Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "Even though it has little to do with investing, I got so much out of it I thought I’d share.

It is a book about influence (and sales) through writing."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "Along the same lines as Sapiens, this story of an English professor fighting in mixed martial arts fights is a fun combination of history, psychology, and memoir"

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "A very fast read full of fun and useful information on value investing."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "A very fast read full of fun and useful information on value investing."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "In the past I’ve recommended Lightman’s book The Accidental Universe.

Einstein’s Dreams is a very different book that uses short stories/vignettes to play with concepts of time.

Many are fun and entertaining, and most are profound."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "This is the funniest travel book I’ve ever read.

My wife started giving me looks because it was making me laugh so hard in bed. It is hilarious, but it’s also incredibly well written."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "I found it to be a more useful version of Spengler’s Decline of the West."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "One of the most enjoyable Christmas presents I’ve ever received.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant life advice, to the never-used speech written in case of an Apollo 11 disaster, to the description of Aldous Huxley’s death (and final LSD trip), this book was full of surprises."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "What I enjoyed most was the early chapters on market participants: the roles, sizes, and motivations of sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, corporations, and individual investors."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "I found this book refreshing and extremely helpful.

In markets, we tend to be deterministic, extrapolative thinkers. We identify (usually short term) fake patterns in what is really just noise and foolishly follow those patterns.

This book is an antidote to that sort of pattern based, vertical thinking."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "If you have watched and enjoyed any of Werner Herzog’s films, you will love this book."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "This one was a bit meandering, but for anyone interested in accounting and the best calculation of earnings, there are many useful sections."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "This was a beautifully written book about current findings (and worldviews) in physics, and the spiritual and epistemological implications of those findings."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "A fascinating survey of how humans view and assess prices (hint, we stink at it).

There are tons of valuable insights in this book, and it is written in a way that makes life easy for the reader."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "It is like a list of first principles for effective communication of ideas.

The key point explored here is not just how to get people's attention, but how to get them to TAKE ACTION as well."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "Highly recommend a read of TS Eliot’s four quartets for a meditation on [stillness]"