r/investing · 2022
Most-mentioned books in r/investing during 2022
This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/investing within the published source unit for 2022. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.
#1 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.
#2 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.
#3 The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Morgan Housel paid off a 3% mortgage early and calls it his best money decision ever — 209 Reddit mentions say the paradox is the whole point.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 All About Asset Allocation
Richard A. Ferri
Rick Ferri's guide to building a multi-asset portfolio: choose your allocation, stop tinkering, and go enjoy your life.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#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 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.
#11 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.
#12 Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Tracked Reddit references and selected source excerpts for Rich Dad Poor Dad.
#13 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.
#14 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.
#15 The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason
A 1926 book about a Babylonian merchant that r/Bogleheads still hands to newcomers because nothing else this short covers the basics this cleanly.
#16 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.
#17 You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
Joel Greenblatt
Joel Greenblatt's guide to finding mispriced stocks in spin-offs and merger arb—the book Michael Burry loved despite hating the title.