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
2145 Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson 1999 American English
2189 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson 2005 Swedish Swedish
3018 Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House Eric Hodgkins 1946 American English
3057 Trust Hernan Díaz 2022 Argentinian English
3851 JR William Gaddis 1975 American English
4420 The Voysey Inheritance Harley Granville Barker 1905 British English
4580 A Theory Of The Consumption Function Milton Friedman 1957 American English
4989 The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007 Lebanese English
5589 L'argent Émile Zola 1891 French French
6334 The Worldly Philosophers Robert Heilbroner 1953 American English
6575 Crashed Adam Tooze 2018 British English
7117 The Fortunes Of Nigel Sir Walter Scott 1822 Scottish English
7215 The Prime Minister Anthony Trollope 1876 British English
7572 The House of Morgan Ron Chernow 1990 American English
7899 Capital John Lanchester 2012 British English
7933 Mr. China Tim Clissold 2004 British English
8461 Griftopia Matt Taibbi 2010 American English
9069 Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow 2004 American English
9107 Cosmopolis Don DeLillo 2003 American English
9142 The World For Sale Jack Farchy, Javier Blas 2021 British English
9249 The Entrepreneurial State Mariana Mazzucato 2013 British English
10088 Confessions Of A Shopaholic Sophie Kinsella 2000 British English
10448 Lords of Finance Liaquat Ahamed 2009 American English
10782 The First Tycoon T. J. Stiles 2009 American English
11660 Keynes Robert Skidelsky 1983 British English
11660 Lake Success Gary Shteyngart 2018 American English
11841 Freaks Of Fortune Jonathan Levy 2012 American English
11934 Super Pumped Mike Isaac 2019 American English
12127 Bad Company Megan Greenwell 2025 American English
12157 Capitalism And Its Critics John Cassidy 2025 British English
12304 1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin 2025 Unknown English
12324 Morgan Jean Strouse 1999 American English
12572 The Corporation In The 21st Century John Kay 2024 British English
12595 The History Of Money David McWilliams 2024 Irish English
13349 New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson 2017 American English
13359 Business Adventures John Brooks 1969 American English
13817 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
14498 Too Big To Fail Andrew Ross Sorkin 2009 American English
14498 In Fed We Trust David Wessel 2009 American English
14519 Stretching The School Dollar Frederick M. Hess 2010 American English
14519 Why Does College Cost So Much? Robert B. Archibald 2010 American English
14519 Beyond The Crash Gordon Brown 2010 British English
14541 The Unusual Suspect Ben Machell 2020 British English
14553 Portfolios Of The Poor Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven 2009 Unknown English
14598 Tap Dancing To Work Carol J. Loomis 2012 American English
14629 How Asia Works Joe Studwell 2013 British English
14649 Stress Test Timothy F. Geithner 2014 American English
14830 Billion Dollar Whale Tom Wright, Bradley Hope 2018 American English
14983 Adults in the Room Yanis Varoufakis 2017 Greek English
14983 Flash Boys Michael M. Lewis 2014 American English
14983 Liar's Poker Michael M. Lewis 1989 American English
14983 The Glass Hotel Emily St John Mandel 2020 Canadian English
15586 The Season William Goldman 1969 American English
15659 Supermoney George Goodman 1972 American English
15897 The Financial Expert R. K. Narayan 1952 Indian English
15897 The Masters Of Capital John Moody 1919 American English
17114 Banks and Politics in America Bray Hammond 1957 American English
17114 The Predators' Ball Connie Bruck 1988 American English
17114 Women & Money Suze Orman 2007 American English
17037 The Man Who Sold The Moon Robert A. Heinlein 1950 American English
17114 Doughnut Economics Kate Raworth 2017 British English
17114 Red Notice Bill Browder 2015 American English
17114 Hard Cash Charles Reade 1863 British English
17114 Rich Dad, Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki 1997 American English
16871 Theory Of Business Enterprise Thorstein Veblen 1904 American English
17114 The Hidden Globe Atossa Araxia Abrahamian 2024 Unknown English
17114 The Unaccountability Machine Dan Davies 2024 Unknown English
17114 Private Equity Carrie Sun 2024 Unknown English
17114 Underground Empire Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman 2024 Unknown English
17114 Paper Soldiers Saleha Mohsin 2024 Unknown English
17114 Limitarianism Ingrid Robeyns 2023 Unknown English
17114 Only The Paranoid Survive Andrew S. Grove 1996 American English
17114 The Big Myth Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway 2023 Unknown English
17114 Third Millennium Thinking John Campbell, Saul Perlmutter, Robert MacCoun 2024 Unknown English
17114 Murder Against The Grain Emma Lathen 1967 American English
17114 Same As Ever Morgan Housel 2023 American English
17114 Breaking The Mould Raghuram Rajan, Rohit Lamba Unknown English
17114 Whoops! John Lanchester 2009 British English
17114 The Simple Path To Wealth J.L. Collins 2016 American English
17114 For Blood And Money Nathan Vardi 2023 Unknown English
17114 The Money Kings Daniel Schulman 2023 Unknown Unknown
17114 The Fund Rob Copeland 2023 Unknown English
17114 Going Infinite Michael Lewis 2023 American English
17114 Number Go Up Zeke Faux 2023 Unknown English
17114 Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg 2023 Danish English
17114 The Fiscal Theory Of The Price Level John Cochrane 2023 Unknown English
17114 The Missing Billionaires Victor Haghani, James White 2023 Unknown English
17114 Frozen Desire James Buchan 1997 British English
17114 The Passions And The Interests Albert Hirschman 1977 American English
17114 The Economics Of Innocent Fraud john kenneth galbraith 2004 American English