Book List

Note: the list is sorted by Category, Ratings (high to low) and Author.

Title	Author	Category	Reviews	Ratings
The E myth revisited	Michael E. Gerber	Business	The first book that changed my mindset on entrepreneurship. In a gist, a good business manager is not necessarily a good entrepreneur. A good entrepreneur or a good business replicates business systems and set the systems run by themselves. This is a type of leverage.	8.5
The definite business plan	Richard Stutely	Business	A practical guide for writing a good business plan. Good reference for start-up entrepreneurs.	8
E myth mastery	Michael E. Gerber	Business	Book 3 of the E myth series. To be reviewed.	0
The Lexus and the olive tree	Thomas Friedman	Economics	One of the best books about globalisation. Deserve a much more detailed review. [Detailed review to be released soon.]	8
The secrets of economic indicators	Bernard Baumohl	Economics	A good reference on economic indicators. Explain not only the science of economic indicators but also the arts and psychological aspects.	7.5
If it’s raining in Brazil, buy Starbucks	Peter Navarro	Economics	Macroeconomics written in layman’s terms. A bit dry on the first few chapters, better in the second half of the book. Good for beginners. Intermediate investors would whunger for more.	7.5
How to read a financial report	John A. Tracy	Finance	Excellent book on explaining accounting concepts to people with minimal accounting background.	8.5
The Financial Times guide to using the financial pages	Romesh Vaitilingam	Finance	A bit dry. UK context. Facts only. Interpretation and explanations not deep enough.	7
Finance for nonfinancial managers	Robert A. Cooke	Finance	Too long-winded. Lack of punch lines. Lack of depth. Does not live up to the title.	4.5
The intelligent investor	Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig	Investment	Classic. I must confess that I enjoy more on Jason Zweig’s commentaries as they are in present day’s context. [Detailed review to be released soon.]	9.5
Common stocks and uncommon profits	Philip A. Fisher	Investment	Considered as classic by most of the readers. Personally I find Fisher’s writing style not enticing and the topics are hard to follow. He tends to explain 1 concept with 50 lines. Nonetheless, a good read but you need to stay focus. Not good for bedtime reading.	7.5
School of warrant	Wilson Lee and Edmond Lee	Local	Basic stuff on warrants. Written by local authors.	6
Handbook for stock investors	Goh Kheng Chuan	Local	Very very basic stuff on stock. Good for beginners with no prior experience.	5.5
Blue Ocean Strategy	W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne	Marketing	To be reviewed.	0
The seven habits of the highly effective people	Stephen R. Covey	Mindset	Classic. This is one of the rare books that give people paradigm shift. [Detailed review to be released soon.]	9.5
The winning investment habits of Warren Buffet & George Soros	Mark Tier	Mindset	A good compilation on concepts and approaches the 2 most successful investors adopt. Not enough depth.	8
Play to win	Larry Wilson and Hersch Wilson	Mindset	To be reviewed.	7.5
The Warren Buffet way	Robert G. Hagstrom	Mindset	To be reviewed.	7.5
Secrets of millionaire investors	Adam Khoo and Conrad Alvin Lim	Mindset	Local author. Good effort in compiling all the good stuff from the classic books on investing. Well written in layman’s terms.	6.5
The cashflow quadrant	Robert T. Kiyosaki	Mindset	In my opinion, this is the only fairly decent book written by Robert K. It is important to keep reminding ourselves on moving from left to right quadrant in order to achieve financial freedom.	6
What self-made millionaires really think, know & do	Richard Dobbins and Barrie O. Pettman	Mindset	Forgettable. Concepts presented are mainly common sense.	5
Rich dad’s guide to investing	Robert T. Kiyosaki	Mindset	Forgettable. Perhaps due to my personal bias against Robert K.	5
Rich dad, poor dad	Robert T. Kiyosaki	Mindset	Rubbish. Badly written. I hate to see Robert K making millions of dollars selling this book. And I must confess that I hate to hear my good friend RT keeps quoting “Rich Dad this”, “Rich Dad that”, as if this “Rich Dad” is more respectable than his own dad (kidding, no offence). But I must admit his books have great influence on millions of people world wide. Book-wise, this is trash, keep repeating the same old rubbish again and again. I give credits to his 2nd book The Cashflow quadrant though.	4
Master your mind, design your destiny	Adam Khoo and Stuart Tan	Mindset	To be reviewed.	0
How to make money in stocks	William J. O’Neil	Stocks	“Can Slim” methodology seems to work well only in bull market and in the US. Anyway, need to deep dive by testing it before I can give further comments.	7
The successful investor	William J. O’Neil	Stocks	Too superficial. Just jump straight into his 2nd book – “How to make money in stocks”.	6.5