It really depends on the book. The main issue regarding historical books is that they can very easily become dated. I've also read Reminiscence of a Stock Oper

It really depends on the book. The main issue regarding historical books is that they can very easily become dated. I've also read Reminiscence of a Stock Operator and I found that, while interesting, very little of that informs how the market works nowadays. It did shine a light on why TA is still a thing nowadays - a flavour of TA used to work historically and you can still see echoes of that today.