Book recommendations

candidcurious Book recommendation

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end up in doubts; but if he will be contet to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties.”

– Sir Francis Bacon

Just a few business and other books that may be of interest …

Business biographies

  1. Baruch, Bernard M. (1957). Baruch. My Own Story. Buccaneer Books.
  2. Landley, Monica. (2003). Tearing Down the Wall. How Sandy Will Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World and then Nearly Lost It All. Wall Street Journal Books.
  3. Rochichaux, Mark. (2002). Cable Cowboy. John Malone and the rise of the modern cable business. John Wiley & Sons.
  4. Zell, Sam. (2017). Am I Being Too Subtle? Straight Talk From a Business Rebel. Penguin House LLC.

Accounting

Accounting is the language of business. If you can’t read and understand basic financial statements, you won’t be able to ascertain the value of a company. That doesn’t mean you need to have an accountant’s level of understanding just like you don’t need to be an English literary scholar to read, speak and understand English.

  1. Bandler, James. (1994). How to Use Financial Statements – A Guide to Understanding the Numbers. McGraw Hill.
  2. Friedlob, George T. and Welton, Ralph E. (2001). Keys to Reading an Annual Report. 3rd edition. Barron’s Educational Series.
  3. Graham, Benjamin and Meredith, Spencer B. (1937). The Interpetation of Financial Statements. HarperCollins Publishers.
  4. Mulford, Charles W. and Comiskey, Eugene E. (2005). Creative Cash Flow Reporting – Uncovering Sustainable Financial Performance. John Wiley & Sons.
  5. O’Glove, Thornton L. (1987). Quality of Earnings – The Investor’s Guide to How Much Money a Company is Really Making. The Free Press, Macmillan, Inc.

General business interest

  1. Ahamed, Liaquat. (2009). Lords of Finance. The Bankers Who Broke the World. Penguin Press.
  2. Biggs, Barton. (2008). Wealth, War & Wisdom. John Wiley & Sons.
  3. Galbraith, John Kenneth. (1954). The Great Crash 1929. Houghton, Mifflin Company.
  4. Kessler, Andy. (2004). Running Money. Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score. HarperCollins Publishers.
  5. Sambrook, Geoffrey. (2002). Tarnished Copper. Twenty First Century Publishers Limited.
  6. Smith, Adam. (1967). The Money Game. Vintage Books, Randon House.
  7. Yergin, Daniel. (2009). The Prize – The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power. Simon & Schuster.

Investor / Trader / CEO interviews/profiles

  1. Angenfelt, Magnus. (2013). The World’s 99 Greatest Investors. Roos & Tegner.
  2. Drobny, Steven. (2006). Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets. John Wiley & Sons.
  3. Schwager, Jack D. (1990). Market Wizards – Interviews with Top Traders. HarperCollins Publishers.
  4. Schwager, Jack D. (1992). The New Market Wizards – Conversations with America’s Top Traders. HarperCollins Publishers.
  5. Thorndike, William N. (2012). Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success. Harvard Business Review Press

Value Investing

  1. Cunningham, Lawrence A. (2001). The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America.
  2. Graham, Benjamin. (1949). The Intelligent Investor. HarperCollins Publishers.
  3. Greenwald, Bruce, Kahn, Judd, Sonkin, Paul and Michael van Biena. (2001). Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond. John Wiley & Sons.
  4. Haugen, Robert A. (1999). The Inefficient Stock Market. Prentice Hall.
  5. O’Shaughnessy, James P. (2005). What Works on Wall Street. McGraw Hill.

Other non-fiction

  1. Blodget, Henry. (2008). The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual. Random House, Inc. 
  2. McCain, John. (2005). Character is Destiny. Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember. Random House, Inc.
  3. Lutz, Gary and Diane Stevenson. (2005). The Writer’s Digest Grammar Desk Reference. Writer’s Digest Books.
  4. Tobias, Andrew. (2005). The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need. Harcourt, Inc.

Golf Course Architecture

Golf architecture has an interesting element of designing risk-reward choices. The best courses do it superbly.

  1. Cupp, Bob & Ron Whitten. (2012). Golf’s Grand Design. American Golf Architecture.
  2. Doak, Tom. (1992). The Anatomy of a Golf Course – The Art of Golf Architecture. Lyons & Burford.
  3. Dye, Pete. (2013). Bury Me In A Pot Bunker. Dye Shaw Books.
  4. Finegan, James W. (2003). All Courses Great and Small. A Golfer’s Pilgrimage to England and Wales. Simon & Schuster.
  5. MacKenzie, Alister, Colt, H.S. and A.W. Tillinghast. (2013). Methods of Early Golf Architecture. Coventry House Publishing
  6. Ross, Donald J. (1996). Golf Has Never Failed Me. Sleeping Bear Press.

BBQ

If you know what a smoker is and want a few go to references…

  1. Goldwyn, Meathead. (2017). Meathead. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  2. Raichlen, Stephen. (2016). Project Smoke: Seven Steps to Smoked Food Nirvana. Workman Publishing.

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