Finding 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:
- Books for beginners
- Books for experienced investors
- Books for professional traders and speculators
- Investor Commentary & Discussion
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