The Investment Banking Reading List
100+ books on finance, M&A, private equity, and Wall Street - essential reading for investment banking interviews and careers.
This list covers books on investment banking, M&A, private equity, and leveraged finance, plus mainstream finance classics, business strategy, leadership, and some venture capital books. Coverage groups and deal types overlap, so broader financial knowledge matters.
Reading beyond technical prep matters for interviews. Bankers notice when candidates can reference actual deals from books like Barbarians at the Gate or discuss market history from The Big Short. It shows genuine interest beyond just landing the job. Reading also helps with fit questions. Understanding bank culture, deal dynamics, and what the work actually involves makes your answers more credible.
Top 5 Must-Read Books by Category
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
by Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the heart of Wall Street and the '80s culture it helped define, Barbarians at the Gate is a modern classic - a masterpiece of investigatory journalism and a rollicking book of corporate derring-do and financial swordsmanship. The fight to control RJR Nabisco during October and November of 1988 was more than just the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Marked by brazen displays of ego not seen in American business for decades, it became the high point of a new gilded age and its repercussions are still being felt. The tale remains the ultimate story of greed and glory - a story and a cast of characters that determined the course of global business and redefined how deals would be done and fortunes made in the decades to come.
Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle
by John Rolfe & Peter Troob
A hilarious insider's glimpse behind the scenes of DLJ, one of the hottest investment banks on Wall Street. Newly graduated business students John Rolfe and Peter Troob thought life at a major investment banking firm would be a dream come true. But they discovered Wall Street employees to be overworked and at their wit's end. Twenty-hour work days, strip clubs, and inflated salaries - this hysterical book reveals it all. Monkey Business is a wild ride about two young men who realized they were selling their souls in exchange for the American Dream.
Gods at War: Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal, and the Private Equity Implosion
by Steven Davidoff
An engaging exploration of modern-day deals and deal-making Gods at War details the recent deals and events that have forever changed the world of billion-dollar deal-making. This book is a whirlwind tour of the players determining the destiny of corporate America, including the government, private equity, strategic buyers, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds. It not only examines many of the game-changing takeover events that have occurred in the past years, but also puts them into context and exposes what is really going on behind the scenes on Wall Street. Gods at War completely covers the strategic issues that guide the modern-day deal, and since they unfold under the shadow of the law, it also focuses on the legal aspects of deal-making and takeovers.
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.
by William Cohan
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A tale of vaulting ambitions, explosive feuds, worldly mistresses, fabulous art collections, and enormous wealth - a story of high drama in the world of high finance. 'Rips the roof off of one of Wall Street's most storied investment banks.' - Vanity Fair Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Freres & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were its weapons of choice. For more than a century, the mystique and reputation of the 'Great Men' who worked there allowed the firm to garner unimaginable profits, social cachet, and outsized influence in the halls of power.
Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman
by Ken Auletta
The inside account of a financial meltdown that reshaped Wall Street In 1983, Lew Glucksman, then co-CEO of the heralded investment bank Lehman Brothers, demanded the resignation of chairman Pete Peterson, with whom he had long argued over how to manage the company. Shockingly, Peterson, who had taken charge a decade earlier and led Lehman from near collapse to record profits, agreed to step down. In this meticulously researched volume, Ken Auletta details the turmoil, infighting, and power struggles that brought about Peterson's departure and the eventual sale of one of Wall Street's oldest and most prestigious firms. Set against the backdrop of the 1980s stock exchange, where hotshot young traders made and lost millions in a single afternoon, the story of Lehman's fall is a suspenseful battle of wills between bankers, traders, and executives motivated by greed, envy, and ego.
Complete Finance Reading List
All 100+ books organized A-Z
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After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
by Alan Blinder
'Blinder's book deserves its likely place near the top of reading lists about the crisis. It is the best comprehensive history of the episode... A riveting tale.' - Financial Times
Alan Greenspan''s The Age of Turbulence is the essential guide to what is happening in the world, and where we''re heading, from the ultimate expert.
The inside story of the world’s most powerful central bankers—and the most intense exercise in economic crisis management the world has ever seen
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
by Bethany McLean & Joe Nocera
Hailed as 'the best business book of 2010' (Huffington Post), this New York Times bestseller about the 2008 financial crisis brings the devastation of the Great Recession to life.
