These are books that I have personally leafed through (and read a couple dozen of
them) and found to contain interesting insight relevant to investing. Please feel
free to offer suggestions. Some books may
leave a lot to be desired, but I believe that a good investor has to develop a skill to
read through even bogus advice and synthesize your own personal investment models.
Even the best advice may not work at all times. Admittedly, many of
these books are more entertainment, but insightful nonetheless.
I wish I could recommend just a handful of books that would turn you into a Great
Investor. But I can't. I think what I can say is that if you want to
do any meaningful investment in the stock market, then you really should study Ben
Graham's The Intelligent Investor
to understand 'value' investing and study William J. O'Neil's
How
To Make Money In Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, 3rd Edition
to understand 'momentum' investing. If you fully and deeply
understand everything in these two books, you will do better than 99% of all so-called
'investors'. Graham is the 'father' of value investing and Warren
Buffett's mentor. O'Neil is the founder of Investors Business Daily.
And keep a copy of
Barron's Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms handy to
look up jargon.
| Achelis, Steven B. |
Technical Analysis From A to Z: Covers Every Trading Tool...From the Absolute Breadth Index to the Zig Zag |
| Ackerman, Alan R. |
Investing Under Fire: Winning Strategies from the Masters for Bulls, Bears,
and the Bewildered |
|
Aczel, Amir D. |
The
Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World |
| Alcaly, Roger |
The
New Economy: What It Is, How It Happened, and Why It Is Likely to Last |
| Alexander, Colin |
The Streetsmart Guide to Timing the Stock Market: When to Buy, Sell, and Sell Short |
| Alexander, Michael A. |
The
Kondratiev Cycle : A generational interpretation |
| Alexander, Michael A. |
Stock
Cycles : Why Stocks Won't Beat Money Markets Over the Next Twenty Years |
| Balen, Malcolm |
The
Secret History of the South Sea Bubble : The World's First Great Financial
Scandal |
| Bartiromo, Maria |
Use
the News: How to Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make
Money in Any Economy |
| Bass, Thomas A. |
The
Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Set Out to Beat Wall Street |
| Bernstein, Jake |
The Investor's Quotient: The Psychology of Successful Investing in
Commodities and Stocks
|
| Bernstein, Peter L. |
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
|
| Bernstein, William |
The
Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio |
| Bernstein, William J. |
The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to
Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk
|
| Bierovic, Tom |
Playing for Keeps in Stocks and Futures: Three Top Trading Strategies that
Consistently Beat the Markets |
| Blitzer, David M. |
Outpacing the Pros Using INDEXES to Beat WALL STREET'S SAVVIEST
MONEY MANAGERS
|
| Bodie, Zvi and Clowes, Michael J. |
Worry-Free Investing: A Safe Approach to Achieving Your Lifetime Financial
Goals |
| Bogle, John C. |
Bogle on Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent
Investor
|
| Bogle, John C. |
John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years |
| Bonham, Howard Bryan |
The
Complete Investment and Finance Dictionary |
| Brennan, Jack |
Straight Talk on Investing: What You Need to Know |
| Brenner, Robert |
The
Boom and the Bubble: The US in the World Economy |
| Brewster, Mike |
Unaccountable: How the Accounting Profession Forfeited a Public Trust |
| Brockman, John |
The
Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century |
| Brooks, John |
Once in Golconda : A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938
|
| Brooks, John |
The Go-Go Years : The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's
Bullish 60s
|
| Buffett, Mary |
The
New Buffettology: The Proven Techniques for Investing Successfully in
