To add to this thread on Investment Education - industry information and knowledge is also important to understand the macroeconomic forces at play for a particular industry.

By no means will books make you an expert but hopefully provides that level of insight to make someone more comfortable investing in a particular stock.

• The Cancer Code by Dr Jason Fung (Off the back of @slymeat's straw on Imugene)
• Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by Richard Flanagan
• Banking Bad by Adele Ferguson
• Digital Gold, The Untold Story of Bitcoin by Nathaniel Popper
• The Revolution That Wasn't: How GameStop and Reddit Made Wall Street Even Richer by Spencer Jakab

Unfortunately - we don't have the time to get jobs in all the industries we want to invest in.