Investing
The Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt (also The Little Book that Beats the Market)
Moneyball by Lewis (noteworthy that Beane’s “edge”, once discovered, ebbed away)
Quality of Earnings by O’Glove (excellent primer on basic forensic accounting)
Financial Shenanigans by Schilit (more of the above)
The Art of Short Selling by Staley
Trading Bases: How a Wall Street Trader Made a Fortune Betting on Baseball by Peta
Financial Biography & History
The Confidence Game by Richards
Fooling Some of the People all of the Time by Einhorn
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Lowenstein
The Outsiders by Thorndike
Den of Thieves by Stewart
The Fish That Ate the Whale by Cohen
The Prize by Yergin
Devil Take the Hindmost by Chancellor
The Smartest Guys in the Room by McLean
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Lefevre
Against the Gods by Bernstein
Digital Gold by Popper
Financial Theory and Thought
The Black Swan by Taleb (also Antifragile and Fooled by Randomness)
The Crisis of Crowding by Chincarini
The Alchemy of Finance by Soros
Mr. Market Miscalculates by Grant
Fortune’s Formula by Poundstone
The Winner’s Curse by Thaler
The Undoing Project by Lewis
Thrift
Possum Living by Dolly Freed
The Richest Man in Babylon by Clason
Government Finances Reading
Social Security: Historical Ratio of Workers to Covered Beneficiaries (Yikes!)
CBO Budget and Economic Outlook, 4 April 2018
Ida May Fuller: First SS Recipient (Note she paid in $24.75 and collected $22,889!)