School of Capital

The Investor's Canon

Nothing here is advice, and nothing here is a shortcut. These are the books the founding investors would hand you first.

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I. The Canon

Before any course, any newsletter, any tip: these.

• The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham. Margin of safety and Mr. Market. The book Buffett calls the best ever written on investing.
• Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charles T. Munger — Stripe Press edition. Munger’s mental models, collected. Worldly wisdom as a discipline.
• One Up on Wall Street — Peter Lynch. Invest in what you can understand and verify. The friendliest serious book here.
• The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel. Behavior beats brilliance. Why good investing is mostly temperament.
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street — Burton G. Malkiel. The strongest case for humility — and for index funds — ever assembled.

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