Jason Zweig
Wall Street Journal investing columnist and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World by Liaquat Ahamed
Ahamed, the banker and investment manager whose previous book Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World covered the crash of 1929, writes well.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
A Fabulous Debt by Robin Wigglesworth
Yes, a book about the history of the bond market can be entertaining and enlightening.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices by Baruch Fischhoff
His narrative of the development of decision-making research over the past half-century is rich with personal anecdotes, gentle humor, continuous learning, and profound humility about how prone we all are to misjudge and misunderstand risks.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
Glorious Country by Victoria Johnson
I loved this historical biography of America's greatest landscape painter, and not just because I have an intense personal interest in Church. Johnson's writing is luminously beautiful, her assiduous research never impedes the narrative, and the illustrations are spectacular.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
How NOT to Invest by Barry Ritholtz
Ritholtz does exactly that, running through such surefire ways to wreck your wealth as ignoring taxes, paying excessive fees, misinterpreting data, overreacting to short-term trends, and trading too much.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
How to Get Rich in American History by Joseph Moore
I learned a lot and LOL'd a lot reading this book. I also disagreed with it a lot.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
In Fortune's Theater by Nicholas Scott Baker
Baker meticulously traces these changes as they materialized in art, literature, and the ledgers and letters of Italian merchants.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
Money and Me by Jonathan Clements
In simple, crystalline prose, Clements shares a lifetime of wisdom on using money to buy happiness, counteracting the behavioral quirks that bedevil our financial decisions, and making family and friends an integral part of our wealth.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
Risk & Reward by Ben Carlson
Carlson, author of the aptly named blog A Wealth of Common Sense, brings a similar approach to this book. While much of it might seem familiar to sophisticated readers, Carlson's clean and clear use of data — both in charts and text — makes basic points memorable.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
Stay Calm: Learn to Embrace Uncertainty in Investing and Life by David Booth
It might have worked even better as two separate books, rather than as one short book trying to do two things. But Booth's writing is soothing, and his overall message — investing is simply a bet on human innovation and progress — is a truism worth repeating. Young people, in particular, might benefit from reading it.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel
Housel, the author of The Psychology of Money, a book I wish I'd written, has written another book I wish I'd written.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
The Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote some of the most beautiful prose in the English language.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
The Madness of Markets by Alex Edmans
Edmans summarizes the field of behavioral finance research with a refreshingly light touch.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest by Edward Chancellor
Couple this book with Edward Chancellor's also excellent The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest, published in 2022, and you can learn most of what you need to think intelligently about bonds.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Housel, the author of The Psychology of Money, a book I wish I'd written, has written another book I wish I'd written.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
The Wealth Ladder by Nick Maggiulli
He develops simple, clever, quantitative rules of thumb to guide saving, spending, and investing as you progress through different levels of wealth.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
Wrong Number by Aaron Brown
Following along as he picks data fallacies apart is a lot of fun, and I can't wait to read the whole book.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
Your Money: Reimagining Wealth in 101 Simple Sketches by Carl Richards
His sketches are often little more than scribbled boxes, circles, and arrows, but many will make you smile, some will make you laugh, and all will make you think.
on jasonzweig.com · 14 Jul 2026
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