For those of you who is interested in Wall Street, here is a reading list from Goldman Sachs. It's not so quantatitive, but very good for understanding the market.
Written by Current or Former Goldman Sachs Employees
- The Five Great Myths about China and the World
by Jonathan Anderson and Fred Hu; PPP Company Limited; 2003
- Exploring General Equilibrium
by Fischer Black; MIT Press; 1995
- Business Cycles and Equilibrium
by Fischer Black; Blackwell Publishers; 1991
- Managing Currency Risk
by Fischer Black; Association for Investment Management & Research; 1989
- Old Girls' Network: Inside Advice for Women Building Businesses in a Man's World
by Connie Duckworth; Coming in July, 2003
- Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success
by Lisa Endlich; Knopf; 1999
- Beginning the Journey: China, the United States, and the WTO
by Robert Hormats; Council on Foreign Relations Press; 2001
- Global Aging and Financial Markets: Hard Landings Ahead?
by Robert Hormats; Center for Strategic and International Studies; 2002
- The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organization Structure
by Steve Kerr; Jossey-Bass; 1998
- The GE Work-Out : How to Implement GE's Revolutionary Method for Busting Bureaucracy & Attacking Organizational Problems – Fast
by Steve Kerr; McGraw-Hill Trade; 2002
- The Practice of Risk Management
by Bob Litterman; Euromoney Publications PLC, 1998
- Foundations for Financial Economics
by Bob Litzenberger and Chi-fu Hwang Prentice Hall; 1998
- Markets, Mobs, and Mayhem: A Modern Look at the Madness of Crowds
by Robert Menschel John Wiley & Sons; 2002
- Adam Smith and the Origins of American Enterprise
by Roy C. Smith St. Martin's Press; 2002
- The Wealth Creators: The Rise of Today's New Rich and Super-Rich
by Roy C. Smith; St. Martin's Press; 2001
- The Global Banker
s by Roy C. Smith; BeardBooks, Incorporated; 2000
- High Finance in the Euro-Zone : Competing in the New European Capital Market
by Roy C. Smith; Pearson Education; 2000
- The Money Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Great Buyout Boom of the 1980s
by Roy C. Smith; BeardBooks, Incorporated; 2000
- Cases and Readings in Markets, Ethics, and Law
by Roy C. Smith; Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing; 1996
- Street Smarts: Linking Professional Conduct with Shareholder Value in the Securities Industry
by Roy C. Smith; Harvard Business School Publishing, 1997
- Global Banking
by Roy C. Smith Oxford University Press; 1995
- Comeback: The Restoration of American Banking Power in the New World Economy
by Roy C. Smith; Harvard Business School Publishing; 1993
- Securities Markets in the 1980s: The New Regime, 1979-1984
by Barrie A. Wigmore; Oxford University Press; 1997
- Crash and Its Aftermath: A History of Securities Markets in the United States, 1929-1933 (Contributions in Economics and Economic History, No 58)
by Barrie A. Wigmore; Greenwood Publishing Group; 1986
Industry Background and Flavor
- Understanding Wall Street
by Jeffrey Little & Lucien Rhodes
- Global Bankers
by Roy Smith
- The Money Masters
by John Train
- The New Money Masters
by John Train
- Money Masters of Our Time
by John Train
- The Intelligent Investor
by Benjamin Graham
- The Visual Investor: How to Spot Market Trends
by John J. Murphy
- The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
by Warren Buffett
- Buffettology: The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffet the World's Most Famous Investor
by Mary Buffett and David Clark
- The Warren Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World's Greatest Investor
by Robert G. Hagstrom Jr.
- The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market
by George Soros
- Bill Gross on Investing
by William H. Gross
- Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
by Peter L. Bernstein
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles MacKay
- Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman
by Ken Auletta
- The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Ron Chernow
- The House of Nomura: The Inside Story of the Legendary Japanese Financial Dynasty
by Albert Alletzhauser
- The New Crowd: The Changing of the Jewish Guard on Wall Street
by Judith Ramsey Ehrlick & Barry J. Rehfeld
- One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
by Peter Lynch
- Beating the Street
by Peter Lynch
- Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York
by Stephen Birmingham
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
by Edwin Lefevre
- Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
by William Greider
- Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
by George Soros, Bryon Wien & Krisztina Koenen
- Guerrilla Investing: Winning Strategies for Beating the Wall Street Professional
by Peter Siris
- The Battle for Investment Survival
by Gerald Loeb
- Money & Power: The History of Business
by Howard B. Means
- The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power 1653 – 2000
by John Steele Gordon
- Toward Rational Exuberance: The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market
by B. Mark Smith
- 100 Years of Wall Street
by Charles R. Geisst, Richard A. Grasso
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Seventh Edition
by Burton Gordon Malkiel
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
by Philip A. Fisher
- The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finales of Wall Street's Bullish 60's
by John Brooks
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
by Peter Bernstein
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusion de Confusiones
by Charles MacKay, Martin Fridson, Joseph de la Vega
- Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
by Charles Kindleberger
- Capital Ideas
by Peter Bernstein
- The Big Board
by Robert Sobel
- The Chastening
by Paul Blustein
- From Here to Economy: A Short Cut to Economic Literacy
by Todd G. Buchholz
- After the Trade is Made
by David Weiss
- The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered
by George Soros
- Martin Zweig's Winning on Wall Street
by Martin Zweig
- The Money Game
by Adam Smith
- The Fed: The Inside Story of How the World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Markets
by Martin Mayer
- Maestr Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom
by Bob Woodward
- The Quotations of Chairman Greenspan: Words from the Man Who Can Shake the World
by Larry Kahaner
The following popular works are, of course, exaggerated depictions of the darker side of the industry. However, they do provide some of the flavor of life on "The Street."
