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Top books from r/investing

A general-purpose investing subreddit for retail investors discussing stocks, funds, and personal finance strategy, spanning everything from index-fund basics to individual stock analysis.

Updated September 2026 — rankings refresh with each new pull of comment data.

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651

Published mentions

sum of exact per-book subreddit rows

3.4M

Members

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About this ranking

r/investing is broader and more eclectic than r/Bogleheads: The Intelligent Investor leads at 79 mentions, reflecting a sub that takes stock-picking and value investing seriously rather than defaulting to passive orthodoxy. One Up on Wall Street (35 mentions) and Security Analysis (18 mentions) — books with almost no presence in Bogleheads recommendations — rank here because active-strategy readers show up in volume. The Simple Path to Wealth and A Random Walk Down Wall Street both clock 70 mentions, but where Bogleheads gives The Simple Path to Wealth 355 mentions (versus 70 here), the gap shows how thoroughly that sub has converged on three-fund-portfolio doctrine while r/investing remains genuinely divided. Rich Dad Poor Dad at 41 mentions is a signal too: the sub tolerates heterodox voices that a tighter community would filter out.

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The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

A Columbia professor teaches you to treat the stock market as a manic-depressive partner named Mr. Market, who offers you a new price every day whether you want one or not.

80 in this sub mixed

The Simple Path to Wealth

JL Collins

A father writes his daughter a set of letters explaining why buying one index fund beats almost everything Wall Street sells you.

76 in this sub positive

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Burton G. Malkiel

A Princeton economist argues no one, professional or amateur, can consistently beat a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at the stock listings.

72 in this sub positive

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

John C. Bogle

John Bogle spends one short book making the case that owning the entire stock market beats trying to pick the winners in it.

62 in this sub positive

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Robert T. Kiyosaki

A kid picks his best friend's father, who quit school in eighth grade, over his own PhD-holding dad as the one worth learning money from.

44 in this sub critical

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Morgan Housel pays off a 3% mortgage early and calls it the dumbest math and the best decision he's ever made.

42 in this sub positive

One Up on Wall Street

Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch's case that a regular investor spotting McDonald's or Apple before Wall Street can beat the pros — using nothing but their own shopping cart.

37 in this sub positive

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

Taylor Larimore

A forum built entirely around index funds ranks this book third on its own reading list, then tells beginners to read it anyway.

27 in this sub positive

The Millionaire Next Door

Thomas J. Stanley

The people who actually have money are the ones driving a twenty-year-old Corolla, the book argues, not the ones leasing a new BMW every three years.

27 in this sub positive

#10

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A trader spends a decade mistaking luck for skill, then one bad draw from the same random distribution erases every 'genius' trade that came before it.

20 in this sub positive

#11

Security Analysis

Benjamin Graham

In 1934, Benjamin Graham wrote hundreds of pages on how to value a stock properly, and by the end of his life he told people not to bother with most of it.

18 in this sub mixed

#12

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason

A bricklayer in ancient Babylon is told to keep a tenth of every coin he earns, and Reddit's finance subs still repeat that rule word for word.

17 in this sub positive

#13

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Ramit Sethi

Ramit Sethi tells a broke twentysomething to automate every account and stop apologizing for buying good coffee.

11 in this sub positive

#14

The White Coat Investor

James M. Dahle

A doctor who nearly wrecked his own finances writes the money manual nobody handed him in medical school.

11 in this sub mixed

#15

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

Philip A. Fisher

Philip Fisher's 1958 growth-investing manual, where scuttlebutt due diligence and 15 questions about management replace balance-sheet ratios.

8 in this sub positive

#16

If You Can

William J. Bernstein

William Bernstein's free sixteen-page PDF telling you to save half your paycheck and buy three index funds, no purchase required.

8 in this sub positive

#17

The Four Pillars of Investing

William J. Bernstein

A neurologist-turned-portfolio-theorist explains why the financial services industry exists mainly to extract fees from you, then shows you four ways to stop it.

8 in this sub positive

#18

Winning the Loser's Game

Charles D. Ellis

Charles Ellis explaining why professional stock-picking became a loser's game, and how indexing lets you avoid playing it.

8 in this sub positive

#19

All About Asset Allocation

Richard A. Ferri

Rick Ferri hands Bogleheads a fixed international-equity percentage, and one reader is still running it fifteen years later, underperformance and all.

6 in this sub Not scored

#20

Flash Boys

Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis follows a band of Wall Street rebels who discover that high-frequency traders are front-running every order placed by ordinary investors.

6 in this sub positive