 | Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: £5.32 / Used from: £3.59 irritating, arrogant, long-winded, but ultimately both brilliant and right
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 | The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Buy used from: £8.00 the only good populist book on post-sigma finance
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 | Analysis of Financial Statements (Frank J. Fabozzi Series) by Pamela P. Peterson
Buy new: £38.25 / Used from: £38.21 possibly not the most exciting book in the world, but a very good and clear into to statement analysis, very useful for CFA
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 | The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.76 great, fun, into to thinking like an economist, ideal for A-level, first year UG, or if you just want to know how economists think (read this, don't read freakonomics)
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 | Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World by Ha-Joon Chang
Buy used from: £19.90 brilliant book on reality of international trade and protectionism and why the free market doesn't (always) work
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 | Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know by David Moss
Buy new: £11.48 / Used from: £10.30 ideal, clear, easy, no BS into to main macro ideas, without all the dumb graphs they teach you at uni.
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 | The City: A Guide to London's Global Financial Centre (Economist) by Richard Roberts
Buy used from: £3.81 all The Economist books are brilliant, this one particularly so
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 | The Essential Adam Smith by RL Heilbroner
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £5.63 Adam Smith is a genius; writes clearly and thoughtfully about everything, not the one-dimensional free marketer he is often characterized as
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 | Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market by Daniel Reingold
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £4.26 top insight into the role of a research analyst and why it all went wrong in the 90s, read this book before CFA ethics and the ethics will almost make sense
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 | The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Investors and Managers, Revised Edition by L. A. Cunningham
Buy used from: £23.77 brilliant, no BS, just clear common sense, (and no investment theory!)
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 | Derivatives: Models on Models by Espen Gaarder Haug
Buy new: £29.50 / Used from: £20.00 essays by everyone from Taleb to Wilmott, and a lot more too...
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 | A Dictionary of Finance and Banking 3E (Oxford Paperback Reference)
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £1.90 clear first reference for everything
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 | Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms (Barron's Dictionary of Finance & Investment Terms) by John Downes
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £6.11 not as clear as Oxford, but US so helpful for CFA
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 | When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
Buy used from: £4.20 a $4.6 billion example of the limitations of the normal distribution
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 | Discrete Mathematics for New Technology by R. Garnier
Buy new: £37.04 / Used from: £24.99 err, well nothing to do with finance at all, just an awsome book
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