For beginners
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The books catalogue
Investing and trading books worth reading — from your first stock to options, macro and exam prep — in English, Hindi and regional languages. We are not the seller and we do not set the price. When you buy through our link, the store may pay us a commission; it does not change what you pay.
Each book once, at one store
A book can be on sale at several stores and in several editions. We list it once and link to one store, named on every card. Editions are counted on the book's page.
When a store lets us show its price, the card shows it, with the printed price (MRP) struck through when it is higher. When it does not, the card shows the MRP and See today's price: the store shows the current price on its own page.
A shelf picked for you
The first time you open Books, four quick questions come up: what you want to get better at, where you are starting from, how you like to read (paperback, hardcover, audiobook or a 15-minute summary) and which languages you read. Your answers line up a Picked for you shelf.
- Skip closes the questions for good. A Personalise button stays on the page if you change your mind.
- Edit answers in the bar above the shelf changes them any time.
- Signed out, the answers stay in this browser. Signed in, they are saved to your account, so they follow you to other devices.
Finding a book
- Topic tiles jump straight into the catalogue for that topic.
- Search matches titles, authors and ideas ("margin of safety", "Greeks").
- Filters (a rail on a computer, a Filters button on a phone): topic, level, language, length, format, exam, store, price, and two switches — books made for Indian markets, and the classics.
- Sort: most popular, newest, price, shortest first, or best for you once you have answered the questions.
Every filter is in the page address, so a filtered list can be bookmarked or shared.
A book's page
The page leads with what decides a read: level, reading time, pages, language and year, then the key ideas, what you will learn, who it is best for and what to know first. Where there is one, an India note says what changes for an Indian reader.
Buy on opens the store in a new tab. Audiobook, summary and used-copy links, where a book has them, sit under More ways to read it. Every one of those links says which store it goes to and that we may earn a commission.
Nothing here is investment advice, and nothing you buy earns you anything back from us: the commission, where there is one, is ours.