The Art of M&A, Fifth Edition: A Merger, Acquisition, and Buyout Guide
by Stanley Foster Reed, Alexandra Lajoux, H. Peter Nesvold
Make every deal a major win! The M&A classic has been updated for today’s business landscape
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos—one of the biggest corporate frauds in history—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. With a new Afterword covering her trial and sentencing, bringing the story to a close.
The Bank That Lived a Little: Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market
by Philip Augar
Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of boardroom intrigue at one of Britain's biggest financial institutions. In a tale of feuds, grandiose dreams and a struggle for supremacy between rival strategies and their adherents, Philip Augar gives a riveting account of Barclays' journey from an old Quaker bank to a full-throttle capitalist machine. The disagreement between those ambitious for Barclays to join the top table of global banks, and those preferring a smaller domestic role more in keeping with the bank's traditions, cost three chief executives their jobs and continues to divide opinion within Barclays, the City and beyond. This is an extraordinary corporate thriller, which among much else describes how Barclays came to buy Lehman Brothers for a bargain price in 2008, why it was so keen to avoid taking government funding during the financial crisis, and the price shareholders have paid for a decade of barely controlled ambition. But Augar also shows how Barclays' experiences are a paradigm for Britain's social and economic life over 30 years, which saw the City move from the edge of the economy to its very center. These decades created unprecedented prosperity for a tiny number, and made the reputations of governments and individuals but then left many of them in tatters. The leveraged society, the winner-takes-all mentality and our present era of austerity can all be traced to the influence of banks such as Barclays. Augar's book tells this rollercoaster story from the perspective of many of its participants—and also of those affected by the grip they came to have on Britain.
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
by Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the heart of Wall Street and the '80s culture it helped define, Barbarians at the Gate is a modern classic—a masterpiece of investigatory journalism and a rollicking book of corporate derring-do and financial swordsmanship.
The #1 New York Times bestseller: 'It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading.'―Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair.
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this 'thrilling' (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a 'modern Gatsby' swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in 'the heist of the century' (Axios).
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
by Katherine Clarke
A “thrilling” (Financial Times) fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new Manhattan megatowers known as Billionaires’ Row—from a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
by Sheelah Kolhatkar
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times and The Economist “An essential exposé of our times—a work that reveals the deep rot in our financial system... Everyone should read this book.” —David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
Black Horse Ride: The Inside Story of Lloyds and the Banking Crisis
by Ivan Fallon
Longlisted for the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.
Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society. They reveal that bubbles start when investors and speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to predict these sparks.
The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
by Turney Duff
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A former Galleon Group trader portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex are rampant and billions in trading commissions flow to those who dangle the most enticements.
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CITYBOY is Geraint Anderson''s bestselling exposé of life in the City of London.
Widely respected and admired, Philip Fisher is among the most influential investors of all time. His investment philosophies, introduced almost forty years ago, are not only studied and applied by today's financiers and investors, but are also regarded by many as gospel. This book is invaluable reading and has been since it was first published in 1958. The updated paperback retains the investment wisdom of the original edition and includes the perspectives of the author's son Ken Fisher, an investment guru in his own right in an expanded preface and introduction.
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by Adam Tooze
'Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, Observer
The Curse of Cash: How Large-Denomination Bills Aid Crime and Tax Evasion and Constrain Monetary
by Kenneth Rogoff
“A brilliant and lucid new book” (John Lanchester, New York Times Magazine) about why paper money and digital currencies lie at the heart of many of the world’s most difficult problems―and their solutions.
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The Dark Side of Valuation: Valuing Young, Distressed, and Complex Businesses
by Aswath Damodaran
The Definitive Guide to Valuing Hard-to-Value Companies: Fully Revised for Today’s Financial Markets
A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation
by Richard Bookstaber
Inside markets, innovation, and risk
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.
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
by Nathaniel Popper
A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.
