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. ๐
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 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
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits – Philip Fisher
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
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 Bond Bible – Marilyn Cohen
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
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
Retirement
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
Behavioral finance
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions – Dan Ariely
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
- 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
- Book 2
- Book 3
And if we use a different metric, …