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One Up on Wall Street

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One Up on Wall Street
AuthorPeter Lynch, John Rothchild
Published1989
Pages318
Recommended4 times
BuyAmazon
Why it’s on the listPeter Lynch’s account of how an ordinary investor can find winning stocks in the companies and products they already know — written by the manager who ran Fidelity’s Magellan Fund.

Where I heard about it

  • On Investing Book List (Gavin Baker), Gavin Baker’s May 2020 investing book list (under Investing, one of his italicized favorites).
  • On Jay’s investing reading list — a Google Sheet of 92 books by discipline, saved in Kyle’s Roam notes on April 15th, 2020 (Jay’s Investing Reading List). Jay’s reason: “Interesting book on how practical case-studies can influence investment methodology”
  • A Goldman Sachs reading list — listed under Industry Background and Flavor on Goldman’s recommended reading list (from its careers site), shared by @F_Compounders on X, July 2025.
  • @SpencrGreenberg’s thread — a reply to his question “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?” in the thread, June 2025. Full list of replies: A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet).

Connections

  • Peter Lynch — author.
  • Also by Peter Lynch on the same list: Beating the Street.
  • Goldman Sachs Recommended reading list… (tweet) — the list this came from.
  • A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — recommendation #2: named in this crowd-sourced thread.
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