Smallfolk Academy Library

Smallfolk Academy turns 241 investing classics into focused audio summaries. Master the strategies of Buffett, Graham, Soros, and more through audio summaries, interactive quizzes, and structured learning paths.

Psychology

Understand the mental game behind every trade

  • Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Best Loser Wins by Tom Hougaard
  • Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Influence by Robert Cialdini
  • Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
  • Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker
  • Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
  • Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • Your Money and Your Brain by Jason Zweig

Value Investing

Find undervalued gems using time-tested principles

  • Deep Value by Tobias Carlisle
  • Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
  • Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham & David Dodd
  • The Art of Value Investing by John Heins & Whitney Tilson
  • The Dhandho Investor by Mohnish Pabrai
  • The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
  • The Little Book of Value Investing by Christopher Browne
  • The Little Book That Still Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt
  • The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
  • Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond by Bruce Greenwald
  • You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt

Growth Investing

Spot tomorrow's winners before the crowd

  • 100 Baggers by Christopher W. Mayer
  • 100 to 1 in the Stock Market by Thomas Phelps
  • Beating the Street by Peter Lynch
  • Coffee Can Investing by Saurabh Mukherjea
  • Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher
  • One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch
  • Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy Siegel
  • The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein
  • The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom

Trading Strategies

Master the mechanics of buying and selling

  • A Man for All Markets by Edward O. Thorp
  • Beat the Market by Edward O. Thorp & Sheen T. Kassouf
  • Hedge Fund Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
  • Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
  • The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros
  • The Education of a Speculator by Victor Niederhoffer
  • The New Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
  • Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Van Tharp
  • Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas

Market History

Learn from the booms, busts, and everything between

  • A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
  • Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
  • Devil Take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor
  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
  • How Markets Fail by John Cassidy
  • Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller
  • Manias, Panics, and Crashes by Charles Kindleberger
  • Mastering the Market Cycle by Howard Marks
  • The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
  • The Panic of 1819 by Murray N. Rothbard
  • The Panic of 1907 by Robert F. Bruner & Sean D. Carr
  • This Time Is Different by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff

Biographies

Walk in the footsteps of legendary investors

  • Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
  • Enough by John C. Bogle
  • Grinding It Out by Ray Kroc
  • How to Invest: Masters on the Craft by David M. Rubenstein
  • Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
  • Millionaire Teacher by Andrew Hallam
  • Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger
  • Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton
  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  • The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett & Lawrence Cunningham
  • The Fund by Rob Copeland
  • The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
  • The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike
  • The Snowball: Warren Buffett by Alice Schroeder
  • The Wealthy Barber Returns by David Chilton
  • Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow

Options Strategies

Leverage derivatives to manage risk and boost returns

  • Covered Calls for Beginners by Freeman Publications
  • Get Rich with Options by Lee Lowell
  • Option Volatility and Pricing by Sheldon Natenberg
  • Options as a Strategic Investment by Lawrence McMillan
  • Options Trading Crash Course by Frank Richmond
  • The Bible of Options Strategies by Guy Cohen
  • The Options Playbook by Brian Overby
  • The Rookie's Guide to Options by Mark Wolfinger
  • Trading Options Greeks by Dan Passarelli
  • Understanding Options by Michael Sincere

Behavioral Finance

Decode the biases that move markets

  • A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market by John Allen Paulos
  • Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew W. Lo
  • Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
  • Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street by Peter L. Bernstein
  • Expected Returns by Antti Ilmanen
  • Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous by Greg Ip
  • How Not to Invest by Barry Ritholtz
  • Nudge by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein
  • Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions by Gerd Gigerenzer
  • The Behavioral Investor by Daniel Crosby
  • The Little Book of Behavioral Investing by James Montier
  • The Misbehavior of Markets by Benoit B. Mandelbrot & Richard L. Hudson
  • Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes by Gary Belsky & Thomas Gilovich

Personal Finance

Build smart money habits that last a lifetime

  • Get Good with Money by Tiffany Aliche
  • I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
  • The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
  • The Index Card by Helaine Olen & Harold Pollack
  • The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko
  • The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
  • The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
  • The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

Stock Grants & RSUs

Maximize the value of your company stock and equity awards

  • Consider Your Options by Kaye A. Thomas
  • Equity Compensation Strategies by Bruce Brumberg
  • The Stock Options Book by Alison Wright & Alisa Baker

Technical Analysis

Read the charts and decode price action like a pro

  • Evidence-Based Technical Analysis by David Aronson
  • Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques by Steve Nison
  • Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre
  • Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets by John Murphy

Hedge Funds

Inside the world of elite money managers and their strategies

  • More Money Than God by Sebastian Mallaby
  • The Alpha Masters by Maneet Ahuja
  • The Big Short by Michael Lewis
  • When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein

Short Selling

Profit from overvalued stocks and learn to spot red flags

  • Dead Companies Walking by Scott Fearon
  • Fooling Some of the People All of the Time by David Einhorn
  • Selling America Short by Richard Sauer
  • The Art of Short Selling by Kathryn Staley
  • You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt

Macro Economy

Understand the big-picture forces that move markets

  • Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
  • Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
  • Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
  • Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
  • How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes by Peter Schiff
  • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
  • The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
  • The Great Reversal by Thomas Philippon
  • The Lords of Easy Money by Christopher Leonard
  • The Price of Time by Edward Chancellor
  • The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner

