With the holidays fast approaching, I'm often asked which books I recommend for either gifts or for reading while traveling. So, like last year, I recently compiled a list of the top 100 most influential books I've read:

• A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics by John L. Person



 

• A Short Course in Technical Trading by Perry J. Kaufman



 

• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein



 

• Beating the Street by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild



 

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell



 

• Bollinger on Bollinger Bands by John A. Bollinger



 

• China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future by James Kynge



 

• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher



 

• Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation by David Dreman



 

• Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years by Robert G. Allen



 

• Dave Landry on Swing Trading by Dave Landry



 

• Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns by Thomas Bulkowski



 

• Enhancing Trader Performance by Brett N. Steenbarger



 

• Entries and Exits: Visits to 16 Trading Rooms by Dr. Alexander Elder



 

• Evidence-Based Technical Analysis by David R. Aronson



 

• Financial Fine Print: Uncovering a Company's True Value by Michelle Leder



 

• Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading by Van K. Tharp



 

• Financial Shenanigans: Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud by Howard M. Schilit



 

• Fire Your Stock Analyst by Harry Domash



 

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance by Nassim Nicholas Taleb



 

• Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone



 

• Four Steps to Trading Success by John F. Clayburg



 

• Getting Started in Chart Patterns by Thomas Bulkowski



 

• Getting Things Done by David Allen



 

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins



 

• Hedge Fund Masters by Ari Kiev



 

• Hedgehogging by Barton Biggs



 

• High Probability Trading by Marcel Link



 

• Hot Commodities by Jim Rogers



 

• How Charts Can Help You in the Stock Market by William L. Jiler



 

• How I Made 2,000,000 in the Stock Market by Nicolas Darvas



 

• How to Buy Stocks by Louis Engel



 

• Inside the House of Money by Steven Drobny



 

• Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationshipsby John J. Murphy



 

• Investing with Exchange-Traded Funds Made Easy by Marvin Appel



 

• It's When You Sell That Counts by Donald L. Cassidy



 

• Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques by Steve Nison



 

• John Neff on Investing by John Neff



 

• Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis



 

• Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager



 

• Mastering the Trade by John F. Carter



 

• Methods of a Wall Street Master by Vic Sperandeo



 

• New Market Timing Techniques by Thomas R. DeMark



 

• Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham



 

• Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies by Sheldon Natenberg



 

• Options for the Stock Investor by James B. Bittman



 

• Options, Futures and Other Derivatives by John C. Hull



 

• Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Day Trader by Martin Schwartz



 

• Pivot: How One Simple Turn in Attitude Can Lead to Success by Alan R. Zimmerman



 

• Professional Stock Trading: System Design and Automation by Mark R. Conway



 

• Reminences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre



 

• Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing by Phil Town



 

• Screening the Market by Marc H. Gerstein



 

• Secrets For Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets by Stan Weinstein



 

• Stock Market Primer by Claude N. Rosenberg



 

• Studies in Tape Reading by Rollo Tape



 

• Sun Tzu on Investing by Curtis Montgomery



 

• Technical Analysis Explained by Martin Pring



 

• Technical Analysis of Stock Trends by Edwards and Magee



 

• The Art of Low Risk Investing by Michael Zahorchak



 

• The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate Americaby Warren E. Buffett



 

• The Four Pillars of Investing by William J. Bernstein



 

• The Future for Investors by Jeremy Siegel

 




 

• The Global-Investor Book of Investing Rules by Philip Jenks and Stephen Eckett



 

• The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey



 

• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham & Jason Zweig



 

• The Master Swing Trader by Alan S. Farley



 

• The Maui Millionaires by Diane Kennedy and David Finkel



 

• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley



 

• The Misbehavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson



 

• The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing by Jason Kelly



 

• The New Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager



 

• The New Money Masters by John Train



 

• The New Science of Technical Analysis by Thomas R. Demark



 

• The New Trader's Tax Solution by Ted Tesser



 

• The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias



 

• The Psychology of Trading: Tools and Techniques by Brett N. Steenbarger



 

• The Secrets of Economic Indicators by Bernard Baumohl



 

• The Single Best Investment: Consistently Creating Wealth by Lowell Miller



 

• The Stock Market Jungle by Michale Panzner



 

• The Stock Trader's Almanac 2007 by Yale Hirsch



 

• The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitnessby Dave Ramsey



 

• The Vital Few vs. the Trivial Many by George Muzea



 

• Timing the Market: Using the Yield Curve, TA, and Cultural Indicators by Deborah Weir



 

• Trade Stocks & Commodities by Larry Williams



 

• Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Van K. Tharp



 

• Trader Vic II--Principles of Professional Speculation by Victor Sperandeo



 

• Trading Classic Chart Patterns by Thomas Bulkowski



 

• Trading for a Living by Alexander Elder



 

• Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence by Mark Douglas



 

• Trading Rules by William F. Eng



 

• Trend Following by Michael W. Covel



 

• Trend Trading: Timing Market Tides by Kedrick Brown



 

• Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich



 

• Unconventional Success by David F. Swensen



 

• Understanding Options by Michael Sincere



 

• Way of Warrior Trader by Richard D. McCall



 

• When to Sell by Justin Mamis and Robert Mamis



 

• Winning on Wall Street by Martin Zweig



 

• Yes, You Can Time The Market by Ben Stein

Earlier this week I also asked readers to let me know if they had read any great books in the past year. Without any measure of doubt, the#1 book recommended by readers (by a large overwhelmingly margin) was Entries & Exits : Visits to 16 Trading Rooms by Dr. Alexander Elder.

Happy reading!