Book List

We have provided a list of books that were beneficial to our investment education over the last few years.  We believe that the information contained in the following books presents many different perspectives and is helpful to obtaining a good idea of the various forces in the investment world.  As time progresses, we will add more books as well as provide reviews and summaries.

For the Novice Investor

The Little Book That Beats the Market – Joel Greenblatt
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings – Philip Fisher
A Random Walk Down Wall Street – Burton Malkiel
The Warren Buffett Way – Robert Hagstrom
The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing – Pat Dorsey
Damodaran on Valuation: Security Analysis for Investment and Corporate Finance – Aswath Damodaran

Investing Strategies & Thoughts

The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
Security Analysis – Benjamin Graham
The Alchemy of Finance – George Soros
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius – Joel Greenblatt
Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond – Bruce Greenwald
The Theory of Investment Value – John Williams
Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator – Edwin Lefevre
The Rediscovered Benjamin Graham – Janet Lowe
Benjamin Graham on Value Investing – Janet Lowe
One Up On Wall Street – Peter Lynch
The Dhandho Investor – Mohnish Pabrai
Contrarian Investment Strategies – David Dreman
Market Wizards – Jack D. Schwager
How I Trade and Invest in Stocks and Bonds – Richard Wyckoff
Behavioural Investing: A Practitioners Guide to Applying Behavioural Finance – James Montier
Beyond Greed and Fear – Hersh Shefrin
The Battle For Investment Survival- Geral Loeb
Margin of Safety – Seth Klarman
The Aggressive Conservative Investor – Martin Whitman

Economics

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money – John Maynard Keynes
The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 – Milton Friedman
The Secrets of Economic Indicators – Bernard Baumohl
An Analysis and History of Inflation – Don Paarlberg
A History of Interest Rates – Sidney Homer
Mr. Market Miscalculates – James Grant
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises – Charles Kindleberger
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds – Charles MacKay

Accounting & Financial Literacy

Quality of Earnings – Thornton O’Glove
Financial Shenanigans – Howard Schilit
The Financial Numbers Game – Charles Mulford
Creative Cash Flow Reporting – Charles Mulford
The Analysis and Use of Financial Statements – Gerald White

Business

Competitive Strategy – Michael Porter
Competitive Advantage – Michael Porter
Good to Great – Jim Collins
Built to Last – Jim Collins
Mavericks at Work – William Taylor
The Essays of Warren Buffett – Warren Buffet
Competition Demystified – Bruce Greenwald

Biography

Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger – Janet Lowe
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist – Roger Lowenstein
The Templeton Touch – William Proctor

Other

Jesse Livermore’s Methods of Trading in Stocks – Richard Wyckoff (Reviewed by Chain Bridge Investing)
The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert Cialdini
Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Taleb
The Black Swan – Nassim Taleb
When Genius Failed – Roger Lowenstein
Supermoney – Adam Smith
Wall Street: A History – Charles Geisst