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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
Howard Marks · 180 pages
This book explains the keys to successful investment and the pitfalls that can destroy capital or ruin a career. Utilizing passages from his memos to illustrate his ideas, Marks teaches by example, detailing the development of an investment philosophy that fully acknowledges the complexities of investing and the perils of the financial world. Brilliantly applying insight to today's volatile market
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 312 pages
"[Taleb is] Wall Street's principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther's ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church."--Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world. This book is about luck: more precisely how we
Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond
Bruce C.N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin, Michael van Biema · 316 pages
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story
David Einhorn · 426 pages
How far will some unscrupulous companies go to keep the truth about their dealings from the American investor? Farther than the eye can see, according to this account by Einhorn, the founder of Greenlight Capital, a long-short value-oriented hedge fund. Einhorn's firm has achieved greater than a 25 percent annualized net return for its investors since 1996, proof that Einhorn can literally put his
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Sebastian Mallaby · 482 pages
Based on unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred hours of interviews, economist/journalist Sebastian Mallaby tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of 21st century capitalism. Ken Griffin started
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder · 1,255 pages
Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing
Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
Satyajit Das · 343 pages
F.I.A.S.C.O.: Guns, Booze and Bloodlust - The Truth About High Finance
Frank Partnoy · 254 pages
F.I.A.S.C.O. is an insider's diary, a shocking education in the jungle of high finance in the 1990s from New York to Tokyo. It tracks the progress of a young Morgan Stanley salesman as he learns the ropes of this sophisticated jungle, where billions of dollars are lost in the creation and trading of securities so unlikely and so complicated that almost nobody - certainly not the unwary or underedu
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Roger Lowenstein · 281 pages
"John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best - and the brainiest - bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded him with filial devotion and fabulous profits. Then, in 1991, in the wake of a scandal involving one of
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis · 298 pages
Liar's Poker is a non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s. First published in 1989, it is considered one of the books that defined Wall Street during the 1980s. This bestselling and hilarious book blew the doors off Wall Street's boardrooms and introduced the world to the writing of Mich
The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything
Jason Kelly
The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
Scott Patterson, Mike Chamberlain · 337 pages
"Beware of geeks bearing formulas." --Warren Buffett In March of 2006, the world's richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to risking billions. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, an eccentric, whip-smart whiz kid who'd
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Lawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinson · 351 pages
One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast.In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDo
Beating the Street
Peter Lynch, John Rothchild · 318 pages
The Myth of the Rational Market: Wall Street's Impossible Quest for Predictable Markets
Justin Fox · 382 pages
Chronicling the rise and fall of the efficient market theory and the century-long making of the modern financial industry, Justin Fox's The Myth of the Rational Market is as much an intellectual whodunit as a cultural history of the perils and possibilities of risk. The book brings to life the people and ideas that forged modern finance and investing, from the formative days of Wall Street through
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel · 440 pages
Using the dot-com crash as an object lesson in how not to manage your portfolio, this is an informative guide to navigating the turbulence of the market and managing investments with confidence. With its life-cycle guide to investing, this book matches the needs of investors at any age bracket.
Hedge Fund Market Wizards
Jack D. Schwager · 526 pages
"Hedge Fund Market Wizards will be a modern day sequel to the highly successful Market Wizards and New Market Wizards written over 20 years ago. These two earlier volumes have become classics in the investment literature and have been read by virtually every hedge fund manager, as well as by a much broader lay audience. This new volume in the series will follow the same effective formula used by i
Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset
Aswath Damodaran · 992 pages
Using real-world examples of companies and securities, this user-friendly book clarifies the entire process of valuation, describing the underlying principles of valuation as well as the unique information required for different types of assets. It guides the reader through the theory and application of difficult valuation models and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of each. Investment Val
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
Warren E. Buffet · 268 pages
The author's annual letters to the stockholders of Berkshire Hathaway are edited to present the main themes regarding business, investing, price, value, corporate governance, and other important topics.
Investments
Zvi Bodie, Alan J. Marcus, Alex Kane · 1,056 pages
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham · 332 pages
This classic text is annotated to update Graham's timeless wisdom for today's market conditions... The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies -- has made *The Intelligent Investor* the s