Great Investment Books from the Past and Now

Chapter 4 (from my book)
Investment Books for Fun and Profit

I have read many investment books – some good, some bad, some useful. Like you I was always searching for the ideal investment method that would work on a limited budget. I finally found it in How to Make $1,000,000 in the Stock Market Automatically by Robert Lichello. I instantly realized this was the ideal system. I tried to think of ways to use the system.

This led me to write this book because I felt my ideas could and should benefit as wide an audience as possible. Below are other investment books I recommend for many reasons – knowledge, wisdom, and enjoyment. Starting out I'll recommend a couple of books that quickly explain all investments – alias reference books:

These are the books I recommended approximately 16 years ago and I think they're still good today because they're timeless and been updated. After I've listed all these books from a long time ago, I list some of the latest books I've read that are also excellent.

Successful Investing by the staff of United Business Services

New York Times Complete Guide to Personal Investing by Gary Klott

Here are some other books on investing I enjoyed:

How to Make the Stock Market Make Money for You by Ted Warren

How I Turned $1,000 into a Million in Real Estate in my Spare Time by William Nickerson

All America's Real Estate Book by Carol Janik and Ruth Rejinis

A Treasury of Wall Street Wisdom by Harry Schultz and Sampson Coslow

You only Have to Get Rich Once by Walter Gutman

How I Made $2,000 000 in the Stock Market by Nicholas Darvis

Confessions of a Stockbroker, a Wall Street Diary by Brutus

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre

The Hidden Stock Market (How to Pick $5 Stocks that Can Double in 6 – 12 Months) by Ira V. Cobleigh

Contrary Investing for the 90s, How to Profit by Going Against the Crowd by Richard E. Band

101 Years on Wall Street, an Investor’s Almanac by John Dennis Brown

Beating the Dow by Michael O'Higgins with John Downes

And here are the latest books that I highly recommend, I'm going to walk out to my sunroom and pick them down off the shelf as I save books like a hoarder and I will give you their names and authors:

The Black Swan, the Impact of the HIGHLY IMPROBABLE by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Options for the Stock Investor by James B. Bittman
LEAPs, What They Are and How to Use Them for Profit and Protection by Harrison Roth

Small Stocks Big Profits by Gerald W. Perritt

Investing with Exchange-Traded Funds Made Easy by Marvin Appel

The Match King by Frank Partnoy

Investment Gurus by Peter J. Tanous

The Motley Fool Investment Guide by David and Tom Gardner

Investment Psychology Explained by Martin J. Pring

Contrarian Investing by Anthony M. Gallea & William Patalon III

Winning on Wall Street by Martin Zweig

Where Are the Customer’s Yachts by Fred Schwed, Jr.

Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets by Stan Weinstein

The ETF Book by Richard A. Ferri, CFA

The Panic of 1907 by Robert F. Bruner & Sean D. Carr

Options and Option Trading by Robert W. Ward

Options Trading for the Conservative Investor by Michael C. Thomsett

You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt

Dow Jones-Irwin Guide to Put & Call Options by Henry K. Clasing, Jr.

Four books stand out in my memory as really profound - I list them below with a little commentary:

Wealth without Risk by Charles Givens – an excellent guide for complete financial management that will free up money for investing by giving excellent advice on how to save money and live just as well.

All You Can Do is All You Can Do by A .L. Williams – an excellent "rags to riches" story and blueprint for successful thinking.

Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin – learn to live frugally without decreasing your lifestyle. Shows you how to live on much less and be much happier doing it. Will create a new wonderful lifestyle that will end the rat race of pay raises never keeping up with expenses.

Winning Big with Bargain Stocks by Bill Matthews – this book is mandatory, tells you exactly the type of stocks we want and gives excellent vice on how to pick them.
He also publishes or used to publish a monthly newsletter that was very helpful. Write to or look them up on the Internet:

Bill Matthews, Editorr
Matthews and Associates, Incorporated
2549 W. Golf Rd., Suite 350
Hoffman Estates, Illinois 60194