Distilling the wisdom of Marks' celebrated client memos into a single volume and, for the first time, making his time-tested investing philosophy available to general readers, this book has been widely acclaimed by professional, casual, aspiring, and armchair investors.
Howard Marks Books






The Most Important Thing
- 180 pages
- 7 hours of reading
This book explains the keys to successful investment and the pitfalls that can destroy capital or ruin a career. Utilizing passages from his memos to illustrate his ideas, Marks teaches by example, detailing the development of an investment philosophy that fully acknowledges the complexities of investing and the perils of the financial world. Brilliantly applying insight to today's volatile markets, Marks offers a volume that is part memoir, part creed, with a number of broad takeaways.
Mastering the Market Cycle
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
A New York Times bestseller: The legendary investor shows how to identify and master the cycles that govern the markets - and the tradepaper edition includes a new Afterword regarding Marks's analysis of the pandemic's impact on investing trends
Mr Smiley
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Howard Marks has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But determined not to go quietly into the night, he has decided that it is time to release Mr Smiley, the story of his last and biggest ever drug scam at the height of the 90s ecstasy frenzy. On his release from prison in 1995, Howard had made a promise that this time he was going to go straight... but it wasn't long before Howard found himself trying ecstasy and rubbing shoulders with some of the king-pins of the pill trade. Incredibly funny, moving and scabrous, Mr Smiley is a free-standing follow up to Mr Nice, which follows a journey to the heartland of the clubbing scene and British crime.
Mr Nice
- 466 pages
- 17 hours of reading
THE BOOK: During the mid 1980's Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core acti
The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Howard marks book of dope Stories will take you on an electrifying journey through the Discovery, consumption and trade of mind-altering Substances
Snowblind
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
When it was first published in the mid-seventies, Snowblind established itself as an essential piece of true crime writing. The story of the legendary Zachary Swan, a mover in the cocaine trade in the sixties who set the standard for all who followed, Sabbag's riveting account is a compulsive insight into an underworld populated by crazy characters and riven by paranoia. The result is an illuminating and wild book that influenced a generation of writers and smugglers.
Recording Icons / Creative Spaces
The Creative World of Mark Howard
An exclusive backstage pass featuring 200 full-color photographs of the unique spaces where some of the world's most iconic musicians recorded.
Ein packender, düsterer Thriller aus Howard Marks Heimat Wales Kaum ist Detective Catrin Price zurück in Wales, holt die Vergangenheit sie ein: Ihr Exfreund Rhys Williams wird tot aufgefunden, an einem beliebten Treff für Junkies. Die Polizei legt den Fall zu den Akten. Goldener Schuss, kein Verdacht auf Fremdverschulden. Doch Catrin erhält Hinweise darauf, dass Rhys, selbst einst Polizist, vor seinem Tod wie besessen an einem rätselhaften Fall arbeitete, der sich vor zwölf Jahren ereignete. Sie will Klarheit und setzt dabei ihr eigenes Leben aufs Spiel.



