THE TRADER'S LIBRARY · 80 BOOKS RANKED
The Best Trading Books, Ranked
The 80 best trading books for 2026, independently reviewed and rated across Mind, Method and Money. Filter the top trading books by pillar, shelf, rating and difficulty to find your next read. Upcoming reviews show their publish date and unlock automatically.
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FROM THE AUTHOR
The Mind · Method · Money Trilogy
The three books by Louw van Riet that the framework behind this library is built on.
The Complete Trader's Edge70 chapters · Mind · Method · MoneyThe full framework this whole library is built on.View the book → 
Market Mayhem22 chapters · Market historyFour hundred years of bubbles, crashes and the pattern that keeps repeating.View the book → 
Greatest Companies51 chapters · Volume IIIFifty-one legendary businesses and the moats that compounded for decades.View the book →All 80 reviewed trading books
- Trading in the Zone — Mark Douglas (2000) · 9.5/10 · Mind pillar · Published
- Market Wizards — Jack D. Schwager (1989) · 9.0/10 · Mind pillar · Published
- Market Wizards: The Next Generation — Schwager & Coyle (2026) · 8.8/10 · Mind pillar · Published
- Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets — John J. Murphy (1986) · 8.5/10 · Method pillar · Published
- Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques — Steve Nison (1991) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Published
- Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom — Van K. Tharp (1998) · 9.0/10 · Money pillar · Published
- How to Make Money in Stocks — William J. O'Neil (1988) · 9.0/10 · Method pillar · Published
- Fooled by Randomness — Nassim N. Taleb (2001) · 9.0/10 · Mind pillar · Published
- The New Trading for a Living — Alexander Elder (2014) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Published
- The Disciplined Trader — Mark Douglas (1990) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Jul 28, 2026
- The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel (2020) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Aug 4, 2026
- The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham (1949) · 8.5/10 · Money pillar · Coming Aug 11, 2026
- The Black Swan — Nassim N. Taleb (2007) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Aug 18, 2026
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator — Edwin Lefevre (1923) · 9.0/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Aug 25, 2026
- Best Loser Wins — Tom Hougaard (2022) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Sep 1, 2026
- Mind Over Markets — James Dalton (1993) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Sep 8, 2026
- The New Market Wizards — Jack D. Schwager (1992) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Sep 15, 2026
- The Mental Game of Trading — Jared Tendler (2021) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Sep 22, 2026
- Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman (2011) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Sep 29, 2026
- Antifragile — Nassim N. Taleb (2012) · 8.5/10 · Money pillar · Coming Oct 6, 2026
- The Daily Trading Coach — Brett Steenbarger (2009) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Oct 13, 2026
- Trading Price Action: Trends — Al Brooks (2012) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Oct 20, 2026
- Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns — Thomas Bulkowski (2000) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Oct 27, 2026
- Think and Trade Like a Champion — Mark Minervini (2016) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Nov 3, 2026
- How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market — Nicolas Darvas (1960) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Nov 10, 2026
- Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets — Stan Weinstein (1988) · 8.5/10 · Method pillar · Coming Nov 17, 2026
- Mastering the Trade — John F. Carter (2005) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Nov 24, 2026
- Come Into My Trading Room — Alexander Elder (2002) · 8.5/10 · Money pillar · Coming Dec 1, 2026
- Unknown Market Wizards — Jack D. Schwager (2020) · 8.8/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Dec 8, 2026
- Stock Market Wizards — Jack D. Schwager (2001) · 8.3/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Dec 15, 2026
- Hedge Fund Market Wizards — Jack D. Schwager (2012) · 8.7/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Dec 22, 2026
- Pit Bull — Martin Schwartz (1998) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Dec 29, 2026
- The Complete TurtleTrader — Michael Covel (2007) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Jan 5, 2027
- Way of the Turtle — Curtis Faith (2007) · 8.3/10 · Method pillar · Coming Jan 12, 2027
- Trend Following — Michael Covel (2004) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Jan 19, 2027
- The Zurich Axioms — Max Gunther (1985) · 8.0/10 · Money pillar · Coming Jan 26, 2027
- One Up On Wall Street — Peter Lynch (1989) · 8.5/10 · Method pillar · Coming Feb 2, 2027
