Financial Industry Background and Flavor from GS

Long-run must read list and more from Goldman Sachs

1. Understanding Wall Street by Jeffrey Little & Lucien Rhodes
2. Global Bankers by Roy Smith
3. The Money Masters by John Train
4. The New Money Masters by John Train
5. Money Masters of Our Time by John Train
6. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
7. The Visual Investor: How to Spot Market Trends by John J. Murphy
8. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America by Warren Buffett
9. Buffettology: The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffet the World's Most Famous Investor by Mary Buffett and David Clark
10. The Warren Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World's Greatest Investor by Robert G. Hagstrom Jr.
11. The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market by George Soros
12. Bill Gross on Investing by William H. Gross
13. Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street by Peter L. Bernstein
14. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay
15. Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman by Ken Auletta
16. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow
17. The House of Nomura: The Inside Story of the Legendary Japanese Financial Dynasty by Albert Alletzhauser
18. The New Crowd: The Changing of the Jewish Guard on Wall Street by Judith Ramsey Ehrlick & Barry J. Rehfeld
19. One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market by Peter Lynch
20. Beating the Street by Peter Lynch
21. Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York by Stephen Birmingham
22. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre
23. Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country by William Greider
24. Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve by George Soros, Bryon Wien & Krisztina Koenen
25. Guerrilla Investing: Winning Strategies for Beating the Wall Street Professional by Peter Siris
26. The Battle for Investment Survival by Gerald Loeb
27. Money & Power: The History of Business by Howard B. Means
28. The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power 1653 – 2000 by John Steele Gordon
29. Toward Rational Exuberance: The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market by B. Mark Smith
30. 100 Years of Wall Street by Charles R. Geisst, Richard A. Grasso
31. A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Seventh Edition by Burton Gordon Malkiel
32. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher
33. The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finales of Wall Street's Bullish 60's by John Brooks
34. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter Bernstein
35. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusion de Confusiones by Charles MacKay, Martin Fridson, Joseph de la Vega
36. Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises by Charles Kindleberger
37. Capital Ideas by Peter Bernstein
38. The Big Board by Robert Sobel
39. The Chastening by Paul Blustein
40. From Here to Economy: A Short Cut to Economic Literacy by Todd G. Buchholz
41. After the Trade is Made by David Weiss
42. The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered by George Soros
43. Martin Zweig's Winning on Wall Street by Martin Zweig
44. The Money Game by Adam Smith
45. The Fed: The Inside Story of How the World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Markets by Martin Mayer
46. Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom by Bob Woodward
47. The Quotations of Chairman Greenspan: Words from the Man Who Can Shake the World by Larry Kahaner