Finance Books Reviews

Hello everyone, hope you are well and safe during such a rough time. My question has to do with seld-education on finance topics. I am pretty sure many people are currently stuck at home and are willing to polish their nowledge with a great FInance book. I was wondering which website can one use to see raitings on and compare various finance literature and perhaps professional literature in general? These don't have to be textbooks spceifically, but I am talking about "common wisdom" kind of books (likes of the "Intelligent Investor", "Irrational Exuberance" or "One up on Wall Street"). Thanks in advance.

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Here ya go. A reading list from my hedge fund buddy.

● Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought - Andrew W Lo ● Principles: Life and Work - Ray Dalio ● Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Dan Gardner ● The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction - Richard Bookstaber ● You Can Be a Stock Market Genius : Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits - Joel Greenblatt ● Financial Shenanigans - Howard Schilit ● Excess Returns - Frederik Vanhaverbeke ● Margin Of Safety - Seth Klarman ● Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (A Marketplace Book) - Edwin Lefèvre, William J. O'Neil ● The Big Short - Michael Lewis ● Stock Market Wizards : Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders - Jack D. Schwager ● The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki ● Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman ● When Genius Failed : The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management - Roger Lowenstein ● Where are the Customers Yachts: A Good Hard Look at Wall Street - Fred Schwed Jr. ● Confessions of a Street Addict - James J. Cramer ● Analysis for Financial Management + S&P subscription card - Robert C. Higgins ● Buffett : The Making of an American Capitalist - Roger Lowenstein ● Dynamic Hedging : Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options (Wiley Finance) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb ● Fooled by Randomness : The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb ● Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In - Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton ● Good to Great; Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't - Jim Collins ● Hedge Fund Masters : How Top Hedge Fund Traders Set Goals, Overcome Barriers, and Achieve Peak Performance - Ari Kiev ● In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington by Robert Rubin - Jacob Weisberg ● Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets - Steven Drobny ● Market Wizards : Interviews with Top Traders - Jack D. Schwager ● Metal Men: How Marc Rich Defrauded the Country, Evaded the Law, and Became the World's Most Sought-After Corporate Criminal - A. Craig Copetas, Marc Rich ● Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques - Sheldon Natenberg ● Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity - Michael Lewis ● Flash Boys - Michael Lewis ● Practical Speculation - Victor Niederhoffer ● Return to Go - Jim Slater ● The Art of Short Selling - Kathryn Staley ● The Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World - Sun-Tzu ● The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book On Value Investing, Revised Edition - Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig ● The Money Game - Adam Smith ● The New Market Wizards : Conversations with America's Top Traders - Jack D. Schwager ● Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves - Andrew Ross Sorkin ● Trading with the Enemy: Seduction and Betrayal on Jim Cramer's Wall Street - Nicholas W. Maier

 

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