21 must-read finance books like The Big Short: by Michael Lewis by aBookaDay

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The Big Short: by Michael Lewis

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4.56

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

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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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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • 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

Cover of When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein

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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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
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3. 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
  • finance
  • business
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4. 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
  • finance
  • business
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5. 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
  • finance
  • business
"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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6. Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street

By: Sheelah Kolhatkar

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The story of billionaire trader Steven Cohen, the rise and fall of his hedge fund SAC Capital, and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
Cover of The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders by Connie Bruck

7. 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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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
Cover of 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

8. 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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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business

9. 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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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
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10. Moneyball

By: Michael Lewis

4.26

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

11. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

By: Bill Browder

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder o… read more

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12. 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
  • finance
  • business
"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

13. The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History

By: Gregory Zuckerman

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing … read more

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14. 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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15. 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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16. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

By: Michael Lewis

4.09

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waite… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them."

-Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

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17. 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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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
"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

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18. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

By: Michael Lewis

4.34

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the … read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. 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
  • finance
  • business
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20. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

By: John Carreyrou

4.41

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar start… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"It just feels like you want us to give you the formula for Coke in order to convince you that it doesn’t contain arsenic,"

-John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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21. 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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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
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22. The Big Short: by Michael Lewis

By: aBookaDay

4.56

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

Warning : This is an independent addition to The Big Short , meant to enhance your experience of th… read more

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23. 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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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
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24. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

By: Gregory Zuckerman

4.03

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, answers the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
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25. 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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  • finance
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26. 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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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
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27. The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

By: Daniel Yergin

4.20

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Yea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"У 1976 в газеті "Вечірній Ленінград" з'явилася стаття про досі невідомого дзюдоїста, що переміг у змаганнях і здобув звання чемпіона. "Люди ще почують про нього в майбутньому", передбачало видання. Т…"

-Daniel Yergin, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

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

28. 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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  • nonfiction
  • business
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29. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

By: Michael Lewis

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more

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  • business
"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Cover of Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork by Reeves  Wiedeman

30. 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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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
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31. 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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27 must-read nonfiction books like The Big Short: by Michael Lewis by aBookaDay

Transform Your Habits

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

4.30

Transform Your Habits

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Roger Lowenstein

4.20

Transform Your Habits

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

Sebastian Mallaby

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

Michael Lewis

3.50

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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

Andrew Ross Sorkin

4.54

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

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Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

4.40

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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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