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits — Philip Fisher (1958) · 8.3/10 · Method pillar · Coming Feb 9, 2027
- The Most Important Thing — Howard Marks (2011) · 8.7/10 · Money pillar · Coming Feb 16, 2027
- Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charlie Munger (2005) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Feb 23, 2027
- Margin of Safety — Seth Klarman (1991) · 8.5/10 · Money pillar · Coming Mar 2, 2027
- The Little Book That Still Beats the Market — Joel Greenblatt (2010) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Mar 9, 2027
- The Dhandho Investor — Mohnish Pabrai (2007) · 8.0/10 · Money pillar · Coming Mar 16, 2027
- The Outsiders — William Thorndike (2012) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Mar 23, 2027
- When Genius Failed — Roger Lowenstein (2000) · 8.7/10 · Money pillar · Coming Mar 30, 2027
- Against the Gods — Peter L. Bernstein (1996) · 8.3/10 · Money pillar · Coming Apr 6, 2027
- Manias, Panics and Crashes — Charles Kindleberger (1978) · 8.0/10 · Money pillar · Coming Apr 13, 2027
- Liar's Poker — Michael Lewis (1989) · 8.0/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Apr 20, 2027
- The Big Short — Michael Lewis (2010) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Apr 27, 2027
- A Man for All Markets — Edward O. Thorp (2017) · 8.7/10 · Mind pillar · Coming May 4, 2027
- What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars — Jim Paul & Brendan Moynihan (1994) · 9.0/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Aug 29, 2026
- Thinking in Bets — Annie Duke (2018) · 8.8/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Sep 5, 2026
- The Hour Between Dog and Wolf — John Coates (2012) · 8.3/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Sep 6, 2026
- Trading Psychology 2.0 — Brett Steenbarger (2015) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Sep 12, 2026
- Enhancing Trader Performance — Brett Steenbarger (2006) · 8.0/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Sep 13, 2026
- Market Mind Games — Denise Shull (2012) · 7.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Sep 19, 2026
- The Art and Science of Technical Analysis — Adam Grimes (2012) · 8.8/10 · Method pillar · Coming Sep 20, 2026
- Technical Analysis of Stock Trends — Edwards & Magee (1948) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Sep 26, 2026
- Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar — Al Brooks (2009) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Sep 27, 2026
- Trading Price Action: Reversals — Al Brooks (2012) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Oct 3, 2026
- Markets in Profile — James Dalton (2007) · 7.8/10 · Method pillar · Coming Oct 4, 2026
- A Complete Guide to Volume Price Analysis — Anna Coulling (2013) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Oct 10, 2026
- Trades About to Happen — David Weis (2013) · 7.8/10 · Method pillar · Coming Oct 11, 2026
- Wyckoff 2.0 — Rubén Villahermosa (2021) · 7.8/10 · Method pillar · Coming Oct 17, 2026
- One Good Trade — Mike Bellafiore (2010) · 8.5/10 · Method pillar · Coming Oct 18, 2026
- High Probability Trading — Marcel Link (2003) · 8.3/10 · Method pillar · Coming Oct 24, 2026
- Trader Vic — Victor Sperandeo (1991) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Oct 25, 2026
- Option Volatility and Pricing — Sheldon Natenberg (1988) · 9.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Oct 31, 2026
- Options as a Strategic Investment — Lawrence G. McMillan (1980) · 8.3/10 · Method pillar · Coming Nov 1, 2026
- Trading Options Greeks — Dan Passarelli (2008) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Nov 7, 2026
- Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market — Kathy Lien (2005) · 7.5/10 · Method pillar · Coming Nov 8, 2026
- The Art of Currency Trading — Brent Donnelly (2019) · 8.7/10 · Method pillar · Coming Nov 14, 2026
- Alpha Trader — Brent Donnelly (2021) · 8.8/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Nov 15, 2026
- Forex Price Action Scalping — Bob Volman (2011) · 7.8/10 · Method pillar · Coming Nov 21, 2026
- Quantitative Trading — Ernest P. Chan (2008) · 8.0/10 · Method pillar · Coming Nov 22, 2026
- Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems — Kevin Davey (2014) · 8.3/10 · Method pillar · Coming Nov 28, 2026
- Advances in Financial Machine Learning — Marcos López de Prado (2018) · 8.5/10 · Method pillar · Coming Nov 29, 2026
- The Alchemy of Finance — George Soros (1987) · 8.3/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Dec 5, 2026
- The Man Who Solved the Market — Gregory Zuckerman (2019) · 8.5/10 · Mind pillar · Coming Dec 6, 2026
- The Misbehavior of Markets — Benoît Mandelbrot (2004) · 8.5/10 · Money pillar · Coming Dec 12, 2026
Keep Reading
The Complete Trader's Edge
The full Mind · Method · Money framework. 70 chapters.
View on Amazon →
Market Mayhem
400 years of bubbles, crashes, and the pattern that keeps repeating.
Buy on Amazon →
Greatest Companies
How the world's greatest companies were built — and what traders learn from them.
View on Amazon →