Changing Markets That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Famous
Investor |
| Burton, Jonathan R. |
Investment Titans: Investment Insights from the Minds that Move
Wall Street
|
| Byrum, Michael P. and Jacobs, John L. |
Nasdaq-100: Investor's Guide 2002-2003 |
| Carlson, Charles B. |
Eight
Steps to Seven Figures: The Investment Strategies of Everyday Millionaires
and How You Can Become Wealthy Too |
| Carret, Philip L. |
The Art of Speculation
|
| Cassidy, Donald L. |
When the Dow Breaks: Insights & Strategies for Protecting Your
Profits in a Turbulent Market
|
| Cassidy, John |
Dot.con : How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era |
| Chancellor, Edward |
Devil Take the Hindmost : A History of Financial
Speculation
|
| Colby, Robert W. |
The
Encyclopedia Of Technical Market Indicators, Second Edition |
| Cole, Benjamin M. |
The Pied Pipers of Wall Street: How Analysts Sell You Down the River
|
| Conant, Jennet R. |
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That
Changed the Course of World War II |
| Cramer, James J. |
Confessions of a Street Addict |
| Crescenzi, Anthony |
The
Strategic Bond Investor : Strategies and Tools to Unlock the Power of the
Bond Market |
| Cruver, Brian |
Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider |
| Cunningham, Lawrence A. |
How to Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett
|
| Cunningham, Lawrence A. |
Outsmarting the Smart Money: Understand How Markets Really Work and Win the
Wealth Game |
| Peters, Edgar E. |
Fractal Market Analysis: Applying Chaos Theory to Investment and
Economics
|
| Dalton, John |
How the Stock Market Works
|
| Donovan, William J. |
Investing Secrets of the Masters: Applying Classical Investment Ideas to Today's Turbulent Markets
|
| Dougherty, Peter J. |
Who's
Afraid of Adam Smith? How the Market Got Its Soul |
| Downes, John and Goodman, Jordan Elliot |
Barron's Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms |
| Downes, John and Goodman, Jordan Elliot |
Barron's Finance and Investment Handbook |
| Dreman, David N. |
Contrarian Investment Strategies : The Next Generation : Beat the
Market by Going Against the Crowd
|
| Dunbar, Nicholas |
Inventing Money : The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and
the Legends Behind It
|
| Duncan, Richard |
The
Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures |
| Edwards, Robert D. and Magee, John and Bassetti,
W. H. C. |
Technical Analaysis of Stock Trends |
| Elder, Alexander |
Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money
Management
|
| Elias, David |
The Dow 40,000 Portfolio: The Stocks to Own to Outperform Today's
Leading Benchmark
|
| Ellis, Charles |
The Investor's Anthology: Original Ideas from the Industry's
Greatest Minds
|
| Ellis, Charles |
Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful
Investing
|
| Elliott, Larry and Schroth, Richard J. |
How
Companies Lie: Why Enron Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg |
| Endlich, Lisa |
Goldman Sachs : The Culture of Success
|
|
Faber, David |
The
Faber Report: CNBC's "The Brain" Tells You How Wall Street Really Works and
How You Can Make It Work for You |
| Faber, Marc |
Tomorrow's Gold- Asia's age of discovery |
| Fabian, Ann V. |
Card Sharps, Dream Books, and Bucket Shops : Gambling in the
19Th-Century America
|
| Fisher, Philip A. |
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
|
| Fontanills, George A. |
The Stock Market Course
|
| Fontanills, George A |
The
Volatility Course Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises to Help You Master The
Volatility Course |
| Forbes Magazine |
Stock Market Course |
| Fridson, Martin S. |
How to be a Billionaire: Proven Strategies from the Titans of Wealth
|
| Fridson, Martin S. |
Investment Illusions : A Savvy Wall Street Pro Explodes Popular
Misconceptions About the Markets
|
| Fusaro, Peter C. and Miller, Ross M. |
What
Went Wrong at Enron: Everyone's Guide to the Largest Bankruptcy in U.S.
