The Best Books on Investment - Can They Be Ranked?

I've recently read through the Manual of Ideas, The Little Book that Beats the Market, Irrational Exuberance, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, and some other similar books. I am planning on working through a number of other books on investing. I've been in an investment club in college and am very passionate about investing and markets; there is an extremely large number of books to pick from on these topics, and as I read more I feel that a lot of what I have learned will be rehashed as I continue to read.

At a certain point I'm going to start getting diminishing returns, so what books should I read, and even more importantly in what order? The more eclectic the better, as I want to really broaden my horizons and understand as many different ways of investment strategy/perspective as possible. I've come across a number of books reading people's recommendations online, but it's unclear where to start. If you've read any awesome books that aren't in the list below, please add them to the forum and hopefully add why you think that the book is so important! I'm aware that there have been a number of forums on this topic, and I'm hoping that this could turn into a consolidated list.

Books/Material on Warren Buffett: *Buffettology – Mary Buffett *Buffett: Making of American Capitalist – Roger Lowenstein *Snowball – Alice Schroeder *Superinvestors of Graham/Doddsville *Tap Dancing to Work – Carol Loomis *The Warren Buffett Way – Robert Hagstrom (recommended by Buffett himself) *The Essays of Warren Buffett (Shareholder Letters) – Lawrence Cunningham

Books/Material on Charlie Munger: * Poor Charlie’s Almanac – Charlie Munger * Damn Right – Janet Lowe * Seeking Wisdom from Darwin to Munger – Peter Bevelin * Ben Graham – Security Analysis & Intelligent Investor

Investing books: * Henry Clews – Fifty Years on Wall Street * David Einhorn - Fooling Some of the People * Ken Fisher – Beat the Crowd * Phil Fisher - Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits * Joel Greenblatt - You Can be a Stock market Genius, Little Book that Beats the Market * Seth Klarman - Margin of Safety * Peter Lynch - One Up on Wall Street, Beating the Street, Learn to Earn, * Sebastian MallabyMore Money than God – phenomenal book on hedge funds * Burton Malkiel – A Random Walk Down Wall Street * Howard Marks - The Most Important Thing * John Mihaljevic – The Manual of Ideas * Darrell Mulis – The Accounting Game * Mohnish Pabrai – The Dhando Investor * Guy Spier - Education of a Value Investor * John Reese – The Guru Investor * John Train - Money Masters of Our Time * Martin Whitman – The Aggressive Conservative Investor

Economics/Finance: * Alan Beattie – False Economy * Ja-Joon Chang - Economics: The User’s Guide * Milton Freidman – Capitalism & Freedom * F.A Hayek – The Road to Serfdom * Tim Hartford – The Undercover Economist * Stephen Levitt – Freakonomics * Michael Lewis – Liar’s Poker * Thomas Piketty - Capital in the 21st Century * Andrew Ross Sorkin – Too Big To Fail * Nassim Taleb – Fooled by Randomness

Business: * Richard Branson – Screw it, Let’s do it * John Brooks - Business Adventures * Jim Collins - Good to Great, Built to Last * Bob Fifer - Double Your Profits in 6 Months or Less * Cal Newport - So Good They Can’t Ignore You * Brad Stone – The Everything Store * William Thorndike - The Outsiders * Peter Thiel - Zero to One

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