I am frequently asked for a recommended reading list, so I looked through my library and created the list below. It is by no means comprehensive, yet in some respects it is undoubtedly redundant. Some books are out of print and attempting to read it all would be daunting; so think of it as a menu of options you may want to try. To keep it to a somewhat reasonable length, I restricted myself to only one title per author and excluded textbooks. Also, due to my predilections it is tilted toward the areas of behavioral finance, efficient markets, and historical perspective.
- Against the Gods – Peter L. Bernstein
- All About Asset Allocation – Richard A. Ferri
- Asset Allocation – Robert D. Arnott & Frank J. Fabozzi
- Asset Allocation – Roger C. Gibson
- Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing – Andrew Ang
- Behavioral Investing – James Montier
- Beyond Greed and Fear – Hersh Shefrin
- Book of Investing Wisdom, The – Peter Krass
- Common Sense of Money and Investments, The – Merryle S. Rukeyser
- Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation – Edward Chancellor
- Efficient Asset Management – Richard O. Michaud
- Efficiently Inefficient – Lasse Heje Pedersen
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds – Charles MacKay
- Fooled by Randomness – Nassim N. Taleb
- Fortune’s Formula – William Poundstone
- Happiness – Richard Layard
- History of the Theory of Investments, A – Mark Rubinstein
- Intelligent Investor, The – Benjamin Graham
- Investment Management – Robert L. Hagin
- Investor’s Manifesto, The – William J. Bernstein
- Management of Investment Decisions, The – Donald Trone, et al.
- Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises – Charles Kindleberger
- Millionaire Next Door, The – Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko
- More Than You Know – Michael J. Mauboussin
- Myth of the Rational Market, The – Justin Fox
- New Wealth Management, The – Harold R. Evensky, et al.
- Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need, The – Larry E. Swedroe
- Only Yesterday – Frederick L. Allen
- Plungers and the Peacocks, The – Dana L. Thomas
- Portable Financial Analyst, The – Mark P. Kritzman
- Portfolio Selection – Harry M. Markowitz
- Psychology of Investing, The – John R. Nofsinger
- Random Walk Down Wall Street, A – Burton G. Malkiel
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator – Edwin Lefèvre
- Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
- Signal and the Noise, The – Nate Silver
- Stocks for the Long Run – Jeremy J. Siegel
- Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? – Fred Schwed
- Winning the Loser’s Game – Charles D. Ellis
- Wisdom of Crowds, The – James Surowiecki
- Your Money and Your Brain – Jason Zweig