If you’ve been here before, you know that we place a very high value on reading.
I believe it to be one of the best and most cost-effective ways to learn, grow, and improve your life.
I am forever thankful that my financial situation affords me the time and energy to spend large amounts of my time reading, learning, and writing. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without the small business Berkshire we’ve built over the last few years.
So let’s get to it: Here’s everything I read in 2022!
(Scroll past the list for trends and recommendations)
The 2022 Reading List
1) Genome
2) Wintersmith
3) Rationality
4) I Shall Wear Midnight
5) Titan
6) The Psychology of Money
7) Cracking Complexity
8) Dark Money
9) Beyond Biocentrism
10) The Shepherd’s Crown
11) Unbound
12) Artemis
13) The Last Continent
14) The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
15) The Bed of Procrustes
16) Noise
17) Successful Aging
18) Abundance
19) The Golden Compass
20) Their Eyes Were Watching God
21) Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
22) The White Album
23) The Little Book Of Behavioral Investing
24) On Bullshit
25) Monstrous Regiment
26) Unseen Academicals
27) The Last Man Who Knew Everything
28) Infinite Powers
29) The Little Book Of Valuation
30) The Subtle Knife
31) Grendel
32) Beowulf
33) The Screwtape Letters
34) A Book Forged in Hell
35) The Art Of War
36) The Prince
37) 100 Ways To Create Wealth
38) Divergent Mind
39) The Amber Spyglass
40) Why Had Nobody Told Me This Before
41) Heaven and Hell
42) How to Talk To Anyone
43) What I Believe
44) The Alchemist
45) The Sandman, Act I, Audible Original
46) Value Investing Made Easy
47) The Voyage of the Beagle
48) The Origin of Conciseness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
49) Lords and Ladies
50) Marketing Made Simple
51) Empire of Imagination
52) The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
53) Valuation
54) The Innovators
55) The Multiplier Model
56) The Lost Art of Listening
57) The Greatest Mystery In The World
58) Small Giants
59) Scipio Africanus
60) Neurofitness
61) The Intelligent Asset Allocator
62) Multipliers
63) The Power of Creative Destruction
64) Packing for Mars
65) Mastering The Market Cycle
66) The Most Important Thing
67) The Little Book Of Stock Market Cycles
68) The Intelligence Trap
69) Simply Keynes
70) Universal Man
71) Warren Buffett on Business
72) Blue fishing
73) How to Measure Anything
74) The Socratic Method
75) I Am A Strange Loop
76) The Ends of the World
77) The Secret to Our Success
78) Captivate
79) Insight
80) Maskerade
81) Carpe Jugulum
82) Witches Abroad
83) Mort
84) The Unsettling of America
85) Damn Right!
86) Invisible Cities
87) Warren Buffet Speaks
88) The Compound Effect
89) I Contain Multitudes
90) Blog, Inc
91) Latticework
Trends
Terry Pratchett
Pratchett continues to be my favorite fiction writer.
His satirical world, called Discworld, is both deep and wide. There are plenty of books to keep you going and his wit is sharp and real. There are few things finer than really good satire and this definitely fits the mold.
Books By Pratchett from this list:
- Wintersmith
- I Shall Wear Midnight
- The Shepard’s Crown
- The Last Continent
- Monstrous Regiment (One of my favorite fiction books, full stop)
- Unseen Academicals
- Lords and Ladies
- Maskerade
- Carpe Jugulum
- Witches Abroad
- Mort
If you’re going to check out Pratchett for the first time, don’t follow this order. Look up a reading guide. I use this one.
Business and Investing
Most of my fiction reading for the year was dedicated to my tour through the Discworld.
But I still managed to add to both my business and my investing knowledge banks as well.
Here are the books that taught me something:
- The Psychology of Money
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Please don’t. This one’s for the nerds.)
- The Bed of Procrustes (by Taleb, author of Antifragile which is one of my favorites)
- Noise
- The Little Book of Behavioral Investing
- The Little Book of Valuation* (If you’re going to pick individual stocks, read this. If you can’t get your head around this, get out of the pool. Business valuation does not get any simpler than this. This also made it to the top shelf).
- Valuation
- The Power of Creative Destruction
- How to Measure Anything* (Top Shelf. Should be required reading in all business schools. Even if you only read it conceptually)
- Marketing Made Simple* (Another Top Shelf addition).
General Life Improvements
These are books that have just hit differently. I judge that my life is better, or that I am a better person for having read them.
- Rationality
- The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
- I Am A Strange Loop* (Top shelf and a truly beautiful book)
- Latticework
Top Shelf Books
I keep a shelf in my office for the really special, changed-the-trajectory-of-my-life books. It’s got to be a very special book to make it to this shelf.
Here are the ones from 2022 that did:
- The Little Book of Valuation
- How to Measure Anything
- Marketing Made Simple
- I Am A Strange Loop
Closing Thoughts
All-in-all, a good year for reading.
I came in a little below my normal goal of reading at least 100 books in the year, but… life, ya know?
Here’s to page-filled 2023!
