2025 Reading So Far (MastersInvest)

The @mastersinvest account’s “2025 Reading … so far” list, posted August 20, 2025. ★ marks the titles the curator bolded as “very good”.

The books

46 books; ✓ marks the ones Kyle has read.

• ★ Birkenstock — Andrea H. Schneider-Braunberger
• Boom — Bubbles & The End of Stagnation — Byrne Hobart, Tobias Huber ✓
• ★ Born of This Land — Chung Ju-yung
• ★ Breaking the Bank (Gary Hector) — Gary Hector
• ★ Call Me Ted — Ted Turner with Bill Burke
• ★ Copy This — Paul Orfalea and Ann Marsh
• ★ Designed to Win — Po Chung
• ★ DHL: Three Letters That Shrank the World — Jane Chung
• ★ Doing the Doing — Alan S. McKim
• Driven to Delight — Joseph A. Michelli
• ESPN The Company — Anthony F. Smith & Keith Hollihan
• Every Town Is a Sports Town — George Bodenheimer
• ★ Five and Ten — John K. Winkler
• From the Ground Up (Daniel Stoffman) — Daniel Stoffman
• ★ Gambler — Billy Walters
• ★ Harrison McCain — Single-Minded Purpose — Donald J. Savoie
• Inside Coca-Cola — Neville Isdell & David Beasley
• ★ Jimmy — An Autobiography — Jim Pattison with Paul Grescoe
• Life in a Putty-Knife Factory (Howard Hawkins) — Howard J. “Curly” Hawkins
• Master of the Game — Connie Bruck
• Mellon — An American Life — David Cannadine
• Pizza Tiger — Tom Monaghan with Robert Anderson
• Pleased but Not Satisfied — David L. Sokol
• Rethinking Investing — Charles D. Ellis
• Rolex: The Making of a Status Symbol — Pierre-Yves Donzé
• Selling ‘Em by the Sack — David Gerard Hogan
• Selling Steakburgers — Robert P. Cronin
• Simon Marks — Paul Bookbinder
• ★ Source Code — Bill Gates
• ★ Steel Titan — Robert Hessen
• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital — Carlota Perez
• ★ The Art Spirit — Robert Henri
• The Goodyear Story — Richard Korman
• The Joy of Costco — David Schwartz
• The Match King — Frank Partnoy
• The NASCAR Way — Robert G. Hagstrom
• ★ The Nvidia Way — Tae Kim
• ★ The Score Takes Care of Itself — Bill Walsh, with Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh
• ★ The Technological Republic — Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
• ★ The Warren Buffett CEO — Robert P. Miles
• ★ The Wright Brothers — David McCullough
• ★ Van Gogh: The Life — Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith
• Walk Through Fire — Sheila Johnson
• ★ Who Knew (Barry Diller) — Barry Diller
• ★ Working (Robert Caro) — Robert Caro
• Zero-Sum Game — Erika S. Olson

Connections

• 2025 Reading So Far… (tweet) — the original post, archived.
• Book Lists — Master