Readings in business, corporate finance, banking, accounting as well as the history of finance.

I also love finance. Not that bankers have done much to distinguish themselves in recent history. But understanding finance is a prerequisite to appreciating how so much of the world functions—how lives can be vastly improved but are so often made worse. It was during the 2008-2009 financial crisis that I was so shocked by how little people understood about what was happening. While my career in banking was over, my career in finance was just beginning.

Finance & Business

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Accounting	Robert Dixon/Harold Arnett
Ahead of the Curve	Joseph H. Ellis
The Alchemy of Finance	George Soros
All About Derivatives	Michael Durbin
All About Stocks	Esme Faerber
The Analysis and Use of Financial Statements	White, Sondhi and Fried
Angel Investing for Entrepreneurs	Mark van Osnabrugge
Animal Spirits	George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
Applied Corporate Finance	Aswath Damodaran
The Art of Asset Allocation	David M. Darst
Bad Money	Kevin Phillips
The Bank Credit Analysis Handbook	Jonathan Golin
The Bank Director's Handbook	Benton E. Gup
The Bankers' New Clothes	Anat Admati & Martin Hellwig
Banking Regulation--Its Purpose, Implementation and Effects	Kenneth Spong
Basic Economics	Thomas Sowell
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains	Antony Lewis
The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism	John C. Bogle
Beating the Business Cycle	Lakshman Achuthan
Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts	James J. Valentine, CFA
Beyond Diversification	Sebastian Page
Biography of the Dollar	Craig Karmin
The Black Swan	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Bloomberg by Bloomberg	Michael Bloomberg
The Bond Book	Annette Thau
Bond Markets, Analysis and Strategies	Frank Fabozzi
The Book of Satoshi	Phil Champagne
Buffettology	Mary Buffett
A Bull in China	Jim Rogers
Capital Ideas	Peter Bernstein
Capital Ideas Evolving	Peter Bernstein
CEO Logic	C. Ray Johnson
The Complete Guide to Publicity	Joe Marconi
Contrarian Investment Strategies	David Dreman
Corporate Finance	Robert Hamilton
Corporations	Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe
China Inc.	Ted C. Fishman
Collateralized Debt Obligations & Structured Finance	Janet M. Tavakoli
Confessions of a Street Addict	James Cramer
Corporate Finance	Aswath Damodaran
Corporate Governance	John Colley et. al
Creating Shareholder Value	Alfred Rappaport
Creative Cash Flow Reporting	Charles Mulford & Eugene Comiskey
Credit Risk Measurement	Anthony Saunders
Crisis Economics	Noriel Roubini
Cryptoassets	Burniske & Tatar
Damodaran on Valuation	Aswath Damodaran
The Dark Side of Valuation	Aswath Damodaran
Deals from Hell	Robert F. Bruner
Deal Terms	Alex Wilmerding
Defi and the Future of Finance	Campbell Harvey et. al.
Diamond Dollars--The Economics of Winning in Baseball	Vince Gennaro
Direct from Dell	Michael Dell
The Directors' Handbook	Thomas J. Dougherty
Distressed Debt Analysis	Stephen G. Moyer
The Dollar Crisis	Richard Duncan
Don't Count On It	John C. Bogle
Dynamic Asset Allocation	James Picerno
e CFO	Read, Ross et al.
Economics	Jeffrey Sachs
Economic Indicators	Bernard Baumohl
The Economists' Hour--False Prophets, Free Markets, and the
Fracture of Society	Binyamin Appelbaum
Efficiently Inefficient--How Smart Money Invest and Market
Prices are Determined	Lasse Heje Pedersen
Endgame	John Maudlin and Jonathan Tepper
The End of Poverty	Paul Krugman
The Endowment Model of Investing	Martin L. Leibowitz
The Essentials of Risk Management (2nd)	Crouhy, Galai and Mark
Equity Asset Valuation	Stowe, Robinson et. al
Equity Asset Valuation (2nd ed)	Pinto, Henry et. Al
Essentials of Economics	Young and O'Byrne
The Essentials of Finance and Accounting
for Nonfinancial Managers	Edward Fields
EVA and Value-Based Management	Walter Wessels
Expectations Investing	Mauboussin & Rappaport
Fair Trade for All	Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton
Fault Lines	Raghuram G. Rajan
Fed-Watching	Brian Kettell
Financial Accounting and Reporting	Haskins, Ferris et al.
