HOME ABOUT FOCUS TEAM INVESTMENTS IDEAS & BOOKS CONTACT Books Below is a list of books and papers we found to be thought provoking. 12 Rules for Life Jordan Peterson AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order Kai-Fu Lee Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back Elisabeth Rosenthal American Diplomacy George Kennan Andrew Carnegie Joseph Frazier Wall Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy The Art of Thinking Clearly Rolf Dubelli Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield Gayle Lemmon Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific Robert Kaplan The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin The Awakening Kate Chopin The Battle for New York Barnet Schecter Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Walter Isaacson Big Data Viktor Mayer-Schonberger The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis Blink Malcolm Gladwell The Brain That Changes Itself Norman Doidge, MD A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist Roger Lowenstein Casino Royale Ian Fleming A Charge to Keep George W. Bush The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right Atul Gawande Churchill Paul Johnson The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History Boris Johnson Civilization: The West and The Rest Niall Ferguson Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee Michael Korda Comeback Dave Dravecky Crime and Punishment Fydor Dostoyevsky The Crisis of Global Capitalism George Soros The DaVinci Code Dan Brown 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary Robert L. Grenier Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism Jeff Gramm The Decline of Bismarck’s European Order George Kennan Democracy In America Alexis De Tocqueville Destined for War Graham Allison The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns Mohnish Pabrai The Dressmaker of Khair Khana Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Duty Robert Gates The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment Guy Spier Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done Peter Drucker Ego is the Enemy Ryan Holiday Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Ashlee Vance Emotions Revealed Paul Ekman The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee Empire Falls Richard Russo Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power Niall Ferguson Every War Must End Fred Charles Ikle The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Brad Stone The Evolution of Cooperation Robert Axelrod Faith of My Fathers John McCain Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader Frank Partnoy Finnegan’s Wake James Joyce Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression Amity Shlaes The Fountainhead Ayn Rand The Fourth Turning William Strauss and Neil Howe Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt Freedom at Midnight Larry Collins From Third World to First: The Singapore Story Lee Kuan Yew A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring John Wooden Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters Matt Ridley George F. Keenan: An American Life John Lewis Gaddis George Washington’s America: A Biography Through His Maps Barnet Schecter Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell Good to Great Jim Collins Grant Ron Chernow The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge David McCullough Grit Angela Duckworth Hamilton Ron Chernow Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia Michael Korda The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell The Hidden Messages in Water Masaru Emoto High Performance Habits Brendon Burchard Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari The House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoyevsky How the Other Half Banks Mehrsa Baradaran Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know that Brilliant Machines Never Will Geoff Colvin Ice Age: The Theory That Came In From The Cold! John and Mary Gribbin In an Uncertain World Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Robert Cialdini In Love and War Admiral James Stockdale In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of The Twentieth Century Anthony Mayo and Nitin Nohria The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing Benjamin Graham Into Thin Air Jon Karkauer Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Sheryl Sandberg Lenin: A Biography Robert Service Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson The Lesson of History Will & Ariel Durant Lessons of the Lotus: Practical Spiritual Teachings of a Travelling Buddhist Monk Bhante Wimala Life Keith Richards Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Re-Made American Garry Willis Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 Marcus Lattrell Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way Richard Branson Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor Seth Klarman Marlon Brando Patricia Bosworth Meditations Marcus Aurelius Memoirs David Rockefeller Models of My Life Herbert Simon The Mountain Shadow Gregory David Roberts The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor Howard Marks A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway Mushashi: An Epic Movel of the Samurai Era Eiji Yoshikawa My Share of the Task General Stanley McChrystal The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else Hernando De Soto A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat Zell Miller Night Elie Wiesel No Lost Causes Alvaro Uribe Velez The Obstacle is the Way Ryan Holiday On China Henry Kissenger On Kindness Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines – and Future Karen Elliot House On The Road Jack Kerouac One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Only the Paranoid Survive Andy Grove Outsiders: 8 Unconventional CEO’s and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success William Thorndike Jr. Personal History Katherine Graham Personal Transformation: An Executive’s Story of Struggle and Spiritual Awakening Kiril Sokoloff Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger Peter D. Kaufman The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale Principles Ray Dalio The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power Daniel Yergin Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife Eben Alexander The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley The Revenge of Geography Robert Kaplan The Road to Character David Brooks The SAIC Solution Dr. J Robert Beyster Sam Walton: Made in America John Huey & Sam Walton Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks Joshua Cooper Ramo Shantaram Gregory David Roberts The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Ray Kurweil The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Christopher Clark The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life Alice Schroeder The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage Ernest Shackleton Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting Robert McKee The Story of My Life Helen Keller The Strong Shall Live Louis L’Amour A Study of History Arnold Toynbee Teams of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World General Stanley McChrystal Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in the Age of Information Robert Wright A Time is Born Garet Garrett The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings Peggy Noonan Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Ron Chernow Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman There’s No Such Thing as a Dragon Jack Kent The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell To Tame a Land Louis L’Amour The Trouble With Prosperity: A Contrarian’s Tale of Moon, Bust, and Speculation James Grant True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership Bill George Truman David McCullough The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds Michael Lewis Ulysses James Joyce Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment David Swenson The Violent Bear it Away Flannery O’Connor War and Peace Leo Tolsey Washington: A Life Ron Chernow The Washingtons: George and Martha Flora Fraser The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction Rebecca Costa W. E. B. Du Bois 1919-1963: The Fight For Equality and the American Century David Levering Lewis When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management Roger Lowenstein When Men Were Boys: An Informal Portrait of Dean William Tate John W. English and Rob Williams Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family Gary Pomerantz WHO Geoff Smart What Makes and Effective Executive (Harvard Business Review Article) Peter Drucker The Wild Wheel Garet Garett Wooden on Leadership John Wooden and Steve Jameson Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court John Wooden and Steve Jameson Battle Investment Group, LLC is a private investment management firm focused on the North American defense, government, aerospace, telecommunications, and industrial markets. Disclaimer Terms and Conditions of Use Online Privacy Policy © 2021 Battle Investment Group, LLC all rights reserved.