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.
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- No. 2The making of the president, 1960Theodore H. White
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
- No. 3A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers From Warren BuffettPeter Bevelin
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
- No. 6The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyJohn Maynard Keynes
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
- No. 8A short history of nearly everythingBill Bryson
2 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
- No. 10Paths to wealth through common stocksPhilip A. Fisher
1 person has recommended this book on Cabeceira.
- No. 11How To Win Friends And Influence PeopleDale Carnegie
7 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
- No. 25The little book of common sense investingJohn C. Bogle
2 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
- No. 30Supermoney (Wiley Investment Classics)Adam Smith
2 people have recommended this book on Cabeceira.
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.