Full Reading List (Investor Field Guide)

TL;DR — The archive of every book Patrick O’Shaughnessy recommended in his monthly book emails from 2014 to 2016, with his description of each.

How much weight it carries: A personal recommendation archive — broad and idiosyncratic, well beyond investing. The live URL is gone; this copy is from the Wayback Machine’s December 2020 capture.

Local copy: investor-field-guide-full-reading-list.pdf

As Kyle captured it

• http://investorfieldguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Full-Reading-List.pdf - books-to-read

The books (110)

• The Act of Creation — Arthur Koestler
• The Tiger (John Vaillant) — John Vaillant (already on file)
• Shadow Divers — Robert Kurson
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship — Peter Drucker
• Creativity (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• A Technique for Producing Ideas — James Webb Young
• Essays and Lectures — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t — Steven Pressfield
• The Wayfinders — Wade Davis
• Essays and Aphorisms — Arthur Schopenhauer
• Double Your Profits In Six Months or Less — Bob Fifer
• Drunk Tank Pink — Adam Alter
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces — Joseph Campbell (already on file)
• The Snow Leopard — Peter Matthiessen
• Concentrated Investing (Allen C. Benello) — Allen C. Benello, Michael van Biema , Tobias E. Carlisle
• Brute — Robert Coram
• The Perfect Bet — Adam Kucharski
• Dear Chairman — Jeff Gramm
• At Play in the Fields of the Lord — Peter Matthiessen
• Norwegian Wood — Lars Mytting (already on file)
• When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi
• Capital Returns — Edward Chancellor
• Diffusion of Innovations — Everett M. Rogers
• Negotiating the Impossible — Deepak Malhotra
• Dao Capital — Mark Spitznagel (already on file)
• Deep Survival — Laurence Gonzales
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big — Scott Adams
• Consolations — David Whyte
• The One Sentence Persuasion Course — Blair Warren
• The Misbehavior of Markets — Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson (already on file)
• Quality Investing (Lawrence A. Cunningham) — Lawrence A. Cunningham, Torkell T. Eide, Patrick Hargreaves
• Fooling Some of the People All of the Time — David Einhorn
• Positioning (Al Ries) — Al Ries, Jack Trout
• Natural Born Heroes — Christopher Mcdougall
• Mastery (George Leonard) — George Leonard
• The Razor’s Edge — W. Somerset Maugham (already on file)
• Walking (Thoreau) — Henry David Thoreau
• The Writing Life — Annie Dillard
• Rise of the Robots — Martin Ford
• Self-Reliance (Emerson) — Ralph Waldo Emerson (already on file)
• Impro — Keith Johnstone (already on file)
• The Wisdom of Life — Arthur Schopenhauer
• The Dog Stars — Peter Heller
• The Art of Literature — Arthur Schopenhauer
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes
• Ham on Rye — Charles Bukowski
• Hackers & Painters — Paul Graham (already on file)
• Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life — Douglas T. Kenrick
• Thinking in Systems — Donella Meadows (already on file)
• Ask the Dust — John Fante
• Women (Charles Bukowski) — Charles Bukowski
• Breaking Smart — Venkatesh Rao
• The Etymologicon — Mark Forsyth
• The Dragons of Eden — Carl Sagan
• A Short History of Myth — Karen Armstrong
• Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
• The Money Game — Adam Smith (George Goodman) (already on file)
• Managing Oneself — Peter F. Drucker
• The Warrior Ethos — Steven Pressfield
• The Right Stuff — Tom Wolfe
• Let Your Life Speak — Parker J. Palmer
• Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari (read — recommendation noted)
• Thai Stick — Peter Maguire, Mike Ritter
• Successful Investing Is a Process — Jacques Lussier
• The Professor in the Cage — Jonathan Gottschall
• Value Investing (James Montier) — James Montier
• The Value Investors — Ronald Chan
• Einstein’s Dreams — Alan Lightman
• Last Chance to See — Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
• Tragedy and Hope — Carroll Quigley (already on file)
• The True Believer — Eric Hoffer (already on file)
• Letters of Note — Shaun Usher
• Asset Management (Andrew Ang) — Andrew Ang
• Incognito (David Eagleman) — David Eagleman
• Against the Gods — Peter L. Bernstein (already on file)
• Lateral Thinking — Edward de Bono
• A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes — Peter Bevelin
• Werner Herzog — A Guide for the Perplexed — Paul Cronin
• It’s Earnings That Count — Hewitt Heiserman
• The Accidental Universe — Alan Lightman
• Priceless — William Poundstone
• Scientific Advertising — Claude C. Hopkins
• Success (Martin Amis) — Martin Amis
• WAR (Sebastian Junger) — Sebastian Junger
• Zero To One — Peter Thiel (With Blake Masters) (read — recommendation noted)
• The Lights in the Tunnel — Martin Ford
• The Upanishads — Eknath Easwaran
• Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (already on file)
• The Robert Collier Letter Book — Robert Collier
• A Year with Rumi — Coleman Barks
• Deep Value (Tobias Carlisle) — Tobias Carlisle
• The Outsiders — William N. Thorndike (already on file)
• The Prize — The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power — Daniel Yergin (already on file)
• The Fourth Revolution — John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
• The Fish That Ate the Whale — Rich Cohen (already on file)
• The Essays of Warren Buffett — Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (already on file)
• The First Crash — Richard Dale
• The River of Doubt — Candice Millard (already on file)
• Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace (already on file)
• Rational Expectations — William Bernstein
• As One Is — Jiddu Krishnamurti
• What Works on Wall Street — James O’Shaughnessy
• Inside the Investor’s Brain — Richard Peterson (already on file)
• Contrarian Investment Strategies — David Dreman (already on file)
• Devil Take the Hindmost — Edward Chancellor (already on file)
• Saving Capitalism From Short-Termism — Alfred Rappaport
• The Most Important Thing — Howard Marks
• The History of Money — Jack Weatherford (already on file)
• Boyd — Robert Coram (already on file)
• Adapt — Tim Harford (already on file)

Books on this list Kyle has read

Titles on this list that Kyle has already read.

• Essays (Emerson) ✓

Connections

• PDF Collection — Master

Saved again — April 24th, 2020

• http://investorfieldguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Full-Reading-List.pdf - books-to-read

A second capture of the same PDF, tagged #books-to-read. The books were already split into anti-library cards on 2026-09-26; no new cards.