A monthly post looking at what books Abnormal Returns readers purchased at Amazon in the prior month has become very popular with our readers. A number of the books on the list were the subject of one our Amazon Money and Markets blog posts. A couple of nice reviews pushed our book back to the top of the list this month which was a very pleasant surprise. Below are the books (combined print and Kindle) that our readers purchased for January 2013:
The Top Ten
- Abnormal Returns: Winning Strategies from the Frontlines of the Investment Blogosphere by Tadas Viskanta
- Skating Where the Puck Was: The Correlation Game in a Flat World by William J. Bernstein
- The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing by Michael J. Mauboussin
- The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable by James Owen Weatherall
- Quantitative Value: A Practitioner’s Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Error by Wesley Gray and Tobias Carlisle
- Market Sense and Nonsense: How the Markets Really Work (and How They Don’t) by Jack Schwager
- The Ages of the Investor: A Critical Look at Life-Cycle Investing by William J. Bernstein
- The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money by Carl Richards
- Hedge Fund Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
- The Missing Risk Premium: Why Low Volatility Investing Works by Eric Falkenstein
The Next Ten
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t by Nate Silver
- Post Modern Investment: Facts and Fallacies of Growing Wealth in a Multi-Asset World by Garry B. Crowder
- Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition by Michael J. Mauboussin
- Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders by Curtis Faith
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Backstage Wall Street: An Insider’s Guide to Knowing Who to Trust, Who to Run From, and How to Maximize Your Investments by Joshua Brown
- Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry by Helaine Olen
- The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well by Camille Sweeney
- The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? by Seth Godin
- The Trend Following Bible: How Professional Traders Compound Wealth and Manage Risk by Andrew Abraham
Thanks again to everyone who purchased a copy of my book or any other book (or item) during the month. Did you find something interesting to read this month? If so, leave a comment to give every one a head’s up.