Book recommendations from uk.finance?

I haven't read many financial books. The most interesting things I've read have been "What has Worked in Investing" and "The Personal Asset Trust Quarterlies - The 1990s and Beyond" .

8 years ago the FT suggested the 10 best investment books of all time were - 1 Security Analysis 2 Reminiscences of a stock operator 3 The Stock Market Barometer 4 Money of the Mind 5 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds 6 The Intelligent Investor 7 The Essays of Warren Buffett 8 The Money Game 9 The Great Crash 10 Manias, Panics & Crashes

Analyst magazine

updated this and suggested -

1 Reminiscences of a stock operator 2 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds 3 The Intelligent Investor 4 The Essays of Warren Buffett 5 One up on Wall Street 6 A Random Walk Down Wall Street 7 The Zurich Axioms 8 The Zulu Principle 9 The Book of Investing Rules 10 Innumeracy

For a more general book try "The Motley Fool UK Investment Guide"

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Great post, thank you very much. I already have book number 2 on the Analyst list and I have heard a lot of things about numbers 1 and 6. Another great (but slightly OT) book which comes to mind is "Tulipomania" by Mike Dash which chronicles the incredible fortunes squandered on tulips in 17th century Holland. To those interested in futures markets take heed!

I suppose another book which comes to mind is "boo hoo" by Ernst Malmsten about the collapse of boo.com in those heady days of the Internet boom (my god that feels like it happened decades ago).

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I wish i had the time to read more. I have books 1, 2, 8 & 10 but have only read 1. For quotes from book 1 you can go here:

I enjoyed the book and hope to read it again soon, I can recommend it. The book offers some good phrases, my favourites are:

"They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market."

"One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world. They have cost stock traders, in the aggregate, enough millions of dollars to build a concrete highway across the continent.

I am currently reading Irrational Exuberance which is ok (i'm only 1/5 through it). Having read No. 2 and wanting to read "Tulipomania" this is a similar read. Currently the author offers lots of reasons for the dot.com mania without offering his opinion. I hope he summaries why he thinks the dot.com happened instead of having a collection of obvious facts.

Whats No.2 like? The book was cheap but the size of the book as been putting me off reading it in favour of smaller books.

Roger Bootle's 'Money For Nothing'.

John.

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