Investing Books Recommendations (Invest like Warren Buffet, Peter Lynch, Sir John Templeton)

Here are some books I recommend for reading. When Warren Buffet started investing, he read every single investment book he could find in the local library. This is what makes Warren Buffet such a successful investor. He learns not only from great mentors like Benjamin Graham, but also self-taught through reading investment books.

Here are some recommendations of books:
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- Investing the Templeton Way
- Money, Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
- Lessons from the Legends of Wall Street: How Warren Buffet, Benjamin Graham, Phil Fisher, T. Rowe Price, and John Templeton Can Help You Grow Rich
- Buffettology: The Previously Unexplained Techniques that have made Warren Buffet the world’s most famous investor
- One Up on Wall Street: how to use what you already know to make money in the market
- Beating the Street: the best-selling author of One up on Wall Street shows you how to pick winning stocks and develop a strategy for mutual funds
- Security Analysis: Principles and Technique
- The Intelligent Investor
- Fundamental Analysis for Dummies
- High-level Investing for Dummies
- Investing for Dummies
- Stock Investing for Dummies

Which books have you read and do you have any other book recommendations? Let me know in the comments below.

The easiest books to start with are the “For Dummies” series. There are many “For Dummies” books on investing, including “Investing for Dummies”, “High-level investing for Dummies”, “Stock Investing for Dummies”, “Fundamental Analysis for Dummies”, and so on. These books are all written in plain simple English and are really easy to understand and get up to speed on investing. The authors are often experienced investors and they give advice based on experience and you can avoid many pitfalls by following their advice.

If you have been investing for some time, you probably have heard of “The Intelligent Investor” by Warren Buffet’s mentor Benjamin Graham. Graham was the pioneer of value investing, seeking underpriced stocks that can earn a profit in the future. However, while the book is full of great advice and methods of investing, it is quite difficult to read because the language is quite academic because Benjamin Graham was a Columbia University professor. This book is not for the faint of heart, but if you can persevere through it and apply its ageless principles, you will certainly become a better investor.

I highly recommend you read books by different investors. Each great investor such as Warren Buffet, Peter Lynch, Sir John Templeton have their own distinct styles and investment philosophies. Some of them begin with one investment style and then modify it to their own personal preferences. For example, Warren Buffet started his investing career mimicking his mentor Benjamin Graham. However, over the years Buffet has modified the value investing methodology of his mentor into his own distinct style while keeping the fundamental principles.

I recommend the book “Lessons from the Legends of Wall Street” as it gives a good overview of the different investment styles of Warren Buffet, Benjamin Graham, Phil Fisher, T. Rowe Price, and John Templeton.

“Investing the Templeton Way” discusses the investment style and philosophy of Sir John Templeton, who pioneered foreign markets investing.

“One Up on Wall Street” and “Beating the Street” discuss the investing methods of Peter Lynch who was the manager of Magellan Fund of Fidelity Investments. His mutual fund was the best performing mutual fund in the world and he consistently beat the S&P 500.

“A Random Walk Down Wall Street” is a great read where you can learn about the various events of Wall Street throughout the years. The best way to prepare for the future is to understand the past. History tends to repeat itself over and over like stock market bubbles, bull and bear markets, the madness of crowds, and so on. If you know the events of the past of the stock market, you can spare yourself a lot of pain (and loss of money).

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[DylanEscobar]

A lot of books on this list I still haven't read. I did read one up on Wall Street and I loved the book.
My favorite investing book till now. The intelligent investor was too long for me. I understand that it is old, but I think the info could be told in 50% of the pages as well.

I started investing in February 2020 just before the corona crash, which did surely speed up my learning process.
But reading books and reading about other methods keeps me eager to try new methods in the market as well.