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10 Finance Books to Boost Your Investing Skills

Nazim Uddin
8 min readNov 7, 2020

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Now-a-days if you want to learn about investing the internet is a direct source of information and a tool for us to use. However, for more detailed analysis and historical perspective there is no alternative to reading classic investment books. Investors can gain useful insights to develop a profitable business strategy by reading classic books on investment. Here I have compiled some of the greatest books ever written on stock market and investing that should provide guidance to anyone looking to boost their investing skills.

Security analysis

Benjamin Graham is known as the father of value investing, and he pioneered a rigorous approach to security analysis. He is most famous for his book ‘Security Analysis’ which is known on Wall Street as the ‘Bible of value investing’. First published in 1934, and co-authored by David L. Dodd Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. The book was created in large part from the lecture notes of Graham’s classes at the Columbia University.

Graham started investing during the early 1900s. But investing was very different at that time, it was not considered a respectable profession in the society. It was run by crooks and people with inside information. But all of these changed with his groundbreaking investment philosophy and…

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Nazim Uddin
Nazim Uddin

Written by Nazim Uddin

Full stack developer, San Francisco Bay Area

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