If anyone needed a reminder that Christmas and NewYear holidays are almost here, Societe Generale has provided it. Analyst Dylan Grice has picked up the mantle of the departed James Montier to offer a seasonal reading list for those with a fixation about investment and economics.

True, some people might prefer to immerse themselves in a rollicking sea tale from Patrick O’Brian or a good old Sookie Stackhouse vampire mystery. But we know that Reuters blogs’ readers are a discriminating lot with a keen understanding of and passion for finance. So here is Dylan’s list of six must-reads:

1. Manias, Panics and Crashes, by Charles P. Kindleberger;

2. The Essays of Warren Buffet, edited by Richard Cunningham;

3. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, by Edwin Lefevre;

4. Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Taleb;

5. The Case against the Fed, by Murray Rothbard;

6. Judgement under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, eds Kahneman, Slovic and

Tversky.

So what is your reading list? Tell us what you would include and why.