Recommended Investment Books
Stock Market Wizards : Interviews with America’s Top Stock Traders
The New Market Wizards : Conversations with America’s Top Traders
The Investor’s Anthology: Original Ideas from the Industry’s Greatest Minds
Bull: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004
Historical Perspectives
How I Trade and Invest in Stocks and Bonds
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Investor Psychology
Thomas Gilovich: How We Know What Isn’t So
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them:
Lessons From The New Science Of Behavioral Economics
Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
Robert R. Prechter Jr.: Prechter’s Perspective
Wall Street
Where Are the Customers’ Yachts or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street
Economics
New Ideas from Dead Economists
Technicals
Getting Started in Technical Analysis
The Visual Investor : How to Spot Market Trends
Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets
How Charts Can Help You in the Stock Market
How I Made 2,000,000 in the Stock Market
Technical Reference
Technical Analysis from A to Z
Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
Short Selling
Riding the Bear: How to Prosper in the Coming Bear Market
How to Make Money Selling Stocks Short
Fundamentals
Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World’s Greatest Investor
The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America
Everything Else
November 20th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
First off, of the books I have read on this list, Freakonomics does not compare. I was so infuriated by the book that I actually sat down and wrote a lengthy letter to the author outlining the various errors in his reasoning, some of which rendered entire chapters of his book irrelevant. I am not getting back into it, but that book should be reread and its inclusion on the list reevaluated IMO.
Also, since everyone cares, I think to exclude Nassim Taleb’s second book: The Black Swan from this list is also an important oversight. The discussion of the global financial system is disturbingly accurate…
December 11th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Here’s a book i DON’T SEE MENTIONED BY YOU THAT IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST by an MIT long-time expert on the great depression and business panics: “Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises”(Wiley Investment Classics) (Paperback) by Charles P. Kindleberger. Just the chapter on Fueling the Flames: The Expansion of Credit is worth the book.
December 12th, 2008 at 10:28 am
I’ve read a good many of those books and agree with your inclusion of many of them on the “recommended list. But as someone who threw out the “buy and hold” strategy as being a method for people who truly don’t understand markets or risk, Siegel’s book is currently acting as a doorstop.