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Books Keith McCullough recommends

Public list compiled from their own recommendations. Founder and CEO of Hedgeye Risk Management, an investment research firm.

Compiled by Kaffe from public sources, with a link to each one. Keith McCullough is not affiliated with Kaffe.

  1. A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins: reference-frames idea he ties to his own signaling process (Hedgeye, Sep 2026) source
  2. How to Not Die in Prison: A Survival Guide by Taylor Sheridan, Tom Nelson: turned its survival rules into a risk-management lesson (Hedgeye, Sep 2026); authorship verified on Simon & Schuster page, pub. Jun 2026 source
  3. The Fractals of Finance by Rich Brennan: maps directly onto his fractal market framework (Hedgeye, Sep 2026) source
  4. Cancel Me If You Can by Dave Portnoy: model of building directly with an audience, like Hedgeye (Hedgeye, Sep 2026) source
  5. The Singularity Is Nearer by Ray Kurzweil: linear intuition vs exponential change (Hedgeye, Sep 2026) source
  6. The Behavior Ops Manual by Chase Hughes: called it one of the most important decision-making books he read this year source
  7. The Way of the Fight by Georges St-Pierre: learning by repetition and doing, linked to trading (Hedgeye, Sep 2026) source
  8. Pardon My Book by Big Cat, PFT Commenter: audience built outside legacy media (Hedgeye, Sep 2026) source
  9. Active Inference by Karl Friston, Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo: predict, observe, update; bridge to his process (Hedgeye, Sep 2026) source
  10. A Mind at Play by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman: Claude Shannon biography; measuring uncertainty (Hedgeye, Sep 2026) source
  11. Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger: on Hedgeye's Feb 2024 list of his recent must-reads, with takeaways from his Early Look newsletter source
  12. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry: on Hedgeye's Feb 2024 list of his recent must-reads, with takeaways from his Early Look newsletter source
  13. Hidden Potential by Adam Grant: on Hedgeye's Feb 2024 list of his recent must-reads, with takeaways from his Early Look newsletter source
  14. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson: on Hedgeye's Feb 2024 list of his recent must-reads, with takeaways from his Early Look newsletter source
  15. Let Them Lead by John U. Bacon: on Hedgeye's Feb 2024 list of his recent must-reads, with takeaways from his Early Look newsletter source
  16. The Power of One More by Ed Mylett: on Hedgeye's Feb 2024 list of his recent must-reads, with takeaways from his Early Look newsletter source
  17. Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns: on Hedgeye's Feb 2024 list of his recent must-reads, with takeaways from his Early Look newsletter source
  18. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog by William H. McRaven: on Hedgeye's Feb 2024 list of his recent must-reads, with takeaways from his Early Look newsletter source
  19. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin: on Hedgeye's Feb 2024 list of his recent must-reads, with takeaways from his Early Look newsletter source
  20. The Fund by Rob Copeland: on Hedgeye's Feb 2024 list of his recent must-reads, with takeaways from his Early Look newsletter source
  21. The Right Call by Sally Jenkins: on Hedgeye's Feb 2024 list of his recent must-reads, with takeaways from his Early Look newsletter source
  22. Sum It Up by Pat Summitt: on Hedgeye's Feb 2024 list of his recent must-reads, with takeaways from his Early Look newsletter source
  23. The Misbehavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot: one of 3 foundational books for investors; calls it somewhat of a bible for him; quotes it often in the Early Look source
  24. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman: one of 3 foundational books for investors; his baseline book for behavioral finance and embracing uncertainty source
  25. Models of My Life by Herbert A. Simon: one of 3 foundational books for investors; credits Simon for challenging economic orthodoxy across disciplines source
  26. Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz: on his Top-20 book recommendations (Hedgeye, Jan 2020) source
  27. Einstein's War by Matthew Stanley: on his Top-20 book recommendations (Hedgeye, Jan 2020) source
  28. The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman: on his Top-20 book recommendations (Hedgeye, Jan 2020) source
  29. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram: on his Top-20 book recommendations (Hedgeye, Jan 2020) source
  30. The Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury: on his Top-20 book recommendations (Hedgeye, Jan 2020) source
  31. Range by David Epstein: on his Top-20 book recommendations (Hedgeye, Jan 2020) source
  32. The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant: on his Top-20 book recommendations (Hedgeye, Jan 2020) source
  33. Mastering the Market Cycle by Howard Marks: on his Top-20 book recommendations (Hedgeye, Jan 2020) source
  34. Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke: on his Top-20 book recommendations (Hedgeye, Jan 2020) source
  35. The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam: on his Top-20 book recommendations (Hedgeye, Jan 2020) source
  36. How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg: recommends it for Bayesian, data-dependent decision making (Hedgeye summer list 2017) source
  37. Adaptive Markets by Andrew W. Lo: on his highly recommended summer reading list (Hedgeye 2017) source
  38. Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: on Hedgeye's Bookshelf list of books he read in 2018 (read-list, no commentary) source
  39. The Fourth Turning by William Strauss, Neil Howe: on Hedgeye's Bookshelf list of books he read in 2018 (read-list, no commentary) source
  40. Red Notice by Bill Browder: on Hedgeye's Bookshelf list of books he read in 2018 (read-list, no commentary) source
  41. The Natural Order of Money by Roy Sebag: his own X post, via Read This Twice aggregator of his posts; called it an excellent book (2023) source
  42. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay: his own X post, via Read This Twice aggregator of his posts; called it an excellent book (2022) source
  43. The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday: his own X post, via Read This Twice aggregator of his posts; named it one of his favorite books (2022) source
  44. Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed: his own X post, via Read This Twice aggregator of his posts; great book on holding a profession accountable to best practices (2022) source
  45. The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan, Benjamin Hardy: his own X post, via Read This Twice aggregator of his posts; said he loves it (2022) source
  46. Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle: his own X post, via Read This Twice aggregator of his posts; called it excellent (2021) source
  47. The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes: Early Look excerpt; called it an excellent book everyone should read source

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