I’ve spent years reading hundreds of books on investing, risk, and decision-making. These are my all-time favorite books per theme:

1. Investment classics: Stocks for the Long Run — Jeremy Siegel This book is a data-driven masterpiece proving why stocks remain the best long-term asset. Siegel’s research makes one thing clear: time in the market beats timing the market.

2. Quality investing: Only the Best Will Do — Peter Seilern Seilern argues that excellence, not cheapness, drives true compounding. It’s a playbook for owning resilient, high-quality companies through thick and thin.

4. Biographies: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life — Alice Schroeder This masterpiece provides an inside look at how Buffett’s discipline and rationality shaped his empire. It's more than a biography; it’s a masterclass in long-term thinking.

5. Risk management: Against the Gods — Peter Bernstein This book is about the brilliant history of how humans learned to understand and measure risk. It connects math, psychology, and finance into one sweeping narrative of progress.

6. Investment psychology: Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman This is the ultimate guide to understanding your own biases. Kahneman explains why our minds often trick us, and how awareness leads to better decisions.

7. General wisdom: Atomic Habits — James Clear James Clear gives you a roadmap for building systems that compound like investments. He shows how small habits, done consistently, create exponential results.