Books: recommendations and reviews

Start-up books

There is no general consensus on what are the best first books, but this short list is very popular.

Publication Date	Book	Review	Discussion
2014	The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing - Taylor Larimore, Michael LeBeouf, Mel Lindauer	Bogleheads' Guide To Investing	Taylor's Gems
2018	The Bogleheads' Guide to the Three-Fund Portfolio - Taylor Larimore		Taylor's Book
2014	If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly - William Bernstein (Free download)		Taylor's Gems
2017	The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (10th Anniversary Edition) - John C. Bogle		Taylor's Gems
2009	The Investor's Manifesto - William Bernstein (The 2012 edition is available in paperback)		Taylor's Gems
2010	All About Asset Allocation - Rick Ferri	All About Asset Allocation	Taylor's Gems
2005	The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You'll Ever Need - Larry Swedroe		Taylor's Gems
2011	The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need - Andrew Tobias	Only Investment Guide

Suggested first reads for general financial education:

Publication Date	Book	Review	Discussion
2011	How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street: Golden Rules Any Investor Can Learn - Allan Roth	Taylor's Gems
2006	Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People - Jane Bryant Quinn, Simon and Schuster

Classics

Publication Date	Book	Review	Discussion
2017	Winning the Loser's Game, Seventh Edition: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing - Charles Ellis
2003	Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits - Philip Fisher
2006	The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing - Benjamin Graham with introduction by Warren Buffett and new commentary by Jason Zweig		Taylor's Gems
2017	One Up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market - Peter Lynch
2016	A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Malkiel		Taylor's Gems
2005	Where are the Customer's Yachts?: Or a Good Hard Look at Wall Street - Fred Schwed Jr.		Taylor's Gems
2016	Irrational Exuberance - Robert Shiller
2014	Stocks for the Long Run - Jeremy Siegel

General financial planning

Publication Date	Book	Review	Discussion
2006	Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People - Jane Bryant Quinn
2009	Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy - Jane Bryant Quinn
2011	The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need - Andrew Tobias	Only Investment Guide

General investment

Publication Date	Book	Review	Discussion
2003	The Informed Investor: A Hype-free Guide to Construct a Sound Financial Portfolio - Frank Armstrong		Taylor's Gems
2010	The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio - William Bernstein		Taylor's Gems
2000	The Intelligent Asset Allocator:How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk - William Bernstein	Intelligent Asset Allocator
2000	The Bond Bible - Marilyn Cohen
2006	The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing: A Book for Procrastinators, the Financially Challenged, and Everyone Who Worries About Dealing with Their Money - Paul Farrell		Taylor's Gems
2003	Protecting Your Wealth in Good Times and Bad - Rick Ferri		Taylor's Gems
2007	The ETF Book: All You Need to Know About Exchange-Traded Funds - Rick Ferri		Taylor's Gems
2006	All About Index Funds: The Easy Way to Get Started - Rick Ferri		Taylor's Gems
2012	The Permanent Portfolio: Harry Browne's Long-Term Investment Strategy- Craig Rowland, J.M. Lawson		Permanent Portfolio
2005	The Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street and Get On With Your Life - Bill Schultheis		Taylor's Gems
2006	The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read: The Simple, Stress-Free Way to Reach Your Investment Goals - Daniel Solin	Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read	Taylor's Gems
2007	Wise Investing Made Simple - Larry Swedroe		Taylor's Gems
2006	The Only Guide to a Winning Bond Strategy You'll Ever Need - Larry Swedroe and Joseph Hempen		Taylor's Gems
2005	Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment - David Swensen		Taylor's Gems
2002	Rational Investing in Irrational Times - Larry Swedroe		Taylor's Gems
2013	Common Sense Investing: Ten Simple Rules to Finance Your Dreams- Rick Van Ness	Common Sense Investing	Taylor's Gems
2009	The Little Book of Safe Money: How to Conquer Killer Markets, Con Artists, and Yourself - Jason Zweig		Taylor's Gems

Retirement

Publication Date	Book	Review	Discussion
2009	The Bogleheads' Guide To Retirement Planning - Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Rick Ferri, & Laura Dogu, editors	Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning	Taylor's Gems
2006	Retirement Income Redesigned: Master Plans for Distribution - Harold Evensky, Deena Katz, editors	Retirement Income Redesigned
2001	J.K. Lasser's Your Winning Retirement Plan - Henry Hebeler
2004	Asset Dedication - Stephen Huxley & J. Brent Burns	Asset Dedication
2008	Live It Up Without Outliving Your Money! - Paul Merriman	Live It Up Without Outliving Your Money
2001	Retirement Bible - Lynn O'Shaughnessy
2009	Unveiling The Retirement Myth - Jim C. Otar	Jim Otar’s Unveiling the Retirement Myth, Steve Thorpe (forum member)	Otar's book: "Unveiling the Retirement Myth"
2016	How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide - Jane Bryant Quinn	Make your retirement money last, Larry Swedroe	Make your retirement money last
2009	The New Savage Number: How Much Money Do You Really Need to Retire? - Terry Savage	The New Savage Number
2007	Your Complete Retirement Planning Road Map - Ed Slott	Your Complete Retirement Planning Road Map
2006	Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably - Ben Stein, Phil DeMuth
2006	Mind over Money: Your Path to Wealth and Happiness - Eric Tyson
2004	How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get From Your Financial Advisor - Ernie Zelinski

Behavioral finance

Publication Date	Book	Review	Discussion
2009	Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Dan Ariely
2010	Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the Life-Changing Science of Behavioral Economics - Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich
1998	Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk - Peter Bernstein
2011	Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman		Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" Is Out!
2001	When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management - Roger Lowenstein
2007	The Black Swan - Nicholas Taleb		Black Swan; Nicholas Taleb
2005	Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and the Markets - Nicholas Taleb		Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2016	Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics - Richard H. Thaler
2009	Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - Richard H. Thaler and Cass Sunstein
2008	Your Money and Your Brain - Jason Zweig		Taylor's Gems

Estate planning

Publication Date	Book	Review	Discussion
2014	Beyond the Grave, Revised and Updated Edition: The Right Way and the Wrong Way of Leaving Money to Your Children (and Others) - Jeffery L. Condon		Estate Planning Books

401(k) plan

Publication Date	Book	Review	Discussion
2009	Cut Your 401(k) Plan Expenses AND Keep More of YOUR Money: Simple steps to cut plan costs, save money, and make monitoring your plan stress free

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See also

• Taylor Larimore's Investment Gems
• Bogleheads Authors

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Book reviews Overviews Books: recommendations and reviews • Taylor Larimore's Investment Gems Book reviews All About Asset Allocation • Asset Dedication • Bogleheads' Guide To Investing • Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning • Buckets of Money • Common Sense Investing • The Intelligent Asset Allocator • Live It Up Without Outliving Your Money • The New Savage Number • The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need • Retirement Income Redesigned • Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read • The White Coat Investor • Your Complete Retirement Planning Road Map

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