Best Investing Books

best-investing-booksFinding the best investing books can be difficult because there are so many different resources for investors with varying levels of experience. Beginner investors need different types of books and information than more advanced and professor investors. That’s just how it is. That’s why I wrote this article.

Each level of investors should focus on learning different skills. Novice investors need to understand the basic concepts of value and trading, while intermediate investors need to work on honing their analytical skills. Advanced and professional investors often want to learn new tricks and strategies to view the market.

No matter what your investing skill level, top investor books and guides can help you learn new strategies, make better financial decisions, and reach the next level. Let’s check out a few that you should add to your investing library.


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Contents

Here is list of the best investing books about trading, money management, investing and personal finance to help you make money and become financially successful:

The lists are sorted by the author’s last name within each section.

Each one has a link to Amazon where you might like to check out the summaries and reviews contributed by readers. Some of these books are out of print. Don’t let that stop you, because you can usually buy a used copy at Amazon pretty easily.


Featured Author for Beginners

Here are three books by Eric Tyson that are part of the “..for Dummies” series. Readers praise his writing for its practical advice, objectivity, and gentle humor. These books offer a great way to start learning about personal finance and investing. Amazon sells these titles for about $20 each including the shipping charges.

  • Eric Tyson
    Investing for Dummies (2012)
  • Eric Tyson and James C. Collins
    Mutual Funds for Dummies (2010)
  • Eric Tyson
    Personal Finance for Dummies (2012)

Best Investing Books for Beginners

These books concentrate on personal finance, budgeting, and also offer some introductory material on basic investment strategies.

  • Barbara Apostolou, Nicholas G. Apostolou
    Keys to Investing in Common Stocks (Barron’s Business Keys)
  • Janet Bamford, Jeff Blyskal, Emily Card, and Aileen Jacobson
    The Consumer Reports Money Book (2000)
  • David Chilton
    The Wealthy Barber
  • George S. Clason
    The Richest Man in Babylon
  • Jonathan Clements
    25 Myths You’Ve Got to Avoid If You Want to Manage Your Money Right: The New Rules for Financial Success
  • John Downes and Jordan Elliot Goodman
    Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms (2014)
  • Louis Engel
    How to Buy Stocks
  • Dan Fournier
    The Young Investor
  • George L. Fulton
    Bonds: The Other Market
  • Alvin Hall
    Getting Started in Stocks (4th edn.)
  • Ken Kurson
    The Green Magazine Guide to Personal Finance: A No B.S. Book for Your Twenties and Thirties
  • James Lowell
    Investing from Scratch: A Handbook for the Young Investor
  • Peter Lynch and John Rothchild
    Learn to Earn: A Beginner’s Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business
  • Dale C. Maley
    Index Mutual Funds: How to Simplify Your Financial Life and Beat the Pros
  • Kenneth M. Morris and Alan M. Siegel
    The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing (3rd edition)
  • Kenneth M. Morris and Alan M. Siegel
    The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Personal Finance
  • Kenneth M. Morris, Alan M. Siegel, and Virginia B. Morris
    The Wall Street Journal Guide to Planning Your Financial Future
  • W. Patrick Naylor
    10 Steps to Financial Success: A Beginner’s Guide to Saving and Investing
  • Suze Orman
    The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom
  • Kenan Pollack and Eric Heighberger
    The Real Life Investing Guide
  • Jane Bryant Quinn
    Making the Most of Your Money
  • John Rothchild
    A Fool and His Money: The Odyssey of an Average Investor
  • Alfred V. Scillitani
    Basic Investing Guide For The New Investor (2nd edn.)
  • Kathleen Sindell
    Investing Online for Dummies (5th edn.)
  • Andrew Tobias
    The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need
  • Eric Tyson
    Investing for Dummies (2012)
  • Eric Tyson and James C. Collins
    Mutual Funds for Dummies (2010)
  • Eric Tyson
    Personal Finance for Dummies (2012)

Top Investment Books for Intermediate Investors

These books assume you’re comfortable with the basics of stocks, mutual funds, bonds, and other securities. They offer many investment strategies: what to buy, what to sell, and when to do so.

