Books You Recommend

What books do you recommend!?

Name any of your top picks - finance related or not.

  • Venture Deals - Brad Feld (Great for VC)

  • Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy (literally nothing to do with finance just a great book- sad tho)

  • Straight to Hell by John Lefevre (stories from a banker)

  • Liar's Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street - Michael Lewis (name speaks for itself lol)

Any others? I've seen posts like this but not that new or they are about a specific financial sector

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Freakonomics by Steven Levitt, Liar's Poker (which you said your self), Manias, Panics, and Crashes by Charles Kindleberger, and Probable Outcomes by Ed Easterling are my top finance picks.

Non-finance I would probably choose How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie because it helps work and pretty much everything

 

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

Literally the title means a spy among spies, friends is a codeword for spy involving MI5 and MI6 of British Intelligence.

A great read if you like thrilling at the end of your seat anticipating read.

"It's okay, I'll see you on the other side"
 

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