Built on a Lie: The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England’s Money
By: Owen Walker
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By: Michael Lewis
4.30
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more
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- business
"Time is a variable continuum."-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
2. 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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"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
3. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
By: Nick Bilton
4.40
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedro… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- business
"It was time to bring in the people with the calculators."-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
"This is one of those rare government buildings in which someone who uses a calculator for a living can wield more power than a person who carries a gun."-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
4. 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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- nonfiction
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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
5. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- politics
- biography
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
6. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
7. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
8. 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
- finance
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9. 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
- biography
- finance
- business
10. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell
By: John Preston
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell f… read more
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- biography
- politics
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- nonfiction
- business
11. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- politics
- biography
- nonfiction
12. 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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13. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- finance
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14. Taxtopia: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game
By: The Rebel Accountant
4.37
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
In TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- finance
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15. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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16. 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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- nonfiction
- business
17. Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
By: Dan McCrum
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financi… read more
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18. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
By: Tom Burgis
3.80
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more
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"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
19. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
By: Andy Greenberg
4.50
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more
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- nonfiction
- finance
- business
20. 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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- nonfiction
- business
21. 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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- biography
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22. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
By: Simon Kuper
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
23. Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis
By: Scott Patterson
3.78
Format: 336 pages, ebook
A Wall Street Journal bestseller Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fasci… read more
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24. The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale
By: Simon Clark
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Arif Naqvi was charismatic, inspiring, and self-made—all the qualities of a successful business lea… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
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25. The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War
By: Geoff White
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment was brutally hacked, with thousands of computers wiped and the… read more
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- nonfiction
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26. Madoff Talks: Uncovering the Untold Story Behind the Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme in History
By: Jim Campbell
3.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“The authoritative source on one of history's most notorious Ponzi schemes.” ― Fortune The definit… read more
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- biography
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27. Damaged Goods: The Inside Story of Sir Philip Green, the Collapse of BHS and the Death of the High Street
By: Oliver Shah
4.17
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
A story of corruption, ego, greed and one terrible misjudgment. In this jaw-dropping expose, Oliver… read more
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- biography
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28. In the Thick of It
By: Alan Duncan
3.61
Format: 594 pages, Kindle Edition
As Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Alan Duncan was once described as Boris Johnson’s ‘poop… read more
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29. Built on a Lie: The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England’s Money
By: Owen Walker
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The definitive account of the Neil Woodford scandal from the award-winning FT journalist who first … read more
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30. Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
By: Parmy Olson
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot calle… read more
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31. Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con
By: Jared Bibler
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Born in Massachusetts, Jared Bibler relocated to Iceland in 2004 only to find himself in the middle… read more
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