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Ten Investing Books. What should you read next?
From how we think about money and risk to the classics of value and growth investing. Each guide sets out what the book argues, the lessons Wesley takes from it, and where its ideas have limits, so you know which to read in full. Free, because the best investing education should be: buy the books, not the summaries.
10 guides. One payment. Education only: we won’t tell you what to buy.
10 guides. Read them in any order.
- Mindset and money01
The Most Important Thing
Howard Marks, 2011: risk, cycles and second-level thinking
- Mindset and money02
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel, 2020: why behaviour matters more than brilliance
- Mindset and money03
The Education of a Value Investor
Guy Spier, 2014: one investor’s path to a simpler, calmer approach
- The foundations04
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham, 1949: Mr Market and the margin of safety
- The foundations05
Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond
Bruce Greenwald and co-authors, 2001: how value investors put a price on a business
- The foundations06
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
John C. Bogle, 2007: the case for low-cost index funds
- Finding quality07
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
Philip Fisher, 1958: the ‘scuttlebutt’ method and owning quality for decades
- Finding quality08
One Up on Wall Street
Peter Lynch, 1989: using what you know, and doing the homework
- Finding quality09
Investing for Growth
Terry Smith, 2020: buy good companies, don’t overpay, do nothing
- Finding quality10
100 Baggers
Christopher Mayer, 2015: what the shares that rose a hundredfold had in common
A reading guide, not a reading list.
Each guide gives the book’s big ideas in plain English, the lessons Wesley takes from it, and where it has been criticised or has dated.
You will know which books are worth reading in full, and what to look for when you do.