- Barbarians at the Gate
by Bryan Burroughs and John Helyar
- Liar's Poker
by Michael Lewis
- The Predator's Ball
by Connie Bruck
- When Genius Failed
by Roger Lowenthal
- F.I.A.S.C.O. - The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader
by Frank Portnoy
- Confessions of a Street Addict
by James J. Cramer
- Den Of Thieves
by James B. Stuart
- Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle
by John Rolfe and Peter Troob
- Next
by Michael Lewis
- The New Thing
by Michael Lewis
Broad Industry History
- Investment Banking: A Tale of Three Cities
by Samuel L. Hayes III and Philip M. Hubbard
- A History of Corporate Finance
by Jonathan Barron Baskin and Paul J. Miranti, Jr.
- Global Banking
by Roy C. Smith and Ingo Walter
- Wall Street Women
by Anne B. Fisher
- In the Black: A History of African Americans on Wall Street
by Gregory S. Ball
- The Last Partnerships: Inside the Great Wall Street Money Dynasties
by Charles R. Giesst
- The City of London, vols 1-4
by David Kynaston
- The Rise and Fall of the Merchant Banks
by Erik Banks
- The London Stock Exchange: A History
by Ranald Michie
- The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of London's Investment Banks
by Philip Augar
Analytical and Reference
- Barron's Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms
by John Downes & Jordan Elliot Goodman
- The Intelligent Investor
by Benjamin Graham
- International Economics: Theory and Policy
by Paul R. Krugman
- Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing
by Kenneth M. Morris
- The Irwin Guide to Using the Wall Street Journal
by Michael B. Lehman
- The Financial Times Guide to Using the Financial Pages
by Romesh Vaitilingam
- The Atlas of Economic Indicators: A Visual Guide to Market Forces and the Federal Reserve
by W. Stansbury Carnes, Stephen D. Slifer
- Wall Street Words: An Essential A to Z Guide for Today's Investor
by David Logan Scott
FICC & Equities
- Bond Book: Everything Investors Need to Know About Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More
by Annette Thau
- The Bundesbank
by David Marsh
- Controlling and Managing Interest Rate Risk
by Anthony G. Cornyn and Robert A. Klein
- The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities
by Edited by Frank J. Fabozzi
- The Money Market
by Marcia Stigum
- Money Market Bond Calculations
by Marcia Stigum
Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment by David F. Swensen
Options and Derivatives
- How to Trade Options
by Jon Najarian
- Options as a Strategic Investment
by Lawrence McMillan
- Options: Essential Concepts and Trading Strategies
by The Options Institute
- Options for the Stock Investor: How Any Investor Can Use Options to Enhance & Protect
- Their Return
by James B. Bittman
- Trading Index Options
by James B. Bittman
- All About Options: The Easy Way to Get Started
by Thomas A. McCafferty
- How the Options Market Works
by Joseph A. Walker
- Mastering Derivative Markets: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Products, Application & Risks
by Francesca Taylor
- McMillan on Options
by Lawrence G. McMillan
- The New Financial Instruments
by Julian Walmsley
- Options, Futures and Other Derivatives
by John C. Hull
Money Manager & Trader
- Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders
by Jack D. Schwager
- The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders
by Jack D. Schwager
- Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders
by Jack D. Schwager
- Trader Vic: Methods of a Wall Street Master
by Victor Sperandeo
- Trader Vic II: Principles of Professional Speculation
by Victor Sperandeo
- Exceptional Trading: The Mind Game
by Ruth Barrons Roosevelt
- Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets
by Avi Kier
- The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes
by Mark Douglas
- Stan Weinstein's Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets
by Stan Weinstein
- Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline & A Winning Attitude
by Mark Douglas and Thom Hartle
- Trading in the Zone: Maximizing Performance with Focus and Discipline
by Ari Kiev
- Trading with Crowd Psychology
by Carl Gyllenram
- Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Traders
by Martin S. Schwartz et al
- The Master Swing Trader: Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities
by Alan S. Farley
- How to Trade in Stocks
by Jesse Livermore
- The Market Maker's Edge: Day Trading Tactics a Wall Street Insider
by Josh Lukeman
- The Super Traders: Secrets & Successes of Wall Street's Best & Brightest
by Alan Rubenfeld
- A Zebra in Lion Country
by Ralph Wanger with Everett Mattlin
- Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications
by John J. Murphy
- Hit and Run Trading: The Short-Term Stock Traders' Bible
by Jeff Cooper
- Hit and Run Trading II: Capturing Explosive Short-Term Moves in Stocks
by Jeff Cooper
- Street Smarts: High Probability Short Term Trading Strategies
by Laurence A. Connors and Linda Bradford Raschke
- The 5 Day Momentum Method
by Jeff Cooper
- The Real Holy Grail: Money Management by Eddie Kwong
- Trading Connors VIX Reversals by Laurence A. Connors and Gregory Che
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