The 35 books Warren Buffett has publicly recommended, with the source for each
Every book Warren Buffett has publicly recommended that Cabeceira has managed to document. Each with a link to the original source.
The internet is full of "books Warren Buffett recommends" lists. Almost none of them say where each title came from. Without the source, there is no way to know whether he really recommended it, when, or in what context.
Here, the criterion is different: only books with a documented source are included. Each of the 35 titles below comes with a link to the Berkshire Hathaway annual letter, interview, or shareholder-meeting video where the recommendation appears. Anyone who wants to check can do so.
The list is not a ranking. It is an inventory of the public recommendations by Buffett that Cabeceira has catalogued up to the cutoff date, in alphabetical order by Portuguese title.
- No. 1The science of hittingTed Williams
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 2The making of the president, 1960Theodore H. White
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 3Shoe Dog (Young Readers Edition)Phil Knight
5 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 4Poor Charlie's almanackCharlie Munger
11 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 5The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyJohn Maynard Keynes
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 6A short history of nearly everythingBill Bryson
2 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 7Bull!Maggie Mahar
2 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 8Paths to wealth through common stocksPhilip A. Fisher
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 9How To Win Friends And Influence PeopleDale Carnegie
7 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 10In an Uncertain WorldRobert Rubin
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 11Take on the StreetArthur Levitt
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 12Essays In PersuasionJohn Maynard Keynes
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 13Personal HistoryKatharine Graham
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 14WinningJack Welch
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 15Keeping at ItPaul A. Volcker
3 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 16Warren Buffett CEORobert P. Miles
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 17Clash of the CulturesJohn C. Bogle
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 18The great crash, 1929.John Kenneth Galbraith
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 19The Intelligent InvestorBenjamin Graham
3 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 20Where are the customers' yachts?Fred Schwed
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 21The little book of common sense investingJohn C. Bogle
2 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 22Les Schwab Pride in PerformanceLes Schwab
2 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 23Smartest Guys in the RoomBethany McLean
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 24First a dreamJim Clayton
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 25Supermoney (Wiley Investment Classics)Adam Smith
2 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 26Nuclear TerrorismGraham Allison
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
See recommendations and sources → - No. 27the farmer from mernaKarl Schriftgiesser
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
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The data comes from Cabeceira's catalog, not from third-party lists. Each row corresponds to a recommendation recorded in our database, attributed to Warren Buffett, with its own source. The query was run on July 29, 2026.
Included are primary book recommendations whose source has not been rejected by the curation team. In practice, this includes sources already verified manually and sources still in the verification queue; excluded are 12 recommendations whose source the team reviewed and considered invalid. This is the same convention used in the first published Caderno, while automated source checking runs in observation mode.
None of the 35 recommendations has a year recorded in the database. That is why no year appears for any item: we prefer to omit the information rather than invent a date from the URL (the letter "2011ltr.pdf" suggests 2011, but that would be a guess, not a record). And the list covers what we have catalogued from Buffett, nothing beyond that. As the catalog grows, the list grows with it.
The link next to each title leads to the original source: the letter, the interview, or the video. The 12 recommendations with rejected sources remain in the review queue and will return here if a valid source is found.
Written by Adam Reis, founder and editorial lead at Cabeceira. Revised Jul 2026. Found a number that looks wrong? Send a correction.