“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them” — Ray Bradbury
Below is the list of all the books seen in the chart, as well as a few more that I couldn’t fit. I’m sure I left out a few, but if you’re looking for books on investing, this is a good place to start.
“Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” — Edwin Lefevre, 1923
“Security Analysis” — Benjamin Graham, David Dodd, 1934
“Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?” — Fred Schwed Jr., 1940
“The Intelligent Investor” — Benjamin Graham, 1949
“The Great Crash, 1929” — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1954
“Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits” — Philip A. Fisher, 1958
“The Money Game” — George Goodman, 1967
“A Random Walk Down Wall Street” — Burton Malkiel, 1973
“Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises” — Charles Kindleberger, 1978
“The Alchemy of Finance” — George Soros, 1987
“Market Wizards” — Jack Schwager, 1989
“Liar’s Poker” — Michael Lewis, 1989
“101 Years on Wall Street, an Investor’s Almanac” — John Dennis Brown, 1991
“Beating The Street” — Peter Lynch, 1993
“Stocks for the Long Run” — Jeremy Siegel, 1994
“What Works on Wall Street” — James O’Shaughnessy, 1997
“The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America” — Lawrence Cunningham, 1997
“Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk” — Peter Bernstein, 1998
“Common Sense on Mutual Funds” — Jack Bogle, 1999
“Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation” — Edward Chancellor, 1999
“When Genius Failed” — Roger Lowenstein, 2000
“One Up On Wall Street” — Peter Lynch, 2000
“Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2001
“Confessions of a Street Addict” — Jim Cramer, 2002
“The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio” — William Bernstein, 2002
“Winning the Loser’s Game” — Charles Ellis, 2002
“Bull: A History of Boom and Bust 1982-2004” — Maggie Mahar, 2004
“Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger” — Peter Kaufman, 2005
“All About Asset Allocation” — Rick Ferri, 2006
“Your Money and Your Brain” — Jason Zweig, 2007
“Bailout Nation” — Barry Ritholtz, 2009
“The Big Short” — Michael Lewis, 2010
“The Quants” — Scott Patterson, 2010
“More Money Than God” — Sebastian Mallaby, 2010
“The Most Important Thing” — Howard Marks, 2011
“Backstage Wall Street” — Josh Brown, 2012
“Quantitative Value” — Wesley Gray, Tobias Carlisle, 2012
“Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune” — Patrick O’Shaughnessy, 2014
“A Wealth of Common Sense: Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan” — Ben Carlson, 2015
Michael Batnick, CFA, is director of research at Ritholtz Wealth Management, a New York-based financial-planning firm founded by Barry Ritholtz and Josh Brown. Follow him on Twitter @michaelbatnick.