Recommended Reading for Value Investors
Each month, we provide a list of 5 New Books for Value Investors. This page is a master list of all the books recommended for value investors to read. All of the books listed here are either great resources for learning more about investing and personal finance or just plain fun reads for when a break is needed.
Classics
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
- Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham
- The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America edited by Lawrence Cunningham
- One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market by Peter Lynch
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing by Burton Malkiel
Investing
- A Beginner’s Guide to Investing: How to Grow Your Money the Smart and Easy Way by Alex H Frey
- Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives For The Intelligent Investor (Wiley Investment Classics) by John C. Bogle
- Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
- Get Rich with Dividends: A Proven System for Earning Double-Digit Returns by Marc Lichtenfeld
- Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune by Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Money and Finance by Cullen Roche
- Stocks on the Move: Beating the Market with Hedge Fund Momentum Strategies by Andreas F. Clenow
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
- The 5 Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them by Peter Mallouck
- The Boglehead’s Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, and Michael LeBouef
- The Great American Dividend Machine: How an Outsider Became the Undisputed Champ of Wall Street by Bill Spetrino
- The Intelligent Option Investor: Applying Value Investing to the World of Options by Erik Kobayashi-Soloman
- Trading Habits: 39 of the World’s Most Powerful Stock Market Rules by Steve Burns & Holly Burns
Personal Finance
- Cold Hard Truth On Men, Women, and Money: 50 Common Money Mistakes and How to Fix Them by Kevin O’Leary
- MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins
- The Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth by James Altucher
- The Millionaire Master Plan: Your Personalized Path to Financial Success by Roger James Hamilton
- Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich by Sam Wilkin
Personal Growth
- A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders by Lindsey Pollak
- Confident You: An Introvert’s Guide to Success in Life and Business by S J Scott
- Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life by Ruth Soukup
- The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel Levitin
- Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts–Becoming the Person You Want to Be by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
Business
- #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
- Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values by Lawrence A. Cunningham
- Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
- Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling by Jeb Blount
- Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World’s Most Successful Companies by Charles G. Koch
- The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp
- The Best Team Money Can Buy: The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse by Molly Knight
- The Power of Failure: Succeeding in the Age of Innovation by Fran Tarkenton
- The Rich Employee by James Altucher
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
History
- Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
- Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman
- How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
- The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman
- The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonette
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
- Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs by Michelle Malkin
- World Order by Henry Kissinger
Biography & Memoir
- 41: A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush
- A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
- American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle
- Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
- Believer: My Forty Years in Politics by David Axelrod
- Brady vs Manning: The Untold Story of the Rivalry That Transformed the NFL by Gary Myers
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment by Guy Spier
- The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
- You Can’t Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television by Al Michaels
Science
Fiction
- Crow Hollow by Michael Wallace
- Finders Keepers: A Novel by Stephen King
- Go Set a Watchman: A Novel by Harper Lee
- Hope to Die (Alex Cross) by James Patterson
- The Einstein Prophecy by Robert Masello
- The Escape (John Puller Series) by David Baldacci
- The Girl on the Train: A Novel by Paula Hawkins
Why isn’t the Intelligent Investor on this list?
Chris,
So far this list is just books that have been “new releases” and includes some that are updated versions. To date it is just a compilation of the new books that are listed in my regular post titled “New Books for Value Investors.”
BUT – you gave me an idea to make a post regarding classic books. I’ll aim to get that posted soon.
Ben
Great! I appreciate your passion and devotion towards this incredibly valuable subject!
Hi Ben, awesome compilation. But where’s Common Stocks, Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher? One of the greatest investors of all times which Buffett himself calls himself as “85% Graham and 15% Fisher”.
Carol, That is a good book and may be added to this list in the future. The list is a compilation of all books selected in my monthly post regarding New Books for Value Investors and a recent post I wrote regarding 5 Classic Books for Value Investors. Not being on this list only means that a book either hasn’t had a recent edition (which would put it in a “new release” category) or just didn’t quite make the cut in the classic books post. Stay tuned each month for more additions to this list!