 | When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.82 Epic story of LTCM. Shakespeare meets Wall
Street.
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 | Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.91 Another business epic. This time LBO's, junk bonds, funny money, and the 80's. Expect total corporate warfare.
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 | Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre
Buy new: $9.99 Third Epic I'll list. Published in 1923 this was one of four books recommended to me and my fellow interns at Tudor Investments by Paul Jones himself. Timeless wisdom on the markets and life as a speculator.
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 | Hedgehogging by Barton Biggs
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $9.69 Welcome to the world of hedge funds...informative and pretty consistently entertaining. The main thing you'll take away is that its do or die in the land of hedge funds.
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 | Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $10.00 The diversity of approaches to the markets from the best in the world.
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 | Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.89 Enter the world of Wall street. I wouldn't go as far as to call this an epic, but its truly an experience.
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 | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $14.49 More thought provoking than instructive, but key to understanding luck and randomness, specificly in regards to very rare and surprising events, or black swans.
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 | Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $8.76 |
 | The Psychology of Trading: Tools and Techniques for Minding the Markets by Brett N. Steenbarger
Buy new: $34.65 / Used from: $27.25 Great book, especially if you've done some trades and felt the anxiety associated with risk. Written in a very story telling fashion so it reads easy.
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 | The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 Understand silicon valley and the tech bubble through the story of Jim Clark. Clark is what I'd call a very unique charecter. Crazier than him are the IPO's and stock prices for the silicon startups.
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 | The Bond Book: Everything Investors Need to Know About Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More by Annette Thau
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $9.11 This is basic and friendly but fairly comprenhensive. Good for a one time easy read if you don't know much or anything about bonds. If you are interested in fixed income pricing/math you might want to skip this one and go for Fixed Income securities instead.
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 | The Education of a Speculator by Victor Niederhoffer
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.92 |
 | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.54 |
 | Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions by Ben Mezrich
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.27 |
 | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.64 |
 | A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Completely Revised and Updated by Burton G. Malkiel
Buy new: $9.99 |
 | Elliot Wave Principle: Key to Market Behavior by Robert; Prechter, A.J. Frost
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 | Metal Men: How Marc Rich Defrauded the Country, Evaded the Law, and Became the World's Most Sought-After Corporate Criminal by A. Craig Copetas
Buy used from: $3.42 |
| Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques by Sheldon Natenberg
Buy new: $36.86 |
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