Charlie Munger's Book Recommendations
Berkshire Hathaway Vice-Chairman Charlie Munger has recommended the following books on various occasions:
- Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell -- said Munger on May 4, 2009: "terrific" and "perfectly marvelous book"; Gladwell "has collected a lot of interesting facts and drawn a lot of interesting conclusions"; watch recommendation -- starts at 3:40
- A Matter of Degrees, by Gino Segre
- Benjamin Franklin, by Carl van Doren
- Darwin's Blind Spot, by Frank Ryan
- Genome, by Matt Ridley
- Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
- How the Scots Invented the Modern World, by Arthur Herman
- Influence, by Robert Cialdini
- Living within Limits, by Garrett Hardin
- Poor Charlie's Almanack, by Peter Kaufman
- The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
- The Third Chimpanzee, by Jared Diamond