  • Frank Armstrong
    Investment Strategies for the 21st Century
    This book is available from the author’s web site at no charge, and no registration is required.
  • Peter Bernstein
    Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
  • Peter Bernstein
    Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
  • John C. Bogle
    Bogle on Mutual Funds
  • John C. Bogle
    Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor
  • James W. Broadfoot
    Investing in Emerging Growth Stocks
  • Mary Buffett and David Clark
    Buffettology: The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffett the World’s Most Famous Investor
  • Nicolas Darvas
    How I Made 2,000,000 in the Stock Market
  • David N. Dreman
    Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation
  • David Gardner and Tom Gardner
    The Motley Fool Investment Workbook
  • David Gardner and Tom Gardner
    The Motley Fool Investment Guide: How the Fool Beats Wall Street’s Wise Men and How You Can Too
  • Michael Gianturco
    How to Buy Technology Stocks
  • Braden Glett
    Stock Market Stratagem: Loss Control and Portfolio Management
  • Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig
    The Intelligent Investor
  • Christopher Graja and Elizabeth Ungar
    Investing in Small-Cap Stocks
  • William Greider
    Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
  • Peter I. Hupalo
    Becoming an Investor: Building Wealth by Investing in Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds
  • Investor’s Business Daily
    Investor’s Business Daily Guide to the Markets
  • Jeffrey B. Little and Lucien Rhodes
    Understanding Wall Street
  • Gerald M. Loeb
    The Battle for Investment Survival
  • Peter Lynch and John Rothchild
    Beating the Street
  • Peter Lynch and John Rothchild
    One up on Wall Street
  • Burton Malkiel
    A Random Walk Down Wall Street
    This is a classic, and offers a highly readable argument for index funds (also known as modern portfolio theory).
  • Geoffrey A. Moore, Paul Johnson, and Tom Kippola
    The Gorilla Game: An Investor’s Guide to Picking Winners in High Technology
  • William J. O’Neil
    How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad
  • James O’Shaughnessy
    How to Retire Rich: Time-Tested Strategies to Beat the Market and Retire in Style
  • James P. O’Shaughnessy
    Invest Like the Best: Using Your Computer to Unlock the Secrets of the Top Money Managers
  • James P. O’Shaughnessy
    What Works on Wall Street: The Classic Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time
  • Hildy Richelson and Stan Richelson
    Bonds: The Unbeaten Path to Secure Investment Growth
  • Dhun H. Sethna and William O’Neil
    Investing Smart: How to Pick Winning Stocks With Investor’s Business Daily
  • Robert Sheard
    The Unemotional Investor: Simple Systems for Beating the Market
  • Jeremy J. Siegel
    Stocks for the Long Run
  • Michael Sincere and Deron Wagner
    The Long-Term Day Trader
  • John A. Tracy
    How to Read a Financial Report (5th edn., Wiley, 1999).
  • John Train
    Money Masters of our Time
  • Martin E. Zweig and Morrie Goldfischer
    Martin Zweig’s Winning on Wall Street (revised and updated)

Best Investing Books for Expert Investors

These books are aimed at people who have a solid understanding of finance and/or trade for a living. There are quite a few on technical analysis for the “chartists” out there.

  • Steven B. Achelis
    Technical Analysis from A to Z
  • Nicholas G. Apostolou and Barbara Apostolou
    Keys to Investing in Options and Futures
  • Jake Bernstein
    The Compleat Day Trader II: Trading Systems, Strategies, Timing Indicators, and Analytical Methods
  • Peter Bernstein (ed.)
    The Portable MBA in Investment
  • Robert W. Colby and Thomas A. Meyers
    Encyclopedia of Technical Market Indicators
  • John C. Cox and Mark Rubenstein
    Options Markets
  • Thomas R. Demark
    New Market Timing Techniques: Innovative Studies in Market Rhythm and Price Exhaustion
  • Mark Douglas
    The Disciplined Trader
  • Robert D. Edwards, John Magee and W.H.C. Bassetti
    Technical Analysis of Stock Trends
  • Alexander Elder
    Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
  • Marc Friedfertig and George West
    The Electronic Day Trader
  • A. J. Frost, Robert J. Prechter, and Robert R. Prechter
    Elliott Wave Principle: Key to Market Behavior
  • Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd
    Security Analysis
  • Mervyn L. Hecht
    How to Make Money with Stock Options (3rd edition)
  • Laurence Holt (publ.)
    Stikky Stock Charts
  • John C. Hull
    Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives
  • Jonathan E. Ingersoll
    Theory of Financial Decision Making
  • Robert A. Jarrow
    Modelling Fixed Income Securities and Interest Rate Options
  • William L. Jiler
    How Charts Can Help You in the Stock Market
  • Jeffrey Katz and Donna L. McCormick
    The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies
  • Charles Lebeau and David W. Lucas
    Technical Traders Guide to Computer Analysis of the Futures Market
  • Lawrence G. McMillan
    Options as a Strategic Investment
  • Robert Merton
    Continuous Time Finance
  • John J. Murphy
    Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets
  • John J. Murphy
    Study Guide for Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets: A Self-Training Manual
  • Sheldon Natenberg
    Option Volatility and Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques
  • Robert Pardo
    Evaluation and Optimization of Trading Systems
  • Robert R. Prechter and R. N. Elliott
    R. N. Elliott’s Masterworks: The Definitive Collection
  • Martin J. Pring
    Martin Pring’s Introduction to Technical Analysis
  • Martin J. Pring
    Technical Analysis Explained
  • Victor Sperandeo
    Trader Vic II : Principles of Professional Speculation
  • Robert A. Taggart
    Quantitative Analysis for Investment Management
  • Nassim Taleb
    Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options
  • Stan Weinstein
    Stan Weinstein’s Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets

Investment Analysis & Commentary Books

These books offer analysis, commentary, and war stories from finance insiders about the trading and investment world. They probably won’t help you pick stocks, but they’re fun to read if you’re interested in finance and markets.

  • Po Bronson
    Bombardiers
  • Connie Bruck
    The Predators’ Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders
  • Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
    Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
  • Edwin Lefevre
    Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
  • Michael Lewis
    Flash Boys
  • Michael Lewis
    Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
  • Charles MacKay, Josef De La Vega, and Martin S. Fridson
    Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusion De Confusiones
  • Victor Niederhoffer
    The Education of a Speculator
  • Jim Rogers
    Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers
  • Steven R. Selengut
    The Brainwashing of the American Investor
  • Robert J. Shiller
    Irrational Exuberance
  • James B. Stewart
    Den of Thieves

If you can’t find what you’re looking for on Amazon.Com, you might check out The Trader’s Library of Columbia, MD. They maintain a web site that has over 600 investment titles.
http://www.traderslibrary.com

Those who are just learning about the stock market may wish to have a look at the article in the FAQ with advice for beginners.


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Contributed-By: Chris Lott