A monthly post looking at what books Abnormal Returns readers purchased at Amazon in the prior month is a great way to scan the month’s most popular finance and investing books. This month we ran Q&As with the author of Millennial Money and Deep Value. Here are the books (combined print and Kindle) that our readers purchased most often during October 2014:
The Top 10
- Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
- It’s Not All About “Me”: The Top Ten Techniques for Building Quick Rapport with Anyone by Robin Dreeke
- Statistics Topics by Salil Mehta
- Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci
- Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune by Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The 5 Secrets To Highly Profitable Swing Trading by Ivaylo Ivanov
- Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions by Gerd Gigerenzer
- Abnormal Returns: Winning Strategies from the Frontlines of the Investment Blogosphere by Tadas Viskanta
- Quantitative Value: A Practitioner’s Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors by Tobias Carlisle and Wesley Gray
- Why Don’t We Learn from History? by B. H. Liddell Hart
The Next 10
- Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone
- Rational Expectations: Asset Allocation for Investing Adults by William Bernstein
- Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations by Tobias Carlisle
- If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly by William Bernstein
- Location Is (Still) Everything: The Surprising Influence of the Real World on How We Search, Shop, and Sell in the Virtual One by David R. Bell
- Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody by William Poundstone
- How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
- 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story by Dan Harris
- Reducing the Risk of Black Swans: Using the Science of Investing to Capture Returns With Less Volatility by Larry Swedroe
- The Little Book of Venture Capital Investing: Empowering Economic Growth and Investment Portfolios by Louis C. Gerken
Thanks again to everyone who purchased a copy of my book or any other book (or item) during the month. Keep an eye on this space for more book news.