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