History |
| Galbraith, John Kenneth |
The Affluent Society
|
| Galbraith, John Kenneth |
The Great Crash 1929
|
| Gardner, David & Tom |
The Motley Fool Investment Guide: How The Fool Beats Wall Street's
Wise Men and How You Can Too
|
| Garrett, Garet |
Where the Money Grows : And Anatomy of the Bubble
|
| Geisst, Charles R. |
Wall Street : A History
|
| Geisst, Charles R. |
Wheels of Fortune: The History of Speculation from Scandal to Respectability |
| Getty, John Paul |
How to Be Rich
|
| Glassman, James K. and Hassett, Kevin A. |
Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in
the Stock Market
|
| Glassman, James K. |
The
Secret Code of the Superior Investor: How to Be a Long-Term Winner in a
Short-Term World |
|
Gordon, John
Steele |
A
Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Trans Atlantic Cable |
| Graham, Benjamin |
The Intelligent Investor : A Book of Practical Counsel
|
| Hagstrom, Robert G. |
The
Detective and The Investor: Uncovering Investment Techniques from the
Legendary Sleuths |
| Hamilton, William Peter |
The Stock Market Barometer
|
| Harding, Sy |
Riding the Bear : How to Prosper in the Coming Bear Market
|
| Harper, Timothy |
License to Steal : The Secret World of Wall Street and the
Systematic Plundering of the American Investor
|
| Hassett, Kevin |
Bubbleology: The New Science of Stock Market Winners and Losers |
| Hayek, Frederick A. |
The Road to Serfdom
|
| Hayden, John H. |
The 21 Irrefutable Truths of Trading: A Trader's Guide to Developing a Mind to Win
|
| Henry, Shannon |
The
Dinner Club |
| Henwood, Doug |
Wall Street : How It Works and for Whom
|
| Hershey, Robert L. |
All
the Math You Need to Get Rich: Thinking with Numbers for Financial Success |
| Huguet, Jim |
Great Companies, Great Returns : The Breakthrough Investing Strategy That Produces Great Returns over the Long-Term Cycle of Bull and Bear Markets
|
| Insana, Ron |
The Message of the Markets : How Financial Markets Foretell the Future--And How You Can Profit from Their Guidance
|
| Insana, Ron |
Traders Tales : A Chronicle of Wall Street Myths, Legends, and Outright Lies
|
| Insana, Ron |
Trendwatching: Don't be Fooled by the Next Investment Fad, Mania, or Bubble |
| Isaacman, Max |
How
To Be An Index Investor |
| Jacobs, Bruce I. |
Capital Ideas and Market Realities : Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes
|
| Jones, Charles P. |
Mutual Funds: Your Money, Your Choice ... Take Control Now and Build Wealth
Wisely |
| Kadlec, Charles W. |
Dow 100,000: Fact or Fiction |
| Kador, John |
Charles Schwab: How One Company Beat Wall Street and Reinvented the
Brokerage Industry |
| Kahn, Michael |
Technical Analysis Plain & Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language
|
| Kaufman, Henry |
On Money and Markets A Wall Street Memoir
|
| Kazanjian, Kirk |
Wizards of Wall Street : Market-Beating Insights and Strategies from the Worlds Top-Performing Mutual Fund Managers
|
| Keynes, John Maynard |
General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
|
| Kindleberger, Charles P. |
Manias, Panics, and Crashes : A History of Financial Crashes
|
| Kiyosaki, Robert T. with Lechter, Sharon L. |
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
|
| Kiyosaki, Robert T. and Lechter, Sharon L. |
Rich
Dad's Prophecy: Why the Biggest Stock Market Crash in History Is Still
Coming... and How You Can Prepare Yourself and Profit from It! |
| Koppel & Abell |
The Inner Game of Trading |
| Krass, Peter |
The Book of Investing Wisdom : Classic Writings by Great Stock-Pickers and Legends of Wall Street
|
| Krugman, Paul |
The Accidental Theorist and Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science
|
| Kwatinetz, Mike |
The Big Tech Score : A Top Wall Street Analyst Reveals 10 Secrets to Investing Success
|
| Kyle, Greg A. |
The 100 Best Internet Stocks to Own
|
| Lanyi, Andrew A. |
Confessions of a Stockbroker : You, Too, Can Find Tomorrow's Blue Chips Before Wall Street Finds Them
|
