This book list consists of books that have been mentioned in past podcast episodes. Some of the books have been mentioned in discussion between Cameron and Ben, while others are the books authored by past podcast guests.
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Episode 3)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Episode 4, Episode 11, Episode 17, Episode 38, Episode 82, Episode 167)
The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning by David Barr Chilton (Episode 10, Episode 14, Episode 35)
Fortune’s Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II (Episode 13)
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz (Episode 13)
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck (Episode 13)
Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side by Howard Marks (Episode 16)
The Smartest Sales Book You’ll Ever Read: The Truth About Successful Selling by Daniel R. Solin (Episode 17)
Long Road to Boston by Mark Sutcliffe (Episode 18)
The Wealthy Renter: How to Choose Housing That Will Make You Rich by Alex Avery (Episode 21)
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth (Episode 22)
The Investment Answer: Learn to Manage Your Money & Protect Your Financial Future by Gordon Murray and Daniel C. Goldie (Episode 26, Episode 227)
Sit Still and Prosper: How a Former Money Manager Discovered the Path to Investing with Greater Clarity, Calmness and Confidence by Stephanie Griffiths (Episode 27)
Your Complete Guide to a Successful and Secure Retirement by Larry Swedroe and Kevin Grogan (Episode 30)
Your Retirement Quest by Alan Specter (Episode 30)
Winning the Loser’s Game by Charles D. Ellis (Episode 27, Episode 30, Episode 61)
The Incredible Shrinking Alpha by Larry Swedroe (Episode 30)
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz (Episode 32)
Bogle on Mutual Funds by John C. Bogle (Episode 33)
The Victory Lap Retirement by Mike Drak and Jonathan Chevreau (Episode 35)
Unconventional Success by David F. Swensen (Episode 35)
Pensionize Your Nest Egg by Moshe A. Milevsky and Alexandra C. Macqueen (Episode 35, Episode 59, Episode 122)
Enough: True Measures of Money, Business and Life by John C. Bogle (Episode 35)
Team of Teams: New Rules for Engagement For a Complex World by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins and David Silverman with Chris Fussell (Episode 36)
Fight Back: 81 Ways to Help You Save Money and Protect Yourself from Corporate Trickery by Ellen Roseman (Episode 51)
Beat the Bank: The Canadian Guide to Simply Successful Investing by Larry Bates (Episode 51)
Stop Overthinking Your Money by Preet Banerjee (Episode 53)
How to Think About Money by Jonathan Clements (Episode 55)
From Here to Financial Happiness: Enrich Your Life in Just 77 Days by Jonathan Clements (Episode 55)
Bailout Nation by Barry Ritholtz (Episode 57)
How We Know What Isn’t So by Thomas Gilovich (Episode 57)
The Fama Portfolio by Eugene F. Fama (Episode 66)
Marriageology by Belinda Luscombe (Episode 67)
The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money: Thirteen Ways to Right Your Financial Wrongs by Jill Schlesinger (Episode 67)
Quantitative Momentum: A Practitioner's Guide to Building a Momentum-Based Stock Selection System by Wesley R. Gray and Jack R. Vogel (Episode 69, Episode 185)
Quantitative Value, + Web Site: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors by Wesley Gray and Tobias Carlisle (Episode 69, Episode 185)
Reverse Mortgages: How to Reverse Mortgages to Secure Your Retirement by Wade Pfau (Episode 72)
The Laws of Wealth by Daniel Crosby (Episode 75)
The Behavioral Investor by Daniel Crosby (Episode 75)
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis (Episode 76, Episode 82, Episode 85)
MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins (Episode 76)
Lifecycle Investing by Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff (Episode 76)
Your Complete Guide to Factor Based Investing by Andrew L Berkin and Larry E Swedroe (Episode 30, Episode 78)
What You Do is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz (Episode 80)
The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger (Episode 84)
Serious Shift by Dennis Moseley-Williams (Episode 85)
Safety-First Retirement Planning by Wade Pfau (Episode 86, Episode 89)
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph (Episode 86)
Your Money and Your Brain by Jason Zweig (Episode 86)
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by The Creator of Nike by Phil Knight (Episode 86)
An Economist Walks Into a Brothel by Allison Schrager (Episode 87)
How Much Can I Spend in Retirement? by Wade Pfau (Episode 86, Episode 89)
Master You Mortgage for Financial Freedom by Robinson Smith (Episode 91)
The Smith Maneuver by Fraser Smith (Episode 91)
Advice that Sticks by Dr. Moira Somers (Episode 45, Episode 92)
Decisive by Chip Heath (Episode 38, Episode 92)
Science of Fear by Daniel Gardner (Episode 94)
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (Episode 94)
How Not to Die by Michael Greger, MD (Episode 94)
Playing with Fire by Scott Rieckens (Episode 95)
The Simple Path to Wealth by J L Collins (Episode 95)
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman (Episode 72, Episode 97)
The Greatest Trade Ever by Gregory Zuckerman (Episode 97)
Rising Above by Gregory Zuckerman (Episode 97)
The Great Mental Models Vol. 1 by Shane Parrish (Episode 98)
The Great Mental Models Vol. 2 by Shane Parrish (Episode 98)
Smarter, Faster, Better: The Secrets of Being Productive by Charles Duhigg (Episode 10, Episode 13, Episode 98)
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (Episode 98)
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller by Jeff Robin (Episode 98)
Millionaire Teacher by Andrew Hallam (Episode 99, Episode 186)
Millionaire Expat by Andrew Hallam (Episode 99, Episode 186)
The International Living Guide to Retiring Oversees on a Budget by Suzan Haskins (Episode 99)
