Top 20 Investing Books for beginners
If you plan to start investing, you should read some of the best-selling investing books that help you to make a proper investment. I would like to add a quote from warren buffet says that “Knowledge builds up like compound interest”.
1. The Intelligent Investor
Author: Benjamin Graham
This book was published in 1969 and in this book, Grahams focused on loss minimization over profit maximization. This is one of the best books for beginners and it is considered the bible for investors since its published. This book mainly teaches about value investing which helps the investor to take long-term strategies.
2. The essays of warren buffet
Author: Lawrence A. Cunningham
Warren Buffet is considered the most successful investor in the world. According to Time magazine buffet is one of the most influential people in the world. The essays of warren buffet by Lawrence A. Cunningham is the best book that collates the famous philosophy of buffet.
3. Common stocks and uncommon profits
Author: Philip A. Fisher
This is considered one of the best books for investments. It mainly talked about choosing a company and evaluating the management team of the company. Philip A. Fisher is one of the most influential investors ever. His strategies are introduced a long time age still it is applied by many investors and financial institutions
4. How to make money in stocks
Author: William O’Neil
This is one of the books for learning the basics. It describes how to make money through investing in stocks. This book mainly covers the area of how to choose stocks, and how to pick up the best bond and ETFs.
From this, you can create the best portfolio. William O’Neil is the author of the book and he’s the founder and chairman of investor’s business daily. This is a daily newspaper that covers various news like finance economics and the stock market.
Combining technical analysis and fundamental analysis and technical analysis of stocks helps you to build your approach in the stock market. It contains several examples in a structured way. One of the famous approaches named CAN SLIM is an easy way of stock screening. This helps you find good stock and get a return from that.
5. Invest in real estate
Author: Josh Dorkin and Brandon Turner
This book will help you understand how you can diversify your investment in real estate. Investment doesn’t mean that you need to invest in stocks or bonds. The real estate business is one of the other investment portfolios which gives returns. Josh Dorkin and Brandon Turner are the authors of the book. This book includes 40 personal stories of real estate investors and their advice on how to make the real estate investment considers the best investment when you are working in a full-time job. Includes different strategies which help you to get more returns from real estate.
6. The little book that beat the market
Author: Joel Greenblatt
The little book that beats the market is published by Joel Greenblatt in 2005 and it sold more than 300000 copies all over the world. This book helps investors how they can consistently beat the market. In this, he simply explained all concepts without using jargon.
7. Common sense on mutual funds
Author: John C. Bogle
Mutual funds are one of the investment strategies to invest in. John C. Bogle is the author of the book which was originally published in 1999. In this book, he’s trying to understand how can you pool your money for multiple investments. It is one of the ways to diversify your investment at a lower price. He also wrote another book called “The little book of common sense investing”.
8. A random walk down Wall Street
Author: Burton Malkiel
A random walk down Wall Street written by Burton Malkiel. The book was first published in 1973 and they are updated and published in the 12th edition of the book. It sold millions of copies all over the world. It explains the major investment like stocks, bonds, and real estate investment. This book covers investments in intangible assets. The latest edition focused on behavioral finance as well and it explains how our behavior affects investment strategy and financials. He’s also written the book named “The random walk guide to investing and from wall street to the great wall”.
9. The little book of common sense investing
Author: John C. Bogle
The little book of common sense investing was written by John C. Bogle, who is the founder of the vanguard group. They are providing the lowest cost fund in the industry. They are the largest assets management group in the world worth 3 trillion dollars.
10. One up on wall street
Authors: Peter Lynch, John Rothchild
Peter lynch is one of the most legendary investors of all time. In this book, the author explained about finding the ten baggers (the stock that appreciates tenfold from the initial investment). slowly ten baggers will turn into a stock performers. This book is filled with plenty of remarks in easy manners. He also explained about the success. There is no shortcut to easy success and there is no magic formula to becoming rich, it depends on hard work.
11. The fundamentals of investing
Authors: Scott B. Smart, Michael Joehnk, and Chad J. Zutter
The fundamental of investing teaches the basic concepts of investing including hands-on practice. It explains various techniques which help you in money management
12. The ETF book
Author: Richard A Ferri
This book mainly covers exchange-traded funds. This is one of the best books considered for the introduction to ETF (Exchange-traded funds). ETFs are considered the faster-growing investment sectors from this book you can find how the ETF terminology works. From this book, investors get an idea about exchange-traded portfolios.
13. Thinking fast and slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman
In this book, Daniel Kahneman explains two systems that the way we think. The first one is based on fast, intuitive, and emotional. In the second system, he mainly talked about slower deliberative and logical. By understanding each of these two systems working together we can make good judgments and decisions. Thinking fast-slow will help you transform your thinking process when you want to become a good trader you need more thinking and emotional control.
14. Stocks to Riches
Author: Parag Parikh
Parag is an Indian author. Investing in the stock market will be a huge challenge for everyone. The market is more dynamic and unpredictable. When you start investing in the stock market you will be having many questions. Parag parish helps with understanding demystifying investing in the stock market. This book explains his experience. This book is more beneficial for retail investors.
15. Beating the Street
Author: Peter Lynch
This book is from one of the legendary authors Peter Lynch. This book mainly talks about investing strategies and advice and he explained how to pick up stocks and mutual funds to create a successful portfolio. In this book, he explains stocks are not lottery tickets. For all stocks that have a company behind that stock, the performance of the stocks mainly depends on the performance of the company. From this book, he explains how to select mutual funds strategy, how to select stocks, and how to select a better portfolio.
16. Learn to earn
Author: Peter lynch
Learn to earn is one of the best books by our legendary author peter lynch. This is very helpful for those who plan to learn about investing in the stock market. This book explains the basic principles of finance. This book mainly talks about the US stock market and an investor from any other country can also help with this book. This book mainly focuses on the principles of investing which same all over the world. This book will help you multiply your money and help you to select the stock. If you want to become rich you can find this one very helpful.
17. When to Sell Inside strategies for stock market profits
Author: Justin Mamis
A classic book by author Justin mams, the book is updated and revised in 1994 it contains various meaningful analyses. It also included how to select good charts and different case studies etc.
18. Rental Property Investing
Author: Brandon Turner
The book of rental property from Brandon Turner. In this book, he explains the value of investing in rental properties. How can you make a passive income from a rental property? This book mainly concentrates on how can you build wealth through rental properties. It contains various practical strategies that help an investor get more return from rental investing.
19. Bonds an introduction to the core concepts
Author: Mark Mobius
This book was written by Mark Mobius. In this book, he explains the theory and practice of financial markets. This book will help you to understand how bonds work how you can make use of them. It covers more definition of financial terms and their working examples and also covers the basics workings of bonds
20. An introduction to mutual funds worldwide
Author: Ray Russell
An introduction to mutual funds worldwide by Ray Russell. This book mainly covers mutual funds and how it is used and how the regulations affecting. This will help you to understand the growth and importance of mutual funds investing occurs worldwide. This will be very helpful for those who are planning to invest in mutual funds