Apologies if this has been asked a million times before

>>1495009
this board needs an informative sticky.

bump, it interests me too

>>1495009
The intelligent Investor
A random walk through Wallstreet
Investing for Dummies(not even joking)

>>1495016
true

>>1495028
awesome, thanks

if you had to choose one of these to start which would it be?

It's not exactly rocket science. Just buy some index funds and hold them until you need the money. Doing anything else is literally competing against bots that can do millions of trades a second.

>>1495069
If you're completely new to investing and finance in general then read the Investing for dummies book.

Out of the other two books, it doesn't really matter which you read first because both are two completely different approaches to investing.