Books Every Investor Needs

If you’re looking for books on investing, start with this list written by the Masters such as Lynch, Graham, Soros and Lefevre.

• “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” — Edwin Lefevre, 1923
• “Security Analysis” — Benjamin Graham, David Dodd, 1934
• “Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?” — Fred Schwed Jr., 1940
• “The Intelligent Investor” — Benjamin Graham, 1949
• “The Great Crash, 1929” — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1954
• “Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits” — Philip A. Fisher, 1958
• “The Money Game” — George Goodman, 1967
• “A Random Walk Down Wall Street” — Burton Malkiel, 1973
• “Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises” — Charles Kindleberger, 1978
• “The Alchemy of Finance” — George Soros, 1987
• “Market Wizards” — Jack Schwager, 1989
• “Liar’s Poker” — Michael Lewis, 1989
• “101 Years on Wall Street, an Investor’s Almanac” — John Dennis Brown, 1991
• “Beating The Street” — Peter Lynch, 1993
• “Stocks for the Long Run” — Jeremy Siegel, 1994
• “What Works on Wall Street” — James O’Shaughnessy, 1997
• “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America” — Lawrence Cunningham, 1997
• “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk” — Peter Bernstein, 1998
• “Common Sense on Mutual Funds” — Jack Bogle, 1999
• “Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation” — Edward Chancellor, 1999
• “When Genius Failed” — Roger Lowenstein, 2000
• “One Up On Wall Street” — Peter Lynch, 2000
• “Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2001
• “Confessions of a Street Addict” — Jim Cramer, 2002
• “The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio” — William Bernstein, 2002
• “Winning the Loser’s Game” — Charles Ellis, 2002
• “Bull: A History of Boom and Bust 1982-2004” — Maggie Mahar, 2004
• “Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger” — Peter Kaufman, 2005
• “All About Asset Allocation” — Rick Ferri, 2006
• “Your Money and Your Brain” — Jason Zweig, 2007
• “Bailout Nation” — Barry Ritholtz, 2009
• “The Big Short” — Michael Lewis, 2010
• “The Quants” — Scott Patterson, 2010
• “More Money Than God” — Sebastian Mallaby, 2010
• “The Most Important Thing” — Howard Marks, 2011
• “Backstage Wall Street” — Josh Brown, 2012
• “Quantitative Value” — Wesley Gray, Tobias Carlisle, 2012
• “Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune” — Patrick O’Shaughnessy, 2014
• “A Wealth of Common Sense: Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan” — Ben Carlson, 2015