Reading list · 11 books
Joel Greenblatt's reading list
Founder of Gotham Capital, longtime Columbia Business School adjunct professor, and author of "You Can Be a Stock Market Genius" and "The Little Book That Beats the Market." His value-investing reading recommendations are widely cited and overlap with the syllabus of his famed "Value and Special Situation Investing" course.
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01
Benjamin Graham
Named by Greenblatt among his all-time favorite investing books.
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02
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
Philip A. Fisher
One of Greenblatt's stated all-time favorites, balancing Graham's value lens with growth/quality.
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04
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre
Greenblatt names this trading classic among his all-time favorites.
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05
The New Contrarian Investment Strategy
David Dreman
Greenblatt admires it for teaching investors to distrust the market; Dreman's contrarian work also appears on his Columbia syllabus.
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06
Robert G. Hagstrom
Cited among Greenblatt's recommended/favorite investing reads.
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07
Seth Klarman
Recommended by Greenblatt as a classic on buying with a margin of safety.
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10
Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond
Bruce Greenwald
Required reading in Greenblatt's Columbia "Value and Special Situation Investing" course.
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11
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
Joel Greenblatt
His own book on special situations (spinoffs, bankruptcies, arbitrage), assigned in his Columbia course.
More on Joel Greenblatt's picks
Greenblatt has named a tight set of "all-time favorite" books in interviews and writings, and assigns a documented reading list in his Columbia course. He consistently returns to the Graham/Fisher/Buffett core plus contrarian and special-situation texts, several of which he praises for teaching investors to distrust the crowd.
