80 Best Investment Banking Books of All Time (Updated for 2026)

1

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

5.0

The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope an

Recommended by Sheryl Sandberg, Barry Ritholtz, David Heinemeier Hansson, and 5 others.

Sheryl Sandberg

COO/Facebook

Michael Lewis's ability to boil down the most complicated subjects is like a magic trick. You can't believe your own eyes. He takes on important issues - from the 2008 Wall Street crash in "The Big Short" to parenting in "Home Game" - and breaks them down to the deepest truths. His combination of an extraordinarily analytical mind and a deep understanding of human nature allows him to weave together data and events to offer a fresh and insightful narrative. Whatever the topic, the result is always compelling and even thrilling. I am in awe of him. [source]

Barry Ritholtz

Michael Lewis, to me, is the preeminent narrator of the financial crisis. He is the guy who constructs the story better than anybody else. [source]

David Heinemeier Hansson

A good one. [source]

2

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S Clason

5.0

Preview Summary

This hardcover edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading. 12 point Garamond, 1.25 spacing. The Richest Man in Babylon is a timeless classic, revealing the secrets to making money and keeping it. This inspirational book is hailed as the greatest of books on finances. It unveils the secrets to wealth, providing priceless suggestions, advice, unforgettable parables, financial problem-solving tool

Recommended by Daymond John, Aisha Yesufu, DJ Vlad, and 6 others.

Daymond John

Founder/FUBU

Daymond John said this is one of his most-recommended books. [source]

Aisha Yesufu

@seundavidpaul 👏👏👏👏👏 This is a great book [source]

David Heinemeier Hansson

This is a 1920s classic version of How To Get Rich. The ancestor of all the pale imitations, like Rich Dad/Poor Dad, that came since. And while I scoffed at plenty of the allegories from ancient Babylon that presents the lessons, it was still a neat package. And at least ancient Babylon is a more interesting backdrop for teaching lessons about money than some suburban house flipper. I ended up liking it more at the end than I did at the beginning. It’s also a really interesting tie-in with that debt history book. [source]

3

The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing

Benjamin Graham

4.8

Preview Summary

The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies -- has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949.

Recommended by Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon, Kevin Rose, and 6 others.

Warren Buffett

CEO/Berkshire Hathaway

To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. This book precisely and clearly prescribes the proper framework. You must provide the emotional discipline. [source]

Kevin Rose

Co-founder/Digg

The foundation for investing. A lot of people have used this as their guide to getting into investment, basic strategies. Actually Warren Buffett cites this as the book that got him into investing and he says that principles he learned here helped him to become a great investor. Highly recommend this book. It’s a great way understand what’s going on and how to evaluate different companies out there before you make an investment. [source]

DJ Vlad

The single biggest influence on how I buy and sell stocks. [source]

4

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

Andrew Ross Sorkin

4.8

Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics

Recommended by Bill Gates, Max Levchin, John Lanchester, and 1 others.

Bill Gates

CEO/Microsoft

On Bill Gates's reading list in 2011. [source]

Max Levchin

Co-founder/PayPal, CEO/Affirm, Investor

Max Levchin recommended this book as an answer to "What business books would you advise young entrepreneurs read?" [source]

John Lanchester

This is a minute-by-minute account of how the whole financial system nearly went over the brink in 2008, and the astonishing sense of tension and danger involved. [source]

5

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

4.8

Preview Summary

In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services. He argued passionately in favor of free trade, yet stood up for the little guy. The Wealth of Nations provided the first--and still the most eloquent--integrated description of the workings of a market economy.

Recommended by Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and 9 others.

Barack Obama

Former USA President

Obama, unsurprisingly, appears to be more drawn to stories sympathetic to the working classes than is McCain. Obama cites John Steinbeck’s “In Dubious Battle,” about a labor dispute; Robert Caro’s “Power Broker,” about Robert Moses; and Studs Terkel’s “Working.” But he also includes Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” and “Theory of Moral Sentiments” on his list. [source]

Elon Musk

Founder/SpaceX

Adam Smith FTW obv. [source]

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Author & Science Communicator

Which books should be read by every single intelligent person on planet? … The Wealth of Nations (Smith) to learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself. If you read all of the above works you will glean profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the western world. [source]

6

Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

Michael Lewis

4.8

Preview Summary

In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who coul

Recommended by Audrey Russo and John Lanchester.

