Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich24 reviews Jason Zweig Simon & Schuster, 2007 Good insight into the inner workings of the brain. + fun facts + You CAN teach an old primate new tricks (about investing) + Interesting Read + great insight             Value Investing: A Balanced Approach (Frontiers in Finance Series)14 reviews Martin J. Whitman Wiley, 2000 Sage Advice for a Fraction of the Price Mr. Whitman packs an entire course worth of information into just 265 pages. Marty Whitman is reknowned for his frank shareholder letters, in which he often explains very complex investments in an easily understandable terms. If you are a fan of his notorious shareholder letters (as I am), and ...             When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management210 reviews Roger Lowenstein Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001 When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management + Fun for everyone... + A must read for all market participants + Brilliant + One of the best books I've read             The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised ...131 reviews Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig Collins Business, 2003 Warren Buffett's Bible! + Work in finance? Invest some of your time in Benjamin Graham. + margin of safety + intelligent diligence + Worth it!             The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance52 reviews Ron Chernow Grove Press, 2001 Learn the history of American finance as a whole by studying one titanic banking empire. + History repeating itself + The House of Morgan + Chernow's breadth of knowlege is breathtaking + Great Book if Specifically Interested in JPM             The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New42 reviews Jeremy J. Siegel Crown Business, 2005 Excellent Research + a gift + Valuable take on investing in value stocks + Very Good + dividends resurface             Security Analysis: The Classic 1940 Edition13 reviews Benjamin Graham, David Dodd McGraw-Hill, 2002 Wow! + Love it + Are you a value investor? + a dry read but a must have + The bible of investing             John Neff on Investing22 reviews John Neff Wiley, 2001 John Neff on Investing + An interesting read, A life experience about investing in stocks from one of the best investors, in simple words.             A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation49 reviews Richard Bookstaber Wiley, 2007 Want to understand the current financial crisis? + A must-read + A good read in these troubled times we are at + Thought-provoking reflection on Wall Street risk today             Stocks for the Long Run : The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-Term Investment Strategies57 reviews Jeremy J. Siegel McGraw-Hill, 2002 an investing classic + Investment for Wide Audience + Jeremy Siegel hit a home run with this book + Fantastic Analysis + Buying this book is your first great investment!             Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist106 reviews Roger Lowenstein Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008 Great Read - Could Use More Updated Materials and a Bit More Investing Philosophy + The Business Genius as Everyman (Almost) + Wonderful, Almost Fairy Tale Like, Biography of Warren Buffet + Excellent Biography + English major lovin on Buffett             Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings (Wiley Investment Classics)55 reviews Philip A. Fisher Wiley, 2003 Great Book for Long-term Investors + The philosophy of long-term investing. This book makes me want to finish up any other project I'm currently working on so I can spend my free time finding good investments. Excellent book, not to mention it's recommended by Warren Buffett. I was disappointed, however, that there wasn't an Unabridged Audio CD version. And the reader ...             Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation46 reviews David Dreman Simon & Schuster, 1998 A must-read + One of the few investments books that proves its arguments + pretty good book I have read this book three times now, and intend to do so again. Dreman is obviously an outstanding investor, and his strategies flesh out and arguably "modernize" the techniques used by the noted fundamental investor Benjamin Graham, who was the mentor to Warren Buffett (although, I might add, ...             More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places46 reviews Michael J. Mauboussin Columbia University Press, 2006 Practical Financial Wisdom. + An Intelligent Book + required reading Practical information any ivestor should keep in mind. Potentially very helpful if one heeds to the ideas in this book. The first 75% of the book is very tight, but towards the end there is some repetition. Overall, nice read.             Capital Ideas Evolving10 reviews Peter L. Bernstein Wiley, 2007 Accessible explanation of the foundations of finance + Capital Ideas Evolving + Unique and sunsurpassed. In the early 1950s, graduate student Harry Markowitz presented his Ph.D. dissertation to the University of Chicago economics department. The response was less than encouraging. "This isn't a dissertation in economics," Milton Friedman told Markowitz. "It's not math, it's not economics, it's not ...             Lessons from the Legends of Wall Street : How Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Phil Fisher, T. Rowe Price, ...11 reviews Nikki Ross Kaplan Business, 2000 A Classic "Must Read" Investment Book + A Must Read for Investors Nikki Ross has documented principal strategies and investing advice from the great Wall Street legends of our time. I have found the underlying principals of Buffet and his mentors as well as Price and Templeton to be very helpful. It is an easy to read enjoyable book. It may not be for day ...             Carnegie22 reviews Peter Krass Wiley, 2003 A Great Biography and History of the Robber Baron Era + Angel or Demon? Without a doubt, one of the best biographies about Carnegie on the market. This book provides a good history of Carnegie's upbringing, rise to power, and ultimately the formation and sale of US Steel. What really makes Carnegie's life interesting is what he did with his time out of work (he was ...             Alexander Hamilton250 reviews Ron Chernow Penguin Press, 2004 A forgotten Founding Father! + Exellent Bio + The Best of the Founding Father Biographies + jack's take + Fascinating bio!             Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment89 reviews David F. Swensen Free Press, 2005 excellent for the intellectually-oriented investor + Success The Unconventional Way + Conventional and yet unconventional + Incredible + It Taught me the questions to ask             The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America93 reviews Warren E. Buffett The Cunningham Group, 2001 Best book to read if you want to learn from the master + There's only one Warren Buffett + A fantastic resource + Essays on Warren + Good