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Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
by Ben McKenzie & Jacob Silverman
“A smart, savvy road map through the mayhem of the cryptocurrency madness.”—Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Alexander Hamilton
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
by Lawrence Cunningham
A modern classic, The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America is the book Buffett autographs most and likes best. Its popularity and longevity over three decades attest to the widespread appetite for this definitive statement of Mr. Buffett’s thoughts that’s uniquely comprehensive, non-repetitive, and digestible. New and experienced readers alike will gain an invaluable informal education by perusing this classic arrangement of Mr. Buffett's best writings.
Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
by Satyajit Das
The human race created money and finance: then, our inventions recreated us. In Extreme Money, best-selling author and global finance expert Satyajit Das tells how this happened and what it means. Das reveals the spectacular, dangerous money games that are generating increasingly massive bubbles of fake growth, prosperity, and wealth--while endangering the jobs, possessions, and futures of virtually everyone outside finance.
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Long-listed for the FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
by Raghuram Rajan
From an economist who warned of the global financial crisis, a new warning about the continuing peril to the world economy
Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
by Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson Jr
'Should be required reading for all policy makers.' —Warren Buffett
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 Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
by Liam Vaughan
’Not just a readable, pacey account of an extraordinary individual and his quixotic quest... but also a troubling exposé of the fragility of our entire financial system … I loved it’ Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.
Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
by Charles Calomiris & Stephen Haber
Why stable banking systems are so rare
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Gods at War: Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal, and the Private Equity Implosion
by Steven Davidoff
An engaging exploration of modern-day deals and deal-making
Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman
by Ken Auletta
The inside account of a financial meltdown that reshaped Wall Street
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
by Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.
he Private Equity Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Deals Done from Sourcing to Exit
by Tamara Sakovska
Master the navigation of private equity deals from sourcing to exit with this comprehensive guide
Rare is the opportunity to chat with a legendary financial figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Hedgehogging represents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in general, hedge funds in particular, and how he has learned to find and profit from the best moneymaking opportunities in an eat-what-you-kill, cutthroat investment world.
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind
by John Coates
“Brilliant.” —David Brooks, The New York Times
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
by William Cohan
A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis.
“Why do big projects go wrong so often, and are there any lessons you can use when renovating your kitchen? Bent Flyvbjerg is the ‘megaproject’ expert and Dan Gardner brings the storytelling skills to How Big Things Get Done, with examples ranging from a Jimi Hendrix studio to the Sydney Opera House.”—Financial Times
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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“Whatever it takes”
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
by Benjamin Graham
This classic text is annotated to update Graham's timeless wisdom for today's market conditions.
Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs
by Joshua Rosenbaum & Joshua Pearl
An essential, all-in-one guide to investment banking and valuation, complete with downloadable models – this new edition reflects valuable contributions from Nasdaq and the global law firm Latham & Watkins LLP plus access to the online valuation models and course.
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Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government
by Paul A Volcker & Christine Harper
The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point.
The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale
by Simon Clark & Will Louch
In this compelling story of lies, greed and tarnished idealism, two Wall Street Journal reporters investigate a man who Bill Gates, Western governments, and other investors entrusted with billions of dollars to make profits and end poverty, but who now stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest, most brazen financial frauds ever.
King of Capital : The Remarkable Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman & Blackstone
by David Carey & John Edward Morris
The story of Steve Schwarzman, Blackstone, and a financial revolution, King of Capital is the greatest untold success story on Wall Street.
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The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
by William Cohan
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A tale of vaulting ambitions, explosive feuds, worldly mistresses, fabulous art collections, and enormous wealth—a story of high drama in the world of high finance. • 'Rips the roof off of one of Wall Street's most storied investment banks.' —Vanity Fair
Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use (Memo to the CEO)
by Orit Gadiesh & Hugh Macarthur
Private equity firms are snapping up brand-name companies and assembling portfolios that make them immense global conglomerates. They're often able to maximize investor value far more successfully than traditional public companies.
Two years in MBA school won't teach you how to double the market's return. Two hours with The Little Book That Beats the Market will.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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M&A Integration: How To Do It. Planning and delivering M&A integration for business success
by Danny Davis
Most firms of a certain size will turn to Mergers & Acquisitions in their search for growth, forcing almost all managers to face up to the challenge of integration at some point in their career. For many managers it is often their first and only time, and M&A integration is high on the list of things that many managers need to learn more about. According to many studies, 50 to 75% M&A transactions fail to deliver their expected value. One of the main reasons for failure is late or wrong integration, or bad integration management. There is a significant demand for more information on best practice in Post-Merger Integration.