Audrey Russo

Question: What books would you recommend to young people interested in your career path? Answer: Anything by Peter Senge. The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz Once you are Lucky, Twice you are good – Sara Lacey Revolutionary Wealth – Alvin Toffler Black Swan – Taleb Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change, by Ellen Pao. Creative Class – Richard Florida Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis American Government 101: From the Continental Congress to the Iowa Caucus, Everything You Need to Know About US Politics – Kathleen Spears The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Any book by Herman Hesse The Art of War by Sun Tzu. [source]

John Lanchester

It’s still a wonderfully entertaining book: An absolutely hilarious, very, very dark, vivid account of how Michael Lewis came out of Princeton and, with basically no qualifications, got a job in the bond trading department of Salomon Brothers [source]

7

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Roger Lowenstein

4.8

Preview Summary

With a new Afterword addressing today’s financial crisis

A BUSINESS WEEK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

In this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis—Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride of Long-Term Capital Management. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein expla

Recommended by Max Levchin and John Gapper.

Max Levchin

Co-founder/PayPal, CEO/Affirm, Investor

Max Levchin recommended this book as an answer to "What business books would you advise young entrepreneurs read?" [source]

John Gapper

The Fed itself did not bail out LTCM, but it was worried enough to get a bunch of big banks into the room and say, “Would you care to chip in and save this thing?” Which they obligingly did – and then liquidated it. The Fed foresaw that the failure of a single big hedge fund could send shock waves through the entire financial system. The issue of systemic risk was highlighted. [source]

8

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

Tom Wright, Bradley Hope

4.8

Preview Summary

An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters, Billion Dollar Whale reveals how a young social climber pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in history--right under the nose of the global financial industry--exposing the shocking secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood, and politics.

The dust had yet to settle on the global financi

Recommended by Bill Gates, Alexis Ohanian, Morgan Housel, and 2 others.

Bill Gates

CEO/Microsoft

As Bad Blood is to biotech, Billion Dollar Whale is to international finance... a wonderful read... Thrilling. [source]

Alexis Ohanian

Co-founder/Reddit

An incredible story.... If you need some billionaires to despise--look no further than these charlatans. [source]

Morgan Housel

This book on the 1MDB scandal was great, hard to put down. Low sophistication + huge brazenness is a powerful fraud combo. https://t.co/nYpIJffcb5 [source]

9

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Bryan Burrough

4.7

Preview Summary

“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.”
—New York Times Book Review

A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes

Recommended by Bill Liao, Bogdan Iordache, David Rothschild, and 2 others.

Bill Liao

The human world occurs in language so best get good at it! [source]

Bogdan Iordache

There are quite a few good business books on technology, and I'll list below some I find to be a good starting point. Personally, I like biographies a lot and I mostly read biographies of dead people, because those are the most honest ones. So because the computer age is still very young, there won't be a lot of biographies in my list. [source]

Scott Kupor

@JPHampstead @TimParksauthor Barbarians is a great book. Hope you enjoy mine! [source]

10

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Mehrsa Baradaran

4.7

"A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family."
--The Atlantic

"Extraordinary... Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that's often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines that create wealth in America."
--Ezra Klein

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863,

11

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Edward E Baptist

4.7

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation’s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America’s later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.

As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolut

Recommended by Cory Ondrejka.

Cory Ondrejka

VP of Engineering/Facebook

It's a heart-wrenching but eye-opening look at the safe ways America looks back at slavery and its impact on modern capitalism. During an election cycle focused on populism and anger, this is a book every American should read. [source]

12

What's Your Story?: Proven Methods for Acing the Investment Banking Interview

Adam McGowan

4.7

No story no offer. Four simple words stand between you and your dream of becoming an investment banker. The goal of this book is to help you land a job in investment banking by developing your story. The intended audience is undergraduates, MBAs or anyone looking to make a career change. It is based on hundreds of actual interviews which will help you get inside the head of the hiring manager to b

13

One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market

Peter Lynch

4.7

Preview Summary

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLING BOOK THAT EVERY INVESTOR SHOULD OWN

Peter Lynch is America's number-one money manager. His mantra: Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.

Now, in a new introduction written specifically for this edition of One Up on Wall Street, Lynch gives his take on th

Recommended by Bill Ackman, Patrick Swalls, and 1 others.

