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1.		The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable from Penguin Price: £5.29 Customer Review: Reading these reviews leads me immediately to the realisation that this work may possibly be little better than plagiarism. Siméon-Denis Poisson first examined the statistical modelling of low-probability events in 1838, within a much wider corpus of scientific research in pure and applied... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: £7.99 Customer Review: When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change Mohamed El Erian has spent many years involved in the emerging markets and this book gives a very valuable insight into the impact that these markets are having on the financial landscape and how to capitalize on... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £12.49 Customer Review: I recently re-read Roger Lowenstein's biography, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (first published in 1995 and now re-issued with a new Afterword), and then read this more recent one by Alice Schroeder. Both are first-rate. Which to select if reading only one? That depends on how... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash from PublicAffairs Customer Review: If you are buying any other books, or reading any other articles on the recent "credit crunch", you should seriously consider getting this book too. The writer is a lawyer, and in very precise plain clear language, describes how each of the new types of financial instrument, from "put" to "synthetic... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Investors and Managers, Revised Edition from John Wiley & Sons Price: £8.05 Customer Review: Warren Buffett's insights are invaluable in any context, so this is no exception, hence the high rating. Here are essentially what seems to be some pretty old letters (1980s?) to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway essentially cut and pasted into a book. Useful no doubt, plentiful Buffett words... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World from Penguin Price: £6.14 Customer Review: This book has been the best book I have ever read its been hard to put down, it has such a huge range as Alan Greenspan was fed Chairman 5 times the stories he tells are very interesting and would suit anyone interested in politics or finance.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets from Penguin Price: £6.49 Customer Review: The book offers a better perception of randomness and its effect on our lives mostly using stock market examples. Easy to read for the non-expert in probability or statistics it offers a stochastic view on the world which we perceive to be much more deterministic than it is (mostly by confusing the... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		The Great Crash, 1929 (Penguin business) from Penguin Price: £6.99 Customer Review: John Kenneth Galbraith's classic study of the 1929 Wall Street crash is an exhilarating read. Galbraith combines a fluent, witty style with a detailed breakdown of the build up to disaster, It is interesting to note how most of the experts - journalists, academics, businessmen, bankers and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market (Wiley Investment Classics (Paperback)) from John Wiley & Sons Price: £9.77 Customer Review: Probably this book went way over my head. The one insight I think I got from it was that during the tech boom, many of the new products were appearing, not because of some fundamental increase in the rate of innovation brought on by the Web, but because of all the money pouring into startups... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		The Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future from The Bodley Head Ltd Price: £9.09 Customer Review: This is one of those books that preaches to the converted. There are many unspoken assumptions used within the books (commerce = bad, risk=bad, regulation=good, profit=evil). If you agree with them it's fine, but you can see some significant examples of double standards in terms of challenging... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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