Financial Shenanigans
1. 
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by:
Bill Browder
4.44 avg rating — 104,277 ratings 2. 
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
by:
Tom Wright
4.07 avg rating — 37,094 ratings 3. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,374 ratings 
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
by:
Michael Lewis
4.15 avg rating — 109,198 ratings 6. 
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook
by:
Ben Mezrich
3.59 avg rating — 16,994 ratings 7. 
The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders
by:
Connie Bruck
4.09 avg rating — 4,360 ratings 
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by:
Bethany McLean
4.22 avg rating — 27,091 ratings 10. 
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by:
Roger Lowenstein
4.20 avg rating — 30,804 ratings 11. 
My Adventures with Your Money: George Graham Rice and the Golden Age of the Con Artist
by:
T.D. Thornton
3.73 avg rating — 81 ratings 12. 
Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions
by:
Ben Mezrich
3.89 avg rating — 4,526 ratings 13. 
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America 4.31 avg rating — 3,407 ratings
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by:
Adam Tooze
4.28 avg rating — 4,042 ratings 15. 
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves 4.15 avg rating — 41,835 ratings
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Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals
by:
John LeFevre
3.79 avg rating — 4,421 ratings 18. 
The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
by:
Turney Duff
3.97 avg rating — 5,584 ratings 20. 
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by:
Liaquat Ahamed
4.03 avg rating — 16,187 ratings 21. 
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A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation 3.92 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
by:
Satyajit Das
3.85 avg rating — 1,906 ratings 26. 
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street 4.20 avg rating — 16,390 ratings
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Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
by:
Fredric Dannen
3.95 avg rating — 954 ratings 28. 
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God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
by:
Gerald Posner
3.98 avg rating — 1,507 ratings 30. 
The Spider Network: How a Math Genius and a Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History
by:
David Enrich
4.07 avg rating — 6,285 ratings 
31. 
Corporate Lunacy; Behind the Scenes of America's Worst Gas Station, Revised Edition
by:
Rob Clooney
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 31. 
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
by:
Richard White
4.17 avg rating — 1,574 ratings 31. 
The Mindful Millionaire: Overcome Scarcity, Experience True Prosperity, and Create the Life You Really Want
by:
Leisa Peterson
3.45 avg rating — 165 ratings 
36. 
American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
by:
Casey Michel
4.13 avg rating — 683 ratings 38. 
Capital Offenses: Business Crime and Punishment in America's Corporate Age
by:
Samuel Buell
3.79 avg rating — 48 ratings 38. 
The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale
by:
Simon Clark
4.19 avg rating — 2,797 ratings 40. 
Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons 3.88 avg rating — 514 ratings
40. 
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
by:
Karen Piper
3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings 
40. 
Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con
by:
Guy Lawson
3.72 avg rating — 868 ratings 44. 
The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis 4.02 avg rating — 1,023 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
by:
Chris Hamby
4.31 avg rating — 753 ratings 
47. 
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
by:
David Enrich
3.97 avg rating — 5,455 ratings 48. 
The Wolf of Wall Street (The Wolf of Wall Street, #1)
by:
Jordan Belfort
3.75 avg rating — 38,380 ratings 48. 
Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
by:
Oliver Bullough
4.19 avg rating — 6,773 ratings 50. 
The Eye: An Insider's Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art 3.43 avg rating — 72 ratings
50. 
The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup
by:
Evan Hughes
4.05 avg rating — 1,471 ratings 
52. 
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
by:
Rose George
3.83 avg rating — 3,838 ratings 54. 
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
by:
Kevin Phillips
3.73 avg rating — 1,037 ratings 55. 
Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite
by:
Jake Bernstein
3.74 avg rating — 1,486 ratings 
57. 
The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt
by:
Peter Clarke
3.66 avg rating — 29 ratings 58. 
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
by:
Mervyn A. King
4.07 avg rating — 2,180 ratings 59. 
Democrazy: A True Story of Weird Politics, Money, Madness, and Finger Food
by:
Trey Radel
3.69 avg rating — 67 ratings 60. 
You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup
by:
Peter Doggett
4.12 avg rating — 2,706 ratings 61. 
A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
by:
Jane Smiley
3.89 avg rating — 795 ratings 62. 
Behind the Hedges: Big Money and Power Politics at the University of Georgia
by:
Richard Whitt
3.67 avg rating — 36 ratings 63. 
Rogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
by:
Michael Gross
3.50 avg rating — 569 ratings 64. 
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition 4.22 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
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Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists
by:
Steven Bach
4.01 avg rating — 974 ratings 66. 
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.43 avg rating — 12,040 ratings 67. 
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Lucifer's Banker Uncensored: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy 4.01 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
by:
Kevin Phillips
3.89 avg rating — 2,769 ratings 69. 
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
by:
Javier Blas
4.33 avg rating — 11,075 ratings 
72. 
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
by:
Eric Jay Dolin
3.86 avg rating — 533 ratings 73. 
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
by:
Lawrence Lessig
4.18 avg rating — 2,849 ratings 
75. ![Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-market America [Hardcover]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1387739154i/19927530._SX100_.jpg)
Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-market America [Hardcover]
by:
Maureen Stanton
3.94 avg rating — 596 ratings 76. 
Money Mania: Booms, Panics, and Busts from Ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown
by:
Bob Swarup
3.78 avg rating — 77 ratings 77. 
Border Insecurity: Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren't Making Us Safer
by:
Sylvia Longmire
3.88 avg rating — 43 ratings 78. 
Secrets Never Lie: The Death of Sara Tokars--A Southern Tragedy of Money, Murder, and Innocence Betrayed
by:
R.R. McDonald
3.20 avg rating — 44 ratings 79. 
Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel
by:
Maryjean Wall
3.39 avg rating — 140 ratings 80. 
Wildcat Currency: How the Virtual Money Revolution Is Transforming the Economy 3.62 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia
by:
Lukas Straumann
4.55 avg rating — 107 ratings 82. 
Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us
by:
Kabir Sehgal
3.48 avg rating — 385 ratings 
84. 
Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900
by:
Jack Beatty
3.66 avg rating — 138 ratings 85. 
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by:
Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,727 ratings 86. 
Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown 3.55 avg rating — 258 ratings
87. 
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.69 avg rating — 185 ratings
88. 
Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
by:
Michael Kranish
3.88 avg rating — 1,943 ratings 89. 
The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
by:
Lee van der Voo
3.94 avg rating — 101 ratings 90. 
Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
by:
Steve Early
3.65 avg rating — 75 ratings 91. 
Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living
by:
Manjula Martin
3.79 avg rating — 1,162 ratings 92. 
Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan
by:
Lynne B. Sagalyn
3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings 93. 
Godfather of the Music Business: Morris Levy (American Made Music Series)
by:
Richard Carlin
3.79 avg rating — 53 ratings 94. 
Dealing Death and Drugs: The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico (Cinco Puntos Checkpoint Series)
by:
Beto O'Rourke
3.96 avg rating — 104 ratings 95. 
The Nuclear Terrorist: His Financial Backers and Political Patrons in the US and Abroad
by:
Robert Gleason
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings 
97. 
The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
by:
Jeff Benedict
4.05 avg rating — 4,257 ratings 98. 
The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game
by:
Mary Pilon
3.71 avg rating — 1,566 ratings 
100. 
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
by:
Bob Woodward
3.80 avg rating — 2,500 ratings