Book List

INVESTING

  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Malkiel
  • Against the Gods - Peter Bernstein
  • Behavioral Finance and the Impact of Investor Bias on Decision Making - Nick Greer
  • Bull’s Eye Investing - John Mauldin
  • Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits - Philip Fisher
  • Contrarian Investment Strategies - David Dreman
  • Fooled by Randomness - Nicholas Taleb
  • Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System that Beat the Casinos and Wall Street - William Poundstone
  • Market Wizards - Jack Schwager
  • Markets in Motion: A Financial Market History: 1900 to 2004 - Ned Davis
  • Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing - Roger Lowenstein
  • Running Money - Andy Kessler
  • Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America’s Top Stock Traders – Jack D. Schwager
  • The Art of Short Selling - Kathryn Staley
  • The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America - Warren Buffett
  • The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
  • The Little Book that Beats the Market - Joel Greenblatt
  • The New Market Wizards - Jack Schwager
  • The Vulture Investors – Hilary Rosenberg
  • You can be a Stock Market Genius - Joel Greenblatt

ECONOMICS

  • Global Capitalism - Jeffry Frieden
  • Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations - David Warsh
  • Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes?: A Tale of Two Schools of Free Market Economics - Mark Skousen

ACCOUNTING

  • Accounting for Growth - Terry Smith
  • Financial Shenanigans - Howard M. Schilit
  • Reading Between the Lines of Company Accounts - Stephen Bloomfield

INVESTMENT BANKING

  • Harvard Business Review on Mergers & Acquisitions – Dennis Carey, Robert J. Aiello, Michael Watkins, Robert Eccles, et al.
  • The Business of Investment Banking: A Comprehensive Overview – K. Thomas Liaw
  • Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies – Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, and David Wessels

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco – Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
  • Basic Black-Scholes: Option Pricing and Trading – Timothy Falcon Crack
  • Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors – Charles Gasparino
  • Den Of Thieves – James. B Stewart
  • Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance - Perry Mehrling
  • Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews – Timothy Falcon Crack
  • Hedgehogging - Barton Biggs
  • Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street – Michael Lewis
  • Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle – John Rolfe and Peter Troob
  • My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance - Emanuel Derman
  • The Alchemy of Finance - George Soros
  • The New New Thing - Michael Lewis
  • The Smartest Guys in the Room: Bethany McLean & The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron - Peter Elkind
  • The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life – Richard H. Thaler
  • The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
  • When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management - Roger Lowenstein

CAREER PREP

  • Vault Finance Interviews Practice Guide
  • Vault Guide to Finance Interviews
  • Vault MBA Career Bible