Nassim Taleb:
A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn’t worth reading.
James Clear:
Start more books. Quit most of them. Read the great ones twice.
Illacertus:
I don’t want to read everything. I just want to read the 100 great books over and over again.
Shane Parrish:
The first one that comes to mind is Poor Charlie’s Almanack, which I hope everyone reading this has gone through many times. I re-read portions of that basically every single year, and I keep learning new things. I re-read the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius with some regularity, of course. I re-read biographies I like – I’ve read the Buffett biographies several times, Steve Jobs’ biography, and a number of others. I also re-read great multidisciplinary books like The Lessons of History by Will Durant. Of course, that’s a short one. Re-reading is more important than reading. Schopenhauer nailed this.
Here’s my list of books for rereading (in alphabetical order):
- A Man for All Markets – Edward O. Thorp
- Adaptive Asset Allocation – Adam Butler, Michael Philbrick and Rodrigo Gordillo
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- Antifragile – Nassim Taleb
- Atomic Habits – James Clear
- Capitalisim without Capital – Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
- Black Swan – Nassim Taleb
- Deep Value
- Expert Secrets – Russell Brunson
- Fail-Safe Investing – Harry Browne
- Fooled By Randomness – Nassim Taleb
- Fortune’s Formula
- Good Strategy / Bad Strategy
- Han Feizi
- Influence – Robert Cialdini
- Laughing at Wall Street
- Millionaire Fastlane
- Misbehaviour of the Markets
- Never Split the Difference
- One Up On Wall Street
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack
- Quantitative Value
- Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
- Skin In The Game – Nassim Taleb
- Stocks on the Move – Andreas Clenow
- Sun Tzu Art of War
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- The Dandho Investor
- The Education of a Value Investor
- The Hour Between Wolf And Dog – John Coates
- The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
- The Lessons of History – Will & Ariel Durant
- The Little Book That Beats The Market
- The Master Algorithm
- The Permanent Portfolio – Craig Rowland and J. M. Lawson
- The Prince – Machiavelli
- The Psychology of Money
- The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
- The Star Principle
- The Subtle Art of not Giving a Fuck
- Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
- Trade Like A Stock Market Wizard
- Wanting – Luke Burgis
- You Can Be A Stock Market Genius
- Zero to One – Peter Thiel