Finance Investing Books

Must Read

• The Intelligent Investor – Ben Graham
• Security Analysis – Ben Graham

Financial Modeling

• Mastering Financial Modeling in Microsoft Excel – Alastair Day
• Financial Modeling in Practice: A Concise Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Levels – Michael Rees
• Best Practices for Equity Research Analysis – James Valentine
• Financial Analysis and Modeling using Excel and VBA – Chandan Sengupta

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Investment Banking

• Investment Banking – Pearl, Rosenbaum
• The Accidental Investment Banker – Knee
• Investment Banks, Hedge Funds and Private Equity – Stowell
• The Business of Investment Banking – Liaw
• Doing Deals: Investment Banks At Work – Eccles, Crane
• Monkey Business – Rolfe, Troob
• Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs came to rule the world – William Cohen
• Barbarians at the Gate – Burrough, Helyar

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Investing books

• ​More More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places – Michael Mauboussin
• The Alchemy of Finance – George Soros
• The Most Important Thing – Marks
• Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond – Greenwald and others
• One up on Wall Street – Lynch
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits – Fisher
• Random Walk down Wall Street – Malkiel
• Margin of Safety – Seth Klarman
• Fooling Some of the People All of the Time – Einhorn
• Liar’s Poker – Lewis
• Too Big to Fail – Sorkin

Behavioural Finance

• Predictably Irrational – Ariely
• Fooled by Randomness – Taleb
• The Great Crash 1929 – Galbraith
• The Crowd – Le Bon
• Thinking Fast and Slow – Kahneman
• Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises – Kindleberger

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Hedge Fund books

• More Money than God – Mallaby
• Inside the House of Money – Drobny
• The Alpha Masters – Ahuja
• The Greatest Trade Ever – Zuckerman
• Hedgehogging – Biggs
• All about Hedge Funds – Jaeger
• When Genius Failed – Lowenstein
• Money Mavericks- Kroijer

Quantitative Finance

• The Quants – Patterson
• Options, Futures and Derivatives – Hull
• The Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance – Joshi
• Standard Deviations – Smith
• How I Became a Quant – Lindsey, Schachter
• Financial Engineering: The Evolution of a Profession – Beder, Marshall
• Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines, and Wired Markets – Leinweber
• The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals – Kuznetsov

Trading books

• The Complete TurtleTrader – Michael Covel
• Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom – Van Tharp
• Technical Analysis of Stock Trends – Robert Edwards
• Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques – Steve Nison
• Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets – John Murphy

Startups

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
• Blitzscaling – Reid Hoffman
• Zero to One – Peter Theil
• What You Do is Who You Are – Ben Horowitz
• The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
• Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh
• Start with Why – Simon Sinek
• The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen

Leadership books

• Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek
• Good to Great – Jim Collins
• The Charisma Myth – Olivia Cabane
• A More Beautiful Question: the Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas – Warren Burger
• Crucial Conversations – Joseph Grenny
• Save Your Drama For Your Mama – Charlie Sheppard
• Winning – Jack Welch

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