| Lears, Jackson |
Something for Nothing: Luck in America |
| Leeb, Stephen |
Defying the Market: Profiting in the Turbulent Post-Technology Market Boom
|
| Lefevre, Edwin |
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator |
| Levitt, Arthur |
Take
On the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know |
| Levy, Leon |
The
Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the
Mysteries of the Market |
| Lewis, Chris |
The Day Trader's Guide to Technical Analysis: How to Use Chart Patterns, Level II and Time of Sales to Profit in Electronic Markets
|
| Lewis, Michael |
Liar's Poker : Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
|
| Little, Kenneth E. |
Bear-Proof Investing : Protecting Your Financial Future in a Bear Market and Taking Advantage of an Emerging Bull Market
|
| Loeb, Gerald M. |
The Battle for Investment Survival
|
| Lowe, Janet |
Benjamin Graham on Value Investing : Lessons from the Dean of Wall Street
|
| Lowenstein, Roger |
Buffett : The Making of an American Capitalist
|
| Lowenstein, Roger |
When Genius Failed : The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
|
| Lynch, Peter |
One Up on Wall Street : How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
|
| Mackay, Charles and de la Vega, Joseph |
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusión de Confusiones
|
| Malkiel, Burton G. |
A
Random Walk Down Wall Street, Completely Revised and Updated Edition |
| Marcial, Gene |
Secrets of the Street
|
| McDonald, Michael |
Predict Market Swings With Technical Analysis |
| McMillan, Lawrence G. |
McMillan on Options
|
| Mennis, Edmund |
How the Economy Works : An Investor's Guide to Tracking the Economy
|
| Menschel, Robert |
Markets, Mobs, and Mayhem: A Modern Look at the Madness of Crowds |
| Morgenson, Gretchen and Harvey Ph.D., Campbell |
The
New York Times Dictionary of Money and Investing: The Essential A-to-Z Guide
to the Language of the New Market |
| Mrkvicka, Edward F., Jr. |
J.K. Lasser's Pick Winning Stocks
|
| Myers, Jonathan |
Profits Without Panic : Investment Psychology for Personal Wealth
|
| Neff, John |
John Neff on Investing
|
| Niederhoffer, Victor |
The Education of a Speculator
|
| Niederman, Derrick |
The Inner Game of Investing: Access the Power of Your Investment Personality
|
| Nofsinger, John R. |
Investment Blunders of the Rich and Famous and What You Can Learn from Them |
| O'Higgins, Michael B. |
Beating the Dow With Bonds : A High-Return, Low-Risk Strategy for Outperforming the Pros Even When Stocks Go South
|
| O'Neil, William J. |
24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success: Learn the Most Important Investment Techniques from the Founder of Investor's Business Daily
|
| O'Neil, William J. |
How
To Make Money In Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, 3rd Edition |
| O'Shaughnessy, James P. |
What Works on Wall Street : A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time
|
| Parks, Robert H. |
Unlocking the Secrets of Wall Street : A Noted Expert Guides You Through Today's Financial Markets
|
| Parness, Michael |
Rule
the Freakin' Markets: How to Profit in Any Market, Bull or Bear |
| Patel, Alpesh B. |
The Mind of a Trader : Lessons in Trading Strategy from the World's Leading Traders
|
| Paulos, John Allen |
A
Mathematician Plays the Stock Market |
| Peters, Edgar E. |
Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets : A New View of Cycles, Prices, and Market Volatility
|
| Pollan, Stephen M. and Levine, Mark |
Die Broke : A Radical, Four-part Financial Plan to Restore Your Confidence, Increase Your Net Worth, and Afford the Lifestyle of your Dreams
|
| Powell, Corey S. |
God
in the Equation: How Einstein Became the Prophet of the New Religious Era |
| Prechter, Robert R., Jr. |
At the Crest of the Tidal Wave : A Forecast for the Great Bear Market
|
| Prechter, Robert R., Jr. |
Conquer the Crash - You Can Survive & Prosper in a Deflationary Depression
|
| Prechter, Robert R. and Frost, A.
