Books Bought By Big Picture Readers (August 2011)

September 5, 2011 4:30pm by Barry Ritholtz

I always find it interesting to see what books TBP readers are buying. In addition to throwing off a few shekels, the Amazon code embedded in links lets me track your collective purchases. Its anonymous — I don’t know who bought what — but I can tell what everyone who clicked on a given book bought.

These are the most popular books purchased in August:

A Gift to My Children: A Father’s Lessons for Life and Investing (Jim Rogers)

Bailout Nation (Barry Ritholtz)

Contrarian Investment Strategies (David Dreman)

Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything (John Mauldin)

Go the F**k to Sleep (Adam Mansbach)

Why We Eat More Than We Think (Brian Wansink)

Speculative Contagion: An Antidote for Speculative Epidemics (Frank K. Martin)

Stumbling on Happiness (Daniel Gilbert)

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis)

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Charles P. Kindleberger)

The Little Book of Value Investing (Christopher H. Browne)

Fiscal Hangover: How to Profit From The New Global Economy (Keith Fitz-Gerald)

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street (Justin Fox)

The Tao of Pooh (Benjamin Hoff)

Trend Commandments: Trading for Exceptional Returns (Michael W. Covel)

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