Financial Instruments & Institutions
Accounting and Disclosure Rules	Stephen G. Ryan
Financial Intelligence	Berman, Knight and Case
Financial Modeling third edition	Simon Benninga
Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management	Jack Alexander
Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis	Stickney and Brown
Financial Shenanigans	Howard Schilit
Finance for Nonfinancial Managers	Shoffer, Shelly and Cooke
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team	Patrick Lencioni
The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing	Pat Dorsey
Fixed Income Securities--Tools for Today's Markets	Bruce Tuckman and Angel Serrat
Fixing Global Finance	Martin Wolf
Fooled By Randomness	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Fortune Tellers	Howard Kurtz
Franchise Value and the Price/Earnings Ratio	Martin Leibowitz/Stanley Kogelman
Freakonomics	Steven Levitt/Stephen Dubner
From Asian to Global Financial Crisis	Andrew Sheng
The Future for Investors	Jeremy Siegel
Getting off Track	John B. Taylor
Good to Great	Jim Collins
Greenspan's Bubbles	William Fleckenstein
Guerilla Marketing Attack	Jay Levinson
The Hard Thing About Hard Things--Building a Business
When There Are No Easy Answers	Ben Horowitz
The Hollywood Economist	Edward Jay Epstein
The Hong Kong Advantage	Michael Enright
How the Economy Works	Roger Farmer
How Finance Works--The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart
About the Numbers	Mihir A. Desai
How to Read a Financial Report	John A. Tracy
Inevitable Surprises	Peter Schwartz
In Fed We Trust	David Wessel
Inside the Yield Book	Sidney Homer/Martin Leibowitz
The Intelligent Asset Allocator	William Bernstein
The Intelligent Investor	Benjamin Graham
Intuitive Biostatistics--A Nonmathematical Guide to Statistical Thinking	Harvey Motulsky
Investing Amid Low Expected Returns	Antil Ilmanen
Investing in REITS (4th ed.)	Ralph L. Block
Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management	Frank Reilly/Keith Brown
Investment Banking—Valuation, LBOs, M&A and IPOs	Rosenbaum and Pearl
Jack Welch and the GE Way	Robert Slater
Kellogg on Marketing	Dawn Iacobucci, Editor
The Little Book that Beats the Market	Joel Greenblatt
The Little Book of Economics	Greg Ip
The Little Bood of Valuation	Aswath Damodaran
The Logic of Subchapter K	Laura and Noel Cunningham
Losing My Virginity	Richard Branson
Making Capital Budgeting Decisions	Hazel Johnson
Market Sense and Nonsense	Jack Schwager
The McKinsey Way	Ethan Rasiel
Measuring and Controlling Interest Risk and Credit Risk	Fabozzi, Mann & Choudhry
Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructurings	Patrick Gaughan
The Mind of the CEO	Jeffrey Garten
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets A Fractal
View of Financial Turbulence	Benoit Mandelbrot
Misbehaving--The Making of Behavioral Economics	Richard H. Thaler
The Monk and the Riddle	Randy Komisar
Money Changes Everything--How Finance Made Civilization Possible	William N. Goetzmann
The Most Important Thing	Howard Marks
My Life as a Quant--Reflections on Physics and Finance	Emanuel Derman
The Mystery of Banking	Murray Rothbard
Naked Economics	Charles Wheelan
Naked Economics--Revised and Updated	Charles Wheelan
Naked Statistics	Charles Wheelan
Narrative and Numbers—The Value of Stories in Business	Aswath Damodaran
Nudge—The Final Edition	Thaler and Sunstein
The Only Three Questions that Count	Ken Fisher
Passport to Profits	Mark Mobius
Pioneering Portfolio Management	David Swensen
Popularity--A Bridge Between Classical and Behavioral Finance	Roger Ibbotson et al.
The Practice of Lending—A Guide to Credit Analysis and Credit Risk	Yhip and Alagheband
Predicting the Markets	Edward Yardeni
A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold	Peter L. Bernstein
Principles of Statistics	M.G. Bulmer
Private Equity Deals	Ted Seides
Probability and Statistics for Finance	Fabozzi et al.
