5 Books
The Warren Buffett Way: Lays out all the rules of thumb Buffett uses in his investing and walks the reader through them with case studies out of Buffett’s own investment portfolio.
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America: Surprisingly, Buffett has never written a book himself. Taken in total, however, his shareholder letters amount to the equivalent of several books—though, if read back-to-back, they suffer for the lack of an editor. Lawrence Cunningham solved that issue, going through the letters and organizing Buffett’s thoughts around topics
The Warren Buffett CEO: The Warren Buffett CEO is less about Buffett as an investor and more about him as a manager. The book shows how Buffett selects the CEOs for Berkshire’s many subsidiaries and how he oversees them. It tells that story through the Berkshire executives.
Dear Mr. Buffett: This is a Buffett book that really isn’t about Buffett, although he is one of the main characters. Janet Tavakoli is a structured finance expert whose previous books focus on collateralized debt obligations. She met with Buffett and, following the financial mess of 2009, started to see more value in Buffett’s philosophy and value investing methods.
The Snowball: The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom.