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Most trading books I've read did not actually help me to become a better trader, but a few of them have stood out for their usefulness. I posted the list below a while ago and still believe it could be helpful to new traders.
"I have read many books. Some were good primarily because they were very interesting/ entertaining (e.g., Pit Bull, Winner Take All, Liar's Poker, Schwager's Market Wizard books, Confessions of a Street Addict, Running Money, Trend Following, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Evidence-Based Technical Analysis, Hedgehogging, Fooled By Randomness and several others).
There were only a few that I thought were extremely practical, so much so that I would recommend them to a new trader. The most immediately useful ones that I wish I had been able to read when I started out are probably Weissman's Trading Like a Casino, Elder's How I Trade For a Living, Chande's Beyond Technical Analysis (2nd ed.), Tharp's Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, and possibly the psychology and performance-related books of Mark Douglas and Brett Steenbarger. I don't agree with everything written in these books, but I believe that they have a lot of good, practical advice that makes them among the best that I have seen."