Bookshelf
Books let us access the lifelong lessons and discoveries of brilliant minds. Below are some powerful books that have shaped not just my trading, but life.
I included a couple on this list that I haven’t read yet (eg. Outlive) but I’m familiar with the author’s work. Some books here won’t be for everyone.
Trading
How to Trade in Stocks - Jesse Livermore
Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets - Stan Weinstein
How I Made $2M in the Stock Market - Nicholas Darvis
The Perfect Speculator - Brad Koteshwar
Market Wizards - Jack Schwager
Trading in the Zone - Mark Douglas
Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb
Health
Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity - Peter Attia
Bigger, Leaner, Stronger - Michael Matthews
Starting Strength - Mark Rippetoe
Mindset
Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
Atomic Habits - James Clear
48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
Can't Hurt Me - David Goggins
Do Hard Things - Steve Magness
Grit - Angela Duckworth
Mindset - Carol Dweck
Deep Work - Cal Newport
Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Philosophy / Spiritual
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Free Will - Sam Harris
Waking Up - Sam Harris
God's Debris - Scott Adams
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda
Inner Engineering - Sadhguru
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Pirsig
Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Charles Mackay
Quiet: The Power of Introverts - Susan Cain
Science / History
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
The Red Queen - Matt Ridley
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
The Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley
How the World Really Works - Vaclav Smil
The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
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