Favorite Books

Oct 16th, 2007 by Carlos

I started making a list but lists just end up going on forever, so instead I’ll try this: here is the one book from each category that I think you should read.

If you do, get back to me and let me know if I’ve steered you wrong.

Writing

$A Supposedly Fun Thing I\'ll Never Do Again$
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace: Not a writing book per se, but it’s the book that opened my eyes and made me say, “Yes, I want to do this here.”

Finance

Buffett by Roger Lowenstein: I became a loyal subject after this.

Advertising

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This by Luke Sullivan: Similar to the DFW book in that I went, “Hold on now, this sounds promising” for the very first time.

Literature

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway: Clearly the toughest of the categories, but reading this in Paris, as a student with little money, as I walked around the city and looked up at the same sky Hem did . . . well, you just can’t beat that.