By Peter Lynch.

As a mutual fund manager for Fidelity, Peter Lynch is arguably the most successful fund manager around. He focused on value investing, researching companies in person - investigating management, long-term goals and current product line.

While his approach is a full-time job, he does offer excellent insight into his methodology and the importance of value investing as a means to beat wall street (and the markets) so often distracted by short-term profits.

When investing, often times knowing what not to do is as important as knowing what to do. The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street is an entertaining, cautionary tale well worth reading.

You won't learn how to invest from this book, but you will begin to gain an understanding of short-term market movements and the risks involved in try to gamble on them.