{"id":202,"date":"2004-11-24T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2004-11-24T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-24T14:33:00","slug":"a-gauntlet-is-thrown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"A Gauntlet is Thrown"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis month’s Motley Fool’s Hidden Gems<\/em> newsletter throws down a gauntlet. Tom Gardner challenges us to read these 25 books to become a Junior Master. After a few people in the Hidden Gems community finish those, he will give us another 25, to become Senior Master, and then another 25 to be come a Grand Master.<\/p>\n

Well, I like a challenge. I also like investing. And I’m simply ga-ga over reading. So if it’s an investment reading challenge, well… there lies nirvana. <\/p>\n

Tom breaks them out in level of difficulty, and I’ve crossed out the ones I’ve knocked out previously. Hope the library is well stocked on this stuff.<\/p>\n

Elementary School<\/b>
\nOne Up on Wall Street<\/i>, by Peter Lynch
\nBuffett: The Making of an American Capitalist<\/i>, by Roger Lowenstein<\/strike>
\nValue Investing With the Masters<\/i>, by Kirk Kazanjian
\nThe Davis Dynasty<\/i>, by John Rothchild
\nValuegrowth Investing<\/i>, by Glen Arnold<\/p>\n

Junior High<\/b>
\nThe 5 Keys to Value Investing<\/i>, by J. Dennis Jean-Jacques
\nBeating the Street<\/i>, by Peter Lynch
\nInvestment Fables<\/i>, by Aswath Damodaran
\nThe Vest Pocket Guide to Value Investing<\/i>, by C. Thomas Howard
\nCommon Stocks and Uncommon Profits<\/i>, by Philip Fisher<\/strike> <\/p>\n

High School<\/b>
\nMade in America<\/i>, by Sam Walton
\nForbes\u2019 Greatest Investing Stories<\/i>, by Richard Phalon
\nJohn Neff on Investing<\/i>, by John Neff
\nThe Intelligent Investor<\/i>, by Benjamin Graham<\/strike>
\nThe Money Masters<\/i>, by John Train<\/p>\n

University<\/b>
\nStocks for the Long Run<\/i>, by Jeremy Siegel
\nQuality of Earnings<\/i>, by Thornton Oglove
\nInvesting in Small-Cap Stocks<\/i>, by Christopher Graja and Elizabeth Ungar
\nThe Book of Investing Wisdom<\/i>, by Peter Krass
\nYou Can Be a Stock Market Genius<\/i>, by Joel Greenblatt<\/p>\n

Grad School<\/b>
\nBreak Up!<\/i>, by Campbell, Koch & Sadtler
\nInvestment Gurus<\/i>, by Peter Tanous
\nValue Investing: A Balanced Approach<\/i>, by Martin Whitman
\nValue Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond<\/i>, by Bruce Greenwald
\nThe Road to Serfdom<\/i>, by F.A. Hayek<\/p>\n

I considered skipping the Walmart guy’s book, but hey… it’s best to learn how your enemy thinks.<\/p>\n

Gotta go add some stuff to my Amazon Wish List…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}