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Austin Swanson
Books
The following are books I have read, what I am reading, and what I still need to read.
In addition, I provide some recommendations on great books when first starting out in investing and more.
I don't hesitate to purchase any book I feel will be of value, since a single idea can be worth an extreme multiple more than the cost of the book. This is why you may see a large list of purchased books that have not been read.
A date in parentheses is the date for which I read the book.
Recommended: Investing / Business / Stocks / Models / Biographies
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"Poor Charlie's Almanack" by Charlie Munger (Author) and Peter D. Kaufman (Editor). (3/19/2020)
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Lessons on life, investing, business, psychology, and more. Every time I read it, I have new knowledge and experiences leading up to the reread, and learn/notice/interpret something new.
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"Titan" by Ron Chernow (8/9/2021)
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I may have enjoyed this book more so than any other other business biography or simply business related book that I've read. The audiobook is also fantastic. The stories and the amount of detail on how Rockefeller built Standard Oil are terrific.
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“The Outsiders” by William N. Thorndike (4/4/2020)
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The framework and examples around good capital allocators as CEOs has been useful for understanding different companies, and ultimately led me to invest in them.
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“One Up On Wall Street” by Peter Lynch (7/11/2018)
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Overall, great introductory book. Concepts are well explained, and the book is very easy to read. I still think about ideas from this book, specifically Lynch's story around the story, The Limited.
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“The Little Book that Still Beats the Market” by Joel Greenblatt (5/16/2018)
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First book I recommend to new investors, as its easy to read and understand, as well as insightful.
Recommended: Real Estate
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"Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat" by David M Greene (11/29/2019)
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This strategy is what I have used on my first four rental properties. The book is very detailed, and helped me greatly.
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"The Book on Managing Rental Properties" by Brandon Turner and Heather Turner (2/27/2020)
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Even with my wife already working as a full time property manager for years before reading this book, we both still pulled valuable information out of this book that we still use for managing our properties.
Recommended: Personal
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"Never Split the Difference” by Chris Voss (1/23/2019)
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Best book on negotiating I've read. A couple very helpful tools that I have used successfully, and made this book worth every penny.
- "The One Thing" by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan (12/5/2018)
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The idea around this book has led me to accomplish many more goals in a much quicker time.
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"The Miracle Morning" by Hal Elrod (6/6/2018)
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Led me to being more productive every day.
Completed: Investing / Business / Stocks / Models / Biographies
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"Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould" by Edward Renehan (11/1/2021)
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"The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon" by Brad Stone (9/29/2021)
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"The Goal" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt - The audiobook version is great. (4/1/2021)
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"The Tao of Warren Buffett: by Mary Buffett , David Clark (1/2/2021)
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"Tao of Charlie Munger" by David Clark (12/20/2020)
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"100 Baggers" by Christopher W Mayer (12/20/2020)
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"The Warren Buffett Portfolio" by Robert G. Hagstrom (8/5/2020)
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"Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist" by Roger Lowenstein (6/1/2020)
- “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by Clayton M Christensen (5/31/2020)
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"The Manual of Ideas" by John Mihaljevic (4/19/2020)
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"The Warren Buffett Way" by Robert Hagstrom (4/10/2020)
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“The Outsiders” by William N. Thorndike (4/4/2020)
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"Poor Charlie's Almanack" by Charlie Munger (Author) and Peter D. Kaufman (Editor). (3/19/2020)
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"Beating the Street” by Peter Lynch (7/7/2019)
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"The Dhandho Investor" by Mohnish Pabrai (6/30/2019)
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"Sam Walton, Made in America” by Sam Walton (4/27/2019)
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"The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life" by Alice Schroeder (6/1/2019)
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“One Up On Wall Street” by Peter Lynch (7/11/2018)
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“The Little Book that Still Beats the Market” by Joel Greenblatt (5/16/2018)
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"Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike" by Phil Knight (2/1/2018)
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"The Education of a Value Investor” by Guy Spier (12/28/2017)
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"Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits" by Philip A. Fisher (11/14/2017)
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"The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham (6/1/2017)
Completed: Real Estate
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"Cashflow Quadrant" by Robert T. Kiyosaki (8/15/2020)
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"The Book on Tax Strategies for the Savvy Real Estate Investor" by Amanda Han (7/29/2020)
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"Dream It and Build It - How to Crush Your Real Estate Investing Goals" by Josiah Smelser (7/12/2020)
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"9 Month Investment" by Darin Garman (5/22/2020)
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"The Book on Managing Rental Properties" by Brandon Turner and Heather Turner (2/27/2020)
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"Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat" by David M Greene (11/29/2019)
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"The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs" by Mr. J Scott (11/22/2019)
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"The ABCs of Real Estate Investing" by Ken McElroy (6/13/2018)
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"Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki (5/28/2018)
Completed: Personal
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"How to Become CEO” Jeffrey J. Fox (2/19/2019)
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"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie (2/19/2019)
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"Never Split the Difference” by Chris Voss (1/23/2019)
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"How to Become a Rainmaker” by Jeffrey J. Fox (1/21/2019)
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"The Magic of Thinking Big" by David J. Schwartz (1/2/2019)
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"The One Thing" by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan (12/5/2018)
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“4 Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferris (11/24/2018)
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"Crush It" by Gary Vaynerchuk (6/19/2018)
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"The Miracle Morning" by Hal Elrod (6/6/2018)
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"The 10X Rule" by Grant Cardone (6/3/2018)
Started: Investing / Business / Stocks / Models / Biographies
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"The Money Masters" by John Train
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"Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
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"Richer, Wiser, Happier" by William Green
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"The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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"Capital Allocation" by Jacob McDonough
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“Am I Being Too Subtle” by Sam Zell
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"Onward" by Howard Schultz
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"Liar's Poker" by Michael Lewis