Patrick Swalls

Read this if you want to learn more about the stock market. [source]

14

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

Timothy F. Geithner

4.7

From the former Treasury Secretary, the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression

On January 26, 2009, during the depth of the financial crisis and having just completed five years as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy F. Geithner was sworn in by President

Recommended by Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and John Ashcroft.

Bill Gates

CEO/Microsoft

The central irony of Stress Test is that a guy who was accused of being a lousy communicator as U.S. Treasury Secretary has penned a book that is such a good read. Geithner paints a compelling human portrait of what it was like to be fighting a global financial meltdown while at the same time fighting critics inside and outside the Administration as well as his own severe guilt over his near-total absence from his family. The politics of fighting financial crises will always be ugly. But it helps if the public knows a little more about the subject—what’s at stake, what the options are, what has worked in similar situations—so that the loud talkers resonate a bit less and the knowledgeable ones a bit more. If Stress Test continues to attract lay readers, it could make at least a modest difference the next time around. [source]

Warren Buffett

CEO/Berkshire Hathaway

Buffett says that the former secretary of the U.S. Treasury's book about the financial crisis is a must-read for any manager. [source]

15

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Liaquat Ahamed

4.7

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize

"A magisterial work...You can't help thinking about the economic crisis we're living through now." --The New York Times Book Review

It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number

Recommended by Barry Ritholtz and David J Lynch.

Barry Ritholtz

It covers a 50-year period from before World War I and leading up to World War II. Even if you’re not interested in finance, it’s a great read. [source]

David J Lynch

Lords of Finance gives you that alternative history, particularly through the inter-war years from the end of World War I into the Great Depression. [source]

16

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

G Edward Griffin

4.7

Preview Summary

This classic expose of the Fed has become one of the best-selling books in its category of all time. Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled. Here is a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, the pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A boring subject? Just wait. You'll be hooked in five minutes.

Recommended by Marvin Liao.

Marvin Liao

Partner/500 Startups

I tend to jump from book to book and may switch if I am interested in some new topic. This is a pleasure for me (which I also do benefit work wise from too). It’s quite a random list because I have eclectic interests (or just scatterbrained most likely) on tech business, AI, general global economy, geopolitics, rising Biotech economy & history. I'm basically 15% to 50% into all these books. [source]

17

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

Michael Lewis

4.7

Preview Summary

Four years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets.

Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big

Recommended by Alykhan Satchu.

Alykhan Satchu

@surambaya @MihrThakar @NorthmanTrader great book [source]

18

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

Gregory Zuckerman

4.6

Preview Summary

Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?

Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. No other investor--Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George S

Recommended by Abhishek Kar, Andy Sum, Barry Ritholtz, and 6 others.

Abhishek Kar

@Singh7575 ~The man who solved the market Nice book and interesting insights from Jim's life. Read it last month. Happy reading👍 [source]

Andy Sum

I finished reading a book! Pretty interesting biography and background on some of the emotions involved in quantatative trading. Worth reading. https://t.co/doi843dcGN [source]

Barry Ritholtz

Great read: Fascinating book that tells the tale of a enigmatic hedge fund, it’s secretive founder, and the team of brilliant data scientists who managed to “solve the market.” Nice work @GZuckerman ! https://t.co/QVgG546flw [source]

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19

Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions

Joshua Rosenbaum

4.6

In the constantly evolving world of finance, a solid technical foundation is an essential tool for success. Due to the fast-paced nature of this world, however, no one has been able to take the time to properly codify the lifeblood of the corporate financier's work--namely, valuation. Rosenbaum and Pearl have responded to this need by writing the book that they wish had existed when they were tryi

20

The ABCs of Investment Banking (Very Young Professionals)

Amit Saraf, Varun Bhartia, et al.

4.6

21

Den of Thieves

James B. Stewart

4.6

A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice.

Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties’ biggest names on Wall Street—Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine —c

Recommended by Doug Rossinow.

Doug Rossinow

Den of Thieves is a very vivid portrait of people who broke what rules there were in the process of transforming American finance and the American economy and making a lot of money by doing so. [source]

22

Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

David Enrich

4.6

A searing exposé of the most scandalous bank in the world, including its shadowy ties to Donald Trump’s business empire

On a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus, and his sudden death was a mystery, made more so by the bank’s efforts to deter

Recommended by Aunt Crabby Calls Bullshit, Charles P. Pierce, Peter S. Goodman, and 1 others.