The Psychology of Money	Morgan Housel
Quality of Earnings	Thornton O'Glove
The Quest for Value	G. Bennett Stewart, III
Radical Marketing	Sam Hill/Glen Rifkin
A Random Walk Down Wall Street	Burton Malkiel
Rational Expectations--Asset Allocation for Investing Adults	William J. Bernstein
Real Estate Finance and Investments	Brueggeman and Fisher
Real Estate Finance for Investment Properties	Steve Berges
The Recurrent Crisis in Corp Governance	Paul Macavoy and Ira Millstein
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator	Jon D. Markman
Repositioning Asia	Kotler and Kartajaya
Running On Empty	Peter Peterson
The Road to CEO	Sharon Voros
The Second Curve	Ian Morrison
The Secrets of Economic Indicators	Bernard Baumohl
Secrets of Sand Hill Road--Venture Capital and How to Get It	Scott Kupor
Security Analysis (Seventh edition)	Benjamin Graham & David Dodd
Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have
Damaged America and the World	Jeff Madrick
The Shareholder Value Myth	Lynn Stout
Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms—How to Predict True
Macroeconomic Risk	Carlsson-Szlezak and Swartz
The Signal and the Noise--Why So Many Predictions Fail
But Some Don't	Nate Silver
The Six Sigma Revolution	Georges Eckes
Stabilizing an Unstable Economy	Hyman Minsky
Statistics	David Freedman
Statistics and Finance: An Introduction	David Rupert
Stigum's Money Market	Marcia Stigum
Stocks for the Long Run (6th ed.)	Jeremy Siegel
Structured Products and Hybrid Securities	Satyajit Das
Term Sheets & Valuations	Alex Wilmerding
Toward a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics	Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald
Trading Realities	Jeff Auden
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy	Pietra Rivoli
The Undercover Economist	Tim Harford
Understandable Economics	Howard Yaruss
Understanding Regression Analysis	Larry Schroder, et al
Unlocking the Secrets of the Fed--How Monetary Policy
Affects the Economy	David M. Jones
Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation	Andrew Metrick
Valuation for Mergers, Buyouts and Restructurings	Enrique Arzac
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies	McKinsey & Company
Value Investing from Graham to Buffett	Bruce Greenwald
Value The Four Cornerstones of Corp Fin	McKinsey & Company
Venture Capital Investing	David Gladstone
Venture Capital Handbook	David Gladstone
The Wall Street MBA	Reuben Advani
Wall Street On Sale	Timothy Vick
The Warren Buffet Way	Robert Hagstrom, Jr.
When Markets Collide	Mohamed El-Erian
Wisdom of the CEO	G. William Dauphinais
The World is Curved	David M. Smick
Yield Curve Analysis	Livingston Douglas
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius	Joel Greenblatt
7 Powers—The Foundations of Business Strategy	Hamilton
10 ½ Lessons from Experience	Paul Marshall

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Financial History

After the Music Stopped--The Financial Crisis, the Response,
and the Work Ahead	Alan S. Blinder
Against the Gods--The Remarkable Story of Risk	Peter Bernstein
The Age of Cryptocurrency--How Bitcoin and Digital Money
Are Challenging the Global Economic Order	Paul Vigna and Michael Casey
The Age of Oversupply--Overcoming the Greatest Challenge
to the Global Economy	Daniel Alpert
The Age of Turbulence	Alan Greenspan
All the Devils Are Here	Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
All the Presidents' Bankers--The Hidden Alliances that Drive
American Power	Nomi Prins
The Ascent of Money--A Financial History of the World	Niall Ferguson
Asia Falling?	Callum Henderson
Asia Rising	Jim Rohwer
Austerity--The History of a Dangerous Idea	Mark Blyth
Bad Blood--Secrets and Lies at a Silicon Valley Startup	John Carreyou
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global
Crisis of Capitalism	Kevin Phillips
Banker to the Poor	Alan Jolis and Muhammad Yunus
Banker to the World	William R. Rhodes
The Battle of Bretton Woods	Benn Steil
Ben Bernanke's Fed	Ethan S. Harris
Beyond Greed and Fear	Hersh Shefrin
The Big Short	Michael Lewis
The Bitcoin Standard	Saifedean Ammous
Boomerang	Michael Lewis
Bubble Man	Peter Hartcher
Capitalism in America	Greenspan and Wooldridge
Capital in the Twenty-First Century	Thomas Piketty
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy	Joseph Schumpeter
The Changing World Order	Ray Dalio
Confidence Game--How Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff	Christine S. Richard
Conspiracy of Fools	James B. Stewart
The Courage to Act--A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath	Ben S. Bernanke
Crash Landing—The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies
