These are some Classic as well as more recent books on Investing and Markets.  You can read or listen to them at your pleasure:

  • “The Future of Money: How Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance”, Eswar S. Prasad, Harvard University Press 2021
  • “The Intelligent Investor”, Benjamin Graham, First published in 1949 (Warren Buffet says this is the best book on investing ever written.
  • “A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Burton G Malkeiel, First published 1973
  • “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” by Charles Mackay, First published 1841 (A book on economic bubbles in history. The author shows who history repeats itself.)
  • “The Richest Man in Babylon”, George Clason, First published 1926 (Babylonians were the first to discover laws of prosperity.  The author uses parables to reveal principals for creating, growing and preserving wealth.)
  • “Asset Prices and Portfolio Choice,” William F. Sharpe; Princeton Lectures in Finance, May 2004 (stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/art/princeton/prince0.htm)
  • “The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the many Are Smarter than the Few” ,James Surowiecki, First Published 2004 (Addresses why often large group of people are smarter than a few elite.)
  • “Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment” by David F. Swensen, Free Press, 2005
  • “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable“, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Random House, Frist published 2007 (The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events.)
  • “The Wealth in Families”, Charles W. Collier, First published; Harvard University, 2008
  • “This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly” by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff, Princeton University Press, 2009
  • “Nudge: Improving Decision about Health, Wealth, and Happiness”, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, First published 2009
  • “The Myth of Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward and Delusion on Wall Street”, Justin Fox (Harper Collins; First published; Publishers, 2009
  • “The Elements of Investing”, Burton G. Malkiel and Charles D. Ellis, Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010
  • “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, Daniel Kahneman, First published; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011
  • “Debt: The First 5000 Years”, David Graeber, Frist published; Melville House Publishing, 2014
  • “Misbehaving”, Richard H. Thaler, First published; W. W. Norton & Company, 2015
  • “Coined:  The Rich Life of Money and How its History has Shaped Us”, Kabir Sehgal, First published; Grand Central Publishing, 2015
  • “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy”, Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, First published in 1996 and reissued in 2016.
  • “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crisis Changed the World”, Adam Tooze, First published; Viking, 2018
  • “Money: The True Story of a Man Made-up Thing”, Jacob Goldstein, First Published; Hachette Books, 2020