Rogue Trader
By: Nick Leeson
3.93
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
When Leeson was arrested in 1995 for bringing Barings Bank to its knees, it initially seemed as if …
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1. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
By: Randall Munroe
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer… read more
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2. Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
By: Richard Branson
3.77
Format: 67 pages,
"Oh, screw it, let's do it." That's the philosophy that has allowed Richard Branson, in slightly mo… read more
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3. Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider
By: Brian Cruver
4.15
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Brian Cruver was a firsthand witness to the disturbing, surreal, and hilarious moments of Enron's l… read more
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4. Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
By: Johan Norberg
3.79
Format: 32 pages,
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- nonfiction
- economics
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5. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
By: Ben Mezrich
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An exclusive blackjack club came up with a system to take the worldUs most sophisticated casinos fo… read more
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6. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
4.54
Format: None pages,
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the g… read more
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7. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
By: Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Mengave readers the full s… read more
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8. Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds
By: Ben Mezrich , Semyon Dukach
4.73
Format: None pages,
He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly… read more
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9. The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
By: None
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller The Buy Side, by former Galleon Group trader Turney Duff, portrays an aft… read more
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10. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
By: Bryan Burrough , John Helyar
4.27
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at… read more
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- history
- biography
- finance
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"With every girl there was a moment before you broke up when you knew - you just knew - that if you left her right then, you would never make up."-Bryan Burrough, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
"Something had to be done fast. A letter: that was the answer. As many lawyers do when nursing a grievance, Nusbaum knew it was important to get their anger down into writing. As Cohen and the investm…"-Bryan Burrough, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
11. The Firm
By: John Grisham
2.57
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert and Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beau… read more
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12. The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance
By: Adharanand Finn
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying look inside the wild world of extreme distance running. Once the reserve of only… read more
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13. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
By: Javier Blas
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more
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"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
14. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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- true crime
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- economics
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15. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
By: Tom Wright
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters, Bil… read more
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16. The Trading Game: A Confession
By: Gary Stevenson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more
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17. The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal
By: Duncan Mavin
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of one of the superstars of global FinTech, Lex Greensill, and his dramatic fall f… read more
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18. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- economics
- business
19. Rogue Trader
By: Nick Leeson
3.93
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
When Leeson was arrested in 1995 for bringing Barings Bank to its knees, it initially seemed as if … read more
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20. Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
By: Reeves Wiedeman
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of WeWork and its CEO, Adam Neumann, which tells the remarkable saga of one of the… read more
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21. Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
By: Robin Wigglesworth
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the Financial Times's global finance correspondent, the incredible true story of the iconoclas… read more
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