{"format":"alysly-page/1","url":"https://alysly.com/learn/books/investing/","json":"https://alysly.com/json/learn/books/investing/index.json","lang":"en-US","title":"Investing Books: Value Investing, Index Funds and Position Sizing","description":"Books on building and holding a portfolio: Graham and Buffett, Bogle's index arithmetic, position sizing and the credit markets.","modified":"2026-11-13T00:00:00Z","about":"Machine-readable version of the page at url. It contains the text, tables and key figures published there, but not the interactive charts and tools.","breadcrumb":[{"name":"Learn","url":"https://alysly.com/learn/"},{"name":"Books","url":"https://alysly.com/learn/books/"},{"name":"Investing & Portfolio","url":"https://alysly.com/learn/books/investing/"}],"content":[{"type":"heading","level":1,"text":"Investing Books: Value Investing, Index Funds and Position Sizing"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Investing books split along one question: try to be right about individual companies, or accept the market's average return? The second camp spends its effort on cost, allocation and staying invested. Graham, Buffett and the credit titles below answer the first way; Bogle and Collins answer the second. Both answers are defensible. Reading them in sequence is what makes the difference clear — reading only one leaves you with a conviction instead of a choice."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Underneath both sits a question neither camp spends much time on: how much of your wealth belongs in the risky asset at all. That is what the sizing book in this group is for, and it is the one most readers here skip. Each entry says what the book assumes you already know, and where its arithmetic or its tax chapters have aged."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The purchase links on this page are Amazon affiliate links: as an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, and the price is the same for you either way. Which titles appear here, and what is written about them, does not depend on it. The links open Amazon's German store in English — that is the marketplace our affiliate account belongs to."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"11 titles, 9 of them with our own assessment."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Every assessed title carries a rating from 3 to 5 points. The scale starts at 3: books we consider weak are not listed here. Five points are awarded by hand to titles that hold up over years; the strongest of those are marked as an Alysly Book Pick. The order on this page follows our internal ranking across all 29 titles."},{"type":"image","src":"https://alysly.com/img/books/en/the-intelligent-investor-rev-ed.webp","alt":"Book cover: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Alysly Book Pick"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Read and recommended by Alexander Bock (Founder of Alysly.com)","links":[{"text":"Alexander Bock","href":"https://alysly.com/about/"}]},{"type":"heading","level":2,"text":"The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Definitive Book on Value Investing — A Timeless Investment Strategy for Navigating the Stock Market and Mastering Finance"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"5/5 · rank 1 of 29"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig · 2003 · HarperBusiness · Paperback · ISBN 9780061745171"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Graham's 1949 classic with Jason Zweig's chapter-by-chapter commentary, and the commentary is half the reason to buy this edition rather than an older one. What lasts: margin of safety, the line between investor and speculator, Mr. Market, and a defensive policy that assumes you will sometimes be wrong. The screening criteria are dated and the prose is heavy going. Read it once for the frame of mind, and take the modern arithmetic of fund costs from Bogle instead."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"View on Amazon Affiliate link","links":[{"text":"View on Amazon","href":"https://www.amazon.de/s?k=ISBN+9780061745171&language=en_US&tag=alysly-21"}]},{"type":"image","src":"https://alysly.com/img/books/en/the-essays-of-warren-buffett-8th-ed.webp","alt":"Book cover: The Essays of Warren Buffett — 8th ed."},{"type":"heading","level":2,"text":"The Essays of Warren Buffett — 8th ed."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Lessons for Corporate America"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"4/5 · rank 12 of 29"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett · 2024 · Carolina Academic Press · Paperback · 352 pages · ISBN 9780966446142"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Buffett's shareholder letters cut apart and rearranged by subject (governance, accounting, mergers, valuation, taxes), with Cunningham's connective essays. Reading them by theme instead of year by year is what makes the collection worth owning. The same principles turn up in different decades and very different market weather. It is not a manual for picking stocks and does not pretend to be. Best read after Graham, once you know what a margin of safety is and want to watch it applied."