Any Good Books To Read?
Running out of books and need a few good ones. If you guys have any recommendations for investment banking related or anything y'all thought were intellectually stimulating.
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Discussion Materials by Bill Keenan if you haven’t read it. Very well written and humorous. I personally couldn’t put it down once I started.
non-finance book that gets the brain pumping -> Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carrol tells Quantum Physics in laymans terms... Mind trip and addictive
Non-finance: Atomic Habits, Thinking Fast and Slow, This Is Your Brain on Music, Sapiens, Malcolm Gladwell books
Economics/finance (that don't feel like a Wiley textbook): The Prize: Epic Quest for Oil..., Alchemists: Three Central Bankers, King of Capital, More Money than Gold, Dead Companies Walking, Invisible Hands, Values by Carney, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Gates
Contemporary/satire: Anything by Vonnegut, Coupland or Sedaris
Thought sapiens was garbage
the morons that read sapiens usually have zero clue that the book was written by a gay jewish transhumanist from the world economic forum
The Pitchbook: A Banking Analyst's Tale of Markets, Millions, and Mayhem.
Congrats on publishing!
The Caesar's Palace Coup (CZR restructuring book ft. Apollo, TPG, Oaktree, etc) is an amazing read and just released
No mention yet of The Outsiders (Thorndike?)
Widely regarded as the best book ever written (content and readability) about capital allocation, which whether you realize it or not, or define it that way or not, is what bankers think about all day every day. And I say that as someone who thinks that 99% of business books are worthless.
A lot of people don't understand capital allocation on this forum. Too focused on the ib to PE to mba path while chasing "prestige."
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
Honestly, wish I could be of help here, but I can't read, per my GMAT verbal score