The Intelligent Asset Allocator
by William J. Bernstein | 
A Splendid Exchange
by William J. Bernstein | 
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
by Jill Twiss | 
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett | 
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini | 
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck | 
A Prayer For Owen Meany
by John Irving | 
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer | 
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey | 
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah | 
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut | 
The Art of Racing in the Rain
by Garth Stein | 
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurty | 
Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult | 
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd | 
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson |
The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel
by Khaled Hosseini | 
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut |
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
by Glendy Vanderah |
When We Believed in Mermaids
by Barbara O'Neal |
"The Ages of the Investor: A Critical Look at Life-cycle Investing" is intended to be the first installment in the "Investing for Adults" series. Just as grown-ups do not believe in the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, or Santa Claus, "Investing adults" know that there is no such creature as the Stock-picking Fairy or the Market-timing Fairy. Further, there is no Risk Fairy who will write you cheap options that will protect your stock holdings against loss. Investing adults are familiar with Gene Fama, Zvi Bodie, Jack Bogle, and Burton Malkiel, and understand that a mean variance optimizer does not blend vegetables. In other words, this series is not for beginners. Future topics will, with luck, include the limits of market efficiency and diversification in increasingly non-segmented global markets.