Books on the Overview of the Financial Crises

  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Carreyrou; New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2018)
  • The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster (Ball, Lawrence; Cambridge University Press, June 2018)
  • A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History (Henriques; Henry Holt and Company, 2017)
  • Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal (Soltes, Eugene; PublicAffairs, July 2016)
  • Connectedness and Contagion: Protecting the Financial System from Panics (Scott, Hal S.; MIT Press, May 2016)
  • The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers (Lev, Baruch and Gu, Fen; Wiley Finance, June 2016)
  • The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath (Bernanke, Ben; Norton & Co, October 2015)
  • The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned– and Have Still to Learn– from the Financial Crisis (Martin Wolf; Penguin Press, July 2014)
  • The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression (Daniel Drezner; Oxford University Press, June 2014)
  • Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises (Timothy Geithner; Random House, May 2014)
  • Broke: America’s Banking System (RMA, 2013)
  • After the Music Stopped:The Financial Crisis, the Response and the Work Ahead (Alan Blinder; Penguin Press, June 2013)
  • The AIG Story (Maurice Greenberg and Lawrence Cunningham; John Wiley, 2013)
  • The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It (Anat Admati; Princeton University Press, February 2013)
  • Why I Left Goldman Sachs (Greg Smith; Grand Central Publishing, October 22, 2012)
  • Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence (William Silber; Bloomsbury, September 2012)
  • The Fateful History of Fannie Mae (James Hagerty; History Press, September 2012)
  • Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World (Christopher Steiner; Portfolio, 2012)
  • The Great American Stick-up: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (Robert Scheer; Nation Books, 2010)
  • A Financial History of Modern US Corporate Scandals (Jerry Markham; M.E. Sharpt, July 2005)

Books Relating to the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009:

  • Rethinking Housing Bubbles: The Role of Household and Bank Balance Sheets in Modeling Economic Cycles (Steven D. Gjerstad, Vernon L. Smith; Cambridge University Press, May 2014)
  • House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again (Afif Mian, Amir Sufi; University of Chicago Press, May 2014)
  • The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks, and Entire Nations on the Edge (Faisal Islam; Heads of Zeus, October 2013)
  • The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature and the Future of Forecasting (Alan Greenspan; Penguin Press, October 2013)
  • What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider Story of Organizational Drift and Unintended Consequences (Steven Mandis; Harvard Business Review Press, October 2013)
  • Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy (Iain Martin; Simon & Schuster, September 2013)
  • The Billionaire’s Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund (Anita Raghavan; Business Plus, June 2013)
  • The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader’s Tale of Spectacular Excess (Turney Duff) (Crown Books, June 2013)
  • The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire (Neil Irwin) (Penguin Press, April 2013)
  • Other People’s Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made (Charles Bagli) (Dutton, April 2013)
  • Rogue Financier: Adventures of an Estranged Capitalist (Florian Homm) (English Version of German Book: Kopf Geld Jagd )
  • Bull by the Horns: Fighting to save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself  (Sheila Bair; Free Press, September 2012)
  • The Ponzi Scheme Puzzle: A History and Analysis of Con Artists and Victims (Tamar Frankel; Oxford University Press, August 2012)
  • Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street by Rescuing Wall Street (Neil Barofsky; Free Press, July 2012)
  • Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President (Ron Suskind; Harper Perenial, June 2012)
  • Dark Pools: High-Speed Traders, A.I. Bandits, and the Threat to the Global Financial System (Scott Patterson; Crown Business, June 2012)
  • The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual- The Biggest Bank Failure in American History (Kirsten Grind; Simon and Schuster, June 2012)
  • Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff (James Stuart; Penguin Books, March 2012)
  • Chasing Goldman Sachs: How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down . . . And Why They’ll Take Us to the Brink Again (Suzanne McGee; Crown Business, October 2011)
  • All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera; Portfolio, August 2011)
  • Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Created the Worst Financial Crisis of Our Time (Gretchen Morgenson; Times Books, May 2011)
  • The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust (Diana B. Hendriques; Times Books, April 2011)
  • The End of Wall Street (Roger Lowenstein; Penguin, March 2011)
  • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis; W.W. Norton & Company, February 2011)
  • On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System (Henry Paulson; Business Plus, February 2011)
  • The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It (Scott Patterson; Crown Business, January 2011)
  • How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (John Cassidy; Picador, November 2010)
  • A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers (Lawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinson; Crown Business, October 2010)
  • In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic (David Wessel; Crown Business, August 2010)
  • Anatomy of a Meltdown: A Dual Financial Biography of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis (Michael P. Malloy, Aspen Publishers, July 2010)
  • Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Gillian Tett; Free Press, April 2010)
  • The Foreclosure of America (Adam Michaelson; Berkley Trade, April 2010)
  • The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind the Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History (Gregory Zuckerman; Crown Business, December 2010)
  • Chain of Blame (Paul Muolo, Matthew Padilla; Wiley, February 2010)
  • House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street (William Cohan; Anchor, February 2010)
  • Too Big to Fail: Inside the Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System– and Themselves (Andrew Ross Sorkin; Viking Adult; October 2009)
  • When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Roger Lowenstein; Random House Trade Paperbacks, October 2001)

Books relating to Enron, Worldcom, Dot.Com Collapse (2000-2002):

