Book Summaries

Business | Investing

• The Little Book that Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments, by Pat Dorsey
• Invest Like a Guru: How to Generate Higher Returns at Reduced Risk with Value Investing, by Charlie Tian
• Global Asset Allocation: A Survey of the World’s Top Investment Strategies, by Meb Faber
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns, by John Bogle
• If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly, by Peter Bernstein
• Foundation & Endowment Investing: Philosophies and Strategies of Top Investors and Institutions, by Lawrence Kochard, PhD, and Cathleen Rittereiser
• FundSpy: Morningstar’s Inside Secrets to Selecting Mutual Funds that Outperform, by Russel Kinnel
• Where are the Customers’ Yachts?, by Fred Schwed Jr.
• Everything You’ve Heard About Investing is Wrong!: How to Profit in the Coming Post-Bull Market, by William H. Gross
• Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, by John C. Bogle
• Quantitative Trading Strategies: Harnessing the Power of Quantitative Techniques to Create a Winning Trading Program, by Lars Kestner
• Real Estate Investment Trusts: Structure, Performance, and Investment Opportunities, by Su Han Chan, John Erickson, and Ko Wang
• Beyond the J Curve: Managing a Portfolio of Venture and Private Equity Funds, by Thomas Meyer and Pierre-Yves Mathonet
• Soros On Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve, by George Soros
• Just One Thing: Twelve of the World’s Best Investors Reveal the ONE Strategy You Can’t Overlook, by John Mauldin
• Value Averaging: The Safe and Easy Strategy for Higher Investment Returns, by Michael Edleson
• The Successful Investor Today: 14 Simple Truths You Must Know When You Invest, by Larry E. Swedroe
• Beating the Street, by Peter Lynch
• Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World’s Best Market, by Jim Rogers
• My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance, by Emanuel Derman
• Investing with Anthony Bolton: The Anatomy of a Stock Market Phenomenon, by Jonathan Davis
• The Winning Portfolio: Choosing Your 10 Best Mutual Funds, by Paul Farrell
• The Little Book That Beats the Market, by Joel Greenblatt
• Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk, 2nd Edition by Roger C. Gibson

Business | Investing | White Papers

• Microcaps—Factor Spreads, Structural Biases, and the Institutional Imperative, by Ehren Stanhope 
• What Has Worked in Investing: Studies of Investment Approaches and Characteristics Associated with Exceptional Returns, by Tweedy, Browne Company
• Back to Basics: Six Questions to Consider Before Investing, by Ben Inker
• Hot Hands, Cold Hands: Does Past Performance Predict Future Returns?, by William Droms
• Empirical Properties of Asset Returns: Stylized Facts and Statistical Issues, by Rama Cont
• Alternative Metrics, by Sassan Zaker
• Dynamic Strategies for Asset Allocation, by André F. Perold and William F. Sharpe
• ABCs of Synthetic ABS, by Edward J. O’Connell and Emily H. Goodman
• Factor Modeling and Benchmarking of Hedge Funds, by Lars Jaeger and Christian Wagner
• Facts and Fantasies about Commodity Futures, by Gary Gorton and K. Geert Rouwenhorst
• Global Commercial Real Estate: A Strategic Asset Allocation Study, by Thomas Idzorek, Michael Barad, and Stephen Meier

Business | Entrepreneurship

• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, by Michael E. Gerber

Business | Marketing/ Sales

• Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping, by Paco Underhill

Business | General Business/ Economics

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Law v. Life: What Layers are Afraid to Say About the Legal Profession, by Walt Bachman
• The Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life, by Steven E. Landsburg
• Riches Among the Ruins: Adventures in the Dark Corners of the Global Economy, by Robert P. Smith and Peter Zheutlin
• Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA, by Peter Robinson
• The Money Culture, by Michael Lewis

Psychology

• Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain, by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Decision Making/ Analysis

• Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions, by Gerd Gigerenzer
• The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking, by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
• How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrell Huff

Philosophy

Personal Growth/ Life/ Self-Help

• Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong, by Eric Barker
• How Will You Measure Your Life?, by Clayton M. Christensen
• Managing Oneself, by Peter Drucker
• How to Be Invisible: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Personal Privacy, Your Assets, and Your Life, by J.J. Luna

Productivity/ Time Management

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen 
• The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown

Health/ Fitness

Relationships/ Love

Biography/ Memoir

Other

Fiction

• The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry