Anthony Athos: The Art of Japanese Management
* 1982 John Naisbitt: Megatrends
* 1982 Kenichi Ohmae: The Mind of the Strategist
* 1982 W. Edwards Deming: Out of the Crisis
* 1983 Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Change Masters
* 1984 Meredith Belbin: Management Teams
* 1985 Edgar Schein: Organizational Culture and Leadership
* 1985 Harold Geneen: Managing
* 1985 Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus: Leaders
* 1987 Jan Carlzon: Moments of Truth
* 1988 Joseph M. Juran: Planning for Quality
* 1988 Konosuke Matsushita: Quest for Prosperity
* 1989 Charles Handy: The Age of Unreason
* 1989 Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal: Managing Across Borders
* 1989 Stephen Covey: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
* 1990 Kenichi Ohmae: The Borderless World
* 1990 Michael Porter: The Competitive Advantage of Nations
* 1990 Peter Senge: The Fifth Discipline
* 1990 Richard Pascale: Managing on the Edge
* 1992 Tom Peters: Liberation Management
* 1993 Fons Trompenaars: Riding the Waves of Culture
* 1993 James Champy and Michael Hammer: Reengineering the Corporation
* 1993 Ricardo Semler: Maverick!
* 1994 Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad: Competing for the Future
* 1994 Henry Mintzberg: The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning
* 1994 James Collins and Jerry Porras: Built to Last
* 1994 Michael Goold, Andrew Campbell and Marcus Alexander: Corporate-Level Strategy
* 1996 Frederick Reichheld: The Loyalty Effect
* 1996 John Kotter: Leading Change
* 1996 Robert Kaplan and David Norton: The Balanced Scorecard
* 1997 Arie de Geus: The Living Company
* 1997 Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer: Blur
* 1997 Thomas Stewart: Intellectual Capital
* 1998 Patricia Seybold: Customers.com
* The Blank Slate : The Denial of Human Nature and Modern Intellectual Life
* Evolution and the Capacity for Commitment (Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust, V. 3)
* The Protocols (TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1)
* The Computer and the Brain : Second Edition (Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures)
* Ethernet : The Definitive Guide
* Devouring Fungus: Tales of the Computer Age
* The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought
* The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
* Trust and Trustworthiness (The Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust, Vol. 4)
* Trust in Society (Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust, V. 2)
* Lord of the Flies
* The Illuminatus! Trilogy : The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
* Stable Marriage and Its Relation to Other Combinatorial Problems: An Introduction to the Mathematical Analysis of Algorithms
* The Virus Creation Labs: A Journey into the Underground
* The Complexity of Cooperation
* Micro Motives and Macro Behavior (Fels Lectures on Public Policy Analysis)
* Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition
* What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race
* Give It Up: And Other Short Stories
* “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character
* On Numbers and Games
* Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up
* Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation (Dahlem Workshop Reports)
* The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
* The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge
* The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul
* Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
* Strategy of Conflict
* Fermat’s Enigma : The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem
* Conversations of Socrates (Penguin Classics)
* Permutation City
* The Meme Machine
* Trust and Governance (Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust, Vol 1)
* Feynman Lectures on Computation
* Lord of the Flies
* Jitterbug Perfume
* Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
* Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
* Ethernet : The Definitive Guide
* Hacker’s Delight
* Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
* The Mind’s I : Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
* In Code: A Mathematical Journey
* River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters Series)
* The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
* Chance and necessity;: An essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology
* Ender’s Game (Ender Wiggin Saga)
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