Finance Investing Books
Our top favorite books on finance, financial modeling, banking, and investing.
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
See our full list of best financial modeling books.
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
- Zero to One – Peter Theil
- 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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