r/investing · 2019
Most-mentioned books in r/investing during 2019
This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/investing within the published source unit for 2019. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.
#1 The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham's 1949 framework for distinguishing investment from speculation, cited 100 times on Reddit by people still arguing whether it applies to today's markets.
#2 A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel
Burton Malkiel's 50-year argument that you can't beat the market, backed by data, and Reddit's most-cited reason to stop stock-picking.
#3 The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
John C. Bogle
John Bogle's case for index funds in 200 pages: own the whole market, pay almost nothing, and wait — cited 262 times on Reddit and counting.
#4 The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Taylor Larimore
The index-fund bible that turns 136 Reddit mentions into one repeatable answer: buy, hold, ignore the noise.
#5 The Millionaire Next Door
Thomas J. Stanley
A 1996 study of 1,000 American millionaires found they drove used cars, lived in modest houses, and got rich by spending less than they earned.
#6 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.
#7 Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Tracked Reddit references and selected source excerpts for Rich Dad Poor Dad.
#8 Security Analysis
Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham's 1936 manual for dissecting a balance sheet, now mostly cited as proof that the method he later disowned still has its uses.
#9 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.
#10 Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
A first-year Salomon Brothers trader logs the daily absurdity of 1980s Wall Street from the trading floor to the bathroom stalls.
#11 The White Coat Investor
James M. Dahle
A physician-turned-blogger tells high earners that chasing alpha is a bad idea mutual funds are legally required to warn you about.
#12 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.
#13 If You Can
William J. Bernstein
A free 16-page PDF from William Bernstein that tells millennials exactly how to invest for retirement using three index funds and nothing else.
#14 Margin of Safety
Seth A. Klarman
Seth Klarman's out-of-print value investing manual: the book r/investing drops by name whenever a stock gets kicked out of the S&P 500.
#15 The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A derivatives trader turns the logic of rare catastrophes against the financial models that pretend they don't exist.
#16 The Simple Path to Wealth
JL Collins
A retired fund manager distills 40 years of index investing into one rule: buy VTSAX, ignore the noise, and wait.
#17 Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Taleb's argument that most successful traders are lucky, not skilled — told through trading floors, coin flips, and survivorship bias.
#18 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre
A 15-year-old starts scalping stocks in bucket shops in the 1890s and spends the next 30 years learning the same lesson the hard way.
#19 The Big Short
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis turns the 2008 mortgage meltdown into a story about a handful of oddballs who saw the crash coming and bet everything on it.
#20 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.
#21 The Most Important Thing
Howard Marks
Howard Marks explains why the best investors underperform in bull markets and why that is the whole point.
#22 Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
A Nobel laureate maps the two systems running your brain — and shows how often the faster one gets you killed in a bull market.
#23 Winning the Loser's Game
Charles D. Ellis
Charles Ellis argues that active stock-picking is a game professional managers reliably lose, and that ordinary investors win by refusing to play.