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Books like The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

The best books like The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life are The Essays of Warren Buffett, The Intelligent Investor, and Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder is about long-term investing, compounding, business biography. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Essays of Warren Buffett
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    The Essays of Warren Buffett

    Warren Buffett · Economics

    The Essays of Warren Buffett is Lawrence Cunningham's thematic compilation of Warren Buffett's annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, spanning from the 1970s through the year of publication.

    Both dig into value investing.

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  2. The Intelligent Investor
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    The Intelligent Investor

    Benjamin Graham · Economics

    The Intelligent Investor is Benjamin Graham's case that successful investing has less to do with picking the right stocks than with managing your own behavior.

    Both dig into value investing.

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  3. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
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    Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

    Philip A. Fisher · Economics

    Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits is Philip Fisher's argument that the best investment returns come from identifying great companies — those with strong management, excellent products, and durable competitive positions — and holding them for very long periods.

    A kindred biography read.

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  1. A Random Walk Down Wall Street
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    A Random Walk Down Wall Street

    Burton G. Malkiel · Economics

    A Random Walk Down Wall Street is Burton Malkiel's argument that stock prices move in a way that is effectively unpredictable, that professional fund managers cannot consistently beat the market, and that the rational response for most investors is to buy and hold a diversified index fund.

    Both dig into long-term investing.

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  2. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
    Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

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    Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

    Roger Lowenstein · Biography

    Roger Lowenstein's Buffett is the definitive account of Warren Buffett's life up to the mid-1990s, when his investment record had already made him one of the wealthiest people on earth.

    Shares compounding and value investing with The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.

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  3. 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
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    100 to 1 in the Stock Market

    Thomas Phelps · Economics

    100 to 1 in the Stock Market, published in 1972 by Thomas Phelps, is a study of the conditions under which stocks return one hundred times an investor's original investment — and an argument that such stocks are more common and more identifiable in advance than most investors believe.

    Shares long-term investing and compounding with The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.

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  4. Buffettology
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    Buffettology

    Mary Buffett · Economics

    Buffettology is Mary Buffett and David Clark's attempt to systematize Warren Buffett's investment approach by working backward from decisions he made over several decades.

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  5. The Little Book of Value Investing
    The Little Book of Value Investing

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    The Little Book of Value Investing

    Christopher H. Browne · Economics

    The Little Book of Value Investing is Christopher Browne's distillation of the Graham-and-Dodd value investing approach for a general audience.

    Shares long-term investing and value investing with The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.

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  6. The Single Best Investment
    The Single Best Investment

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    The Single Best Investment

    Lowell Miller · Economics

    The Single Best Investment is Lowell Miller's extended argument for dividend growth investing as the most reliable long-term wealth-building strategy available to individual investors.

    Shares long-term investing and compounding with The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.

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  7. 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

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    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

    Christopher Mayer · Business

    Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.

    Both dig into long-term investing.

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  8. A Wealth of Common Sense
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    A Wealth of Common Sense

    Ben Carlson · Economics

    A Wealth of Common Sense is Ben Carlson's argument that individual investors outperform most professionals not by being smarter but by doing fewer things and making fewer mistakes.

    Both dig into long-term investing.

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  9. Competition Demystified
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    Competition Demystified

    Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn · Business

    Competition Demystified is Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn's deliberate simplification of competitive strategy — a counterweight to the complexity of the Porter Five Forces framework, which they argue gives strategists too many variables and not enough analytical clarity.

    Both dig into value investing.

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Books like The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: quick answers

What are the best books like The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life?

The best books like The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder are The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett, The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, such as long-term investing, compounding, business biography.

What should I read after The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life?

A natural next read after The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life is The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett. Both dig into value investing. Other strong choices are The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel.

What books are similar to The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder?

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life centers on long-term investing, compounding, business biography. Books with a similar feel include The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett, The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein, 100 to 1 in the Stock Market by Thomas Phelps — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.

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