I can't give just one, but here are a few that had a strong influence on me: "12 Rules for Life" by Jordan Peterson, "Why Switzerland?" Jonathan Steinberg, "Little Book of Common Sense Investing" by John C. Bogle, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Butron Malkiel, "Liberalismus" by Ludwig von Mises, "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, "A Treatise of Human Nature" by David Hume, "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, "The Law" by Frédéric Bastiat, "Autobiography" by Benjamin Franklin, "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, "Gespräche mit Goethe" by Johann Peter Eckermann, "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau, "The Old Regime and the Revolution" Alexis de Tocqueville, "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill, "A Treatise on Political Economy" by Jean-Baptiste Say, "The Man Versus the State" by Herbert Spencer, "The Revolt of the Masses" by José Ortega y Gasset, "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy" by Joseph Alois Schumpeter, "The Logic of Scientific Discovery" by Karl Popper, "The Machinery of Freedom" by David Friedman, "On Power" Bertrand de Jouvenel, "1984" by George Orwell, "The State" by Anthony de Jasay, "Sketched With the Quill" by Andrzej Bobkowski, "My Correct Views on Everything" by…
Also recommended in this reply
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Meditations
- The Master and Margarita
- Walden
- 1984
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- The Law
- On Liberty
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
- The Revolt of the Masses
- Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
- A Treatise of Human Nature
- Common Sense
- On Power
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- 12 Rules for Life
- Conversations with an Executioner
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- The Machinery of Freedom
- The Man Versus the State
- The Old Regime and the Revolution
- A Treatise on Political Economy
- A World Apart
- Diary 1954
- Gespräche mit Goethe
- Liberalismus
- My Correct Views on Everything
- Sketched With the Quill
- The Captive Mind
- The House of the Dead
- Why Switzerland?