Here’s a list of books that have caught my attention. Too many for one lifetime, but here goes…
- Rose Tremain, The Wisest Fool, Music and Silence
- Jaroslav Hašek, The Good Soldier Švejk
- Ivan Klima, My Golden Trades
- Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude
- Jan Skacel (poet)
- Kenzaburo Oe, Yaruiyaka na Kizuna
- Geoffrey Elton, Reformation Europe
- Dairmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cramner
- Clayton Christendon, The Innovator’s Dilemma
- William James, The Gospel of Relaxation
- S. Y. Agnon, Rise and Fall
- J. D. Spence, The Memory Palace of J. D. Ricci
- J. Huizinga, Homo Ludens
- Jane Carson, Colonial Virginians at Play
- Jan Neruda, Tales of the Little Quarter
- Miyabe Miyuki, All She Was Worth
- Anita Brookner, Romanticism and Its Discontents
Investment Books
- Van Tharpe, Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom
- Victor Niederhoffer, The Education of a Speculator
- Edwin Lefevre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- Martin Zweig, Winning on Wall Street
- Jack Schwager, Market Wizards
- Edward Chancellor, Devil Take the Hindmost
- Kevin Kelly, New Rules for a New Economy (See my review of Inevitable by the same author.)
- Mark Skousen, The New Scrooge Investing
- William Bernstein, The Intelligent Asset Allocator
- Jesse Livermore, Confessions of a Stock Operator
- Jeremy Segal, Stocks for the Long Run
- John Rothschild, The Bear Book
- Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor (Warren Buffet’s mentor)
- James O’Shaughessy, What Works on Wall Street