Tyler Crowe

We have The Motley Fool Investing Guide, Rule Breakers, Rule Makers, and David Gardner also wrote a book recently, Rule Breaker Investing.

So there's lots of options in The Motley Fool universe already, but we're going to step away from that for a second and...

focus on some non-Motley Fool books.

I'll do mine first.

Mine is One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch.

I think for beginner investors, this is that one that gets you inspired to want to invest.

I remember the sensation I had after reading that book was, I wanted to run through a wall to invest in the market after reading about this book.

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He explains how using your expertise in whatever field you have before you got into investing can be an extremely valuable tool, and how you can use that as an example of making better decisions in how to invest in the market, and how he did it for several years running a fund called the Magellan Fund at Fidelity.

I've always been a big fan, too, of The Intelligent Investor, but I would also say that is probably not the one that is a first-time reader.

It's a little bit of a dry read, so keep that in mind.

Not to discount John's part, because he wasn't able to join us, but the book that he recommended was The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel.

Matt, what did you have?

Also, just a slight aside, I think Berkshire Hathaway's website is probably in a horse race with craigslist.org as the put me in a time capsule and send me back to the internet in 2005 in terms of web pages and graphics and stuff like that.

It is not the most updated site and kind of almost a nostalgia, which I think is a fun little site.

We've got the Berkshire Letters, we've got the psychology of money, and one up on Wall Street.

Three great options for somebody who's getting started in the investing world.

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