Nov 29, 2015

40 Books Recommended for investors to read

"You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them” — Ray Bradbury
Below is the list of all the books seen in the chart, as well as a few more that I couldn’t fit. I’m sure I left out a few, but if you’re looking for books on investing, this is a good place to start.

  1. “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” — Edwin Lefevre, 1923
  2. “Security Analysis” — Benjamin Graham, David Dodd, 1934
  3. “Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?” — Fred Schwed Jr., 1940
  4. “The Intelligent Investor” — Benjamin Graham, 1949
  5. “The Great Crash, 1929” — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1954
  6. “Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits” — Philip A. Fisher, 1958
  7. “The Money Game” — George Goodman, 1967
  8. “A Random Walk Down Wall Street” — Burton Malkiel, 1973
  9. “Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises” — Charles Kindleberger, 1978
  10. “The Alchemy of Finance” — George Soros, 1987
  11. “Market Wizards” — Jack Schwager, 1989
  12. “Liar’s Poker” — Michael Lewis, 1989
  13. “101 Years on Wall Street, an Investor’s Almanac” — John Dennis Brown, 1991
  14. “Beating The Street” — Peter Lynch, 1993
  15. “Stocks for the Long Run” — Jeremy Siegel, 1994
  16. “What Works on Wall Street” — James O’Shaughnessy, 1997
  17. “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America” — Lawrence Cunningham, 1997
  18. “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk” — Peter Bernstein, 1998
  19. “Common Sense on Mutual Funds” — Jack Bogle, 1999
  20. “Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation” — Edward Chancellor, 1999
  21. “When Genius Failed” — Roger Lowenstein, 2000
  22. “One Up On Wall Street” — Peter Lynch, 2000
  23. “Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2001
  24. “Confessions of a Street Addict” — Jim Cramer, 2002
  25. “The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio” — William Bernstein, 2002
  26. “Winning the Loser’s Game” — Charles Ellis, 2002
  27. “Bull: A History of Boom and Bust 1982-2004” — Maggie Mahar, 2004
  28. “Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger” — Peter Kaufman, 2005
  29. “All About Asset Allocation” — Rick Ferri, 2006
  30. “Your Money and Your Brain” — Jason Zweig, 2007
  31. “Bailout Nation” — Barry Ritholtz, 2009
  32. “The Big Short” — Michael Lewis, 2010
  33. “The Quants” — Scott Patterson, 2010
  34. “More Money Than God” — Sebastian Mallaby, 2010
  35. “The Most Important Thing” — Howard Marks, 2011
  36. “Backstage Wall Street” — Josh Brown, 2012
  37. “Quantitative Value” — Wesley Gray, Tobias Carlisle, 2012
  38. “Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune” — Patrick O’Shaughnessy, 2014
  39. “A Wealth of Common Sense: Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan” — Ben Carlson, 2015