books recommended by Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Patrick O’Shaughnessy is the Chief Executive Officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM). He is the author of Millennial Money: How Young Investors can Build a Fortune, published by Palgrave Macmillan, and a contributing author to the Fourth Edition of What Works on Wall Street. Patrick’s podcast “Invest Like the Best,” which is a series of conversations with leading investors across asset classes, recently passed 7 million listeners.

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Last Updated Jan 31, 2024

Sapiens

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

Principles

Principles

Ray Dalio

Zero to One

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Influence

Influence

Robert B. Cialdini, PhD

Shoe Dog

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Antifragile

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Siddhartha

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

Creativity, Inc.

Creativity, Inc.

Ed Catmull

Finite and Infinite Games

Finite and Infinite Games

James Carse

The True Believer

The True Believer

Eric Hoffer

The Sovereign Individual

The Sovereign Individual

James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg

The Outsiders

The Outsiders

William N. Thorndike

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

Mastery

Mastery

George Leonard

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman

Let My People Go Surfing

Let My People Go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard

Against the Gods

Against the Gods

Peter L. Bernstein

The Everything Store

The Everything Store

Brad Stone

The Fish That Ate the Whale

The Fish That Ate the Whale

Rich Cohen

Hackers & Painters

Hackers & Painters

Paul Graham

The Hidden Life of Trees

The Hidden Life of Trees

Peter Wohlleben

Deep Survival

Deep Survival

Laurence Gonzales

Positioning

Positioning

Al Ries

Setting the Table

Setting the Table

Danny Meyer

Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder

Einstein's Dreams

Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman

Boyd

Boyd

Robert Coram

The Prize

The Prize

Daniel Yergin

Incognito

Incognito

David Eagleman

Chaos Monkeys

Chaos Monkeys

Antonio García Martínez

A Curious Mind

A Curious Mind

Brian Grazer

The Tiger

The Tiger

John Vaillant

Self Reliance

Self Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Money Game

The Money Game

Adam Smith

The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

The Ascent of Man

The Ascent of Man

Jacob Bronowski

The Essays of Warren Buffett

The Essays of Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett & Lawrence A. Cunningham

Thinking in Systems

Thinking in Systems

Donella Meadows

Spent

Spent

Geoffrey Miller

The Robert Collier Letter Book

The Robert Collier Letter Book

Robert Collier

The Most Important Thing

The Most Important Thing

Howard Marks

Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust

John Fante

Natural Born Heroes

Natural Born Heroes

Christopher McDougall

Shadow Divers

Shadow Divers

Robert Kurson

Creativity

Creativity

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Misbehavior of Markets

The Misbehavior of Markets

Benoit B. Mandelbrot & Richard L. Hudson

The History of Money

The History of Money

Jack Weatherford

The Act of Creation

The Act of Creation

Arthur Koestler

The Warrior Ethos

The Warrior Ethos

Steven Pressfield

Essays and Aphorisms

Essays and Aphorisms

Arthur Schopenhauer

The Dog Stars

The Dog Stars

Peter Heller

A Technique for Producing Ideas

A Technique for Producing Ideas

James Webb Young

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time

David Einhorn

Rise of the Robots

Rise of the Robots

Martin Ford

Lateral Thinking

Lateral Thinking

Edward de Bono

Adapt

Adapt

Tim Harford

The Professor in the Cage

The Professor in the Cage

Jonathan Gottschall

Last Chance to See

Last Chance to See

Douglas Adams

Negotiating the Impossible

Negotiating the Impossible

Deepak Malhotra

The One Sentence Persuasion Course

The One Sentence Persuasion Course

Blair Warren

Let Your Life Speak

Let Your Life Speak

Parker J. Palmer

Gratitude

Gratitude

Oliver Sacks

The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel A. van der Kolk

A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

Peter Bevelin

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Peter F. Drucker

The Snow Leopard

The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

Drunk Tank Pink

Drunk Tank Pink

Adam Alter

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Peter Matthiessen

Letters of Note

Letters of Note

Shaun Usher

Impro

Impro

Keith Johnstone

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