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

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 6 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.

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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.

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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.

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  4. 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.

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  5. A Beautiful Mind
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    A Beautiful Mind

    Sylvia Nasar · Biography

    Sylvia Nasar's biography of the mathematician John Nash — Nobel laureate, game theory pioneer, and paranoid schizophrenic — is one of the finest accounts of genius and mental illness in biographical literature.

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  6. Alexander Hamilton
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    Alexander Hamilton

    Ron Chernow · Biography

    Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton — immigrant, orphan, Revolutionary War aide-de-camp, first Secretary of the Treasury, founder of the American financial system, and victim of Aaron Burr's bullet — is the most comprehensive single-volume account of Hamilton's life and the book that most directly sparked the Hamilton revival in popular culture, including Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical.

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