Monetary Policy

How central banks shape economies and influence your portfolio

  • The Alchemists by Neil Irwin
  • The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
  • The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
  • The Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
  • When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson

Banks & Banking

How banks work, fail, and shape the financial system

  • House of Cards by William D. Cohan
  • The Banker's New Clothes by Anat Admati & Martin Hellwig
  • The End of Alchemy by Mervyn King
  • The Money Machine by Adam Smith (George Goodman)
  • Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Company Profiles

Deep dives into the companies that defined industries

  • Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone
  • Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
  • Chip War by Chris Miller
  • Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
  • Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella
  • How Google Works by Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
  • Insanely Simple by Ken Segall
  • No Filter by Sarah Frier
  • No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
  • Power Play by Tim Higgins
  • Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
  • Super Pumped by Mike Isaac
  • The Everything Store by Brad Stone
  • The Four by Scott Galloway
  • The Nvidia Way by Tae Kim
  • The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind

Business Culture

The cultures, values, and practices behind great companies

  • Built to Last by Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras
  • Good to Great by Jim Collins
  • The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle

Entrepreneurship

Build, launch, and scale ventures from idea to IPO

  • Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  • The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
  • The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
  • The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  • The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
  • The Startup Owner's Manual by Steve Blank & Bob Dorf

Economics

The principles that govern markets, trade, and growth

  • Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
  • Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
  • Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
  • The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

Wealth Management

Strategies for building and preserving generational wealth

  • A Wealth of Common Sense by Ben Carlson
  • The Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley
  • The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias

Money Management

Master budgeting, saving, and making your money work harder

  • Broke Millennial by Erin Lowry
  • Money: Master the Game by Tony Robbins
  • The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
  • Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Portfolio Management

Construct, balance, and optimize investment portfolios

  • All About Asset Allocation by Rick Ferri
  • Global Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber
  • Pioneering Portfolio Management by David F. Swensen
  • The Ivy Portfolio by Mebane T. Faber & Eric W. Richardson

Capitalism

The engine of free markets and how it shapes investing

  • Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
  • The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
  • The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
  • Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

Cryptocurrency

Navigate the world of digital assets and blockchain

  • Cryptoassets by Chris Burniske & Jack Tatar
  • Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper
  • The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
  • The Infinite Machine by Camila Russo

Futures Trading

Master contracts, margins, and forward-looking markets

  • A Complete Guide to the Futures Market by Jack D. Schwager
  • Pit Bull by Martin Schwartz
  • Trading Commodities and Financial Futures by George Kleinman

Commodities

Trade the raw materials that power the global economy

  • Hot Commodities by Jim Rogers
  • The New Case for Gold by James Rickards
  • The Prize by Daniel Yergin
  • The World for Sale by Javier Blas & Jack Farchy

Real Estate

Build wealth through property and real estate investing

  • Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • The Book on Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner
  • The Intelligent REIT Investor by Stephanie Krewson-Kelly & R. Brad Thomas
  • The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller

Retirement Planning

Secure your financial future with smart retirement strategies

  • How Much Money Do I Need to Retire? by Todd Tresidder
  • How to Make Your Money Last by Jane Bryant Quinn
  • The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer & Richard Ferri

Venture Capital

The art and science of funding the next big thing

  • Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor
  • The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby
  • Venture Deals by Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

Inflation

Understanding rising prices and monetary erosion

  • Broken Money by Lyn Alden
  • The Dying of Money by Jens O. Parsson
  • The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath by Robert J. Samuelson
  • The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth

Index Funds & ETFs

Passive strategies and low-cost funds that beat most active investors

  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel
  • If You Can by William J. Bernstein
  • The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer & Michael LeBoeuf
  • The Four Pillars of Investing by William Bernstein
  • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Bogle
  • The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins

Fixed Income

Bonds, yields, and the art of generating income from debt markets

  • The Bond Book by Annette Thau
  • The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities by Frank J. Fabozzi

Algorithmic Trading

Data-driven systems, backtests, and automated trading at machine speed

  • Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
  • Following the Trend by Andreas F. Clenow
  • Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone
  • The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman

Financial Analysis

Read 10-Ks, decode earnings, and master the language of business

  • Financial Shenanigans by Howard Schilit
  • Quality of Earnings by Thornton L. O'glove
  • The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing by Pat Dorsey

Tax Strategy

Tax-efficient investing, deductions, and strategies to keep more of what you earn

  • Tax-Free Wealth by Tom Wheelwright
  • The Book on Tax Strategies for the Savvy Real Estate Investor by Amanda Han & Matthew MacFarland
  • The Power of Zero by David McKnight

FIRE

Financial Independence, Retire Early: the movement redefining retirement

  • Die with Zero by Bill Perkins
  • Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen & Bryce Leung
  • Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez

Dividend Investing

Build wealth through income-producing stocks and compounding dividends

  • Get Rich with Dividends by Marc Lichtenfeld
  • The Single Best Investment by Lowell Miller

Private Equity

Leveraged buyouts, take-privates, and the mechanics of PE deals

  • Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
  • King of Capital by David Carey & John E. Morris
  • Two and Twenty by Sachin Khajuria

AI & Investing

How artificial intelligence is reshaping research, trading, and analysis

  • Advances in Financial Machine Learning by Marcos López de Prado
  • Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading by Stefan Jansen

Angel Investing

Seed-stage investing, startup bets, and spotting the next generation of founders

  • Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups by David S. Rose
  • Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups by Jason Calacanis
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