Quarterly Reading – Summer 2026 • Novel Investor

Money and Me — Jonathan Clements’s final book is a personal one. Between topics around saving, investing, and retirement is where the personal in personal finance lies: family, happiness, and life. Clements tells his own story throughout which only adds to the wonderful lessons in his book.

New Levels in the Stock Market — Charles Amos Dice fully bought into the “new era” view on the market and economy when he published this book weeks before the 1929 crash. Utopian describes Dice’s belief of what’s to come. Technology, and all its wonders, would somehow solve all our problems, and that’s why the market would keep going up. It didn’t, of course. Dice’s timing was awful. He was beyond overoptimistic but not wrong about everything either.

Bullishly Speaking — The book is a collection of articles written by S. Allen Nathanson, for the magazine Scrap Age. His investment commentary is not new to anyone who read Graham or Lynch. It sits more as reminder from that viewpoint. His writing does offer a unique perspective on the period it was written, primarily 1966 to 1973.

The Shock of the Old — David Edgerton covers the history of technology back to 1900. He argues that history books often distort the impact of new inventions, how quickly it gets adopted and displaces old technology. He, then, sets out to correct it with numerous examples.