J. |
Elliott Wave Principle : Key to Market Behavior
|
| Pring, Martin J. |
Investment Psychology Explained: Classic Strategies to Beat the Markets
|
| Quinlan, Joseph P. and Stevens, Kathryn L. |
101 Trends Every Investor Should Know About the Global Economy |
| Rogers, Jim |
Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Investor's Road Trip |
| Rogers, Jim |
Investment Biker : Around the World With Jim Rogers
|
| Rothchild, John |
The Bear Book : Survive and Profit in Ferocious Markets
|
| Rothchild, John |
A Fool and His Money : The Odyssey of an Average Investor
|
| Rubenfeld, Alan |
The Super Traders: Secrets and Successes of Wall Street's Best and Brightest
|
| Rukeyser, Merryle S. |
The Common Sense of Money and Investments
|
| Schwab, Charles R. |
You're Fifty--Now What? : Investing for the Second Half of Your Life
|
| Schwager, Jack D. |
Getting Started in Technical Analysis
|
| Schwager, Jack D. |
Market Wizards : Interviews With Top Traders
|
| Schwager, Jack D. |
The New Market Wizards : Conversations With America's Top Traders
|
| Schwed, Fred, Jr. |
Where Are the Customers' Yachts? or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street
|
| Scott, David L. |
Wall
Street Words : An Essential A to Z Guide for Today's Investor |
| Shiller, Robert J. |
Irrational Exuberance |
| Shiller, Robert J. |
The
New Financial Order: Risk in the Twenty-First Century |
| Shilling, A. Gary |
Deflation: How to Survive & Thrive in the Coming Wave of Deflation |
| Shook, Robert J. |
Wall
Street Dictionary |
| Siebert, Muriel |
Changing the Rules: Adventures of a Wall Street Maverick |
| Siegel, Jeremy |
Stocks for the Long Run (Third Edition) |
| Slatter, John |
The
100 Best Stocks You Can Buy, 2003 |
| Smith, Adam |
The Wealth of Nations ; With Notes, Marginal Summary, and Enlarged Index by Edwin Cannan
|
| Smith, Adam |
The Money Game
|
| Smith, Charles W. |
Success and Survival on Wall Street : Understanding the Mind of the Market
|
| Sobel, Robert |
Panic on Wall Street : A History of America's Financial Disasters
|
| Solow, Robert M. and Taylor, John B. and
Friedman, Benjamin M. |
Inflation, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy (Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy)
|
| Sornette, Didier |
Why
Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems |
| Soros, George |
The Alchemy of Finance : Reading the Mind of the Market
|
| Sperandeo, Victor |
Trader Vic--Methods of a Wall Street Master
|
| Spooner, John D. |
Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around?
|
| Standard and Poor's |
Standard & Poor's Guide to Technology Stocks |
| Stein, Ben and DeMuth, Phil |
Yes,
You Can Time the Market! |
| Stein, Robert |
Inside Greenspan's Briefcase : Investment Strategies for Profiting from Key
Reports and Data |
| Stevens, Leigh |
Essential Technical Analysis: Tools and Techniques to Spot Market Trends |
| Strauss, William and Howe, Neil |
The Fourth Turning : An American Prophecy
|
| Tanous, Peter J. |
Investment Gurus : A Road Map to Wealth from the World's Best Money Managers
|
| Temin, Peter |
Lessons from the Great Depression : The Lionel Robbins Lectures for 1989
|
| Tharp, Van K. |
Trade
Your Way to Financial Freedom |
| Thau, Annette |
The Bond Book: Everything Investors Need to Know About Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More
|
| Tobias, Andrew |
The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need
|
| Train, John |
The Craft of Investing : Growth and Value Stocks, Emerging Markets, Market Timing, Mutual Funds, Alternative Investments, Retirement and Estate Planning
|
| Train, John |
The Money Masters
|
| Train, John |
Money Masters of Our Time |
| Train, John |
The New Money Masters |
| Tuccille, Jerome |
Alan
Shrugged: Alan Greenspan, the World's Most Powerful Banker |
| Tzu, Sun |
The Art of War |
| U.S. Census Bureau |
Statistical Abstract of the United States 2000 : The National Data
Book (CD-ROM
)
|
| Walden, Gene |
100 Ways to Beat the Market
|
| Walden, Gene and Shaughnessy, Tom |
The 100 Best Internet Stocks to Own for the Long Run
(www.AllStarStocks.com) |
| Walden, Gene |
The
100 Best Stocks to Own in America |
| Weiss, Gary |
Born
to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street |
| Weiss, Martin D. |
Crash
Profits: Make Money When Stocks Sink and Soar! |
| Wheelan, Charles J. |
Naked
Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science |
| Williams, Larry |
The
Right Stock at the Right Time: Prospering in the Coming Good Years |
| Wilson, Edmund |
The American Earthquake - A Chronicle of the Roaring Twenties,
The Great Depression, and the Dawn of the New Deal
|
| Zacks, Mitch |
Ahead
of the Market : The Zacks Method for Spotting Stocks Early -- In Any Economy |
| Zipf, Robert |
How the Bond Market Works
|
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