Best reading material for investing?

For fun:

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For study:

Understanding Wall Street 5th edition
by Jeffrey B. Little

Yes you need to get the Intelligent Investor like everyone is saying, and STICK WITH IT. Great for jury duty, should you be summoned.

I'll just add to my post above, coming from an engineering degree background, the Intelligent Investor made my head hurt. It is basically a text book. Very informative text, though I spent countless hours working through the first few chapters with a dictionary and Google on stand by.

I would personally recommend reading A Random Walk Down Wall Street before jumping into the Intelligent Investor. I own both books and I have yet to complete the Intelligent Investor, although the former I completed in a matter of a few weeks. I read in the evenings after work and I still open it on the occasion for reference.

Here are a couple of online books:

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

And another:

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

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It's approachable, but somewhat hefty. If you understand the basics of the stock market, you can read the book.

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Even if you don't know a thing about the stock market, an initial read of it will give you a good understanding of how the system works. Then on your second read you can pickup the detailed nuances you missed on the first go-around.

Atleast that's how I did it.

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