A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
By: Patrick Robinson , Lawrence G. McDonald
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened…
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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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"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. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
By: Roger Lowenstein
4.20
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk … read more
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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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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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"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
5. The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders
By: Connie Bruck
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He i… read more
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6. The World Without Us
By: Alan Weisman
4.09
Format: 296 pages,
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers… read more
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7. 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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8. 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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9. On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
By: Henry M. Paulson Jr.
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
When Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was appointed in 2006 to become the nation's ne… read more
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10. A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
By: Patrick Robinson , Lawrence G. McDonald
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened… read more
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11. Shogun, Part 2
By: James Clavell
3.84
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
"...Shogun beshe nai-visshiia rang, koito niakoi sm'rten mozheshe da dostigne v Iaponiia. Shogun oz… read more
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12. All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
By: Bethany McLean , Joe Nocera
3.11
Format: 216 pages,
"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here." -Shakespeare, The Tempest As soon as the financial cr… read more
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13. The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
By: Kirsten Grind
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
Based on reporting for which the author was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Gerald … read more
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14. Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
By: None
3.86
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama's secretary… read more
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15. 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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"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
16. Den of Thieves
By: James B. Stewart
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thievestells the full story of the insider-trading scan… read more
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18. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
By: Michael Lewis
3.93
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a sim… read more
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19. The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
By: Ben Mezrich
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Post! From one of our most innovative and celebrated aut… read more
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"Because so many people were betting against GameStop —and brick-and-mortar retail in general — the overall short position was enormous, almost comically so. At certain points over the past six months…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
"And as a long-short fund, he'd also been obligated to take short positions — betting against companies — which was a tactic that, to most experts in finance, was uncontroversial. The thinking went, w…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
"Which meant, if somehow GameStop did start to go up, the people who had shorted the company would begin to feel pressure to buy; the more the stock went up, the heavier that pressure became. As the s…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
"Keith was sophisticated enough to understand the inherent risk of options; buying options wasn't as dangerous as short selling, because your potential for loss was capped, because you could always le…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
20. 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
21. 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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22. The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
By: Dana Mattioli
4.10
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in in… read more
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23. 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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24. 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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25. The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street
By: Sujeet Indap
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
It was the most brutal corporate restructuring in Wall Street history. The 2015 bankruptcy brawl fo… read more
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26. 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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27. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
28. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career
By: Kristi Coulter
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more
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29. How to Listen When Markets Speak: Risks, Myths, and Investment Opportunities in a Radically Reshaped Economy
By: Lawrence McDonald
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestselling author and leading expert on market risk argues that seismic shifts in… read more
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30. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
By: Peter Robison
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cu… read more
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31. The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind
By: Joe Nocera
3.92
Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition
From the collaborators behind the modern business classic All the Devils are Here comes a damning i… read more
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