AnthonyD. Here's a list of books I currently have on my shelf that I'm slowly going through:
Outsmarting the Smart Money, Cunningham, 2002
A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market, Paulos. 2003. Taking me seemingly forever to get myself to read through this.
What Investors Really Want, Statman, 2011. One of the few stock market books I bought at full price. (If I buy at all, I almost always buy them used.) Pretty eye-opening book if you believe the only reason people buy stocks is to make money.
Money Wise: How to Create, Grow, and Preserve Your Wealth, Lipper, 2008. I find it boring and for me, a slow read.
John Neff on Investing, Neff, 2009. Too much of an autobiography. Another slow go for me.
Getting Started in Options, Thomsett. Really not significant to me: I avoid using options.
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Just getting started in Value Investing? Then:
My most valuable, most annotated book is Intelligent Investing.
Suggestion: Go to Tweedy Browne website and order free copy of "What Works on Wall Street"
I like Al Frank's New Prudent Speculator, by Frank. I've found his pillars of "PASADARM" - patience, selection, diversification, risk management, to be important.
Spooner's stock market books are good. I've liked, "Do you Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around." His "Confessions of a Stockbroker" was popular in its day.
I have Marty Whitman's "Value Investing, A Balanced Approach". Another where for me the effort to get through it exceeds the nuggets that I got.
A Thousand Miles from Wall Street, Tony Gray, 1995. Easy and fun read. I learned a lot. I sometimes reread sections when I need some encouragement.
I've more I could mention, but enough from me for now. I'll let others comment about the Train books and the popular Greenblatt books, and the classic Peter Lynch books. I assume most value investors have these on their bookshelves or have read them.
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