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Recommended Reading List
Last updated in Fall 2018

Here are some suggested readings from Dr. Cole, across a variety of topics.  Some are short, and some are very comprehensive.  In general, splurge for the latest edition, except where noted.
 

General Interest

• Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, Rana Foroohar
• The Essays of Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett & Lawrence Cunningham
• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
• The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable, James Owen Weatherall
• Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin, Nathaniel Popper
• Elon Musk, Ashley Vance
• How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie
• The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness, Todd Rose

Investment Textbooks   

• Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Frank Reilly & Keith Brown
• Investments, Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, & Alan Marcus
• Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, ​John C. Hull

Security Analysis

• Security Analysis, 6th. ed., Benjamin Graham & David Dodd
• The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham & Jason Zweig
• One Up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market, Peter Lynch & John Rothschild
• Beating the Street, Peter Lynch
• The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market, George Soros
• Expectations Investing, Alfred Rappaport & Michael Mauboussin
• The Warren Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World's Greatest Investor, Robert G. Hagstrom, Jr.
• The Motley Food Investment Guide, David & Tom Gardner
• The Only Three Questions That Count, Ken Fisher
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Philip Fisher
• The Little Book That [Still] Beats the Market, Joel Greenblatt

Portfolio Management & Asset Allocation

• A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton Malkiel
• Winning the Loser's Game, Charles Ellis
• Pioneering Portfolio Management, David Swensen
• Stocks for the Long Run, Jeremy Siegel

Capital Market History

• The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, Sebastian Mallaby
• Capital Ideas: The Improbably Origins of Modern Wall Street, Peter Bernstein
• Barbarians at the Gate, Bryan Burroughs
• Flash Boys:  A Wall Street Revolt, Michael Lewis
• Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis
• The Big Short, Michael Lewis
• The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders, Connie Bruck
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management, Roger Lowenstein
• Devil Take the Hindmost, Edward Chancellor
• Confessions of a Street Addict, James Cramer
• Den of Thieves, James Stuart

Behavioral Psychology, Economics, & Finance

• Payoff, Dan Ariely
• Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
• The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, Michael Lewis
• Superforecasting: The Art of Science and Prediction, Daniel Gardner and Philip E. Tetlock
• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, Richard Thaler
• Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation & Deception, George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
• Click: The Forces Behind How We Fully Engage with People, Work, and Everything We Do, Ori Brafman
• Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior, Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
• Beyond Greed and Fear, Hersh Shefrin
• Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets, Ari Kiev
• Trading with Crowd Psychology, Carl Gyllenram
• Super Trader, Van Tharp
• Currency Wars, James Rickards
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds, Charles MacKay, Martin Fridson, and Joseph de la Vega
• Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, Charles Kindleberger

 
Risk Management

• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, Peter Bernstein
• Antifragile:  Things That Gain from Disorder, Nassim Taleb
• Fooled by Randomness:  The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Nassim Taleb

Options

• How I Trade Options, Jon Najarian
• Options as a Strategic Investment, Lawrence McMillan
• McMillan on Options, Lawrence McMillan
• Options: Essential Concepts, The Options Institute
• Options for the Stock Investor: How Any Investor Can Use Options to Enhance and Protect their Return, James B. Bittman
• Trading Index Options, James Bittman
• All About Options: The Easy Way to Get Started, Thomas A. McCafferty
• How the Options Markets Work, Joseph A. Walker
• Mastering Derivatives Markets: A step-by-step guide to the products, applications and risks, Francesca Taylor
• New Financial Instruments, Julian Walmsley

Trading

• Market Wizards, Jack Schwager (3 books in series)
• Trader Vic: Methods of a Wall Street Master, Victor Sperandeo (2 books in series)
• Exceptional Trading: The Mind Game, Ruth Barrons Roosevelt
• The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes, Mark Douglas
• Stan Weinstein's Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets, Stan Weinstein
• Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude, Mark Douglas and Thom Hartle (2 in series)
• Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Day Trader, Martin Schwartz
• The Master Swing Trader: Tolls and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities, Alan S. Farley
• Opportunities, Alan S. Farley
• How to Trade in Stocks, Jesse Livermore
• The Market Maker's Edge: A Wall Street Insider, Josh Lukeman
• The Super Traders: Secrets and Successes of Wall Street's Best and Brightest, Alan Rubenfeld
• Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets, John J. Murphy
• Hit and Run Trading: The Short-Term Stock Traders' Bible, Jeff Cooper (2 in series)
• The 5 Day Momentum Method, Jeff Cooper
• Street Smarts: High Profitability Short-Term Trading Strategies, Laurence A. Connors and Linda Bradford Raschke
• The Real Holy Grail: Money Management Techniques of Top Traders, Eddie Kwong