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14 Books That Every Investor Should Read: Columbia Business School (Security Analysis Course)

Monday, February 4, 2019 · Johnny Hopkins

We recently started a series called – Superinvestors: Books That Every Investor Should Read. So far we’ve provided the book recommendations from:

Together with our own recommended reading list of:

This week we’re going to take a look at recommended books from the Security Analysis Course at Columbia University. Here’s the list:

  1. Capital Ideas (Bernstein, Peter)
  2. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (Bernstein, Peter)
  3. Economics of Strategy (Besanko, David, David Dranove, Mark Shanley, and Scott Schaefer)
  4. Strategy and the Business Landscape (Pankaj Ghemewat)
  5. Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond (Greenwald, Bruce, Judd Kahn, Paul Sonkin and Michael Van Biema)
  6. Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy (Greenwald, Bruce and Judd Kahn)
  7. Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman, Daniel)
  8. Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Expanded Third Edition (Kaufman, Peter D., ed.)
  9. Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies (Koller, Tim, Marc Goedhart, and David Wessels)
  10. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, (Malkiel, Burton G)
  11. Creating Shareholder Value: A Guide for Shareholders and Investors (Rappaport, Alfred)
  12. Stocks for the Long Run (Siegel, Jeremy J)
  13. The Quest for Value (Stewart, III, G. Bennett)
  14. The Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki, James)