I got this list while surfing the net. I hope you find it useful. If you find any misses please leave a comment.

Groupthink*****. Irving L Janis. Houghton Mifflin: 1982. (The best book ever written on the complexities and pitfalls of group decision making, which is what an investment management firm is all about.)

The Alchemy of Finance***. George Soros. Simon & Schuster: 1987. (The master is complex, dense, but superb.His best book.)

Panic on Wall Street***. Robert Sobel. Macmillan: 1978. (The definitive study of American panics.)

Manias, Panics, and Crashes****. Charles P. Kindleberger. Basic Books: 1988. (The best scholarly analysis of the species.)

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator*****. Edwin Lefevre. George H. Doran Company: 1923; reissued by J. Wiley: 1994. (The classic work about intuitive trading. No investor’s education is complete without reading it. )

The Money Game*****. Adam Smith. Random House: 1967. (Nobody writes like Gerry. Full of wisdom. It’s a pleasure to read. )

The Roaring ’80s***. Adam Smith. Summit Books: 1988. (More Gerry; if you get addicted, Supermoney is good, too.)

Contrarian Investment Strategy***. David Dreman. Random House: 1979. (A classic on why and how to be contrary.)

The Battle for Investment Survival*. Gerald Loeb. Random House: 1957. (One great idea. Put all your eggs in one basket and stare at that basket.)

The Great Crash, 1929***. John Kenneth Galbraith. Houghton Mifflin: 1961. (Good study of the Crash.)

Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War**. W. Trotter. Macmillan: 1908; reissued by T. Fisher Unwin: 1919. (Dense, insightful analysis of gregariousness and suggestibility.)

Duveen. S.N. Behrman***. Harmony Books: 1978. (Fascinating biography of the great dealer and a wonderful history of the art market and its fads.)

Investment Policy**. Charles D. Ellis. Dow Jones-Irwin: 1985. (All of Charlie’s books have great insights, especially this one and Institutional Investing***.)

The Way the World Works**. Jude Wanniski. Touchstone: 1978. (I’m prejudiced because I believe, but this is the supply-side Old Testament.)

Wealth and Poverty**. George Gilder. Basic Books: 1981. (The New Testament of supply side.)

Growth Opportunities in Common Stocks**. Winthrop Knowlton. Harper & Row: 1965. (This book and Shaking The Money Tree**, with John Furth, are both superb on growth stock investing.)

The Elliott Wave Principle*. A. Frost, R. Prechter. New Classic Library: 1978. (Important to understand Fibonacci et al.)

The Great Depression of 1990*. Ravi Batra. Venus Books: 1985. (We are condemned to repeat the mistakes not of our fathers but of our grandfathers.)

Technical Analysis of Stock Trends**. Edwards and Magee. Magee: 1966. (The manual on technical analysis.)

The Intelligent Investor***. Benjamin Graham with commentary from Jason Zweig. Harper: 2003 & Security Analysis****. Graham and Dodd. Harper:

1951. (The bibles of value investing.)

The Long Wave in Economic Life**. J. J. Van Duijn. Allen & Unwire: 1983. (Best book I know of on cycles, which is what investing is all about.)

Confessions of an Advertising Man. ***. David Ogilvy. Atheneum: 1964. (Wonderful treatise on how to sell consumer products, written with wit and wisdom.)

Green Monday**. Michael M. Thomas. Simon & Schuster: 1980. (The best stock market novel ever written.)

Classics I and Classics II*****. Edited by Charles D. Ellis. Dow Jones-Irwin: 1989 and 1991. (Both collections are great browsing.)

Chaos**. James Gleick. Penguin Books: 1987. (Important to understand chaos theory.)

Investing with the Best*. Claude N. Rosenberg, Jr. Wiley: 1986. (Excellent on how to manage your investment manager.)

Managing Investment Portfolios**. Maugham and Tuttle. Warren, Gorham & Lamont: 1983. (Good stuff, but heavy going.)

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds****. Charles Mackay: 1841; reissued by Metro Books: 2002. (The ancient classic but still should be read.)

The Speculator**. Jordan A. Schwarz. Chapel Hill: 1981. (Superb biography of Baruch. Note how he would from time

to time retreat from the market. )

Capital Ideas**. Peter Bernstein. Free Press: 1992. (History of the ideas that shaped modern finance. Peter

sometimes is too intellectual for me.)

Devil Take the Hindmost*** Edward Chancellor. Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux: 1999. (Erudite, articulate history of

manias and panics over the ages.)

Pioneering Portfolio Management ****. David F. Swensen. The Free Press: 2000. (The best book ever about managing a

large endowment portfolio.)

Stocks for the Long Run****. Jeremy Siegel. McGraw-Hill: Third Edition, 2002. (Absolutely crammed with fascinating information and analysis.)

The Trouble with Prosperity**. James Grant. Times Books: 1996. (Jim writes beautifully and all his books are great reads, although invariably bearish.)

Gold and Iron**. Fritz Stern. Vintage: 1979. (Absorbing history of Bismarck and Bleichroeder, Europe in the 19th century, and capital preservation.)

Markets, Mobs, & Mayhem***. Robert Menschel. Wiley: 2002. (“A modern look at the madness of crowds” and the most recent addition to my list.)

The Innovator’s Dilemma*. Clayton Christensen. Harvard Business School Press: 1997. (Breakthrough idea of why new technologies cause great firms to fail.)

Valuing Wall Street***. Andrew Smithers & Stephen Wright. McGraw-Hill: 2000. (The rationale of the q ratio by Smithers, a brilliant analytical mind.)

The Myths of Inflation And Investing**. Steven C. Leuthold. Crain Books: 1980. (Updated for deflation; consistent, extensive studies; not light reading)

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