Aunt Crabby Calls Bullshit

Every Trump financial thread pulled results in scandal The @maddow Show last night was GREAT!! I pre-ordered the book on Trump and Deutsche Bank immediately! https://t.co/H03Y0bjCDc [source]

Charles P. Pierce

I’m reading the Deutsche Bank book that @maddow is talking about now. It’s an amazing saga. [source]

Peter S. Goodman

In Deutsche Bank, Trump found a lender willing to time again ignore the balance sheet to keep sending money his way. My colleague @davidenrich has just delivered a powerful account in a new book. Highly recommended. https://t.co/mUlobQaA02 [source]

23

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

4.6

By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black home

Recommended by Jeanjacques Taylor and Naomi Klein.

Jeanjacques Taylor

my sister @KeeangaYamahtta doing the damn thing again. Her first book was remarkable, and it looks like her new book is gonna have the same impact!!! https://t.co/7vAtRpbLRd [source]

Naomi Klein

An incredible list! So much congrats to all, especially to my pal @KeeangaYamahtta whose book is so brilliant and urgent right now. https://t.co/YcTozoP7h3 [source]

24

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Muhammad Yunus

4.6

Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, now

Recommended by Vinod Khosla, Vinod Khosla, and Roger Thurow.

Roger Thurow

I chose this book for the power of the story that he tells – the founding of Grameen Bank and the success that it has had. [source]

25

Investment Banking Workbook

Joshua Rosenbaum and Joshua Pearl

4.6

InvestmentBanking WORKBOOK is the ideal complement to Investment Banking, Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions, Second Edition, enabling you to truly master and refine the core skills at the center of the world of finance. This comprehensive study guide provides an invaluable opportunity to explore your understanding of the strategies and techniques covered in the main text, be

26

Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle

John Rolfe, Peter Troob

4.6

Animal House meets Liar's Poker in this hysterically funny, often unbelievable, and absolutely, positively true account of life at DLJ, one of the hottest investment banks on Wall Street.

27

Investment Banking + Dg, 2nd Edition, University Edition

Joshua Pearl and Joshua Rosenbaum

4.6

World-class valuation and transaction models to complement the global best-selling guide to investment banking

Five valuation models templates along with completed versions are accessible for purchase and use--downloadable in electronic format on the book's website, www.wiley.com/go/investmentbanking2e. Each model comes complete with a user's guide.

The models includeComparable Companies AnalysisPre

28

The Banking Revolutions: A Critical History of Investment Banking

Alberto Leon Cebrian

4.6

At the beginning of the 19th century some of the most outstanding families in the world of finance emerged from the ghettos of Frankfurt. Jewish Germanic families such as the Rothschilds, Goldmans, Sachs, Guggenheims, Loebs, Lazards, Oppenheims and Warburgs started a diaspora across Europe, founding the first international banking firms, many of them remain active today. Upon their arrival in the

29

Discussion Materials: Tales of a Rookie Wall Street Investment Banker

Bill Keenan

4.6

A newly-minted MBA recounts his first years as a Wall Street investment banker—unredacted.

“Why aren’t you using LTM EBITDA for credit metrics?” asked the managing director who sat across from me, his widow’s peak clearly visible as he inspected the sheet in front of him. His spacious office looked out onto New York Harbor.

“Bust,” said the vice president, a younger, douchier version of Widow’s Pea

30

Applied Financial Macroeconomics and Investment Strategy: A Practitioner's Guide to Tactical Asset Allocation

T. McGee

4.6

The absolute and relative performance of various asset classes is systematically related to macroeconomic trends. In this new book, Robert McGee provides a thorough guide to each stage of the business cycle and analyzes the investment implications using real-world examples linking economic dynamics to investment results.

31

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

Ron Chernow

4.6

The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as "brilliantly researched and written," the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. It is the definitive account of the

32

The Richest Man In Babylon - Original Edition

George S Clason

4.6

33

Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms

John Downes and Jordan Goodman

4.6

More than 5,000 terms related to stocks, bonds, mutual funds, banking, tax laws, and transactions in the various financial markets are presented alphabetically with descriptions. The new ninth edition has been updated to take account of new financial regulations and recent dramatic swings in equities, credit, and other financial developments. Readers will also find a list of financial abbreviation

34

Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World

Oliver Bullough

4.6

From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, something has gone wrong with the workings of the world.

