Business History
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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by:
Roger Lowenstein
4.20 avg rating — 30,804 ratings 5. 
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 — 41,834 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 
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,370 ratings 
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
by:
Brad Stone
4.14 avg rating — 76,316 ratings 
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by:
Niall Ferguson
3.90 avg rating — 30,145 ratings 17. 
All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
by:
Bethany McLean
4.04 avg rating — 7,655 ratings 18. 
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.12 avg rating — 39,123 ratings 
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House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
by:
William D. Cohan
3.94 avg rating — 6,953 ratings 
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In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and Wal-Mart, the World's Most Powerful Retailer
by:
Bob Ortega
4.04 avg rating — 113 ratings 23. 
Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop: How Two Real Guys Built a Business with a Social Conscience and a Sense of Humor
by:
Fred Lager
3.87 avg rating — 339 ratings 24. 
The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
by:
Scott Berkun
3.81 avg rating — 2,701 ratings 
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Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
by:
Tom Wright
4.07 avg rating — 37,094 ratings 
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Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business
by:
George Anders
4.36 avg rating — 399 ratings 30. 
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-inflation
by:
Adam Fergusson
3.79 avg rating — 1,962 ratings 31. 
Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff
by:
Erin Arvedlund
3.46 avg rating — 664 ratings 32. 
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating — 102,339 ratings
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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Gleb Tsipursky
4.14 avg rating — 252 ratings 
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The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World 3.86 avg rating — 11,873 ratings
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Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
by:
Nick Bilton
4.04 avg rating — 18,912 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 
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The Making of a Blockbuster: How Wayne Huizenga Built a Sports and Entertainment Empire from Trash, Grit, and Videotape
by:
Gail DeGeorge
3.96 avg rating — 108 ratings 44. 
The Truth About Markets: Their Genius, Their Limits, Their Follies
by:
John Kay
3.86 avg rating — 355 ratings 45. 
Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe
by:
Gillian Tett
3.89 avg rating — 3,456 ratings 46. 
Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
by:
Tim Parks
3.61 avg rating — 1,371 ratings 47. 
The Greatest Trade Ever: How John Paulson Bet Against the Markets and Made $20 Billion 4.07 avg rating — 7,396 ratings
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Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia & Florida Railroad
by:
H. Roger Grant
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 50. 
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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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America 4.31 avg rating — 3,407 ratings
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The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
by:
Howard Marks
4.33 avg rating — 15,601 ratings 
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Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
by:
Peter Robison
4.18 avg rating — 4,015 ratings 58. 
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy 3.73 avg rating — 2,164 ratings
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Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
by:
Brad Stone
4.08 avg rating — 6,804 ratings 60. 
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy 4.24 avg rating — 6,893 ratings
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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date 4.03 avg rating — 1,966 ratings
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Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld
by:
Jake Halpern
3.81 avg rating — 1,080 ratings 
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The King, the Crook, and the Gambler: The True Story of the South Sea Bubble and the Greatest Financial Scandal in History
by:
Malcolm Balen
3.89 avg rating — 107 ratings 67. 
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by:
Muhammad Yunus
4.12 avg rating — 10,336 ratings 68. 
The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars 4.06 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Incredible Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers 3.91 avg rating — 3,221 ratings
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The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
by:
William D. Cohan
3.86 avg rating — 1,196 ratings 70. 
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
by:
Ricardo Semler
4.10 avg rating — 4,687 ratings 72. 
Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry 3.85 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
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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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The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
by:
Ben Mezrich
3.59 avg rating — 16,994 ratings 74. 
High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars 4.06 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by:
David Kushner
4.29 avg rating — 19,678 ratings 77. 
The Nordstrom Way: The Inside Story of America's #1 Customer Service Company
by:
Robert Spector
3.91 avg rating — 784 ratings 78. 
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The Merchant Bankers: A Fascinating, Candid Chronicle of the Great Financial Families of the World
by:
Joseph Wechsberg
3.86 avg rating — 77 ratings 
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The House of Rothschild, Vol 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848
by:
Niall Ferguson
3.88 avg rating — 1,706 ratings 81. 
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Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams 3.84 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It
by:
Nicholas Dunbar
4.05 avg rating — 262 ratings 
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American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
by:
Bryce G. Hoffman
4.42 avg rating — 4,931 ratings 86. 
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 
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Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
by:
Peter B. Doran
4.15 avg rating — 665 ratings 90. 
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
by:
Parmy Olson
4.08 avg rating — 2,649 ratings 91. 
Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets
by:
Frank Partnoy
4.01 avg rating — 226 ratings 92. 
The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis
by:
Joshua Kosman
3.57 avg rating — 180 ratings 92. 
The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business
by:
Frank Rose
3.74 avg rating — 103 ratings 
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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
by:
Scott Rosenberg
3.71 avg rating — 3,093 ratings 
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A: How Faith, Cows, and Chicken Built an Iconic Brand
by:
Steve Robinson
4.06 avg rating — 866 ratings