Last week we put together our list of 150 of the best investing blogs on the planet for 2018. This week we’ve compiled a list of what we consider to be 50 of the best investing books of all time.
The Best Investing Books of All Time
This list is in no way complete or in any particular order. If you would like a add a book to the list, please add it to the comments section below:
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T Munger (Peter Kaufman)
- Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor (Seth Klarman)
- The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Benjamin Graham)
- The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor (Howard Marks)
- Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond (Bruce Greenwald)
- Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett (Benjamin Graham)
- Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story (David Einhorn)
- You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits (Joel Greenblatt)
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings (Philip Fisher)
- What Works on Wall Street, Fourth Edition: The Classic Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time (James O’Shaughnessy)
- The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Warren Buffett, Lawrence Cunningham)
- The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns (Mohnish Pabrai)
- Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor (Tren Griffin)
- The Little Book of Value Investing (Christopher Browne)
- The Little Book That Beats the Market (Joel Greenblatt)
- The Little Book That Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments (Pat Dorsey)
- The Warren Buffett Way (Robert Hagstrom)
- Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger (Janet Lowe)
- Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Alice Schroeder)
- Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders, 1965-2017 (Warren Buffett)
- Value Investing: Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Investment (James Montier)
- Mosaic: Perspectives on Investing (Mohnish Pabrai)
- Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (Tobias Carlisle)
- The Manual of Ideas: The Proven Framework for Finding the Best Value Investments (John Mihaljevic)
- The Art of Value Investing: How the World’s Best Investors Beat the Market (John Heins, Whitney Tilson)
- Buffettology: Warren Buffett’s Investing Techniques (Mary Buffett, David Clark)
- The Acquirer’s Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market (Tobias Carlisle)
- One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market (Peter Lynch)
- Buffett: The Making Of An American Capitalist (Roger Lowenstein)
- The Money Game (Adam Smith)
- Education of a Value Investor (Guy Spier)
- The Little Book That Still Beats the Market (Joel Greenblatt)
- Beating the Street (Peter Lynch)
- Irrational Exuberance: Revised and Expanded Third Edition (Robert Shiller)
- A Random Walk down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Burton Malkiel)
- Applied Value Investing: The Practical Application of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett’s Valuation Principles to Acquisitions, Catastrophe Pricing Execution (McGraw-Hill Finance & Investing) (Joseph Calandro Jr.)
- The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success (William Thorndike)
- The Alchemy of Finance (George Soros)
- Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy (Bruce Greenwald)
- Thinking, Fast And Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
- The Little Book of Behavioral Investing: How not to be your own worst enemy (James Montier)
- Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Charles Kindleberger, Robert Aliber)
- The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Nassim Taleb)
- The Rediscovered Benjamin Graham: Selected Writings of the Wall Street Legend (Benjamin Graham, Janet Lowe)
- The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy (Robert Hagstrom)
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (John Bogle)
- Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset (Aswath Damodaran)
- Stocks for the Long Run 5/E: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies (Jeremy Siegel)
- When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Roger Lowenstein)
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (Peter Bernstein)
- Market Wizards: Interviews With Top Traders (Jack Schwager)
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4 Comments on “50 Of The Best Investing Books Of All Time”
I count 15 books related to Buffett, Munger, and Graham and that doesn’t count the many mentions to these three great investors in the other 35 books. In my opinion, this is overkill. Reading one of Graham’s books, a comprehensive book on Munger, the Berkshire shareholder letters, and maybe two books related to Buffett should be more than enough to cover these gentlemen.
I read most of that books, but one of the best is „contrairian investment strategies“ from David Dreamen.
Is this considered to be descending order from the best of the best?
I’ve read a lot of them but One Up On Wall Street is simply the best. It’s easy to read and understand but the wisdom inside is something you simply cannot find in most of investment books.