Once upon a time, if an official stole money, there wasn't much he could do with it. He could buy himself a new car or build himself a nice house or give it to his friends and family, but that was about it. If he kept stealing, the money would ju

35

Homewreckers

Aaron Glantz

4.5

In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America’s housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle class—among them, Donald Trump and his inner circle.

Two years before the housing market collapsed in 2008, Donald Trump looked forward to a crash: “I s

Recommended by David Sirota and Richard W. Painter.

David Sirota

Another must-read book out today is this one from @Aaron_Glantz — it’s about how our government allowed private equity vultures to profit off the pain, suffering and misery of the housing crisis. https://t.co/ekG7U8SNFu [source]

Richard W. Painter

@Aaron_Glantz @democracynow Great book! But what a racket! [source]

36

End the Fed

Ron Paul

4.5

In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve.

Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country's economy could not properly function. But in END THE FED, Ron Paul draws on American history, economics, and fascinating stor

37

Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Blockchain Assets

Chris Burniske, Jack Tatar

4.5

The innovative investor's guide to an entirely new asset class--from two experts on the cutting edge

One of the fastest growing investment opportunities in the world today, blockchain assets such as bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are changing the way investors think, use, and grow their money. This clear, concise, and accessible guide from two industry experts is the first book of its kind to e

Recommended by Marvin Liao and 1 others.

Marvin Liao

Partner/500 Startups

I tend to jump from book to book and may switch if I am interested in some new topic. This is a pleasure for me (which I also do benefit work wise from too). It’s quite a random list because I have eclectic interests (or just scatterbrained most likely) on tech business, AI, general global economy, geopolitics, rising Biotech economy & history. I'm basically 15% to 50% into all these books. [source]

38

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises

Charles P. Kindleberger

4.5

The best known and most highly regarded book on financial crises

Financial crises and speculative excess can be traced back to the very beginning of trade and commerce. Since its introduction in 1978, this book has charted and followed this volatile world of financial markets. Charles Kindleberger's brilliant, panoramic history revealed how financial crises follow a nature-like rhythm: they peak a

Recommended by Charles Morris, Larry Summers, and Marc Faber.

Charles Morris

Kindleberger’s great virtue is that he was both a respected economist and a student of human nature, and he knew that human nature could never be bottled up in an economic model. His book is a terrific narrative of a series of bubbles, going back to pre-industrial days – the Dutch tulip craze, the South Sea bubble, and so forth.. [source]

Larry Summers

Kindleberger’s message is that complacency can be a self-denying prophecy. [source]

Marc Faber

He describes very well how these manias occur and what the symptoms are of manias in terms of excessive speculation, overleverage, borrowing, fraud, embezzlement, high trading volumes, and so forth. [source]

39

Naked Money: What It Is and Why It Matters

Charles Wheelan

4.5

Consider the $20 bill.

It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually worth twenty dollars? In the third volume of his best-selling Naked series, Charles Wheelan uses this seemingly simple question to open the door to the surprisingly colorful wo

40

Doing Digital: Lessons from Leaders

Chris Skinner

4.5

41

Breaking Into Banking: Cracking the Code on Launching a Successful Career in Commercial Banking

Andy Keusal

4.5

42

The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders

Connie Bruck

4.5

During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as "the highly confident letter" (I'm highly confident that I can raise the money you need to buy company X) and "the blind pool" (Here's a billion dollars: let us help you buy a company), and he financed the biggest corporate raiders--men like Carl Icahn and Ronald Perelman.

And t

43

Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America

Danielle DiMartino Booth

4.5

44

The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains: An Introduction to Cryptocurrencies and the Technology that Powers Them

Antony Lewis

4.5

This fictional book is a series of easy to read vignettes that illustrate modern uses of Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The characters and situations accurately portray who really uses Bitcoin around the world and for what purposes. These stories expose how criminals exploit cryptocurrency and also how Bitcoin has improved the lives of many people in the modern world.

P. Carl Mullan is a digital currency

Recommended by Kevin Werbach.

