Oxstones Investment Club™Here are the top books of wisdom recommended by Oxstones staff. For your convenience the books are grouped by the categories listed in the book index. In addition, we also have books grouped by favored authors/investment gurus.
- Value Investing
- Financial Analysis and Valuation
- Long Term Investment Strategies
- Trading Strategies
- Technical Analysis
- Indexing and Market Efficiency
- Investment Psychology
- Asset Allocation
- Short Selling
- Options
- Economics
- The Big Picture
- The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher and Kenneth L. Fisher
- The Little Book That Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt
- Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond by Bruce Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul Sonkin, and Michael van Biema
- The Essential Buffett: Timeless Principles for the New Economy by Robert Hagstrom
- Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
- Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation by David Dreman
- The Triumph of Contrarian Investing: Crowds, Manias, and Beating the Market by Going Against the Grain by Ned Davis
- Value Investing: A Balanced Approach by Martin Whitman
Financial Analysis and Valuation
- The Financial Numbers Game: Detecting Creative Accounting Practices by Charles Mulford and Eugene Comiskey
- Quality of Earnings: The Investor’s Guide to How Much Money A Company is Really Making by Thornton O’glove
- Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns by Alfred Rappaport and Michael Mauboussin
- Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports by Howard Schilit
- Irrational Exuberance by Robert J Schiller
Long Term Investment Strategies
- Investment Fables: Exposing the Myths of ‘Can’t Miss’ Investment Strategies by Aswath Damodaran
- Tomorrow’s Gold: Asia’s Age of Discovery by Marc Faber
- The Gorilla Game: Picking Winners in High Technology by Geoffrey Moore
- Bull’s Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market by John Mauldin
- Trade Like Warren Buffett by James Altucher
- The Hedge Fund Edge: Maximum Profit/Minimum Risk Global Trend Trading Strategies by Mark Boucher
- Technical Analysis of Stock Trends by Robert Edwards and John Magee
- How To Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad by William O’Neil
- Technical Analysis Explained: The Successful Investor’s Guide to Spotting Investment Trends and Turning Points by Martin Pring
Indexing and Market Efficiency
- The Great Mutual Fund Trap: An Investment Recovery Plan by Gregory Baer and Gary Gensler
- On Investing: The First 50 Years by John Bogle
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel
- Searching for Alpha: The Quest for Exceptional Investment Performance by Ben Warwick
- Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them: Lessons from the Science of Behavorial Economics by Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Psychology of Finance: Understanding the Behavorial Dynamics of Markets by Lars Tvede
- The Intelligent Asset Locator: How To Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk by William Bernstein
- Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment by David Swenson
- Sold Short: Uncovering Deception in the Markets by Manuel Asensio and Jack Barth
- The Art of Short Selling by Kathryn Staley
- Options as a Strategic Investment by Lawrence McMillan
- Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets by John McMillan
- The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas by Robert H. Frank
- The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich are Rich, the Poor are Poor–and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! by Tim Harford
- Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners by Larry Harris
- The Secret of Economic Indicators: Hidden Clues to Future Economic Trends and Investment Opportunities by Bernard Baumohl
- Financial Reckoning Day Fallout by Addison Wiggan and William Bonner
- The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
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