Most Underrated Finance/Investing Book?

Compiling Adam Keeslings’ tweet replies

Title not 100% representative I know but ah well.

I’m trying to be helpful by listing and linking peoples favourite finance and investing books that they don’t think other people will mention. Basically, unfound, unloved investing and finance books?

Inspired by Adam Keeslings’s tweet, “what’s the best book about finance or investing you’ve ever read, that you don’t think someone else in this thread will also mention?”

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what's the best book about finance or investing you've ever read, that you don't think someone else in this thread will also mention?

• The Zurich Axioms: The rules of risk and reward used by generations of Swiss bankers by Max Gunther

• Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin

• Irrational Exuberance Paperback by Robert J. Shiller

• The Origin of Financial Crises by George Cooper

• The Most Important Thing Illuminated by Howard Marks

• Mastering the Market Cycle by Howard Marks

• The Gorilla Game: Picking Winners in High Technology by Geoffrey A. Moore and Paul Johnson

• Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups by Jason Calacanis

• Pitch the Perfect Investment by Paul D. Sonkin and Paul Johnson

• 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-To-1 and How to Find Them by Christopher W. Mayer

• The Education of a Value Investor by Guy Spier

• Creating Shareholder Value by Alfred Rappaport

• Saving Capitalism From Short-Termism by Alfred Rappaport

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds Paperback by Charles Mackay

• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer

• The Tao Jones Averages: A Guide to Whole-Brained Investing by Bennett W. Goodspeed

• The Outsiders by William Thorndike

• Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business by Mark Robichaux

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

• The Education of a Speculator by Victor Niederhoffer

• What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim Paul

• Warren Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein

• When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein

• The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros

• The Predators’ Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders by Connie Bruck

• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein

• Who Needs the Fed?: What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish America’s Central Bank by John Tamny

• A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel

• Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

• Principles of Economics Hardcover by N. Gregory Mankiw

• Spin-Free Economics by Nariman Behravesh

• A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation by Scott Nations

• How Money Works: The Facts Visually Explained by DK

• The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

• Efficiency Inefficient by Lasse Heje Pedersen

• The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets by Benoît Mandelbrot

• The Little Book of Value Investing by Christopher H. Browne

• Value Investing: Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Investment Hardcover by James Montier

• The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit by Aswath Damodaran

• Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions by Joshua Rosenbaum and Joshua Pearl

• The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning Paperback by David Chilton

• The Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street, and Get On with Your Life by Bill Schultheis

• How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich

• Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Eldar Shafir and Sendhil Mullainathan

• Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

• The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley

• The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

• Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brook

• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre

• Jesse Livermore – Boy Plunger by Tom Rubython

• Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson

• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson

• Money Game by Adam Smith

• The Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown

• How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff

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