 | The Dhandho Investor: The Low Risk Value Method to High Returns by Mohnish Pabrai
Buy new: £10.96 / Used from: £8.00 An excellent book, really focuses on the importance of cash flows in business.
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 | Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment by David Swensen
Buy new: £11.71 / Used from: £2.15 Superb! The first book on investing everyone should read. Makes a strong case for using index trackers yet acknowleges the role active management can have.
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 | The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
Buy new: £8.28 / Used from: £5.69 The Daddy! If you haven't read it, read it!
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 | One Up on Wall Street (A Fireside book) by Peter Lynch
Buy new: £5.85 / Used from: £3.50 A great book exploring the ways in which amateurs can beat pros.
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 | Contrarian Investment Strategies: Beat the Market by Going Against the Crowd by David N. Dreman
Buy new: £11.48 / Used from: £11.20 A very persuasive case for value investing (in case Graham hasn't got to you first).
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 | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy used from: £13.58 Read it, it will change the way you view the world! If you don't understand risk (both in a posituve and negative sense), you will after reading this.
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 | The Warren Buffett Way by Robert G. Hagstrom
Buy new: £5.91 / Used from: £1.94 Yes, this book has some flaws but it is a good intro to the man and his methods.
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 | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
Buy new: £8.34 / Used from: £5.00 An alternative view of the risk to Taleb. Worth a read.
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 | Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
Buy new: £6.67 / Used from: £3.96 Want to know why bubbles arise? Read this! It's a classic, I just love the language and the Victorian "all-knowing" tone.
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 | A Random Walk Down Wall Street: A Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing by BG Malkiel
Buy new: £13.70 / Used from: £11.34 Makes the case of efficient markets and index investing.
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 | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Great Minds Series) by John Maynard Keynes
Buy used from: £5.06 Second only to Graham, Chapter 12 (among others) is essential reading for any stock market participant.
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 | The Zulu Principle: Making Extraordinary Profits from Ordinary Shares by Jim Slater
Buy used from: £4.62 Hasn't aged that well but this is still an interesting book, in particular for its exposition of classic growth & GARP investing.
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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 A really good compilation of some really great writings on invesment. Essential reading.
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 | You Can be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits by Joel Greenblatt
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £1.41 Special situation investing. Interesting and this must have launched a few hedge funds over the years!
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 | The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk by William Bernstein
Buy new: £11.23 / Used from: £9.95 A good and comprehensive introduction to asset allocation. More accessible than Swensen.
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 | Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings (Wiley Investment Classics) by Philip A. Fisher
Buy new: £8.29 / Used from: £4.99 A major classic, no investor should proceed without having read this!
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