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“Margin of Safety” by Seth Klarman
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“You can be a Stock Market Genius” by Joel Greenblatt
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“The Most Important Thing” by Howard Marks
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"Principles: Life and Work" by Ray Dalio
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"F Wall Street” by Joe Ponzio
Started: Real Estate
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"Growing Wealth in Self Storage" by AJ Osborne
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"Crushing It in Apartments and Commercial Real Estate" by Brian H. Murray
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"The Millionaire Real Estate Investor" by Gary Keller
Started: Personal
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“As a Man Thinketh” by James Allen
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"So Good They Can't Ignore You" Cal Newport
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“Awaken the Giant Within” - Tony Robbins
Purchased & On List To Read: Investing / Business / Stocks / Models / Biographies
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"Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models" by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
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"Quality Investing: Owning the best companies for the long term" by Lawrence A Cunningham
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"Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon" by Colin Bryar
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"Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn" by Scott David
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"7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy" by Hamilton Helmer
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"The Loyalty Effect: The Hidden Force Behind Growth, Profits, and Lasting Value" by Frederick F. Reichheld
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"of Permeant Value: The Story of Warren Buffett" by Andrew Kilpatrick
- "The Essays of Warren Buffett" by Lawrence A. Cunningham and Warren E. Buffett
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"The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway" by Adam J. Mead
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"Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life" by Rory Sutherland
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"Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger" by Peter Bevelin
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"Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" by Edwin Lefevre
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"The Great Crash, 1929" by John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman
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"Franklin's Autobiography" by Benjamin Franklin
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"Security Analysis: Principles and Techniques" by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd
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"The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution" by Gregory Zuckerman
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"100 to 1 in the Stock Market" by Thomas William Phelps
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"The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth" by Andrew Carnegie
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman
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"It's Not About the Coffee" by Howard Behar
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"Tap Dancing to Work" by Carol Loomis
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"Work in Progress" by Michael Eisner"
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"Nuts!: Southwest Airlines" by Kevin Freiberg and Jackie Freiberg
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"America's Bank" by Roger Lowenstein
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"Winning" by Jack Welch
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"The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries
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"Influence" by Robert B. Cialdini
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"The E-Myth Revisited" by Michael E. Gerber
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"Greenlights" by Matthew McConaughey
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"Invest like a Shark" by James DePorre
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"Good to Great" by Jim Collins
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"How the Mighty Fall" by Jim Collins
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"The Intuitive Investor" by Jason Apollo Voss
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"A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton G. Malkiel
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"Market Wizards" by Jack D. Schwager
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"Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
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"Ask GaryVee" by Gary Vaynerchuk
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"Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook" by Gary Vaynerchuk
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"The Thank you Economy" by Gary Vaynerchuk
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"Boomerang" by Michael Lewis
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"Flash Boys" by Michael Lewis
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"The Simple Path to Wealth" by JL Collins
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"Financial Intelligence" by Karen Berman, Joe Knight, and John Case
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"Sam Walton" by Vance H. Trimble
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"Mastering the Rockefeller Habits" by Verne Harnish
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"Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
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"Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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"The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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"Modern Times" by Paul Johnson
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"Business @ the Speed of Thought" by Bill Gates
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"Traction" by Gino Wickman
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"Business Adventures" by John Brooks
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"Nudge" by Richard Thaler
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"The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
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"Les Schwab: Pride in Performance" by Les Schwab
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"Cable Cowboy" by Mark Robichaux
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"All I Want to Know is Where I'm Going to Die..." by Peter Bevelin
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"Fortune's Formula" by William Poundstone
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"Warren Buffett's Management Secrets" by Mary Buffett and David Clark
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"How to Think like Benjamin Graham and Invest like Warren Buffett" by Lawrence A. Cunningham
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"Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman..." by Christine S. Richard
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"The Ten Commandments for Business Failure" by Donald R. Keough
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"Zero to One" by Peter Thiel
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"Interpretation of Financial Statements" by Benjamin Graham and Spencer B. Meredith
Purchased & On List To Read: Real Estate
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"The Due Diligence Handbook For Commercial Real Estate" by Brian Hennessey
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"The Book on Advanced Tax Strategies" by Amanda Han
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"The Millionaire Real Estate Agent" by Gary Keller
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"What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know about Cash Flow" by Frank Gallinelli
Purchased & On List To Read: Others
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"12 Rules for Life" by Jordan B. Peterson
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"Tiny Habits" by BJ Fogg
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"Extreme Ownership" by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
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"The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg
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"7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey
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"Why you Lose at Bridge" by SJ Simon
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"100 Winning Bridge Tips" by Ron Klinger
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"Emotional Intelligence 2.0" by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves
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"The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande
*Disclaimer: These are affiliate links. However, they are all books I have either read, started, or purchased myself.