Essential Finance Books
1. 
King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
by:
David Carey
4.04 avg rating — 5,118 ratings 2. 
Mastering The Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side
by:
Howard Marks
4.03 avg rating — 5,398 ratings 
4. 
Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
by:
William D. Cohan
3.85 avg rating — 1,800 ratings 5. 
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by:
Ron Chernow
3.96 avg rating — 12,218 ratings 
7. 
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger 4.41 avg rating — 16,017 ratings
8. 
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating — 69,695 ratings
9. 
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
by:
Howard Marks
4.33 avg rating — 15,604 ratings 
11. 
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
by:
Ray Dalio
4.27 avg rating — 15,912 ratings 12. 
The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America
by:
Warren Buffett
4.33 avg rating — 8,062 ratings 
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution 4.05 avg rating — 16,570 ratings
20. 
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
22. 
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
by:
David Enrich
4.07 avg rating — 6,285 ratings 23. 
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
by:
Peter Thiel
4.15 avg rating — 381,806 ratings 24. 
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by:
Roger Lowenstein
4.20 avg rating — 30,805 ratings 25. 
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Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff 4.13 avg rating — 909 ratings
27. 
Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports
by:
Howard Schilit
4.24 avg rating — 2,713 ratings 28. 
Damodaran on Valuation: Security Analysis for Investment and Corporate Finance
by:
Aswath Damodaran
4.29 avg rating — 466 ratings 29. 
Up Close and All In: Life Lessons from a Wall Street Warrior
by:
John Mack
4.34 avg rating — 560 ratings 30. 
Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle
by:
John Rolfe
3.97 avg rating — 5,961 ratings 
32. 
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
by:
Tom Wright
4.07 avg rating — 37,104 ratings 33. 
Discussion Materials: Tales of a Rookie Wall Street Investment Banker
by:
Bill Keenan
4.36 avg rating — 850 ratings 34. 
The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
by:
Jonathan A. Knee
3.58 avg rating — 839 ratings 35. 
Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley
by:
Patricia Beard
3.95 avg rating — 326 ratings 36. 
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021
by:
Alan S. Blinder
4.27 avg rating — 462 ratings 37. 
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 avg rating — 3,210 ratings 38. 
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M&A Titans: The Pioneers Who Shaped Wall Street's Mergers and Acquisitions Industry
by:
Brett Cole
3.67 avg rating — 73 ratings 41. 
42. 
Security Analysis, Seventh Edition: Principles and Techniques
by:
Benjamin Graham
4.30 avg rating — 9,683 ratings 
46. 
Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals
by:
John LeFevre
3.79 avg rating — 4,421 ratings