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Financial Crisis Books
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.30 — 173,373 ratings — published 2010
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.16 — 44,299 ratings — published 2009
All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,862 ratings — published 2010
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.90 — 47,837 ratings — published 2011
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,435 ratings — published 2014
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,486 ratings — published 2009
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,120 ratings — published 2010
Liar's Poker (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 113,979 ratings — published 1989
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,115 ratings — published 2013
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,074 ratings — published 2000
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,136 ratings — published 2010
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,438 ratings — published 2010
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,598 ratings — published 2010
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,079 ratings — published 2010
Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,120 ratings — published 2015
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,320 ratings — published 2018
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,767 ratings — published 2009
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,935 ratings — published 2008
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,016 ratings — published 2009
Fool's Gold (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,522 ratings — published 2009
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,548 ratings — published 2009
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,991 ratings — published 2009
I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,410 ratings — published 2009
Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,024 ratings — published 2008
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.22 — 28,634 ratings — published 2003
Conspiracy of Fools (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,495 ratings — published 2005
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,564 ratings — published 2011
Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,596 ratings — published 2010
The End of Wall Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,222 ratings — published 2010
Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,495 ratings — published 2009
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 91,885 ratings — published 2014
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,385 ratings — published 1978
Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.91 — 495 ratings — published 2012
End This Depression Now! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,895 ratings — published 2012
Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,465 ratings — published 2011
In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,089 ratings — published 2009
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,679 ratings — published 2020
Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.84 — 979 ratings — published 2019
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,232 ratings — published 2016
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,341 ratings — published 2009
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.29 — 45,162 ratings — published 1989
The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned—and Have Still to Learn—from the Financial Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.95 — 526 ratings — published 2014
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,271 ratings — published 2014
The Great Crash 1929 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,557 ratings — published 1955
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,232 ratings — published 2007
Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,850 ratings — published 2010
Slapped by the Invisible Hand: The Panic of 2007 (Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.06 — 127 ratings — published 2010
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,178 ratings — published 2009
The Glass Hotel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 3.69 — 199,899 ratings — published 2020
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as financial-crisis)
avg rating 4.07 — 38,988 ratings — published 2018
“Wall Street's contradictory approach to shareholder value and bull markets sets the stage for a financial crisis.”
― Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
― Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
“Rumpus" was a favourite PJ-word; one he'd employed to describe a recent tabloid splash about his friendship with a lap dancer. It was also a term he'd used in reference to both 9/11 and the global recession.”
― Real Tigers
― Real Tigers