The Geometry of Wealth by Brian Portnoy (Episode 85, Episode 101, Episode 102, Episode 126, Episode 227)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig (Episode 101)
The Investor’s Paradox by Brian Portnoy (Episode 102)
The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz (Episode 102)
The Four Pillars of Investing by William J. Bernstein (Episode 103, Episode 105, Episode 108)
Rational Expectations by William J. Bernstein (Episode 103, Episode 108)
The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William J. Bernstein (Episode 103, Episode 108)
Economics for Everyone by Jim Stanford (Episode 103, Episode 106)
The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar (Episode 103)
The Real Retirement: Why You Could Be Better Off Than You Think, and How to Make That Happen by Fred Vettese and Bill Morneau (Episode 104)
Retirement Income for Life by Fred Vettese (Episode 104, Episode 227)
The Essential Retirement Guide by Fred Vettese (Episode 104)
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty and Arthur Goldhammer (Episode 105)
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown (Episode 107)
The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein (Episode 108)
The Four Pillars of Investing by William Bernstein (Episode 108)
Rational Expectations by William Bernstein (Episode 108)
Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Money and Finance by Cullen Roche (Episode 109, Episode 195)
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump Ph.D. (Episode 111)
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Issac (Episode 111)
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence by Stephen A. Schwarzman (Episode 111, Episode 113)
Am I Being Too Subtle? Straight Talk From A Business Rebel by Sam Zell (Episode 111)
The Golden Constant: The English and American Experience, 1560-1976 by Roy William Jastram (Episode 111, Episode 113)
Bloomberg by Bloomberg by Michael R. Bloomberg (Episode 113)
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy by Robert H. Frank (Episode 113, Episode 230)
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters (Episode 115)
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Built Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear (Episode 115, Episode 187)
The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing by Francis Coppola (Episode 115)
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu (Episode 115, Episode 117)
Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors by Mark Hebner (Episode 27, Episode 116)
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy For Successful Investing by Burton G. Malkiel (Episode 116, Episode 184)
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (Little Book. Big Profits) by John C. Bogle (Episode 116)
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All The Facts by Annie Duke (Episode 117, Episode 120)
How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices by Annie Duke (Episode 117, Episode 120)
Who Is Michael Ovitz? by Michael Ovitz (Episode 117)
Investor Behavior by H. Kent Baker and Victor Ricciardi (Episode 118)
Financial Behavior by H. Kent Baker and Victor Ricciardi (Episode 118)
Psychology of the Stock Market by G. C. Selden (Episode 118)
Open by Andre Agassi (Episode 119)
Succession Planning for Financial Advisors: Building an Enduring Business by David Grau (Episode 119)
Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner (Episode 120)
Expert Political Judgement by Philip E. Tetlock (Episode 120)
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital by Carlota Perez (Episode 121, Episode 123)
Start With Why by Simon Sinek (Episode 121)
Are You a Stock or a Bond? by Moshe Milevsky (Episode 122)
Retirement Income Recipes in R by Moshe Milevksy (Episode 122)
The 7 Most Important Equations for Your Retirement by Moshe Milevsky (Episode 122)
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko (Episode 123)
How I Invest My Money: Financial experts reveal how they save, spend, and invest by Joshua Brown and Brian Portnoy (Episode 125, Episode 126)
Time Smart by Ashley Whillans (Episode 125, Episode 181)
Lifetime Financial Advice by Roger G. Ibbotson, Kevin X. Zhu and Peng Chen (Episode 125)
Backstage Wall Street by Joshua Brown (Episode 126)
Clash of the Financial Pundits by Joshua Brown and Jeff Macke (Episode 126)
Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth by Nick Murray (Episode 126)
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin (Episode 127)
Purple Cow by Seth Godin (Episode 127)
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel (Episode 128, Episode 130, Episode 191, Episode 225)
The Great Depression: A Diary by Benjamin Roth (Episode 128, Episode 195)
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein (Episode 134)
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant (Episode 136, Episode 166)
We're Talking Millions!: 12 Simple Ways To Supercharge Your Retirement by Paul Merriman (Episode 142, Episode 227)
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance (Episode 142)
Values: Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney (Episode 142)
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt (Episode 144, Episode 170, Episode 181)
Life Two by Don Ezra (Episode 155, Episode 181)
Happiness by Don Ezra (Episode 155, Episode 181)
How to Change by Katy Milkman (Episode 156, Episode 161, Episode 181)
Factfulness by Hans Rosling (Episode 156)
The Coffeehouse Investor's Ground Rules by Bill Schultheis (Episode 156, Episode 181, Episode 225)
The Fundamental Index: A Better Way to Invest by Jason C. Hsu, John M. West , Robert D. Arnott (Episode 157)
Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone (Episode 158)
The Coffeehouse Investor by Bill Schultheis (Episode 159)
The Coffeehouse Investor’s Ground Rules by Bill Schultheis (Episode 159)
