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