16 Of The Best Books On The History Of Finance & Investing

Some time ago we started a series called – Superinvestors: Books That Every Investor Should Read. So far we’ve provided the book recommendations from:

Q1 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc

• Charles Munger: 32 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• Seth Klarman: 32 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• Warren Buffett: 35 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• Bill Ackman: 11 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• Joel Greenblatt: 17 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• Mohnish Pabrai: 20 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• Prem Watsa: 12 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• Dan Loeb: 5 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• Michael Burry: 6 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• Nassim Taleb: 17 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• Jamie Dimon: 11 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• A Value Investor’s Reading List: Columbia University
• John (Jack) Bogle: 6 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• Elon Musk: 8 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• 20 Of The Best Books On Investor Psychology – All Time
• Bruce Berkowitz: 15 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• Ray Dalio: 20 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• Jeremy Grantham: 4 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• 14 Books That Every Investor Should Read: Columbia Business School (Security Analysis Course)
• Berkshire Hathaway: 10 Books That Every Investor Should Read
• 11 Of The Best Books On Stock and Business Valuation

Together with our own 2018 recommended reading list of:

• 50 Of The Best Investing Books Of All Time – 2018

This week we’re going to take a look at sixteen of the best books on the history of finance and investing. Here’s the list:

1. The Great Crash of 1929 (John Kenneth Galbraith)
2. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Charles Kindleberger)
3. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves (Andrew Ross Sorkin)
4. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (Edward Chancellor)
5. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Bethany McLean)
6. The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History (Gregory Zuckerman)
7. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Roger Lowenstein)
8. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis)
9. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Liaquat Ahamed)
10. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (Peter Bernstein)
11. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (Bryan Burrough)
12. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Niall Ferguson)
13. The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It (Scott Patterson)
14. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff)
15. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (Ron Chernow)
16. Liars Poker (Michael Lewis)

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