Finance
Investonomy
A value-investing guide for the Indian market, written for people who find the stock market intimidating.
Why it's on the shelf
This is the one that made the stock market feel approachable. It leans on value-investing principles — buy good businesses, ignore the noise — and explains them in plain language with Indian examples.
It won't make you a pro, but it gave me the vocabulary and the confidence to understand what I was actually buying, instead of just following tips.