r/investing · 2021

Most-mentioned books in r/investing during 2021

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/investing within the published source unit for 2021. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2021

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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.

20 in 2021

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.

18 in 2021

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.

11 in 2021

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.

9 in 2021

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.

7 in 2021

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.

6 in 2021

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.

5 in 2021

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.

5 in 2021

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.

4 in 2021

#10

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.

4 in 2021

#11

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.

2 in 2021

#12

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.

2 in 2021

#13

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.

2 in 2021

#14

Beating the Street

Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch tells a regular investor how he picked stocks at Fidelity Magellan — and why you probably can too.

1 in 2021

#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.

1 in 2021

#16

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.

1 in 2021