Kevin Werbach

This is the best book I’ve found that doesn’t shrink from talking about the technology and getting into some of the detail, but does it in a very clear and structured way, so that someone without any kind of background can understand it. [source]

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Where Does Money Come From?: A Guide To The Uk Monetary And Banking System

Josh Ryan-Collins and Tony Greenham and Richard Werner and Andrew Jackson

4.5

This book aims to firmly establish a common understanding that commercial banks create new money. There is no deeper mystery, and we must not allow our mind to be repelled. Only then can we properly address the much more significant question: Of all the possible alternative ways in which we could create new money and allocate purchasing power, is this really the best?

46

A History of Money and Banking in the United States (Large Print Edition): The Colonial Era to World War II

Murray N. Rothbard

4.5

In what is sure to become the standard account, Rothbard traces inflations, banking panics, and money meltdowns from the Colonial Period through the mid-20th century to show how government's systematic war on sound money is the hidden force behind nearly all major economic calamities in American history.

Never has the story of money and banking been told with such rhetorical power and theoretical

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God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican

Gerald Posner

4.5

A deeply reported, fast-paced expose of the money and the cardinals-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican's biggest, most powerful religious institution from an acclaimed journalist with exhaustive research techniques. (The New York Times).

From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, this book traces the political intrigu

48

Bank 4.0: Embedded, Ubiquitous, Extinct

Brett King

4.5

The future of banking is already here -- are you ready?

Bank 4.0 explores the radical transformation already taking place in banking, and follows it to its logical conclusion. What will banking look like in 30 years? 50 years? The world's best banks have been forced to adapt to changing consumer behaviors; regulators are rethinking friction, licensing and regulation; Fintech start-ups and tech gian

Recommended by Jim Marous and Karaniya Dharmasaputra.

Jim Marous

The large print version of Bank 4.0 by @BrettKing just came out. Great for book clubs. #banking #bank4 @Bari_Arjon @rshevlin @Clagett @RAlexJimenez @provokemgmt @Breakingbanks1 @BBanksAsia @missmetaverse @JPNicols @SpirosMargaris @Chris_Skinner @Visible_Banking https://t.co/PPVCgQ5SQo [source]

Karaniya Dharmasaputra

This book is recommended by Mas Mirza Adityaswara, former Senior Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia & a very respected economist. So, this a must-read book. Thank you for the recommendation, Mas: "Bank 4.0 by Brett King 📖 https://t.co/abJgygJHfu [source]

49

The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History

David Enrich

4.5

The Wall Street Journal's award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatest financial scandals in history. The paperback edition includes a new chapter discussing further fallout from the scandal.

In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, trade

Recommended by Marc Andreessen.

Marc Andreessen

Co-Founder/Andreessen Horowitz

"Billions"-esque saga of global financial market manipulation, at mind-boggling scale and hiding in plain sight, by a small cabal of bankers in London. [source]

50

The Wolf of Wall Street (The Wolf of Wall Street, #1)

Jordan Belfort

4.5

Preview Summary

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids waiting at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story

51

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street

William D. Cohan

4.5

On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation’s fifth-largest investment bank: “In my book, they are insolvent.”

This seemed a bold and risky statement. Bear Stearns was about to announce profits of $115 million for the first quarter of 2008, had $17.3 billion in

52

Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits

Kevin Roose

4.5

Becoming a young Wall Street banker is like pledging the world's most lucrative and soul-crushing fraternity.

Every year, thousands of eager college graduates are hired by the world's financial giants, where they're taught the secrets of making obscene amounts of money-- as well as how to dress, talk, date, drink, and schmooze like real financiers.

Young Money is the inside story of this well-gua

Recommended by Deepak Chhugani and Malcolm Harris.

Deepak Chhugani

For those interested in starting their career as investment bankers like I did, I’d highly recommend reading Young Money by Kevin Roose before joining. There are tons of people who go into the industry and truly hate it, but I’d argue that reading this book and/or talking with others in the industry beforehand will prepare you for the reality of what life can be like [source]

Malcolm Harris

He makes clear that that’s what the system is designed to capture, they’re looking for generic achievers: those who have not lost at anything, who are good at winning. [source]

53

The Repo Handbook

Moorad Choudhry

4.5

The Repo Handbook, Second Edition presents an overview of repo vehicles and markets with sufficient depth for those seeking detailed explanations. In three parts it demonstrates how these secured loans fit into global capital markets and why they account for up to 50% of daily settlement activity in non-US government bonds worldwide. This new edition replaces old examples and introduces new develo

54

Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

William D. Cohan

4.5

From the bestselling, prize-winning author of THE LAST TYCOONS and HOUSE OF CARDS, a revelatory history of Goldman Sachs, the most dominant, feared, and controversial investment bank in the world

For much of its storied 142-year history, Goldman Sachs has projected an image of being better than its competitors--smarter, more collegial, more ethical, and far more profitable. The firm--buttressed by

55

Quantitative Financial Analytics: The Path to Investment Profits

Edward E Williams

4.5

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the important aspects of investment theory, security analysis, and portfolio selection, with a quantitative emphasis not to be found in most other investment texts.

