15 Books Every Investor Should Read

Updated: Dec 6, 2021
By Ajibike Maryam Olaitan
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In this day and time, depending on your monthly salary as a means of survival is not a wise choice, as anything can happen. Your boss can wake up one morning to lay you off and you would have to start all over from square one. You need to find ways to be financially stable and for that to happen, you need to start thinking about investing today. And to do that, you need to indulge yourself in the best books for investors or better still, get conversant with the best books on investing. There are a thousand and one things you can invest in, you can invest in stocks, real estate, and other things.

I believe I do not need to explain who an investor is, as it so happens to be that at some point in our lives we have all invested in something, little or huge, and we have either gotten a positive or negative outcome. In my attempt to not explain who an investor is, I would like to put it out there that as an investor, you need to know that all your decisions are surrounded by RISKS, but that shouldn’t bother you too much, as Life itself is a RISK, but we still manage don’t we?

So, whether you want to start investing as a means to attain financial stability or you have been investing for a while now, my 15 best books for investors is your go-to guide.

Let’s jump right in!

Best Books for Investors

1. Book of Value: The Fine Art of Investing Wisely by Anurag Sharma

The first book on investing talks about ways to invest wisely. Anurag in her book explains that monetary business sectors are boisterous and brimming with silly feelings, allusion, and deception.

Anurag Sharma gets theory together with down to earth ability to dispatch an incorporated way to deal with building elite execution stock portfolios.

2. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

The investment market has been following the teachings and strategies of Graham for growth and development. Graham in his book explained various principles and strategies for investing safely and successfully without taking bigger risks (not to say that there are no risks).

Modern-day investors still continue to use his proven and well-executed techniques for value investment.

3. Warren Buffet Invests Like a Girl: And Why You Should, Too by LouAnn Lofton

If I were to choose between all the best books for investors or the best books on investing, I will definitely choose this book (not a feminist, just a girl power believer). This is because it shows that investing has no gender, it’s for everyone and according to LouAnn women have inner patience to make wise decisions, so we should all have a feminine investing vibe.

In this book, we are made to understand that Warren Buffett and the women of the world have one thing in common: They are better investors than the average man.

4. Angel Investing: Insider Secrets to Wealth Creation by Sanjay Kulkarni

Sanjay Kulkarni in this book makes use of his rich experience as an investor and mentor to numerous start-ups, to explain a ringside view of the world of investing. In an accessible, jargon-free approach and illustrated with insider stories, the book equips its readers with all the tools and strategies needed to become a successful angel investor in the world.

Read: Why 90% of Startups Fail and What to Do About It

Like a good guide, this book will help you in navigating the start-up ecosystem, avoiding common pitfalls, investing smartly, and identifying the next billion-dollar start-up.

5. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C. Bogle

John C. Bogle was named as one of the four ‘investment giants’ of the 20th century by Fortune magazine, and The Little Book of Common Sense Investing reveals his legendary investment philosophy. Bogle focuses on methods that boost your financial situation long-term.

The author is a believer that the essence of achieving wealth lies in owning a diversified portfolio of stocks and holding it for the long term – and shows the ways how it can achieve consistent gains.

6. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America by Warren Buffett and Lawrence Cunningham

The list of best books for investors will not be complete without the essays of Warren Buffett. This is because the world hasn’t seen a more successful investor than Warren Buffet yet. The multibillion-dollar magnate (Buffett’s net worth of a staggering $87 million), who first bought stocks at age 11 and filed taxes at 13, shares the principles that led him to success.

It is imperative to note that as someone who is just entering the world of investment, or for someone who has been investing for a while now and needs some sort of mentorship,  reading this classic collection of essays will nudge you in the right direction.

7. Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

If you have this book at home or you know someone who has and you haven’t read it yet, now is the best time to grab a copy and indulge yourself in its financial educativeness. Robert in this book brilliantly highlights the concepts of building financial security.

