Investing is a science plus an art. Investing without proper training and education is like throwing your hard earned money down the flush. If you are a serious investor that you should read these 40 books over time. If not all then make sure you read at least a few of them. This list has been copied from an article published on MarketWatch. 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
You can download Security Analysis 819 page PDF here.
3.“Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?” — Fred Schwed Jr., 1940
4.“The Intelligent Investor” — Benjamin Graham, 1949
You can download the Intelligent Investor 643 page PDF here.
6.“The Great Crash, 1929” — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1954
You can read The Great Crash, 1929 for 2 weeks on Scribd.
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
You can download Market Wizards in PDF here.
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
You can read Chapter 3 of The Quants here.
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
We have provided the download links for some of the books. You can google these books and find out whether FREE PDF download is available or not.