The statistical analysis framework of markets and institutions in the book meets the need for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in quantitative disciplines, who wish to apply t

56

The Real Estate Rehab Investing Bible: A Proven-Profit System for Finding, Funding, Fixing, and Flipping Houses... Without Lifting a Paintbrush

Paul Esajian

4.5

THE HOUSE-FLIPPING HOW-TO THAT TURNS EVERYDAY PEOPLE INTO ENTREPRENEURS

Everyone likes the idea of turning the ugliest house on the block to the best house on the block and making a profit. Until now a system has not been shared on how to successfully complete this task on time and budget without getting your hands dirty. This book not only cracks the code but shares the proven path and system to h

57

Nomad Capitalist: How to Reclaim Your Freedom with Offshore Bank Accounts, Dual Citizenship, Foreign Companies, and Overseas Investments

Andrew Henderson

4.5

58

The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street

Jonathan A. Knee

4.5

Jonathan A. Knee had a ringside seat during the go-go, boom-and-bust decade and into the 21st century, at the two most prestigious investment banks on Wall Street--Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. In this candid and irreverent insider's account of an industry in free fall, Knee captures an exhilarating era of fabulous deal-making in a free-wheeling Internet economy--and the catastrophe that follo

59

How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

Mehrsa Baradaran

4.5

The United States has two separate banking systems today one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else." How the Other Half Banks "contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted by banks, is forced to wander through a Wild West o

Recommended by Joanna Peñabickley.

Joanna Peñabickley

If you are looking for a great book this weekend I highly recommend: How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy | https://t.co/Qv3MdHRcds | #InclusionEveryDayChallenge [source]

60

The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read: The Proven Way to Beat the "Pros" and Take Control of Your Financial Future

Daniel R. Solin

4.5

What Are You Waiting For?

This book will change the way you think about investing-and the results will prove it!

"This is the simple hands-on, how-to and why book many readers have been looking for."
-Scott Burns, syndicated columnist

Daniel Solin cuts through the financial hype to show you exactly how to invest-with an easy-to-follow four-step plan that lets you create and monitor your investme

61

Residential Mortgage Lending: Principles and Practices

Thomas J Pinkowish

4.5

A book from Cengage Learning on Residential Mortgage Lending.

62

Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals

John LeFevre

4.5

"Some chick asked me what I would do with 10 million bucks. I told her I'd wonder where the rest of my money went."--@GSElevator

Over the past three years, the notorious @GSElevator Twitter feed has offered a hilarious, shamelessly voyeuristic look into the real world of international finance. Hundreds of thousands followed the account, Goldman Sachs launched an internal investigation, and when the

63

America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve

Roger Lowenstein

4.5

A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so protracted and divisive that it seems a small miracle that it was ever established.

For nearly a century,

64

Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite

Jake Bernstein

4.5

A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale.

A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the identities of t

65

Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World

Nomi Prins

4.5

In this searing exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order.
Central banks and international institutions like the IMF have overstepped their traditional mandates by directing the flow of epic sums of fabricated money without any checks or balances. Meanwhile, t

66

Regulation and Supervision of the OTC Derivatives Market

Ligia Catherine Arias-Barrera

4.5

The over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market has captured the attention of regulators after the Global Financial Crisis due to the risk it poses to financial stability. Under the post-crisis regulatory reform the concentration of business, and risks, among a few major players is changed by the concentration of a large portion of transactions in the new market infrastructures, the Central Counterp

67

The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs

Charles D. Ellis

4.5

The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs

68

Financial Institutions and Markets

Meir Kohn

4.5

Why do financial institutions and markets have the structure they do? Why is that structure changing? These questions are central to the scope and purpose of Meir G. Kohn's Financial Institutions and Markets, 2/e. Unlike most books designed for financial markets and institutions courses, this successful text focuses on the "why" of existing and evolving markets and instruments as well as the "how.