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"View on Amazon Affiliate link","links":[{"text":"View on Amazon","href":"https://www.amazon.de/s?k=ISBN+9780966446142&language=en_US&tag=alysly-21"}]},{"type":"image","src":"https://alysly.com/img/books/en/the-simple-path-to-wealth.webp","alt":"Book cover: The Simple Path to Wealth"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"text":"The Simple Path to Wealth"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"4/5 · rank 15 of 29"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"JL Collins · 2025 · First Draft · 289 pages · ISBN 9798893310474"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Collins turned letters to his daughter into the clearest statement of the index-and-forget approach. His rules: spend less than you earn, avoid debt and hold one broad stock index while accumulating. Bonds come in toward the end, and crashes are the price of the return. This edition refreshes the numbers and fund examples. It is dogmatic about American funds and about a single allocation. Read it after Bogle if you want the same argument in a lived, unhedged voice."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"View on Amazon Affiliate link","links":[{"text":"View on Amazon","href":"https://www.amazon.de/s?k=ISBN+9798893310474&language=en_US&tag=alysly-21"}]},{"type":"image","src":"https://alysly.com/img/books/en/private-debt.webp","alt":"Book cover: Private Debt"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"text":"Private Debt"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Yield, Safety and the Emergence of Alternative Lending"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"4/5 · rank 17 of 29"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Stephen L. Nesbitt · 2023 · John Wiley & Sons · Hardcover · ISBN 9781119944393"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"An institutional survey of direct lending: who lends when banks will not and how those loans are structured and priced. It also covers what default and recovery data show and how the asset class behaved through recent cycles. Nesbitt writes from the allocator's seat, so the weight falls on returns net of fees and on picking managers. Dry and data-heavy. Its use for a private investor is as a yardstick against the private-credit funds now being marketed to retail buyers."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"View on Amazon Affiliate link","links":[{"text":"View on Amazon","href":"https://www.amazon.de/s?k=ISBN+9781119944393&language=en_US&tag=alysly-21"}]},{"type":"image","src":"https://alysly.com/img/books/en/the-credit-investor-s-handbook.webp","alt":"Book cover: The Credit Investor's Handbook"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"text":"The Credit Investor's Handbook"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Leveraged Loans, High Yield Bonds, and Distressed Debt"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"4/5 · rank 19 of 29"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Michael Gatto · 2023 · John Wiley & Sons · Hardcover · ISBN 9781394196050"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"A practitioner's course in corporate credit: leveraged loans, high-yield bonds and distressed debt. It covers the credit agreement, covenants, capital structure, recovery analysis and how a restructuring actually proceeds. Written by someone who has sat on the creditor side of the table and now teaches the material. This is professional literature and assumes you can read a balance sheet and a term sheet. It is also the best available look at the market that sits between equities and government bonds."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"View on Amazon Affiliate link","links":[{"text":"View on Amazon","href":"https://www.amazon.de/s?k=ISBN+9781394196050&language=en_US&tag=alysly-21"}]},{"type":"image","src":"https://alysly.com/img/books/en/the-missing-billionaires.webp","alt":"Book cover: The Missing Billionaires"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"text":"The Missing Billionaires"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"A Guide to Better Financial Decisions"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"4/5 · rank 20 of 29"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Victor Haghani, James White · 2023 · John Wiley & Sons · Hardcover · ISBN 9781119747918"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"A book about position size rather than security selection: how much of your wealth belongs in a risky asset. More large fortunes, it argues, were lost by answering that badly than by picking badly. It builds from expected utility to a usable sizing rule, with the authors' own history at Long-Term Capital Management in the background. It asks for comfort with probability and arithmetic. For anyone who already indexes and wonders how much risk to carry, it is the most useful book on this page."