Michael Burry’s Reading List

Vanity Fair recently published an excerpt from Michael Lewis’ new book, “The Big Short”, detailing how hedge fund manager Michael Burry managed to clean up $100 million betting against subprime mortgages. We’ve compiled a list of books we spotted in the photo spread of his office.

1.) Creative Cash Flow Reporting: Uncovering Sustainable Financial Performance

2.) Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

3.) Benjamin Graham: The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street

4.) Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition

5.) Atlas Shrugged

6.) Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition

7.) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

8.) America’s Great Depression

9.) Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

10.) Structured Credit Products: Credit Derivatives and Synthetic Securitization

11.) Why Stocks Go Up (and Down)