The Greatest Books of All Time on Finance

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
310 Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe 1987 American English
495 Casino Royale Ian Fleming 1953 British English
703 The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1875 British English
2146 Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson 1999 American English
2190 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson 2005 Swedish Swedish
3022 Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House Eric Hodgkins 1946 American English
3060 Trust Hernan Díaz 2022 Argentinian English
3850 JR William Gaddis 1975 American English
4420 The Voysey Inheritance Harley Granville Barker 1905 British English
4581 A Theory Of The Consumption Function Milton Friedman 1957 American English
4992 The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007 Lebanese English
5592 L'argent Émile Zola 1891 French French
6337 The Worldly Philosophers Robert Heilbroner 1953 American English
6577 Crashed Adam Tooze 2018 British English
7117 The Fortunes Of Nigel Sir Walter Scott 1822 Scottish English
7216 The Prime Minister Anthony Trollope 1876 British English
7573 The House of Morgan Ron Chernow 1990 American English
7900 Capital John Lanchester 2012 British English
7934 Mr. China Tim Clissold 2004 British English
8466 Griftopia Matt Taibbi 2010 American English
9074 Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow 2004 American English
9112 Cosmopolis Don DeLillo 2003 American English
9147 The World For Sale Jack Farchy, Javier Blas 2021 British English
9253 The Entrepreneurial State Mariana Mazzucato 2013 British English
10093 Confessions Of A Shopaholic Sophie Kinsella 2000 British English
10453 Lords of Finance Liaquat Ahamed 2009 American English
10788 The First Tycoon T. J. Stiles 2009 American English
11662 Keynes Robert Skidelsky 1983 British English
11662 Lake Success Gary Shteyngart 2018 American English
11842 Freaks Of Fortune Jonathan Levy 2012 American English
11935 Super Pumped Mike Isaac 2019 American English
12128 Bad Company Megan Greenwell 2025 American English
12158 Capitalism And Its Critics John Cassidy 2025 British English
12305 1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin 2025 Unknown English
12326 Morgan Jean Strouse 1999 American English
12574 The Corporation In The 21st Century John Kay 2024 British English
12597 The History Of Money David McWilliams 2024 Irish English
13352 New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson 2017 American English
13362 Business Adventures John Brooks 1969 American English
13818 Resistere Non Serve A Niente Walter Siti 2012 Italian Italian
14061 Buffett Roger Lowenstein 1995 American English
14159 The Great Crash, 1929 John Kenneth Galbraith 1955 Canadian English
14232 The Ascent of Money Niall Ferguson 2008 British English
14499 Too Big To Fail Andrew Ross Sorkin 2009 American English
14499 In Fed We Trust David Wessel 2009 American English
14520 Stretching The School Dollar Frederick M. Hess 2010 American English
14520 Why Does College Cost So Much? Robert B. Archibald 2010 American English
14520 Beyond The Crash Gordon Brown 2010 British English
14542 The Unusual Suspect Ben Machell 2020 British English
14554 Portfolios Of The Poor Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven 2009 Unknown English
14599 Tap Dancing To Work Carol J. Loomis 2012 American English
14630 How Asia Works Joe Studwell 2013 British English
14650 Stress Test Timothy F. Geithner 2014 American English
14832 Billion Dollar Whale Tom Wright, Bradley Hope 2018 American English
14985 Adults in the Room Yanis Varoufakis 2017 Greek English
14985 Flash Boys Michael M. Lewis 2014 American English
14985 Liar's Poker Michael M. Lewis 1989 American English
14985 The Glass Hotel Emily St John Mandel 2020 Canadian English
15594 The Season William Goldman 1969 American English
15667 Supermoney George Goodman 1972 American English
15915 The Financial Expert R. K. Narayan 1952 Indian English
15915 The Masters Of Capital John Moody 1919 American English
17158 Banks and Politics in America Bray Hammond 1957 American English
17158 The Predators' Ball Connie Bruck 1988 American English
17158 Women & Money Suze Orman 2007 American English
17076 The Man Who Sold The Moon Robert A. Heinlein 1950 American English
17158 Doughnut Economics Kate Raworth 2017 British English
17158 Red Notice Bill Browder 2015 American English
17158 Hard Cash Charles Reade 1863 British English
17158 Rich Dad, Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki 1997 American English
16909 Theory Of Business Enterprise Thorstein Veblen 1904 American English
17158 The Hidden Globe Atossa Araxia Abrahamian 2024 Unknown English
17158 The Unaccountability Machine Dan Davies 2024 Unknown English
17158 Private Equity Carrie Sun 2024 Unknown English
17158 Underground Empire Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman 2024 Unknown English
17158 Paper Soldiers Saleha Mohsin 2024 Unknown English
17158 Limitarianism Ingrid Robeyns 2023 Unknown English
17158 Only The Paranoid Survive Andrew S. Grove 1996 American English
17158 The Big Myth Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway 2023 Unknown English
17158 Third Millennium Thinking John Campbell, Saul Perlmutter, Robert MacCoun 2024 Unknown English
17158 Murder Against The Grain Emma Lathen 1967 American English
17158 Same As Ever Morgan Housel 2023 American English
17158 Breaking The Mould Raghuram Rajan, Rohit Lamba Unknown English
17158 Whoops! John Lanchester 2009 British English
17158 The Simple Path To Wealth J.L. Collins 2016 American English
17158 For Blood And Money Nathan Vardi 2023 Unknown English
17158 The Money Kings Daniel Schulman 2023 Unknown Unknown
17158 The Fund Rob Copeland 2023 Unknown English
17158 Going Infinite Michael Lewis 2023 American English
17158 Number Go Up Zeke Faux 2023 Unknown English
17158 Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg 2023 Danish English
17158 The Fiscal Theory Of The Price Level John Cochrane 2023 Unknown English
17158 The Missing Billionaires Victor Haghani, James White 2023 Unknown English
17158 Frozen Desire James Buchan 1997 British English
17158 The Passions And The Interests Albert Hirschman 1977 American English
17158 The Economics Of Innocent Fraud john kenneth galbraith 2004 American English
17158 History Of England From The Accession Of King James I. Samuel Rawson Gardiner English English