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"View on Amazon Affiliate link","links":[{"text":"View on Amazon","href":"https://www.amazon.de/s?k=ISBN+9781119747918&language=en_US&tag=alysly-21"}]},{"type":"image","src":"https://alysly.com/img/books/en/the-little-book-of-common-sense-investing.webp","alt":"Book cover: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"text":"The Little Book of Common Sense Investing"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"4/5 · rank 23 of 29"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"John C. Bogle · 2017 · John Wiley & Sons · Hardcover · ISBN 9781119404507"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Bogle's case for owning the entire market at the lowest available cost, made in under three hundred pages. His arithmetic is easy to check: subtract fees, turnover and taxes from the market return, and the average active investor keeps less than the average. The tenth-anniversary edition updates the data. It repeats itself, and its fund and tax specifics are American. Even so, it is the shortest honest route from “I should invest” to a portfolio policy you can hold."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"View on Amazon Affiliate link","links":[{"text":"View on Amazon","href":"https://www.amazon.de/s?k=ISBN+9781119404507&language=en_US&tag=alysly-21"}]},{"type":"image","src":"https://alysly.com/img/books/en/investing-101.webp","alt":"Book cover: Investing 101"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"text":"Investing 101"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"From Stocks and Bonds to ETFs and IPOs, an Essential Primer on Building a Profitable Portfolio"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"4/5 · rank 25 of 29"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Michele Cagan · 2015 · Adams Media · Hardcover · ISBN 9781440595134"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"A plain-language primer that runs from what a share is through bonds, funds, ETFs, IPOs, brokerage accounts and basic portfolio construction. The short entries can be read in any order. Its job is vocabulary, and it does that job well for a complete beginner. It is broad rather than deep, American on taxes and account types, and it will not tell you what to do with your own money. Move on to Bogle or Collins once the words stop being unfamiliar."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"View on Amazon Affiliate link","links":[{"text":"View on Amazon","href":"https://www.amazon.de/s?k=ISBN+9781440595134&language=en_US&tag=alysly-21"}]},{"type":"image","src":"https://alysly.com/img/books/en/how-to-invest-50-5-000.webp","alt":"Book cover: How to Invest $50-$5,000"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"text":"How to Invest $50-$5,000"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Small Investor's Step-by-Step Plan for Low-Risk Investing in Today's Economy"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"3/5 · rank 26 of 29"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Nancy Dunnan · 2010 · Harper · Paperback · 239 pages · ISBN 9780061935169"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Written for the investor with a small sum and no adviser. It covers savings vehicles, certificates of deposit, bond ladders, dividend reinvestment plans, a first fund purchase and how to keep costs from eating a small balance. The step-by-step structure is the strength. The calendar is the weakness. This tenth edition predates zero-commission brokers and today's range of ETFs, so product names and rates read as history. The framework holds up; every specific number in it needs checking."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"View on Amazon Affiliate link","links":[{"text":"View on Amazon","href":"https://www.amazon.de/s?k=ISBN+9780061935169&language=en_US&tag=alysly-21"}]},{"type":"heading","level":2,"text":"Further Titles in This Group"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These books belong to the topic but are not assessed here: either they have not been published yet or we have no dependable basis for a judgment, and a description that only paraphrases the subtitle would be filler rather than an assessment. They are listed with their facts and a purchase link. Their point score follows the facts alone — printings, extent, year — and does not stand in for a read assessment, which is why it is not marked up as a review."},{"type":"list","ordered":false,"items":[{"id":"profit-from-the-profit","text":"Profit from the Profit — The Past, Present & Future of Dividend Growth Investing David L. Bahnsen · due August 25, 2026 · Post Hill Press · 208 pages · ISBN 9798895652305 · view on Amazon (affiliate link)","links":[{"text":"view on Amazon","href":"https://www.amazon.de/s?k=ISBN+9798895652305&language=en_US&tag=alysly-21"}]},{"id":"real-wealth","text":"Real Wealth — Make Money Work for You Tyler Gardner · due December 1, 2026 · W. W. Norton & Company · 288 pages · ISBN 9781324124412 · view on Amazon (affiliate link)","links":[{"text":"view on Amazon","href":"https://www.amazon.de/s?k=ISBN+9781324124412&language=en_US&tag=alysly-21"}]}]},{"type":"heading","level":2,"text":"Related Pages on Alysly"},{"type":"list","ordered":false,"items":[{"text":"Compare ETFs by real cost, size and holdings","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/"},{"text":"Stock prices, valuation and fundamentals","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/"},{"text":"Calculators for savings plans, withdrawals and portfolios","href":"https://alysly.com/tools/"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 1","href":"#dn-1"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Updated Nov 13, 2026"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"id":"note-legend-h","text":"Data Notes"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"All calculations run automatically and are not investment advice."