The Only Winning Investment Strategy You Will Ever Need by Bill Schultheis (Episode 159)
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Episode 160)
The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman (Episode 162)
Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing by Hersh Shefrin (Episode 167, Episode 181)
Behavioral Corporate Finance by Hersh Shefrin (Episode 167)
DeFi and the Future of Finance by Campbell Harvey, Ashwin Ramachandran, Joey Santoro (Episode 168, Episode 171)
Blockchain Bubble or Revolution: The Future of Bitcoin, Blockchains, and Cryptocurrencies by Neel Mehta, Aditya Agashe, Parth Detroja (Episode 168)
Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending by Elizabeth Dunn and Dr. Michael Norton (Episode 170)
Positive Psychology by John Zelenski (Episode 170)
The Great Mental Models Volume 3: Systems and Mathematics by Rhiannon Beaubien and Rosie Leizrowice (Episode 170)
Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment by Charles D. Ellis (Episode 172)
Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever by Robin Wigglesworth (Episode 172, Episode 174, Episode 181, Episode 182, Episode 184)
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke (Episode 172, Episode 177, Episode 181)
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society by Azeem Azhar (Episode 172)
Popularity: A Bridge Between Classical and Behavioural Finance by Roger G. Ibbotson, Thomas M. Idzorek, Paul D. Kaplan and James X. Xiong (Episode 174)
The Wisest Investment: Teaching Your Kids to Be Responsible, Independent and Money-Smart for Life by Robin Taub (Episode 175, Episode 181, Episode 185)
The Heart of Business by Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert (Episode 176)
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr (Episode 178)
We Need To Talk: A Memoir About Wealth by Jennifer Risher (Episode 181)
The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark (Episode 183)
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross (Episode 185)
Balance: How to Invest and Spend for Happiness, Health, and Wealth by Andrew Hallam (Episode 186, Episode 225)
The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle (Episode 187)
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink (Episode 187)
Get It Done: Surprising Lessons From The Science Of Motivation by Ayelet Fishbach (Episode 187)
The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (Episode 187)
Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers by Chip Heath and Karla Starr (Episode 189, Episode 191, Episode 249)
Humbitious: The Power of Low-Ego, High-Drive Leadership by Amer Kaissi (Episode 189, Episode 231)
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink (Episode 189, Episode 246)
Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking by Leonard Mlodinow (Episode 190)
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow (Episode 190)
Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit by Alex Edmans (Episode 192)
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari (Episode 193)
Portfolio Selection: Efficient Diversification of Investments by Harry M. Markowitz (Episode 193)
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State by William H. Janeway (Episode 194)
The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All by Mary Childs (Episode 195)
The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively by Todd B. Kashdan (Episode 197)
Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Danny Meyer (Episode 199)
The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills by Jesse Singal (Episode 201)
Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least by Antti Ilmanen (Episode 202)
Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards by Antti Ilmanen (Episode 202)
The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale by John List (Episode 204)
Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse (Episode 205)
You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion, and Why It Matters by Vanessa Bohns (Episode 206)
Ask: How to Relate to Anyone by Daniel R. Solin (Episode 207)
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't by Julia Galef (Episode 207)
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive by Bruce Schneier (UC Episode 6)
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier (UC Episode 6)
Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo by Rebecca Walker (Episode 208)
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (Episode 209, Episode 249)
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth by Amy C. Edmondson (Episode 211)
Way of the Warrior Kid 3: Where there's a Will... by Jocko Willink (Episode 213)
Running Remote: Master the Lessons from the World’s Most Successful Remote-Work Pioneers by Liam Martin & Rob Rawson (Episode 215)
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle (Episode 217)
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker (Episode 221)
If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly by William J Bernstein (Episode 225)
Think, Act, and Invest Like Warren Buffett by Larry Swedroe (Episode 225)
Common Sense on Mutual Funds by John C. Bogle & David F. Swensen (Episode 227)
Money Like You Mean It: Personal Finance Tactics for the Real World by Erica Alini (Episode 227, Episode 242)
The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters by Eric J. Johnson (Episode 229)
The Surfer and the Sage: A Guide to Survive and Ride Life's Waves by Noah BenShea & Shaun Tomson (Episode 235)
Using Behavioral Science in Marketing by Nancy Harhut (Episode 237)
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett (Episode 239)
The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It by Will Storr (Episode 245)
The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday (Episode 249)
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