Survived An Economy On The Brink	Liz Hoffman
The Cult of We—WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion	Brown and	Farrell
Currency Wars	James Rickards
A Demon of Our Own Design	Richard Bookstaber
Den of Thieves	Kurt Eichenwald
Dethroning the King	Julie Macintosh
Devil Take the Hindmost--A History of Financial Speculation	Edward Chancellor
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy	William H. Janeway
Double Entry--How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance	Jane Gleeson-White
The End of Wall Street	Roger Lowenstein
The European Economy Since 1945	Barry Eichengreen
Exile on Wall Street	Mike Mayo
Exorbitant Privilege	Barry Eichengreen
Financial Darwinism--Create Value or Self-Destruct in a World of Risk	Leo M. Tilman
Flash Boys--A Wall Street Revolt	Michael Lewis
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time	David Einhorn
Fool's Gold	Gillian Tett
Fragile By Design--The Political Origins of Banking Crises
and Scarce Credit	Calomiris and Haber
From Asian to Global Financial Crisis	Andrew Sheng
The Globalization Paradox--Democracy and the Future of
the World Economy	Dani Rodrik
Grand Pursuit--The Story of Economic Genius	Sylvia Nasar
The Great Crash 1929	John Kenneth Galbraith
The Great Inflation and its Aftermath	Robert J. Samuelson
The Great Deformation--The Corruption of Capitalism in America	David A. Stockman
History of the Federal Reserve Vol 1--1913-1951	Allan Meltzer
History of the Federal Reserve Vol 2, Book 1--1951-1968	Allan Meltzer
History of the Federal Reserve Vol 2, Book 2--1970-1986	Allan Meltzer
A History of Money and Banking in the United States	Murray Rothbard
The House of Morgan	Ron Chernow
The Housing Boom and Bust	Thomas Sowell
In An Uncertain World	Robert Rubin
Inside the Fed	Stephen Axilrod
Irrational Exuberance	Robert J. Shiller
John Maynard Keynes	Hyman Minsky
Keynes Hayek--The Clash that Defined Modern Economics	Nicholas Wapshott
The Leading Indicators--A Short History of the Numbers
that Rule Our World	Zachary Karabell
Lords of Finance--The Bankers Who Broke the World	Liaquat Ahamed
The Man Who Solved the Market	Gregory Zuckerman
Manias, Panics and Crashes	Charles Kindleberger
More Money than God	Sebastian Mallaby
A Monetary History of the US--1867-1960	Friedman & Jacobson
Money Mischief-Episodes in Monetary History	Milton Friedman
The Mystery of Banking	Murray Rothbard
The Myth of the Rational Market	Justin Fox
The New Empire of Debt	William Bonner and Addison Wiggin
The New Lombard Street--How the Fed Became the Dealer
of Last Resort	Perry Mehrling
The New New Thing--A Silicon Valley Story	Michael Lewis
The Origins of the Crash--The Great Bubble and its Undoing	Roger Lowenstein
The Origin of Financial Crises	George Cooper
The Origin of Wealth	Eric D. Beinhocker
Other People's Money	Charles V. Bagli
Panic--The Story of Modern Financial Insanity	Michael Lewis
The Panic of 1819	Murray Rothbard
The Panic of 1907	Robert Bruner and Sean Carr
The Physics of Wall Street	James Owen Weatherall
The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve	Peter Conti-Brown
The Power Law--Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future	Sebastian Mallaby
Predator Nation	Charles H. Ferguson
The Price of Civilization	Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Price of Time--The Real Story of Interest	Edward Chancellor
The Return of Depression Economics	Paul Krugman
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008	Paul Krugman
Reckless Endangerment	Gretchen Morgenson
The Rise and Fall of American Growth	Robert Gordon
The Rise and Fall of Nations--Forces of Change in the
Post-Crisis World	Ruchir Sharma
Secrets of the Temple--How the Fed Runs the Country	William Greider
The Shifts and the Shocks--What We've Learned and Have Still
to Learn from the Financial Crisis	Martin Wolf
A Short History of Financial Euphoria	John Kenneth Galbraith
Skyscraper Dreams--The Great Real Estate Dynasties of New York	Tom Shachtman
The Spider Network	David Enrich
Super Pumped--the Battle for Uber	Mike Isaac
This Time Is Different	Reinhart and Rogoff
Too Big to Fail	Andrew Ross Sorkin
The Trades of March 2020	Alex Gurevich
Trade Wars Are Class Wars	Matthew Klein and Michael Pettis
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown	Charles R. Morris
Unsettled Account--The Evolution of Banking
In the Industrialized World Since 1800	Richard S. Grossman
When Genius Failed	Roger Lowenstein
When Money Dies-- Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany	Adam Ferguson
White House Burning	Simon Johnson and James Kwak
The World After Capital	Albert Wenger