Curated Reading List
Best Investing Books of All Time
Recommended by billionaire investors and a guy from Indiana who bet everything on Fannie Mae preferred stock.
28 investing books • Links are affiliate (details below)
The Intelligent Investor
by Benjamin Graham
“By far the best book on investing ever written.”View on Amazon
Poor Charlie's Almanack
by Charles T. Munger
“Charlie has the best 30-second mind in the world. This book captures his wisdom.”View on Amazon
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
by Edwin Lefevre
“One of the best books ever written about the financial markets. I've read it multiple times.”View on Amazon
The Alchemy of Finance
by George Soros
“The theory of reflexivity is the cornerstone of my approach to markets.”View on Amazon
The Most Important Thing
by Howard Marks
“Second-level thinking is what separates the great investors from the average ones.”View on Amazon
Fooled by Randomness
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Taleb brilliantly explains how much of what we attribute to skill is actually luck. Essential reading for investors.”View on Amazon
The Big Short
by Michael Lewis
“Lewis captured the insanity of the subprime mortgage crisis. I lived it — and he got the details right.”View on Amazon
Security Analysis
by Benjamin Graham & David Dodd
“The bible of value investing. If you want to understand intrinsic value, this is where you start.”View on Amazon
The Man Who Solved the Market
by Gregory Zuckerman
“Zuckerman tells our story at Renaissance. I may not agree with every detail, but he captured the essence of what we built.”View on Amazon
Market Wizards
by Jack D. Schwager
“Schwager interviews the greatest traders of our time. I read this before starting Citadel and it shaped my approach to risk.”View on Amazon
Against the Gods
by Peter L. Bernstein
“The history of risk. Bernstein shows how humanity learned to understand and manage uncertainty. Essential for any investor.”View on Amazon
Liar's Poker
by Michael Lewis
“Lewis captures the madness of Wall Street in the '80s. I lived through that era and he nailed the culture.”View on Amazon
When Genius Failed
by Roger Lowenstein
“The LTCM collapse is the ultimate lesson in hubris and leverage. Every hedge fund manager should read this annually.”View on Amazon
100 to 1 in the Stock Market
by Thomas William Phelps
“This is the book that made me understand compounding. Buy right and hold on. Phelps studied every stock that returned 100x from 1932 to 1971. If you read one investing book, make it this one.”View on Amazon
The Either/Or Investor
by Clark Winter
“This confirms several cognitive biases. You can teach these to yourself, but it's a lot easier to learn from examples. Clark does a good job of helping you understand opportunity cost.”View on Amazon
The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett and George Soros
by Mark Tier
“There's no better way to see things than from the perspective of the most successful investors of our time. Soros: find a water spigot and put your bucket under it. Buffett: skate to where the puck is going.”View on Amazon
Margin of Safety
by Seth Klarman
“Read this after you read Buffettology. It's also good alongside Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd. This goes into investment concepts that most people skip.”View on Amazon
The Little Book that Beats the Market
by Joel Greenblatt
“The one book you should read to see if you are even remotely interested in stocks. If this doesn't excite you, nothing will.”View on Amazon
Buffettology
by Mary Buffett
“This is the book I read after working with my mentor to begin to visualize things more like Buffett. I've used his partnership agreements from this book in real life. If you want to understand companies like Buffett does, this is the way.”View on Amazon
How to Find a Home Run Stock
by John Lux
“I met John Lux in person after he sent me his book. I told my dad that if I ever felt the need to write a book, that need has vanished because someone already wrote it for me.”View on Amazon
Fanniegate
by Glen Bradford
“Book 1. The first sound they'll hear is their heads hitting the floor. I was 28 and furious.”View on Amazon
Net Worth Sweep
by Glen Bradford
“Book 2. Government theft of $100B+ of cash money. I documented everything while it was happening.”View on Amazon
Capital Buffer
by Glen Bradford
“Book 3. Any solution will be dependent upon the GSEs being capitalized. I was right.”View on Amazon
$3,542,600
by Glen Bradford
“Book 4. Par value. That's what my position was worth at par. I wrote a whole book about it because I'm that guy.”View on Amazon
Adequately Capitalized
by Glen Bradford
“Book 5. My first second million. Lost it all in Chinese frauds, made it back, then went all in on Fannie.”View on Amazon
Winners Circle
by Glen Bradford
“Book 6. Fanniegate last call. Spoiler: it wasn't actually the last call. There are two more books after this.”View on Amazon
Fanniegate Hero
by Glen Bradford
“Book 7. Heading to the Lamberth trial. I documented the courtroom proceedings in real time. Nobody else did.”View on Amazon
Victory Lap
by Glen Bradford
“Book 8. Fanniegate recap and release. The endgame may finally be here. 10 years of writing about the same trade. Talk about conviction.”View on Amazon
Why These Books?
This list is not a generic roundup scraped from the internet. Every book here was either recommended in a public interview, annual letter, or book club by a billionaire investor — or it comes from Glen Bradford's personal reading list, built over 15+ years of concentrated value investing. Whether you are just getting started or looking for the next book that changes how you see the world, this is the list.
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