Books Related to the Financial Crisis

History of the Financial Crisis

Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy

by Barry Ritholtz, Bill Fleckenstein, Aaron Task

Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis

by Paul Muolo, Mathew Padilla

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

by Lawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinson

Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation

by Daniel Gross

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

by Gillian Tett

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street

by William D. Cohan

In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic

by David Wessel

Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

by Michael Lewis

Meltdown Iceland: Lessons on the World Financial Crisis from a Small Bankrupt Island

by Roger Boyes

On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System

by Henry M. Paulson

Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity

by Michael Lewis

The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It

by Scott Patterson

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves

by Andrew Ross Sorkin

The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash

by Charles R. Morris

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

by Roger Lowenstein

Concepts Related to the Crisis

The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It

by Joshua Cooper Ramo

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick

A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation

by Richard Bookstaber

Fixing Global Finance (Forum on Constructive Capitalism)

by Martin Wolf

The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty

by Sam L. Savage, Jeff Danziger

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

by John Cassidy

Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?

by Pablo Triana, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means

by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

by Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely