21 Best nonfiction books like Play It Right: The Remarkable Story of a Gambler Who Beat the Odds on Wall Street by Kamal Gupta

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Play It Right: The Remarkable Story of a Gambler Who Beat the Odds on Wall Street

By: Kamal Gupta

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A real-life underdog tale of one man turning the tables on the casinos and Wall Street without sell…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Play It Right: The Remarkable Story of a Gambler Who Beat the Odds on Wall Street by Kamal Gupta , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

By: Roger Lowenstein , Edwin Lefèvre

4.18

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1923, "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" is the most widely read, highly recomm… read more

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  • nonfiction
"If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month. But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing"

-Roger Lowenstein, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

"No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play."

-Roger Lowenstein, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

"Old Baron Rothschild’s recipe for wealth winning applies with greater force than ever to speculation. Somebody asked him if making money in the Bourse was not a very difficult matter and he replied t…"

-Roger Lowenstein, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

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2. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

By: Sebastian Mallaby

4.10

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Based on author Sebastian Mallaby's unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

By: Michael Lewis

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

#1 New York TimesBestseller -- With a new Afterword In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a … read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Liar's Poker

By: Michael Lewis

4.15

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael L… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Buy potatoes,"

-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

"The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?"

-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"

-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

"A commercial banker wasn’t any more a troublemaker than Dagwood Bumstead."

-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

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5. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

By: Simon Singh

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demon… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

Cover of Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel

7. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke

8. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

By: Annie Duke

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in footbal… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

9. 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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  • nonfiction
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10. How to Invest: Masters on the Craft

By: David M. Rubenstein

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A master class on investing featuring conversations with the biggest nam… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder

12. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

By: Bill Browder

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction by David Enrich

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

By: David Enrich

3.97

Format: 432 pages, ebook

New York Times finance editor David Enrich's explosive exposé of the most scandalous bank in the wo… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All by Mary  Childs

14. The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All

By: Mary Childs

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the host of NPR’s Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged inv… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of What I Learned About Investing from Darwin by Pulak Prasad

15. What I Learned About Investing from Darwin

By: Pulak Prasad

4.58

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The investment profession is in a state of crisis. The vast majority of equity fund managers are un… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope

16. Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power

By: Bradley Hope

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of t… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend by Joshua M. Greene

17. Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend

By: Joshua M. Greene

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Winner – Best of Los Angeles Award's "Best Holocaust Book - 2021" “A must-read that hopefully will… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Where the Money Is: Value Investing in the Digital Age by Adam Seessel

18. Where the Money Is: Value Investing in the Digital Age

By: Adam Seessel

4.21

Format: 272 pages, ebook

“One of the best books I have read on investing in years. ” —Bill Ackman, founder and CEO, Pershing… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Liar's Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons by Vicky Ward

19. The Liar's Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons

By: Vicky Ward

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Inside the world of the real Great Gatsby of New York real estate Harry Macklowe is one of the most… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle by Scott Wapner

20. When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle

By: Scott Wapner

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The inside story of the clash of two of Wall Street's biggest, richest, toughest, most aggressive p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Play It Right: The Remarkable Story of a Gambler Who Beat the Odds on Wall Street

By: Kamal Gupta

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A real-life underdog tale of one man turning the tables on the casinos and Wall Street without sell… read more

Similar categories in Kamal Gupta's Play It Right: The Remarkable Story of a Gambler Who Beat the Odds on Wall Street book and Kamal Gupta's Play It Right: The Remarkable Story of a Gambler Who Beat the Odds on Wall Street

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

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Mary Childs

3.80

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Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power

Bradley Hope

4.26

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Joshua M. Greene

4.28

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Morgan Housel

4.19

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Zeke Faux

4.26

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Michael Lewis

3.80

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Gary Stevenson

4.26

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