Best Books – Investing
Investor Behavior
I group anything having to do with how human’s behave in this category. Some are explicit studies around behavioral finance. Others are more reflective on meaning of the human condition.
Favorites
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
- No Easy Day by Mark Owen
- Reminsciences of a stock operator by Edwin Lefevre
- The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness – Morgan Housel’s book is a best seller for a reason – enough said
Others
- 48 laws of power by Robert Green
- Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
- Better by Atul Gawande
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- Catch me if you can by Frank Abagnale
- Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
- Confidential by John Nolan
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
- David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
- Give and Take by Adam Grant
- How to think like Shakespeare by Scott Newstok
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
- Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl
- Marine Sniper by Charles Henderson
- Medium Rare by Anthony bourdain
- Moneyball by Michael Lewis
- More than you know by Michael Mauboussin
- Night by Elite Weisel
- No Hero by Mark Owen
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- Quiet by Suain Cain
- Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel
- Range by David Epstein
- Rejection Proof by Jia Jiang
- Sources of Power by Gary Klein
- Switch by Dan and Chip Heath
- Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The art of deception by Kevin Mitnick
- The art of learning by Josh Waitzkin
- The Game by Neil Strauss
- The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- The Reading Mind by Daniel Willingham
- The Score Takes Care of itself by Bill Walsh
- The Stranger in the Wood by Michael Finkel
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
- The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
- Think Twice by Michael Mauboussin
- Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- What Every Body Is Saying by Joe Navarro
- What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
- Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes by Gary Belsky
Economics
- Capitalism Without Capital by Haskel and Westlake
- Completing Capitalism by Roche and Jakub
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
- Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
- History of Economic Thought by Lionel Robbins
- Next 100 Years by George Friedman
- Technological revolutions and financial capital by Carlota Perez
- The Worldly Philsophers by Robert Heilbroner
- Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes
- Wealth of Man by Peter Jay
- Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
- When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency
Investor Profiles
There are so many amazing profiles of successful investors.
Favorites
- Buffet: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
- Damn Right: Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe
- Dream Big – 3G Capital by Cristiane Correa
- I Love Capitalism by Ken Langone
- The King of Cash by Christopher Winans
- There’s Always Something to do by Christopher Risso-Gill
Others
- A Man for All Markets by Ed Thorpe
- A Passion to Win by Sumner Redstone
- Active Value investing in range bound markets by Vitaly Katsenelson
- Am I Being Too Subtle by Sam Zell
- Bad Blood by Carreyou
- Biography of Bernard Baruch by James Grant
- Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar
- Capital by Charles Ellis
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher
- Confessions of a street adict by James Cramer
- Confidence Game by Christine Richard
- Dhando Investor by Monish Pabrai
- Distress investing by Whitman and Diz
- Do Business with People You Can Trust by L. J. Rittenhouse
- Education of a speculator by Victor Niederhoffer
- Expectations Investing by Michael Maubossin
- Fooling some people all the time by David Einhorn
- Hedge Fund Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
- Hedge Hogging by Barton Biggs
- Hedge Hunters by Katherine Burton
- Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
- Investment Philosophies by Aswath Damodaran
- Julian Robertson – A Tiger in the Land of Bulls and Bears by Daniel Strachman
- King Icahn by Mark Stevens
- Letters to Corporate America by Lawrence Cunningham
- Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
- Mastering market cycle by howard marks
- Masters of the Universe by Daniel Kablec
- Mergers and Acquisitions Playbook by Mark A. Filippell
- Money masters by John Train
- Money Masters of our time by John Train
- New Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
- No Bull by Michael Steinhardt
- One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch
- Poor Charlie’s Almanac by Gregory Zuckerman
- Stock Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
- The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros
- The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing: by Pat Dorsey
- The Little Book that Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt
- The man who solved the markets by Greg zuckerman
- The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital by Robert Finkel
- The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
- The Quants by Scott Patterson
- The Snowball by Alice Schroder
- The Templeton Touch by William Proctor
- The Vulture Investors by Hilary Rosenberg
- Think Twice by Michael Maubossin
- Value Investing by Bruce Greenwald
- Value Investing With Benjamin Graham by Janet Lowe
- Value Investing with the Masters by Kirk Kazanjian
- Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond by Bruce Greenwald
- Where Money Is King – Ron Perelman by Richard Hack
- You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt
Market Function
- Against the Gods by Peter Bernstein
- Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
- FIASCO by Frank Partnoy
- Fortune’s Formula by William Poundstone
- Money Ball by Michael Lewis
- Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
- Confessions of a Street Addict by Jim Cramer
- Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
- Greatest Trade Ever by Gregory Zuckerman
- House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
- In an Uncertain World by Robert Rubin
- Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
- Origins of the Crash by Roger Lowenstein
- The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan
- The Big Short by Michael Lewis
- The Great Crash by John Kenneth Galbraith
- The Money Game by Adam Smith
- The Predator’s Ball by Connie Bruck
- The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
- Too Big Too Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Trading with the Enemy by Nicholas Maier
- Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich
- Wall Street Meat by Andy Kessler
- When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
- When Markets Collide by Mohammed El Arain
- Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
Portfolio Management
- Art of Value Investing by Whitney Tilson
- Education of a Value Investor by Guy Spier
- Foundation & Endowment Investing by Lawrence Kochard, Cathleen Rittereiser
- Pioneering Portfolio Management by David Swensen
- The Ivy Portfolio by Mebane Faber, Eric Richardson
- Top Hedge Fund Investors by Lawrence Kochard, Cathleen Rittereiser
- What I learned losing a million dollars by Jim Paul
- Winning the Losers Game by Charles Ellis
Security Analysis
- Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel by K. Scott Proctor
- Common Stocks, Uncommon Profits by Phil Fisher
- HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business by Ruback and Yudkoff
- Investment Valuation by Damodaran
- Quality of Earnings by Thornton O’Glove
- Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd
- The Wall Street Journal Complete Money and Investing Guidebook by Wall Street Journal
- Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies by McKinsey and Company
- When stocks crash nicely by Katherine Staley