Recommend a book about investing

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Looking for something for a recent college grad who has money to invest and wants to learn about concepts and strategies. Math won’t be a limitation, but I’d prefer it’s something engaging and not too dry.
 
The most enjoyable one is Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, IMO. That would be a good start prior to reading something more technical.

One up Wall Street is also good for that purpose, I think it’s the first investing book I read.
 
This is right up my alley! I nerd out on this stuff.

Here are some good ones that I've read cover-to-cover that I think are easy/enjoyable reads:

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
The Millionaire Teacher by Andrew Hallam
The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
The Bogleheads Guide to Investing (and the Bogleheads Guide to the Three Fund Portfolio) by Taylor Larimore
I Will Teach You to be Rich by Ramit Sethi
The Millionaire Next Door (and the sequel, The Next Millionaire Next Door) by Thomas Stanley
How I Invest My Money by Brian Portnoy
Just Keep Buying by Nick Maggiuli
My Money Journey by Jonathan Clements

These above are all GREAT foundational reads on personal finance and investing, suitable for everyone from brand new beginners to "experienced" savers/investors. I am also happy to recommend some that I've read that are a little bit more "in the weeds" of investing theory, but they would make a brand new saver/investor's eyes glaze over.

If you're just looking for a couple good starters as a gift, I'd pair 'The Psychology of Money' with 'The Simple Path to Wealth.'
 
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Reading one book about investing is usually worse than reading no books about investing.
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Eh, I don't know about that. I do think that there is absolutely such thing as reading *too much* about investing such that one gets mired down in too much nuance of too many differing theories of investing, which then leads to analysis paralysis or inertia. But I think that every single graduating high school or college aged person should read a book or two about getting into the habit of living below their means, automating their saving and investing, and choosing the 'easy' method of investing in a diversified portfolio of low-cost, passively-managed index funds.
 
The Bogleheads Guide to Investing
The Millionaire Next Door

Both already mentioned above by CFord. Both are excellent and helped me a lot when I was first out of college.
 
1) The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias ... an enjoyable read written with wit and humor and providing good broad spectrum info ( not dry)

2)The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham... a classic written by the father of value investing... His protege, Warren Buffet, describes it as "By far the best book on investing ever written." ( medium dry)

3) Mean Streets and Lizard Brains by Terry Burnham... a book that examines the how biology and and psychology impacts decision making in finance and investing ( neuroeconomics ) (not dry)
 
This one is out of print but available used or on kindle at Amazon. Not so much a "how to invest" book as a study in the social aspects of investing presented as a social history of the Crash of 1929, which ushered in the Great Depression. The authors specialize in books about disasters of one kind or another. A lot of the current market reminds me of the early 1920's.



Likewise, this one is by the author of "The Mouse that Roared"; a humorous take on absurdities of Wall Street


These are more "fun reads" than investing advice but did help me understand the mental aspects of markets.
 
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