Joel Greenblatt's Book Recommendations
Joel Greenblatt is the founder and a Managing Partner of Gotham Capital and Adjunct Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. He is the author of You Can Be A Stock Market Genius (Simon & Schuster, 1997) and The Little Book That Beats the Market (Wiley, 2005). He is the former Chairman of the Board of Alliant Techsystems, an NYSE aerospace and defense firm. Greenblatt is also Chairman of the Success Charter Network, a network of charter schools in New York City.
Greenblatt is famous in the investment world for his long-term investment track record, which ranks among the best ever and is believed to comprise returns of some 40% per year for more than two decades.
The following are books listed on the syllabus of the value and special situation investing course Greenblatt teaches at Columbia Business School:
- Greenwald, Bruce, et al., Value Investing – "required"
- Haugen, Robert, The New Finance (4th edition) – "required"
- Greenblatt, Joel, You Can Be a Stock Market Genius – "required"
- Greenblatt, Joel, The Little Book That Beats the Market – "required"
- Cunningham, Larry, The Essays of Warren Buffett – "required"
- Hooke, Jeffrey, Security Analysis on Wall Street – "recommended"
- O’Shaughnessy, James, What Works on Wall Street – "recommended"
- Dreman, David, Contrarian Investment Strategies: Next Generation – "recommended"
- Graham, Ben, The Intelligent Investor – "recommended"
- Plus – selections from Ben Graham, Thornton O’Glove, Mary Buffett