Recommendations you can check.
by Burton G. Malkiel, 1973
Who uses, recommends or left A Random Walk Down Wall Street, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
3 people
If you haven't heard the argument for passive indexing (or haven't heard it argued well), then A Random Walk Down Wall Street is the book for you.
Maggiulli’s annotated list of the 11 best investing books; the book links are Amazon affiliate links (tag=ofdollarsandd-20).
2023-06-29·ofdollarsanddata.com ↗
A fine intro to investing if you think you can reliably beat the market or that active trading is a good use of energy. If you're already bought in on index funds though, you won't find much here.
His book-notes index at nateliason.com/notes, where every book carries a star rating and his own one-line verdict; the index is undated (each book's own page prints only the date he finished reading it).
2021-12-01·nateliason.com ↗
I found his whole premise so preposterous.
A post, 'The Best Kind of Learning,' tracing which investing books shaped his thinking and naming his ten favorite investing books; original page now 404s on theirrelevantinvestor.com, quoted from the Wayback Machine snapshot; book links are amzn.to affiliate links. (undated page)
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.