},{"type":"list","ordered":true,"items":[{"id":"dn-1","text":"Title, author, publisher, extent and format are checked against at least one independent source per book. Assessments are written in-house, not taken from any blurb; purchase links are Amazon affiliate links."}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data and methodology: Alysly · Responsible for content: Alexander Bock","links":[{"text":"Alysly","href":"https://alysly.com/methodology/"},{"text":"Alexander Bock","href":"https://alysly.com/about/"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"View all data notes","href":"https://alysly.com/notes/"}],"structured_data":[{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://alysly.com/#org","name":"Alysly","url":"https://alysly.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://alysly.com/img/icon-512.png","width":512,"height":512},"description":"Free analysis tools for traders and long-term investors. 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Its use for a private investor is as a yardstick against the private-credit funds now being marketed to retail buyers.","url":"https://alysly.com/learn/books/investing/#private-debt","inLanguage":"en","author":{"@id":"https://alysly.com/#org"},"publisher":{"@id":"https://alysly.com/#org"},"reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":4,"bestRating":5,"worstRating":1}},"inLanguage":"en"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"Book","name":"The Credit Investor's Handbook","url":"https://alysly.com/learn/books/investing/#the-credit-investor-s-handbook","isbn":"9781394196050","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Michael Gatto"}],"bookFormat":"https://schema.org/Hardcover","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"John Wiley & Sons"},"datePublished":"2023","image":"https://alysly.com/img/books/en/the-credit-investor-s-handbook.webp","review":{"@type":"Review","name":"Alysly's assessment: The Credit Investor's Handbook","reviewBody":"A practitioner's course in corporate credit: leveraged loans, high-yield bonds and distressed debt. 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The short entries can be read in any order. Its job is vocabulary, and it does that job well for a complete beginner. It is broad rather than deep, American on taxes and account types, and it will not tell you what to do with your own money. Move on to Bogle or Collins once the words stop being unfamiliar.","url":"https://alysly.com/learn/books/investing/#investing-101","inLanguage":"en","author":{"@id":"https://alysly.com/#org"},"publisher":{"@id":"https://alysly.com/#org"},"reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":4,"bestRating":5,"worstRating":1}},"inLanguage":"en"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"item":{"@type":"Book","name":"How to Invest $50-$5,000","url":"https://alysly.com/learn/books/investing/#how-to-invest-50-5-000","isbn":"9780061935169","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nancy Dunnan"}],"bookFormat":"https://schema.org/Paperback","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Harper"},"datePublished":"2010","numberOfPages":239,"image":"https://alysly.com/img/books/en/how-to-invest-50-5-000.webp","review":{"@type":"Review","name":"Alysly's assessment: How to Invest $50-$5,000","reviewBody":"Written for the investor with a small sum and no adviser. It covers savings vehicles, certificates of deposit, bond ladders, dividend reinvestment plans, a first fund purchase and how to keep costs from eating a small balance. The step-by-step structure is the strength. The calendar is the weakness. This tenth edition predates zero-commission brokers and today's range of ETFs, so product names and rates read as history. The framework holds up; every specific number in it needs checking.","url":"https://alysly.com/learn/books/investing/#how-to-invest-50-5-000","inLanguage":"en","author":{"@id":"https://alysly.com/#org"},"publisher":{"@id":"https://alysly.com/#org"},"reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":3,"bestRating":5,"worstRating":1}},"inLanguage":"en"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"item":{"@type":"Book","name":"Profit from the Profit","url":"https://alysly.com/learn/books/investing/#profit-from-the-profit","isbn":"9798895652305","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David L. Bahnsen"}],"bookFormat":"https://schema.org/Hardcover","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Post Hill Press"},"datePublished":"2026","numberOfPages":208,"image":"https://alysly.com/img/books/en/profit-from-the-profit.webp","inLanguage":"en"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":11,"item":{"@type":"Book","name":"Real Wealth","url":"https://alysly.com/learn/books/investing/#real-wealth","isbn":"9781324124412","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tyler Gardner"}],"bookFormat":"https://schema.org/Hardcover","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"W. W. Norton & Company"},"datePublished":"2026","numberOfPages":288,"image":"https://alysly.com/img/books/en/real-wealth.webp","inLanguage":"en"}}]}],"notice":"© 2026 Alysly.com"}