The Reading Room

Each month a member of the team reviews a book of their choosing, irrelevant of genre or publishing date.

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

Published: 2000

Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting the forces that shaped this century. Cryptonomicon  leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow.

Invested

Charles Schwab

Published: 2019

In this deeply personal memoir, Schwab describes his passion to have Main Street participate in the growing economy as investors and owners, not only earners. Invested also offers unique insights and lifelong principles for readers—the values that Schwab has lived and worked by that have made him one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time.

Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments

Michael Batnick

Published: 2018

In this read, the author gives some valuable insights regarding ways in which the best investors have failed. The book also advises readers on creating successful strategies by learning from previous mistakes.