The Goldman Sachs Suggested Reading ListLast updated on 11.08.2010
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Are you a Goldman Sachs aspirant and want to learn about its corporate culture, its thinking? What’s a better way than to see the literature that inspires and shapes their rank and file over the years? Goldman Sachs compiles a list of books written by many of its own as well as from the most influential authors in finance.
This list is among the most comprehensive finance reading lists we’ve seen. There are definitely many lesser known literature gems among this list.
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• Understanding Wall Street by Jeffrey Little & Lucien Rhodes
• The 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: The Classic Text on Value Investing 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 Buffett The Worlds 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 Professionals by Peter Siris
• The Battle For Investment Survival by Gerald Loeb
• Money and 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 by Burton Gordon Malkiel
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher
• The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street’s Bullish 60s by John Brooks
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter Bernstein
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay, Martin Fridson, Joseph de la Vega
• Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises by Charles Kindleberger