Make the Deal: Negotiating Mergers and Acquisitions
by Christopher Harrison
A comprehensive introduction to today's M&A strategies
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
by Rana Foroohar
Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America?
A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
by Edward Thorp
The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street.
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
by Sebastian Mallaby
The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
by Gregory Zuckerman
The unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the algorithm–and made $23 billion doing it.
The world's top trader's reveal the secrets of their phenomenal success!
The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital
by Walter Finkel & David Greising
Ten Leading private investors share theirsecrets to maximum profitability
Walks you through every step of the process—from valuation to securities laws to closing and successful integration.
Mergers and Acquisitions Playbook: Lessons from the Middle-Market Trenches
by Mark A. Filippelli
The ultimate 'tricks of the trade' guide to mergers and acquisitions
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings
by Patrick A. Gaughan
The essential M&A primer, updated with the latest research and statistics
Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
by Dan McCrum
This is the stranger-than-fiction story of Wirecard, once a $30 billion tech darling, now a smoldering wreck, by the journalist who brought it crashing down, for lovers of Bad Blood and The Billion Dollar Whale.
Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle
by John Rolfe & Peter Troob
A hilarious insider's glimpse behind the scenes of DLJ, one of the hottest investment banks on Wall Street.
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
by Sebastian Mallaby
“The bright light shed by More Money Than God is particularly welcome. Mr. Mallaby... brings a keen sense of financial theory to his subject and a vivid narrative style.” —Wall Street Journal
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for The Thoughtful Investor
by Howard Marks
Legendary investor Howard Marks is chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, which has $100 billion under management. He is sought out by the world''s leading value investors and his client memos brim with insightful commentary and a time-tested, fundamental philosophy. Now for the first time, readers can benefit from Mark''s wisdom, concentrated into a single lifetime of experience and study, The Most Important Thing explains the keys to successful investment and the pitfalls that can destroy capital or ruin a career. Utilising passages from his memos to illustrate his ideas, Marks teaches by example, detailing the development of an investment philosophy that fully acknowledges the complexities of investing and the perils of the financial world. Brilliantly applying insight to today''s volatile markets, Marks offers a volume that is part memoir, part creed, with a number of broad takeaways.
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Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business
by Aswath Damodaran
How can a company that has never turned a profit have a multibillion dollar valuation? Why do some start-ups attract large investments while others do not? Aswath Damodaran, finance professor and experienced investor, argues that the power of story drives corporate value, adding substance to numbers and persuading even cautious investors to take risks. In business, there are the storytellers who spin compelling narratives and the number-crunchers who construct meaningful models and accounts. Both are essential to success, but only by combining the two, Damodaran argues, can a business deliver and sustain value.
The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders
by Jack Schwager
In The New Market Wizards, successful traders relate the financial strategies that have rocketed them to success. Asking questions that readers with an interest or involvement in the financial markets would love to pose to the financial superstars, Jack D. Schwager encourages these financial wizards to share their insights. Entertaining, informative, and invaluable, The New Market Wizards is destined to become another Schwager classic.
The New Tycoons : Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything
by Jason Kelly
What do Dunkin' Donuts, J. Crew, Toys 'R' Us, and Burger King have in common? They are all currently or just recently were owned, operated, and controlled by private equity firms. The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything takes the reader behind the scenes of these firms: their famous billionaire founders, the overlapping stories of their creation and evolution, and the outsized ambitions that led a group of clever bankers from small shops operating in a corner of Wall Street into powerhouse titans of capital. This is the story of the money and the men who handle it.
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Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con
by Guy Lawson
Born into one of America's most illustrious trading families, Sam Israel was determined to strike out on his own. After apprenticing with one of the greatest traders of the 1980s, he founded his own fast-growing hedge fund, promising investors extraordinary returns.
One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market
by Peter Lynch
More than one million copies have been sold of this seminal book on investing in which legendary mutual-fund manager Peter Lynch explains the advantages that average investors have over professionals and how they can use these advantages to achieve financial success.