In Rich Dad, Poor Dad, he shares his view that the poor and middle-class work for money, while the wealthy work to learn. Robert stresses that being financial literate is of key importance, and in order to avoid being the “poor dad”, you need to be financially independent.

8. Cryptocurrency Investing Bible: The Ultimate Guide About Blockchain, Mining, Trading, ICO, Ethereum Platform, Exchanges, Top Cryptocurrencies for Investing and Perfect Strategies to Make Money by Alan T. Norman

Digital forms of money are acquiring a more huge job in the venture picture – a few kinds of digital forms of money could even be worth $1 million later on!

Finding out with regards to putting resources into digital currencies is really significant these days. And this book will be a decent beginning to start learning how to invest in digital forms of money, for a more stable financial life.

9. Why Stocks Go Up and Down by William Pike

This book explains the basics of values and bonds contributing fiscal reports, incomes and other things in the aspect of stocks. In case you’re hoping to master bookkeeping additionally as an investing tool, look at “The Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand”.

This book helps those in business with no bookkeeping foundation to raise them to an acceptable level rapidly.

10. A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel’s

Burton G. Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street provides its readers with a no-nonsense guide to investing, covering topics including stocks and bonds, behavioural finance, and even tangible assets such as gold and coins.

Malkiel, the Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University, has also written From Wall Street to the Great Wall which also falls under the list of best books for investors or best books on investing. You need to read these books as an investor.

11. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness 

Morgan Housel, an award-winning financial journalist, is a partner at the Collaborative Fund and a former columnist at The Wall Street Journal and the motley fool. His book is a  collection of 19 short stories which focuses on not just the numbers behind financial strategies and investing, but also how people think about money. And for anyone who has ever made an emotional decision regarding their budget or investment portfolio.

This book states that emotions matter a lot when it comes to money and also how we spend money. This book not only explains how we use our emotions to decide our financial move but also talks about the tools for making financial decisions regardless of our emotions.

12. The Book on Rental property investing: How to Create Wealth with Intelligent Buy and Hold Real Estate Investing by Brandon Turner

Young investors might immediately think of the stock market when building an investment portfolio, but it is not the only place you can invest your money. Rental property investing can help diversify and grow money if you know what you’re doing.

This book covers the entire process of buying and renting properties while offering advice on choosing the right property, deciding between selling and renting, and flipping houses.

The author, Brandon Turner, provides a complete framework for growing wealth with real estate investing. The Book on Rental Property Investing explores the basics of the financial impact of being a landlord, and it touches on common landlord challenges and how to overcome them.

13. Simple But Not Easy: An Autobiographical Book about Investing by Richard Oldfield

Richard in this book made us understand that the art of investing is Simple But Not Easy. The book has plenty of interest to the experienced professional and is aimed also at the interested amateur investor.

The theme of the book is that making smart investments are simpler than non-professionals think it is in that the rudiments can be expressed in ordinary English, and picked up by anybody, anybody can be an investor at whatever age.

14. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb

Fooled by Randomness is one of the best books for investors that aren’t really about investing. Nassim in his book referred to a black swan with a lot of luck on its side. Many regard this book as a better book for investors, comparing the black swan to an investor.

Fooled by Randomness is a book about the role that luck and randomness plays in life. The book explains that people often attribute success to actions or behaviours, when in fact, luck was just on their side.

The book also illustrates the way in which people perceive patterns when in the real sense, they are looking at something random. This of course also applies to investing.

15. Beating The Street by Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch in this book explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio. According to Peter, an important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

He states that every stock has a company behind it and the company controls how the stocks perform.  In this book, Peter Lynch shows us how we can become an expert in a company and how we can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on our experiences and insights.

Conclusion

When it comes to investing, you can never run out of things to learn about. In fact, if you Google “best books for investors or best books on investing”, you will find over 10,000 books, that’s because there are a ton of books to read about investing.

You can’t be good at investing without reading about investing.

And I know that I did not exhaust all the books there are about investing.

That been said, feel free to add your list of best books for investors or best books on investing, in the comment section.

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