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Books
THE BIBLES:
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Kahneman
Irrational Exuberance – Shiller
Nudge – Thaler and Sunstein
Antifragile – Taleb
INTRODUCTION TO BEHAVIORAL FINANCE:
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes – Belsky and Gilovich
The Little Book of Behavioral Finance – Montier
Predictably Irrational – Ariely
Misbehaving – Thaler
Animal Spirits – Akerlof and Shiller
HISTORY OF FINANCE:
This Time is Different – Reinhart and Rogoff
A Short History of Financial Euphoria – Galbraith
BIOLOGY + PSYCHOLOGY + INVESTING:
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf – Coates
GOALS-BASED INVESTING:
Personal Benchmark – Crosby and Widger
RISK:
Against the Gods – Bernstein
DECISION MAKING:
The Checklist Manifesto – Gawande
The Investor’s Paradox – Portnoy
The Paradox of Choice – Schwartz
The Power of Fifty Bits – Nease
Think Twice – Mauboussin
BEHAVIORAL INVESTING:
Quantitative Value – Gray and Carlisle
Behavioral Investment Management – Davies and Servigny
Value Investing – Montier
Behavioral Portfolio Management – C. Thomas Howard
The Most Important Thing – Marks
The Little Book That Still Beats the Market – Greenblatt
A Wealth of Common Sense – Carlson
Dual Momentum – Antonacci
What Works on Wall Street – O'Shaughnessy
Contrarian Investment Strategies – Dreman
The Intelligent Investor – Graham
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius – Greenblatt
A Random Walk Down Wall Street – Malkiel
PROBABILITY:
The Signal and the Noise – Silver
Fooled by Randomness – Taleb
The Black Swan – Taleb
The Drunkard’s Walk – Mlodinow
WOMEN + INVESTING:
Women of the Street – Jones
Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl: And You Should, Too – Lofton
BEST EXPOSE:
Backstage Wall Street – Brown
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