Reading List (Updated 19 May 2018)

These are the investment/trading books I have on my bookshelf. They are not in any particular order.

1.  Principle of Financial Engineering - Neftci
2. Financial Statement Analysis - Fridson, Alverez
3. Trading for a Living - Elder
4. Financial Modelling and Valuation - Pignataro
5. Getting Started in Candlestick Charting - Logan
6. Technical Analysis for Dummies
7. The Alchemy of FInance - Soros
8. The Intelligent Investor - Graham
9. Learn to Earn - Lynch
10. Common Stocks Uncommon Profits - Fisher
11. Buffett and Beyond - Belmonte
12. Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements - Marry Buffett and David Clark
13. Investments - Bodie, Kain, Marcus, Jane (Textbook)
14. Personal Financial Planning - Koh, Fong
15. Accounting Principles for Non-accounting Professionals - Lee (Textbook)
16. All About Value Investing - Faeber
17. Security Analysis - Graham, Dodd (I have two versions of this...)
18. Warren Buffet's Ground Rules - Jeremy Miller
19. The Little Book That Still Beats The Market - Joel Greenblatt
20. The Little Book of Value Investing - Christopher H. Browne
21. The Little Book of Valuation - Aswath Damodaran
22. Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond - Bruce C.N. Greenwald et al. Update 6 Feb 2017
23. The Little Book of Commone Sense Investing - John C. Bogle, Updated 30 Dec 2017
24. The Warren Buffett Way (3rd Edition) - Robert G. Hagstrom, Updated 19 May 2018

This list also serves as reference and a bibliography to my blog. It will be updated from time to time when I picked up new books.

For the Clueless, I suggest starting with these: 

• Learn to Earn - Lynch
• All About Value Investing - Faeber

While most people would suggest The Intelligent Investor, which is dubbed the best investment book ever and my the very first investment book I bought, I prefer to start with a 'all about' book.

For the Casual Beginner, I would suggest the following:

• Common Stocks Uncommon Profits - Fisher
• The Little Book of Value Investing - Christopher H. Browne
• Warren Buffet's Ground Rules - Jeremy Miller
• The Intelligent Investor - Graham

Most, if not all, of these books are on value investing concepts. I would have listed the Berkshire Hathaway's shareholder letters, but I found that the Warren Buffet's Ground Rules by Jeremy Miller is a good summary and alternative.

For the more advanced topics, I would suggest the following:

• The Little Book That Still Beats The Market - Joel Greenblatt
• The Little Book of Valuation - Aswath Damodaran
• Security Analysis - Graham, Dodd (I have two versions of this...)
• Financial Statement Analysis - Fridson, Alverez

The Little Books are easy to read and Joel Greenblatt's is really an eye-opener to me. Security Analysis is the other must-read books although some of the ideas may not be applicable to today's context. 

The good-to-haves:

• Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements - Mary Buffett and David Clark
• Buffett and Beyond - Belmonte
• A compilation of Berkshire Hathaway's letters to shareholders till 2012 (the latest compilation can be bought from Amazon, otherwise, you can download from Berkshire Hathaway's website)
• Investments - Bodie, Kain, Marcus, Jane (Textbook)

Rev. 0, 17 Sep 2015 (originally in another blog address)

Rev. 1, 13 Jan 2017.

Rev. 2, 06 Feb 2017

Rev. 3, 30 Dec 2017
Rev. 4, 19 May 2018