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The stock market is an incredibly overwhelming place. That is even to those who have been working with the market intimately for years. Beginners and experienced entrepreneurs and investors reach similar struggles whenever they dive into the market depths, and it can be hard to navigate back to the surface.

When I first jumped into the stock market, I felt myself floundering, barely treading the rough waters around me. Even today, I find that I still rely on the lessons I learn from my life preserver: the best stock market books around.

From asset allocation to managing risks, there is a lot to be learned about the stock market. Sure, spending years and lots of money on my own experimentation would guide me to these same lessons, but why would I skip out on the valuable information that is already out there?

The industry is teeming with experts, and many of them are ready to share their ideas, knowledge, and inspirations with willing minds. That is why plenty of stock market books have been written, covering a wide variety of topics within this massive industry. Some of them include:

  • History of the stock market
  • Crashes and what effects they had
  • Trading advice
  • How the market functions and fluctuates
  • Investor secrets to looking at the market

When considered more broadly, it’s clear that there is no limit to the number of topics that can be covered. All of those topics can provide something useful to you and I. Despite having thousands of books out there about the stock market, I still cannot possibly read them all.

Today, it would be ideal for us to rely on this list of the best stock market books as recommended by valuable members of the CEO Library community. These members have shared their talent through their recommendations.

Best Stock Market Books

The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work

The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work

The future of work is distributed. Automattic wrote the script. Time for rest of us to read it.
Om Malik
Founder/GigaOM
Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors

Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors

In addition to walking you through, in great detail, how a board functions, Brad has adopted many of the Lean Startup approaches to building, operating, and managing your board in a way that resembles continuous deployments. Any practitioner of Lean Startup would do well to use this approach to building their board.
Eric Ries
Founder/Long-Term Stock Exchange
Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job

Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job

Just as the The Lean Startup has become a must-read for founders, Entering StartUpLand should be required reading for any joiner. The book is a sweeping and insightful view into a startup's full range of operations and entry points. I highly recommend it.
Eric Ries
Founder/Long-Term Stock Exchange
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It

Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It

As someone who’s helped a small company become a huge, valuable company, I know firsthand the power of the startup ecosystem and entrepreneurship. This book is the definitive book on navigating VC as part of that.
Eric Schmidt
Ex-CEO/Google
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

This might feel like a weird book to include, but I think it presents another side of strategy that is too often forgotten. It’s not always about bold actors and strategic thrusts. Sometimes strategy is about subtle influence. Sometimes it is framing and small tweaks that change behavior. We can have big aims, but get there with little moves. This book has excellent examples of that kind of thinking and how it is changing politics, government and business. My favorite example is about the bumblebee that they started putting on urinals–which drastically reduced the amount of spray and spillage because it changed where men aimed when they peed. It’s not exactly the coolest strategy but it solved a problem. So we can learn from it.
Ryan Holiday
Founder/Brass Check
What You See Is What You Get: My Autobiography

What You See Is What You Get: My Autobiography

I'm currently reading a biography of Alan Sugar, a U.K. entrepreneur who created Amstrad from scratch. I'm trying to get my creative juices flowing on launching a new product and this very much sets that tone.

Scott Johnson
Freelance Software Engineer
Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

This book is amazing—it didn't change my mind, so much as it has changed the way I think. It helps to understand the difference between the way you make quick decisions, versus considered decisions—it takes different mechanisms in the brain. Understanding which you're doing at any given time can have a profound impact on what you ultimately decide.

John Lilly
Partner/Greylock Partners
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

A fantastic, proven formula for moving from idea to prototyping to decision making within five days, based on a process he developed while working at Google and later GV.
Eric Ries
Founder/Long-Term Stock Exchange
Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

A prominent whistleblower chronicles her experience fighting discrimination against women and people of color in tech.
Eric Ries
Founder/Long-Term Stock Exchange
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

This reads like a thriller, but is an urgent and important story about the dangers of Putin’s Russia and the events leading to the Magnitsky Act.
Eric Ries
Founder/Long-Term Stock Exchange
A Random Walk down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing

A Random Walk down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing

If you want to get into stock trading or in case you want to become an investor, then I definitely would recommend to read the book I already mentioned and in addition: A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel.
Michael Hebenstreit
Founder/MH Themes
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t

Anyone interested in politics may be attracted to Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don't. Silver is the New York Times columnist who got a lot of attention last fall for predicting—accurately, as it turned out–the results of the U.S. presidential election. This book actually came out before the election, though, and it’s about predictions in many domains besides politics. Silver knows a lot about baseball, and I especially liked his explanation of hold’em poker. A few pages – where he talks about how early computers supposedly made everything less efficient—are utter nonsense. I wish he had gone into more depth on some things, like why it is that voters are increasingly polarized. I liked the book, though I wish he’d gone deeper on a number of topics.
Bill Gates
CEO/Microsoft
The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams

The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World’s Greatest Teams

A fascinating book about the one thing that the greatest sports teams in history have in common and the critical aspects of leadership they share.
Eric Ries
Founder/Long-Term Stock Exchange
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

Kelly spent a record-breaking year in space and this book is a fascinating account of that time and what he learned about humanity and himself.
Eric Ries
Founder/Long-Term Stock Exchange
Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013

Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013

I already posted a full review of Tap Dancing to Work, a collection of writings about Warren Buffett put together by his friend Carol J. Loomis. I can’t resist an opportunity to recommend this book again. It's very, very good. The pieces go back more than 40 years some of them, and it’s very interesting to see how Warren framed things years ago and how he’s dealt with certain challenges since. You get to see how consistent Warren’s framework has been, how he has always looked at the world in terms of integrity and financial valuation. There are some speeches in here that offer great insights into how Warren evaluates stock markets over time and how to assess the margin of safety available in investments at any point in time. I thought the book was super good.
Bill Gates
CEO/Microsoft
The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio

The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio

Four Pillars has a good methodology for thinking about how to save and invest personally so definitely useful.
Bill Earner
Founder/Connect Ventures
If You're Not First, You're Last: Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition

If You’re Not First, You’re Last: Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition

Grant Cardone: The 10X Rule, Sell or Be Sold, If You're Not First You're Last and Be Obsessed or Be Average. Grant is the real deal. He helped me realize that I've been dreaming far too low!
Mark Struczewski
Host/The Mark Struczewski Podcast
Islamic Branding and Marketing: Creating A Global Islamic Business

Islamic Branding and Marketing: Creating A Global Islamic Business

The Islamic population of the world has been neglected by marketers in a totally unwarranted way for far too long. Paul Temporal knows the subject and knows the consumers. This masterful book fills a huge gap in the understanding of this 'last frontier' of marketing.
Miles Young
CEO/Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading

One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading

Not exactly a business related book but to me the concepts and lessons highlighted within are highly relatable in the business world such as the value of patience in striking at the right market timing and also reading the price tape which equates to understand the flow of the market your business is in in order to better deal with it and grow as a business.
Aviers Lim
CEO/Gashub
Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets

Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets

Question: What five books would you recommend to young people interested in your career path & why?

Answer:

I know this is sounds self-serving but I’d recommended both of my books, the soon to be released,
  • “Niche Down: How to Become Legendary by Being Different”
and
  • Harper Collins’ “instant classic,” “Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets”
In addition:
  • The Effective Executive, by Peter Drucker
  • The E-Myth, by Michael Gerber
  • Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
  • Back from the Dead, by Bill Walton
  • The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, by Al Ries and Jack Trout
Christopher Lochhead
Host/Legends and Losers Podcast

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