  • Taking Down the Lion: The Triumphant Rise and Tragic Fall of Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski (Catherine Neal; Palgrave McMillan, January 2014)
  • Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees (Patrick Dillon, Carl Cannon; Broadway, April 2011)
  • Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story (Kurt Eichenwald; Broadway, December 2005)
  • 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America (Rebecca Smith, John Emshwiller; Harper Business, October 2004)
  • The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Bethany McLean; Portfolio Trades, September 2004)
  • Disconnected: Deceit and Betrayal at WorldCom (Lynne Jeter; Wiley, July 2004)

Books Relating to Accounting Fraud

  • Exposure: Inside the Olympus Scandal : How I Went from CEO to Whistleblower (Michael Woodford; Portfolio, November 2012)
  • Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports (Howard Schilit; McGraw Hill, April 2010)
  • Essentials of Corporate Fraud (Tracey Coenen; Wiley, March 2008)
  • Business Fairytales: Grim Realities of Fictitious Financial Reporting (Cecil Jackson; South-Western, July 2006)
  • The Financial Numbers Game: Detecting Creative Accounting Practices (Charles Mulford and Eugene Corniskey; Wiley & Son, September 2005)
  • Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed, and The Fall Arthur Anderson (Barbara Toffler;  Broadway, March 2003)

Books Relating to the Collapse of the Savings and Loans (1980’s):

  • Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Harper Business, December 1, 2009)
  • The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One (William Black; University of Texas Press, April 2005)
  • Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis (Kitty Calavita, Henry Pontell, Robert Tillman; University of California Press, May 1999)
  • Legal Extortion: The War Against Lincoln Savings and Charlie Keating (Jack Atchison; Northwest Publishers; February 1995)
  • Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Millions (Michael Binstein, Charles Bowden; Random House, June 1993)
  • Den of Thieves (James Stewart; Touchstone, September 1992)
  • The Great Savings and Loan Debacle (James Barth; Aei Pr, April 1991)
  • The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry (Martin Mayer; Scribner, October 1990)
  • The S&L Insurance Crisis: How Did It Happen? (Edward Kane; University Press of America, June 1989)

Books Relating to Corporate Fraud and Other Financial Collapses

  • Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (Charles W. Calomiris & Stephen H. Haber; Princeton University Press, February 2014)
  • Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to an Online Poker Empire– and How It All Cam Crashing Down (Ben Mezrich) (William Morrow, May 2013)
  • Octopus:The Secret Market and the World’s Wildest Con (Guy Lawson; Crown Publishers, November 2012)
  • Mr. Ruehle, You are a Free Man – A Broadcom Saga: My Fight for Justice (William J. Ruehle; CreateSpace Independent Publishing, August 2012)
  • Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Liaquat Ahamed; Penguin Books, December 2009)
  • The Informant: A True Story (Kurt Eichenwald; Broadway Books, July 2001)
  • Insider Trading (William K. S. Wang & Marc I. Steinberg; Little Brown & Co., June 1997)
  • Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (Michael Lewis; Penguin Books, October 1990)
Miscellaneous Interesting Books 
  • Going Public (Norm Champ; McGraw-Hill Education, March 2017)
  • Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery and Billion-Dollar Deals (John LeFevre; Atlantic Monthly Press, July 2015)
  • Too Big To Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations (Brandon Garrett; Harvard University Press, November 2014)
  • Law of the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who’d Stop at Nothing to Win (Paul Barrett; Crown, September 2014)
  • Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber; Princeton University Press, Feb. 2014)
  • The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap (Matt Taibbi; Spiegel and Grau, Apr. 2014)
  • Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits (Kevin Roose; Grand Central Publishing, Feb. 2014)
  • Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (Michael Lewis; W. W. Norton, March 2014)
  • Boards That Lead  (Ram Charan, Dennis Carey and Michael Useem; Harvard Business Review Press, January 2014)
  • The Investigator: Fifty Years of Uncovering the Truth (Terry Lenzner; Blue Rider Press, October 2013)
  • The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business (Duff McDonald; Simon & Schuster, September 2013)
  • Slingshot: AMD’s Fight to Free an Industry from the Ruthless Grip of Intel (Hector Ruiz) (Greenleaf, April 2013)
  • The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession In Crisis (Steven Harper) (Basic Books, April 2013)
  • The New Tycoons: Inisde the trillion dollar private equity industry that owns everything (Jason Kelly; Bloomberg Press, September 2012)
  • Groupon’s Biggest Deal Ever: The Inside Story of How One Insane Gamble, Tons of Unbelievable Hype and Millions of Wild Deals Made Billions for One Ballsy Joker (Frank Sennett; Saint Martins, June 2012)
  • Who Gets What: Fair Compensation After Tragedy and Financial Upheaval (Kenneth Feinberg; Public Affairs, June 2012)
  • America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve (Roger Lowenstein; Penguin Press, May 2016)
  • Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street (Sheelah Kolhatkar; Random House, February 2017)
  • The Fix: How Bankers Lied, Cheated and Colluded to Rig the World’s Most Important Number (Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch Bloomberg Press, February 2017)

Recent Movies and Television Specials on the Financial Crisis:

  • “The Dropout” (2022)
  • “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley” (2019)
  • “The Big Short” (2015)
  • “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013)
  • “Arbitrage” (2012)
  • “Too Big To Fail: The True Story Behind the 2008 Economic Crisis” (HBO, May 2012)
  • “Margin Call” (Roadside Attractions, December 2011)
  • “Inside Job” (Sony Picture Classics, March 2011)
  • “Frontline: The Warning” (PBS, January 2010)
  • “Frontline: Inside the Meltdown” (PBS, May 2009)
  • “Crisis on Wall Street: September 15, 2008” (Charlie Rose, Inc., September 2008)
  • “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” (Magnolia Studios, January 2006)