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The founder of Vanguard makes the case for owning the whole market through low-cost index funds instead of trying to beat it.

A long-running guide to how markets price assets, why beating them is so hard, and how an ordinary investor can build a diversified portfolio.

A plain-spoken guide to spending less than you earn, investing in broad low-cost funds and working toward financial independence, grown out of letters to the author’s daughter.

The former Fidelity Magellan manager explains how everyday investors can spot promising companies in the world around them.

The foundational text of value investing. It introduces the margin of safety and the parable of Mr. Market, and separates investing from speculation.

Short chapters on risk, market cycles, second-level thinking and why investors cannot predict the future with confidence.

Breaks down Buffett’s approach into business, management, financial and value tenets, with case studies.

Interviews with successful traders about how they think about risk, discipline and edge.

A fictionalized account widely understood to be based on the speculator Jesse Livermore, and one of the most quoted trading books ever written.

Short stories about how people think about money, risk and luck, arguing that behavior matters more than intelligence.

Short essays on the things that stay constant through changing times, and how to plan with that in mind.

A Nobel laureate explains the two systems of thought and the biases that shape judgment and decisions.

Explores how luck is mistaken for skill and why we underestimate randomness in markets and careers.

Argues that rare, high-impact events shape history and markets far more than forecasts allow for.

A catalog of short chapters on common thinking errors, from confirmation bias to sunk costs.

A practical system for building good habits and breaking bad ones through small, consistent changes.

Makes the case for focused, distraction-free work and offers ways to build the habit.

Introduces the difference between fixed and growth mindsets and how beliefs about ability shape effort and learning.

The founder of Bridgewater shares his approach to decision-making, goals and radical transparency.

Reframes money as life energy and walks through a step-by-step program toward financial independence.

A practical six-week program for automating savings, investing and spending on what you value.

Research on how many American millionaires actually live: frugally, with steady habits and without flashy spending.

Argues that the goal is to maximize life experiences, not just net worth, and to spend money at the right time of life.

A memoir of the author’s time as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s.

Follows the investors who bet against the US housing market before the 2008 financial crisis.

The rise and 1998 collapse of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management and what leverage can do.

A history of how people came to understand and measure risk, from early probability to modern finance.

The story of the 1988 leveraged buyout battle for RJR Nabisco.

A short introduction to economic reasoning that urges looking at long-run and unseen effects of policies. Written from a free-market perspective.

A history of money, credit, bonds, stocks, insurance and property and how they shaped the world.