Best Investing Books Of All Time

Last updated December 23, 2018

Here are the best investing books of all time as chosen by some qualified experts.

This link takes you to my own ideas about the best books about investing.

You know, if you read this website, that I believe people have different learning styles and hence would choose different answers to this question. But, there are consensus opinions. Here are several published lists:

Sorry, I’m busy updating this. (March 2019) Please come back in May. 🙂

Here is a good list from Bogleheads wiki, compiled by webmaster Alex Frakt:

Start-up books

There is no general consensus on what are the best first books, but this short list is very popular.

The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing – Taylor Larimore, Michael LeBeouf, Mel Lindauer

The Bogleheads’ Guide to the Three-Fund Portfolio – Taylor Larimore

If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly – William Bernstein (Free download)

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (10th Anniversary Edition) – John C. Bogle

The Investor’s Manifesto – William Bernstein (The 2012 edition is available in paperback)

All About Asset Allocation – Rick Ferri

The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need – Larry Swedroe

The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need – Andrew Tobias

How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street: Golden Rules Any Investor Can Learn – Allan Roth

Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People – Jane Bryant Quinn, Simon and Schuster

Classics

Winning the Loser’s Game, Seventh Edition: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing – Charles Ellis

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits – Philip Fisher

The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing – Benjamin Graham with introduction by Warren Buffett and new commentary by Jason Zweig

One Up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market – Peter Lynch

A Random Walk Down Wall Street – Burton Malkiel

Where are the Customer’s Yachts?: Or a Good Hard Look at Wall Street – Fred Schwed Jr.

Irrational Exuberance – Robert Shiller

Stocks for the Long Run – Jeremy Siegel

General financial planning

Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People – Jane Bryant Quinn

Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy – Jane Bryant Quinn

The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need – Andrew Tobias

General investment

The Informed Investor: A Hype-free Guide to Construct a Sound Financial Portfolio – Frank Armstrong

The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio – William Bernstein

The Intelligent Asset Allocator:How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk – William Bernstein

The Bond Bible – Marilyn Cohen

The Lazy Person’s Guide to Investing: A Book for Procrastinators, the Financially Challenged, and Everyone Who Worries About Dealing with Their Money – Paul Farrell

Protecting Your Wealth in Good Times and Bad – Rick Ferri

The ETF Book: All You Need to Know About Exchange-Traded Funds – Rick Ferri

All About Index Funds: The Easy Way to Get Started – Rick Ferri

The Permanent Portfolio: Harry Browne’s Long-Term Investment Strategy- Craig Rowland, J.M. Lawson

The Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street and Get On With Your Life – Bill Schultheis

The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read: The Simple, Stress-Free Way to Reach Your Investment Goals – Daniel Solin

Wise Investing Made Simple – Larry Swedroe

The Only Guide to a Winning Bond Strategy You’ll Ever Need – Larry Swedroe and Joseph Hempen

Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment – David Swensen

Rational Investing in Irrational Times – Larry Swedroe

Common Sense Investing: Ten Simple Rules to Finance Your Dreams- Rick Van Ness

The Little Book of Safe Money: How to Conquer Killer Markets, Con Artists, and Yourself – Jason Zweig

Retirement

The Bogleheads’ Guide To Retirement Planning – Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Rick Ferri, & Laura Dogu, editors

Retirement Income Redesigned: Master Plans for Distribution – Harold Evensky, Deena Katz, editors

J.K. Lasser’s Your Winning Retirement Plan – Henry Hebeler

Asset Dedication – Stephen Huxley & J. Brent Burns

Live It Up Without Outliving Your Money! – Paul Merriman

Retirement Bible – Lynn O’Shaughnessy

Unveiling The Retirement Myth – Jim C. Otar

How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide – Jane Bryant Quinn

The New Savage Number: How Much Money Do You Really Need to Retire? – Terry Savage

Your Complete Retirement Planning Road Map – Ed Slott

Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably – Ben Stein, Phil DeMuth

Mind over Money: Your Path to Wealth and Happiness – Eric Tyson

How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won’t Get From Your Financial Advisor – Ernie Zelinski

Behavioral finance

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions – Dan Ariely

Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the Life-Changing Science of Behavioral Economics – Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk – Peter Bernstein

Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management – Roger Lowenstein

The Black Swan – Nicholas Taleb

Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and the Markets – Nicholas Taleb

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics – Richard H. Thaler

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness – Richard H. Thaler and Cass Sunstein

Your Money and Your Brain – Jason Zweig

401(k) plan

Cut Your 401(k) Plan Expenses AND Keep More of YOUR Money: Simple steps to cut plan costs, save money, and make monitoring your plan stress free

• The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing – Taylor Larimore, Michael LeBeouf, Mel Lindauer
• Classics
  • Book1
  • Book2
• General financial planning
  • Book1
  • Book2
• General investment
• Retirement

How should we rank the best investing books of all time? If we use the simple metric, sales, we would get this list

• Book 1
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