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# Recommended Reading

## Books

Recommended Reading List:

### The Classics

1. The [Richest Man in Babylon](https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaInvestments/comments/1u7u2y/the_richest_man_in_babylon_one_of_the_best/).
2. Ben Graham – The Intelligent Investor (and Security Analysis).
3. Phil Fisher – Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings. His son Ken Fisher’s book (The Only three Questions That Count) is also very good.
4. Warren Buffett’s Shareholder [Letters](https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html) & The Essays of Warren Buffett.
5. Charlie Munger – Poor Charlie’s Almanack.
6. Seth Klarman – Margin of Safety.
7. Howard Marks – The Most Important Thing. and [Memos](https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/howard-marks-memos).
8. George Soros – The Alchemy of Finance
9. Peter Lynch – Beating the Wall Street & One Up On Wall Street.
10. Joel Greenblatt – The Little Book that Beats the Market (there is another book The Little Book that Still Beats the Market). & You Can Be A Stock Market Genius.
11. Nassim Taleb – The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.
12. William Bernstein – The Four Pillars of Investing and The Investor’s Manifesto.
13. John C Bogle – Common Sense on Mutual Funds.
14. Charles Ellis – Winning the Loser’s Game.

### Other Popular Books

1. David Dremen - Contrarian Investment Strategies The Next Generation.
2. Robert Shiller – Irrational Exuberance
3. Jeremy Seigel – Stocks for the Long Run.
4. Martin Whitman – The Aggressive Conservative Investor
5. John Kenneth Galbraith - A Short History of Financial Euphoria.
6. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (by Charles Mackay).
7. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (by Edwin Lefevre).
8. Andrew Tobias - The Only Investment guide You’ll Ever Need. This is a very small book and good for beginners.
9. David Einhorn - Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
10. James Montier – The Little Book of Behavioral Investing. His [work](http://eurosharelab.com/james-montier-resource-page/).
11. Michael Mauboussin – More than You Know.
12. Daniel Kahneman – Thinking Fast and Slow.
13. For some interesting concepts: Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki.

### Statistics

How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff (1954 book). It is a must-read. [Summary Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaInvestments/comments/26rscu/suggested_book_list/cjh69q3?utm_source=share\&utm_medium=web2x).

## People Without Books

Jeffrey Gundlach – A [short intro](http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2013/04/the-mind-of-jeffrey-gundlach.html). His [Work](http://www.doubleline.com/). Ray Dalio – [Principles](http://www.bwater.com/Uploads/FileManager/Principles/Bridgewater-Associates-Ray-Dalio-Principles.pdf)

### Indian Authors

#### Finance Aggregators

1. [Abnormal Returns](https://abnormalreturns.com)
2. Indian Blogs -

   a. [Subramoney](http://www.subramoney.com)

   b. [MF Critic](https://mfcritic.blogspot.com/)

   c. [The Eighty Twenty Investor](https://eightytwentyinvestor.com/)