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The Little Book That Still Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt
Joel Greenblatt’s Little Book delivers a crash course in value investing. He covers how to view the market, why most people fail to beat the market, metrics for quality and low priced stocks, and how his Magic Formula works.
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How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
Darrell Huff’s book is about the long history of data deception. He explains the many ways data can be manipulated — to misrepresent facts, to tell a different story — in advertising, politics, and other areas and how to defend yourself from it.
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Simple Wealth Inevitable Wealth by Nick Murray
Nick Murray delivers the timeless “simple truths” of investing that never change regardless of where things stand with the markets.
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The Money Game by Adam Smith
The Money Game is a series of stories on the games people play with money and markets. Told by Adam Smith (aka George Goodman), the stories uncover the emotion, error, myth, and irrationality that surrounds it all.
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The Art of Speculation by Philip Carret
Based on a series of articles written for Barron’s in 1927, Philip Carret writes an extensive introduction to the stock market, while laying the groundwork for market cycles, economic cycles, value investing, biases, and behavior.
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Why You Win or Lose: The Psychology of Speculation by Fred C. Kelly
Fred C. Kelly proposed that by acting counter — contrarian — to the general tendencies of most market participants, one avoids most typical mistakes, and succeeds at investing. Studying average investor mistakes presents a guide to future dangers.
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The Little Book of Behavioral Investing by James Montier
James Montier writes about the many ways investors are their own worst enemies. The book concentrates on the many repeated behavioral mistakes investors inflict on themselves that negatively impact returns in the process.
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Why Don’t We Learn From History? by B.H. Liddell Hart
B. H. Liddell Hart wrote the book as a summary of the history of warfare. Rather than writing the lessons we learn from history, he inverts the message to the many lessons we fail to learn from history.
Book Notes
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The page contains a list of notes from books. A sentence or two summarizes each book. Click the linked title to get the notes.
I have no idea how useful these book notes will be for you but they are immensely helpful for me. The notes are by no means all-inclusive and do not replace the book. It’s simply a list of thoughts and ideas from the book that struck me as interesting at the time of reading. If I read the book again today, the notes might look completely different.