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Longlisted for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
by Charlie Munger
From the legendary vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, lessons in investment strategy, philanthropy, and living a rational and ethical life.
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
by Patty McCord
Named by The Washington Post as one of the 11 Leadership Books to Read in 2018
The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond
by Connie Bruck
'Connie Bruck traces the rise of this empire with vivid metaphors and with a smooth command of high finance’s terminology.' —The New York Times
A comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world’s leading financial writers, The Price of Time explains our current global financial position and how we got here
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD
The Private Equity Playbook: Management's Guide to Working with Private Equity
by Adam Coffey
Private equity firms are on the rise and rapidly changing the game. Today more than 5,500 P.E. firms own tens of thousands of companies, so it is essential for CEOs and senior management executives to understand exactly how private equity firms operate. This invaluable resource can help you devise a winning P.E. game plan for the sale of your own company that offers you greater freedom and financial success. CEO Adam Coffey has almost twenty years of experience building businesses for private equity companies. In this authoritative yet approachable handbook, he covers:· The history and landscape of private equity· Ground rules for finding the right firm to partner with· Techniques for navigating the new governance· Strategies for continued growth in the private equity space· And more.The Private Equity Playbook provides all the coaching you’ll need to compete and win on this new playing field.
The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
by Morgan Housel
OVER 7 MILLION COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD… The Psychology of Money is the original bestselling classic from the author of the new book, Same as Ever.
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Quality Investing: Owning the Best Companies for the Long Term
by Lawrence Cunningham, Torkell T. Eide, Patrick Hargreaves
Quality. We all make judgments about it every day. Yet articulating a clear definition of quality in an investing context is challenging. This book addresses the challenge, and distills years of practical investing experience into a definitive account of this under-explored investment philosophy.
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Best Investment Guide That Money Can Buy
by Burton Malkiel
“A must-read for any investor.”―Browser
A renowned Harvard professor debunks prevailing orthodoxy with a new intellectual foundation and a practical pathway forward for a system that has lost its moral and ethical foundation.
'Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator' is a timeless classic that offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into the world of finance and trading. Written by Edwin Lefevre, this book tells the story of Jesse Livermore, a legendary speculator who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most successful and infamous traders of his time.
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Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It
by Scott Kupor
What are venture capitalists saying about your startup behind closed doors? And what can you do to influence that conversation?
Security Analysis, Seventh Edition: Principles and Techniques
by Benjamin Graham & David L. Dodd
The classic work from the “father of value investing”―fully updated for today’s generation of investors
This is the definitive account of the Royal Bank of Scotland scandal.
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
by David Enrich
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.
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System-and Themselves
by Andrew Ross Sorkin
The brilliantly reported New York Times bestseller that goes behind the scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington to give the definitive account of the crisis, the basis for the HBO film.
Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
by Satyajit Das
Traders Guns and Money is a wickedly comic exposé of the culture, games and pure deceptions played out every day in trading rooms around the world. And played out with other people’s money.
A “vivid” (Financial Times) rags-to-riches memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a “darkly funny” (Guardian) tale of Citibank’s one-time most profitable trader, and why he gave it all up
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Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies
by Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, David Wessels
McKinsey & Company's #1 best-selling guide to corporate valuation―the fully updated seventh edition
Explore the modern extension of value investing in this essential text from 'the guru to Wall Street’s gurus'
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
by Mariana Mazzucato
Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today''s financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight.
“An incisive history of the venture-capital industry.” ―New Yorker
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
by Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
Help take your startup to the next step with the new and revised edition of the popular book on the VC deal process―from the co-founders of the Foundry Group
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The Warren Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World's Greatest Investor
by Robert Hagstrom
'Simply the most important new stock book of the 1990s, to date. Buy it and read it.' -Kenneth L. Fisher Forbes
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by Roger Lowenstein
“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk and triumph, about hubris and failure.”—The New York Times
The Wisdom Of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return
by Mihir Desai
'Entertaining and informative. Desai takes us on a journey through the fundamentals of finance, from asset pricing to risk and risk management, via options, mergers, debt, and bankruptcy.' - John Lanchester, The New Yorker
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You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
by Joel Greenblatt
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