The Reading Room

Book recommendations from 10th Annual Value Investor Conference 2013

• Management Smarts (Listen, Think, Act) by Ted Cohn
• The Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel Pink
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials) by Robert Cialdini
• WAYMISH Why Are You Making It So Hard…for me to give you money? By Ray Considine, Ted Cohn, Lee Tomlinson, and Chris Considine
• The Warren Buffett CEO: Secrets of the Berkshire Hathaway Managers by Robert Miles
• Warren Buffett’s Successor: Who It Is and Why It Matters by Jeff Matthews
• Secrets in Plain Sight: Business & Investing Secrets of Warren Buffett by Jeff Matthews
• The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean
• All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
• What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Developing a Highly Successful Company by Barnett Helzberg and Barnett C. Helzberg Jr.
• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
• The Investment Checklist: The Art of In-Depth Research by Michael Shearn
• Dare To Be Great by Howard Marks. Link to Memo: http://www.oaktreecapital.com/MemoTree/
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• The Templeton Touch by William Proctor and Scott Phillips
• The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks

Books for your Value Investing Library

* denotes Value Investor Conference speaker  ** denotes Summit Series speaker