Here are the Top- 50 books (of all time) every Banking and Finance professional must read, based on FT Long Room’s compilation. This is in no particular order.

  1. Too big to fail
  2. More money than God
  3. Skin in the game
  4. Anti fragile
  5. The big short
  6. Liar's poker
  7. Fooled by randomness
  8. Debt, the first 5000 yrs
  9. The Euro and its threat to the future of Europe
  10. Adaptive Markets
  11. The Billionaire's Apprentice
  12. Money and Power
  13. The Finance Curse
  14. Capital
  15. The greatest trade ever
  16. Crashed
  17. The end of alchemy
  18. Hall of mirrors
  19. The banker's new clothes
  20. Fragile by design
  21. Between debt and the devil
  22. Lords of finance
  23. How markets fail
  24. Other people's money
  25. Makers and takers
  26. The man who knew
  27. The alchemists
  28. The shifts and the shocks
  29. The wisdom of finance
  30. The snowball
  31. The intelligent investor
  32. Mastering the market cycle
  33. The most important thing
  34. The golden passport
  35. Why they do it
  36. Can finance save the world?
  37. Security analysis
  38. The Warren Buffett way
  39. Adults in the room
  40. Moneyland
  41. Euro tragedy- a drama in 9 acts
  42. After the music stopped
  43. The Billion Dollar Whale
  44. Against the Gods
  45. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
  46. Barbarians at the Gate
  47. Market wizards
  48. The Great Crash 1929
  49. Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies
  50. The Alchemy of Finance