2024 Reading List

This past year, I set a personal goal to read at least 30 books on business with a focus on finance to gauge my interest in this subject. Books on finance had been particularly influential in previous years and I wanted to explore and related topics further. As I continued reading, I found myself drawn to books by successful entrepreneurs to learn from their experiences, as well as case studies of failed businesses to understand common pitfalls.

Through this journey, I’ve deepened my understanding of business, accounting, and finance, which has only strengthened my desire to keep learning about these subjects. In 2024, I also took the first steps toward writing a business plan, applying what I have learned to shape my future venture’s mission and goals.

Beyond business and finance, I love reading books that expand my knowledge in various subjects. Of course, I can't forget my favorite genre—spy thrillers! This year I read 78 books. Check out my 2024 reading list below to see what I’ve read this year.

January

  1. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

  2. Kissinger, by Walter Isaacson

  3. Adventures of the wine trade, Kermit Lynch

February

  1. Red Warning, by Matthew Quirk

  2. What I Learned from Investing from Darwin, by Pulak Prasad

  3. Value Averaging, by Michael Edleson

  4. Endurance, by Alfred Lansing (re-read)

March

  1. Relationships, by John Maxwell

  2. Intimate Relationships, by Marianne Williams

  3. Building Family Relationships, by Stephen Covey

  4. 8 keys to Building Your Best Relationships, by Daniel Hughes

  5. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, by Peter Bevelin

  6. Emotional Intelligence, by Bob Mills

  7. Inside threat, by Matthew Quirk

  8. Retirement 101, by Michelle Cagan

  9. Start Your Own Corporation: Why the Rich Own Their Own Companies and Everyone Else Works for Them, by Garrett Sutton

April

  1. Accounting for Non-Accountants, by Wayne Label

  2. A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Burton G. Malkiel

  3. How to Think about Money, by Jon Clements

  4. The Investor Manifesto, by William Bernstein

  5. Your Money and Your Brain, by Jason Zweig

  6. The next millionaire next door, by Thomas and Sarah Stanley

  7. Little Book of Big Dividends, by Charles Carlson

  8. The Darwin Economy, by Robert Frank

  9. The Nature of Investing, by Katharine Collins

May

  1. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, by Eric Ries

  2. The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin

  3. Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements, by Mary Buffett

  4. Irrational Exuberance, by Robert Shiller

  5. Narrative Economics, by Robert Shiller

  6. Warren Buffett and the Art of Stock Arbitrage, by Mary Buffett

  7. Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting From the Jomon Period, by Enthralling History

  8. Family Trusts: A Guide for Beneficiaries, Trustees, Trust Protectors, and Trust Creators, by Hartley Goldstone, James Hughes, and Keith Whitaker

  9. The Tao of Warren Buffett, by Mary Buffett & David Clark

June

  1. Raising Kids in Today's Digital Age, by Bully Ekine-Ogunlana

  2. History of Japan, by R. H. P. Mason & J. G. Caiger

July

  1. Stocks for the Long Run, by Jeremy Siegel

  2. Behavioral Finance and Your Portfolio, by Michael Pompian

  3. The Theory of Human Motivation, by Abraham Maslow

  4. Towards a Psychology of Being, by Abraham Maslow

  5. Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences, by Abraham Maslow

  6. Taxes for Small Businesses, by Nicholas Regan

  7. One Up on Wall Street, by Peter Lynch

  8. Learn to Earn, by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild

  9. Poor Charlie’s Almanack, by Charles Munger

August

  1. Simply Schrodinger, by John Gribbin

  2. Behavioral Economics, by David Orrell

  3. The Economics consequences of Peace, by John Maynard Keynes

  4. Economics in America, by Angus Deaton

  5. Quantum Theory, by John Polkinghorne

  6. Applied Economics, by Thomas Sowell

  7. Quantum bullshit, Chris Ferrie

  8. Quantum Computing, Brian Clegg

  9. Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics, by Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon

September

  1. The Little Book of Valuation, by Aswath Damodaran

  2. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It, by Arthur Herman

  3. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley

  4. Chip Wars, by Chris Miller

October

  1. Quantum Entanglement, by Jef Brody

  2. LLC Beginners Guide, by Thomas Newton

  3. Thinking in Systems, by Donells Meadows

  4. How to Win with Machine Learning, by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb

  5. The Big Three in Economics, By Mark Skousen

  6. The World According to Physics, by Jim Al-Khalili

  7. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared M. Diamond

  8. Computational Thinking, by Peter Denning & Matti Tedre

  9. DeFi and the Future of Finance, by Campbell R. Harvey, Ashwin Ramachandran, and Joey Santoro

November

  1. The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg

  2. Peak Mind, by Amishi Jha

  3. M.B.A. in a Book, by Joel kurtzman

  4. How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, by Bill Gates

  5. The Bond King, by Mary Childs

  6. How to do Nothing, by Jenny Odell

December

  1. How to be Perfect, by Michael Schur

  2. The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy, by Robert Hagstrom

  3. Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company, by Andrew S. Grove

  4. Atomic Habits, by James Clear

  5. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, by David Landes