69

Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law

Alan D. Morrison and William J. WilhelmJr.

4.5

Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law provides an economic rationale for the dominant role of investment banks in the capital markets, and uses it to explain both the historical evolution of the investment banking industry and also recent changes to its organization. Although investment decisions rely upon price-relevant information, it is impossible to establish property rights over

70

Payments Systems in the U.S.: A Guide for the Payments Professional

Carol Coye Benson

4.5

"Payments Systems in the U.S." is a comprehensive description of the payments systems (cards, checks, ACH, wires, and cash) that move money between and among consumers and enterprises in the U.S. In clear and lively writing, the authors explain how the payments systems work, how they evolved, who uses them, who provides them, who profits from them, and how they are changing. Anyone in the payments

71

God's Banking System: The Rewards of Investing in God's Kingdom

Buddy Harrison and Jerry Savelle

4.4

Are you trusting in the world's financial system that is unstable, ever changing, and often left to chance? Instead, trust in God's banking system, where your money is multiplied beyond measure and safe and secure because it is founded on the rock of Jesus Christ. God's banking system is the only one that never has a recession.

The Lord has not called us to poverty; He has called us to prosperity,

72

Financial Modeling For Equity Research: A Step-by-Step Guide to Earnings Modeling and Stock Valuation for Investment Analysis

John Moschella CFA CPA

4.4

Market value serves as the safety valve to the secured lending dynamics of landed property. This book highlights the concept of market value and the various approaches by which it can be estimated. The parallel occurrences of other types of values are presented through the reproduction from the International Valuation Standards' definitions and concepts. The role of comparative evidence in valuati

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73

Big Deal: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Digital Age

Bruce Wasserstein

4.4

Big Deal is a penetrating look at the world of mergers and acquisitions. Bruce Wasserstein has worked on over 1,000 deals and reveals the inside story of the billion dollar deals that shape America's economy.

74

Dictionary of Banking Terms

Thomas P. Fitch

4.4

Barron’s updated and expanded Dictionary of Banking Terms is an A-Z reference for banking, business, and finance professionals and students. This pocket guide features more than 3,000 terms with definitions and explanations.

This quick reference guide covers Investment banking and commercial banking practices, finance and money management, and much more. Diagrams, charts, and line illustrations he

75

Collection of career goals in Finance: Investment Banking and Private Equity: Long and Short term career tracks in Finance for Harvard, Stanford and Wharton applicants

Robin Kaine

4.4

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76

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott

4.4

Blockchain technology is powering our future. As the technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, open software platforms like Ethereum, and disruptive companies like Ripple, it's too important to ignore.

In this revelatory book, Don Tapscott, the bestselling author of Wikinomics, and his son, blockchain expert Alex Tapscott, bring us a brilliantly researched, highly readable, and essential boo

Recommended by Antonio Eram, Dominic Steil, and Hong Qi Yu.

Antonio Eram

Most recent (like several years ago) was about blockchain technology. After reading many articles about blockchain, bitcoin and cryptocurrency I had a "Eureka" moment when reading Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott. That moment when I realized the potential of this technology and the massive changes that can literally transform the world we are living. A true paradigm shift. [source]

Dominic Steil

One of the five books recommends to young people interested in his career path. [source]

Hong Qi Yu

The authors, blockchain experts Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott give a rather vivid explanation of blockchain technology, along with the promise and potential behind this emerging technology. [source]

77

Ebook: Design Thinking (Innovation Trends Series)

BBVA Innovation Center

4.4

78

Money, Banking, and the Financial System

R. Glenn Hubbard

4.4

For courses in Economics.Help readers master the modern landscape of money, banking, and the financial system Money, Banking, and The Financial System, 3rd Edition, gets readers excited about the extremely important topics of money, banking, and financial markets. In the past 10 years, virtually every aspect of how money is borrowed and lent, how banks and financial firms operate, and how policy

79

The Fast Track: The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking & Securities Trading

Mariam Naficy

4.4

Investment banking and management consulting are the most sought-after careers for the two million students pursuing business degrees each year. In this step-by-step guide, Mariam Naficy provides an insider's account of these competitive fields and offers information critical to securing an entry-level job, including: Comprehensive overviews of each field, the history of the business and where the

80

Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-and How to Fix It

Dambisa Moyo

4.3

From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy

Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now struggles to overcome unprecedented econo