List of my favorite investing books

I have sometimes talked about the books I read in this blog. What I consider the essential investing books were discussed in one of my first posts. Books change or shape your ideas and can have a deep influence on your life. Today I had the energy to make a list of all the investment related books that I read or that are on my reading list. If anyone wants to discuss about them or exchange them feel free to contact me. Some of them are about philosophy or economy, but all of them shaped my investing framework. I am certain that if I had not read some of those books I would not be nearly as happy or in control of my personal and financial life as I am today. Most of them were cross referenced by other authors or by people I admire. Feel free to comment on them or mention your favorite ones, like that I can keep updated. Enough words and let’s get on with it … here is the list:

Adam Smith – The Wealth of Nations
Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
Alfred Marshall – The Principles of Economics
Alice Schroeder – The Snowball- Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Andrew Sorkin – Too Big Too Fail
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
Aswath Damodaran – The Dark Side of Valuation Valuing Young, Distressed, and Complex Businesses
Atul Gawande – The Checklist Manifesto
Avner Mandelman – The Sleuth Investor Uncover the Best Stocks Before They make Their Move
Barnett Helzberg – What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Developing a Highly Successful Company
Benjamin Graham and David Dodd – Security Analysis
Benjamin Graham – The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham – The interpretation of financial statements
Benjamin Graham – The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street
Bettina Bien Greaves – Free Market Economics
Bruce Greenwald – Globalization n. The Irrational Fear That Someone in China Will Take Your Job
Buffett at Notre Dame, 3 lectures
Carl E. Walter – Red Capitalism The Fragile Financial Foundation of China’s Extraordinary Rise
Charles Brandes – Value Investing Today
Charles Mackay – Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charlie Munger – Art of Stock Picking
Charlie Munger on the psychology of human misjudgement
Christopher Browne – The Little Book of Value Investing
Dale Carnegie – How To Win Friends And Influence People
David Einhorn – Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
David Hume – Treatise of human nature
David Ricardo – Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Dickson G. Watts – Speculation as a Fine Art
Edward Altman – Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy Predict and Avoid Bankruptcy, Analyze and Invest in Distressed Debt
Edward O. Thorp & Sheen T. Kassouf – Beat the Market—A Scientific Market System
Edwin Lefevre – Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Eric Tyson – Real Estate Investing For Dummies
Eric W. Richardson – The Ivy Portfolio How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear Markets
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk – Capital and interest
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, The Positive Theory of Capital
Faustino Ballve – Essentials of Economics
F. A. Hayek – The Road to Serfdom
Financial Shenanigans How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks &
Fraud in Financial Reports
Fortune’s Formula – William Poundstone
Fred Schwed Jr. – Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street
Frederic Bastiat – Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas (That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen)
Friedman, Milton – Capitalism and Freedom
Gary Eldred – Make Money with Small Income Properties
George Clarson – The Richest Man In Babylon
George Soros – The Alchemy of Finance
Guy Wyser-Pratte – Risk Arbitrage
Henry Hazlitt – Economics in One Lesson
Jack Welch – Winning
James Allen – As a man thinketh
James Allen – The Path of Prosperity
James O’Loughlin – The Real Warren Buffett, Managing Capital, Leading People
Janet Lowe – Damn right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger
Janet Lowe – Warren Buffett Speaks
Jeffrey Towson – What Would Ben Graham Do Now
Jesse Livermore – How To Trade In Stocks
Jim Rogers – A Bull in China Investing Profitably in the World’s Greatest Market
Joel Greenblatt – The Little Book That Beats the Market
Joel Greenblatt – You Can Be A Stock Market Genius
John Bates Clark, The Distribution of Wealth
John Price – 9 Investing Secrets of Warren Buffett
John Stuart Mill – Principles of Political Economy
Joseph Calandro – Applied Value Investing The Practical Application of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett’s Valuation Principles to Acquisitions, Catastrophe Pricing and Business Execution
Judith Johnstone – Pass That Interview Your Systematic Guide to Coming Out on Top
Karl Menger – Principles of Economics
Keipper and Lyden – How to Succeed & Make Money With Your First Rental House
Ken Auletta – Googled
Keynes, J. – The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Lawrence A. Cunningham – How to Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett
Ludwig Von Mises – Human Action
Ludwig Von Mises – The Theory of Money and Credit
Ludwig Von Mises – Socialism
Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers- The Story of Success
Martin Whitman – Distress Investing Principles and Technique
Martin Whitman – The Aggressive Conservative Investor
Mary Buffett – Buffettology
Mary Buffett – Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements- The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage
Matt Ridley – The Rational Optimist
Michael Lewis – Liar’s Poker
Michael Lewis – The Big Short, Inside the Doomsday Machine
Mohnish Pabrai – Mosaic – Perspectives on Investing
Mohnish Pabrai – The Dhandho Investor – The Low Risk Value Method to High Returns
Murray N. Rothbard – America’s Great Depression
Murray N. Rothbard – Man Economy and State
Murray N. Rothbard – What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Murray N. Rothbard – Mystery of Banking
Napoleon Hill – Think And Grow Rich
Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Fooled by Randomness The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb – The Black Swan The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Percy L. Greaves, Jr. – Understanding The Dollar Crisis
Peter D. Schiff – Crash Proof
Peter Lynch – Beating The Street
Peter Lynch – Learn to Earn A Beginner’s Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business
Philip Fisher – Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
Philip Wicksteed – The commonsense of political economy
Robert G. Hagstrom – The Warren Buffett Way
Robert Skiyosaki – Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Roger Lowenstein – Buffett The Making of an American Capitalist
Roger Lowenstein – When Genius Failed The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Scott Patterson – The Quants How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
Seth Klarman – Margin of Safety
Sham M. Gad – The Business of Value Investing Six Essential Elements to Buying Companies Like Warren Buffett
Spinoza – Ethics
Stephen G. Moyer – Distressed Debt Analysis Strategies for Speculative Investors
Stephen Taub – The Value of Seth Klarman
Steven D. Levitt – Superfreakonomics
Steven Levy – In The Plex~How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Supermoney by Adam Smith
The Essays Of Warren Buffett – Lessons For Corporate America
The Way of the Superior Man
Thomas J. Stanley – The Millionaire Next Door
Thomas Kirchner – Merger Arbitrage How to Profit from Event-Driven Arbitrage
Thomas R. Ittelson – Financial Statements
Timothy Sykes – An American Hedge Fund How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Operator & Created a Hedge Fund
Trevor Ganshaw – Hedge Funds, Humbled The 7 Mistakes That Brought Hedge Funds to Their Knees and How They Will Rise Again
Vahan Janjigian – Even Buffett Isn’t Perfect What You Can–and Can’t–Learn from the World’s Greatest Investor
Warren Buffett: Letters to Berkshire Shareholders

I leave you with one of my favorite pictures:

Happy reading!
jrv