Robbing You Blind
       by Mark Dempsey
"Merrill Lynch's employees lied to clients"
Protecting Your Money from Wall Street's Hidden Costs and Half-Truths: Moneymaking Strategies for Today's Investor by Mark Dempsey. Once a high flyer at a major brokerage, he now says he succeeded only by cajoling clients into purchases that helped him meet sales goals" If the average investor only knew what really goes on behind the scenes with their money they'd think differently about having us manage it."

American Sucker
       by David Denby
In 2000, the bottom dropped out of David Denby's life when his wife announced she was leaving him. To make matters worse, it looked like he might lose their beloved apartment in the split. Determined to hold onto his home and seized by the "irrational exuberance" of the stock market, Denby joined the investment frenzy with a particular goal: to make $1 million in one year so he could buy out his wife's share of their home. Denby gathered courage from stock analysts, from the siren song of CNBC, and from tech gurus and lying CEOs at investment conferences. He befriended tech stars like ImClone founder Sam Waksal and Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodgett, both now disgraced in scandals. He plunged into a season of mania, swept forward on the currents of greed, hucksterism, and native American optimism that caught up so many in that era--with cataclysmic results. AMERICAN SUCKER is his account of those years of madness and then of recovered sanity, written with the rueful insight and bitter humor that only a wiser man could attain. What began as a money chase developed into an encounter with such eternal issues as envy, time, love, and death. With wit, warmth, and tough-minded candor, Denby explores not only his own motives and illusions, but the whole panoply of desire, greed, and willful blindness that consumed the nation.

Capital Ideas
       by Peter L. Bernstein
The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street by Peter L. Bernstein. When the 1974 recession hit Wall Street, investment professionals desperately turned to academia to help regain the value of their clients' holdings. Bernstein shows how Wall Street finally embraced the advences wrought in academic seminars and technical journals tht ultimately transformed the art of investing.

Against the Gods
       by Peter L. Bernstein
Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory.

Investment Management : Portfolio Diversification, Risk, and Timing - Fact and Fiction (Wiley Finance)
       by Robert L. Hagin
After more than forty years of investment research and practice, financial expert Robert Hagin has seen firsthand how misconceptions about investing have adversely affected the well-being of countless people. He knows that both amateur and professional investors alike are susceptible to making costly investment mistakes-primarily due to widely accepted investing "myths."

Winning the Loser's Game
       by Charles Ellis
A true financial classic, How to Win the Loser's Game over 55,000 copies sold in its previous two editions. Simple, straightforward, and concise, Ellis, one of today's most brilliant investment writers, provides timeless wisdom about the nature of investing.

Index Mutual Funds
       by W. Scott Simon
Simon explains how the "indexing revolution" came about and contrasts index investing with selecting individual stocks or relying on the fortunes of any particular fund manager or investment "guru." He also provides nuts-and-bolts details on how index funds work, and he spells out their advantages--less risk, minimal cost, and less emotional stress.

The Investor's Anthology, By Ellis & Vertin
This anthology brings together original writings from many of the biggest names in finance, including Warren Buffett, Barton Biggs, Benjamin Graham, John Templeton, and other luminaries who have helped shape the face of modern finance. Eternal wisdom about the financial markets, compiled by one of the most astute minds in the field. A must-read for the serious investor.--John C. Bogle, Chairman of The Vanguard Group

Investment Gurus, By Peter Tanous
At the heart of this book are Tanous's interviews with 18 top money managers and academics, including Mario Gabelli, William F. Sharpe, Peter Lynch, Laura J. Sloate, and Merton Miller. The book concludes with "Your Roadmap to Wealth," which summarizes the success factors common to each of the money managers interviewed and suggests ways to develop an "intelligent personal investment plan." - Howard Rothman