Finance Books.
Reviewed plainly.

Finance books come in all flavours — some skim the surface with catchy ideas, others dive so deep they lose the practical reader along the way. A few are perfect for a casual weekend read; others are grounded in rigorous academic research and real-world data. Popularity, much like on social media, is not a reliable indicator of meaningful financial insight. With globally recognised accounting and finance qualifications and over two decades of experience in corporate finance, I approach each book with a critical eye — cutting through the noise to separate enduring wisdom from passing trends, so you do not have to.

Value Investing · Wealth Preservation · Behavioural Finance The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham Worth Reading The most important investing philosophy book ever written, and one of the most frequently misread. Essential on wealth preservation and behavioural discipline. Dangerous if you finish it feeling ready to pick stocks. Read the review → Market Efficiency · Index Investing · Portfolio Theory A Random Walk Down Wall Street Burton G. Malkiel Worth Reading An intermediate classic from someone who has worked in both academia and real-world investing. Rigorous on EMH and MPT. His dislike of technical analysis is correct and well-argued. Requires basic statistical fluency to appreciate fully. Not a primer. Read the review → Personal Finance · India · Beginner Let's Talk Money Monika Halan Beginners Only The most India-specific personal finance primer available. Renames established ideas as proprietary frameworks and relies entirely on heuristics. Read it if you know nothing about money. Put it down once you do. Read the review → Stock Picking · Equity Investing · Individual Investor One Up On Wall Street Peter Lynch Worth Reading One of the greatest fund managers who ever lived, writing about what he actually did. The frameworks are timeless. Some of the specific strategies have not aged as well as the wisdom. Read it critically, not reverentially. Read the review → Behavioural Finance · Personal Finance The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel Read Selectively Good for someone starting out. Thin on rigour for anyone who has thought seriously about money. Housel is a gifted writer who has produced a useful primer. He is not a practitioner and the book reflects that — which is not always a problem, until it is. Read the review →