Ahead of Black Friday discounts, we decided to list some of our readers’ favorite book picks. We looked at the top books of 2018 as chosen by ValueWalk readers from January through November 05, 2018 based on total sales. We listed them from most sales and went through about 20+ top names. A few were ties which we noted – these are mostly classics but also a few unexpected names so make sure to check it out and see if you can find any good deals on them.
Additionally, we have an up to date full guide of books recommended by famous investors like Klarman, Munger, Greenblatt, dalio etc – check it out right here
Disclosure: We earn an affiliate fee if you purchase the book through these links it’s not enough to buy a new Windows PC and probably not enough to afford a copy of Margin of Safety but hopefully enough to obtain a copy of Dow 36,000.
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- Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor by Seth A. Klarman
- Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
- The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham tied for #2
- The Warren Buffett Shareholder: Stories from inside the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting by Lawrence A. Cunningham
- The Little Red Book of Family Business by David Bork tied for #4
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher
- Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition by Peter D. Kaufman
- You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits by Joel Greenblatt
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin tied with above book
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Advances in Financial Machine Learning by Marcos Lopez de Prado tied for #12
- Financial Shenanigans, Fourth Edition: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports 4th Edition by Howard M. Schilit tied for #12
- HBR Guide to Better Business Writing (HBR Guide Series) by Bryan A. Garner
- 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-To-1 and How to Find Them by Christopher W. Mayer
- Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini
- The Aggressive Conservative Investor by Martin J. Whitman
- The Acquirer's Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market by Tobias E. Carlisle
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
- Essays In Persuasion by John Maynard Keynes
- The Art of Asset Allocation: Principles and Investment Strategies for Any Market, Second Edition by David H Darst
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini
- Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond by Bruce C. N. Greenwald