Books recommended by investors

Marks identified Taleb's book as an essential read while discussing randomness and investment outcomes.

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Oaktree Capital · 2008-05-16 · accessed 2026-06-22

Article · Oaktree memo

The PDF memo says Marks had described Fooled by Randomness as an essential read.

Buffett wrote in Berkshire Hathaway's 2013 shareholder letter that buying Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor changed his financial life and was one of his best investments.

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Berkshire Hathaway · 2014-03-01 · accessed 2026-06-21

Shareholder letter · Shareholder letter

Buffett's 2013 shareholder letter says he bought The Intelligent Investor in 1949, that his financial life changed with that purchase, and that buying Graham's book was one of his best investments.

In Poor Charlie's Almanack Talk Nine, Munger names Frank Partnoy's derivatives-trading account while criticizing financial engineering and explicitly tells readers to read it.

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Stripe Press · 2003-10-03 · accessed 2026-06-22

Article · Poor Charlie's Almanack talk

Stripe Press web text for Talk Nine includes Munger telling readers to read Fiasco by law professor and former derivatives trader Frank Partnoy.

Marks explicitly recommended Pecora's market-history account while discussing investor behavior and market excesses.

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Oaktree Capital · 2008-05-16 · accessed 2026-06-22

Article · Oaktree memo

The PDF memo contains an explicit first-person recommendation for Wall Street Under Oath.

Own positive reading account. No claim that all ideas are validated or that a specific investment result follows. Catalog summary, no excerpt copied.

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Starting Greatness / Medium · 2019-12-02 · accessed 2026-10-01

Article · Own positive reading account

Original author byline and publication date displayed; linked book has positive assessment alongside own reading account.

Favorite-book attribution in the original host’s notes, without a direct quotation or preferred edition.

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Barry Ritholtz · 2019-08-17 · accessed 2026-10-01

Podcast · Original interview show notes

The original show notes list this among Wolfe’s favorite books. Their Peter D. Kaufman attribution identifies the editor; the canonical catalog retains Charles T. Munger as the principal author.

The title appears in the transcribed Twitter AMA answer to a question about the best books Altman recommends for a young startup founder.

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Hacker News / Algolia API · 2015-10-21 · accessed 2026-06-22

Comment · HN transcript of Twitter AMA answer

A Hacker News commenter transcribed Altman answering a Twitter AMA question about the best books he recommends for a young startup founder; Altman later confirmed the disputed Art of War in the Middle Ages title in the same thread.

An attributed recommendation list published by his venture firm. Catalog wording is a citation, not a direct quotation from Andreessen.

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a16z · 2026-07-30 · accessed 2026-09-30

Reading list · Official a16z attributed reading list

The official note explicitly attributes the recommendations to Marc Andreessen. The attached list image was inspected directly; this title appears in that image. Publication date confirmed in page JSON-LD.