30 books to understand financial crises, bubbles, crashes and market cycles.
1. Manias, Bubbles & Market Psychology
1. Devil Take the Hindmost — Edward Chancellor
2. A Short History of Financial Euphoria — John K. Galbraith
3. Manias, Panics, and Crashes — Kindleberger & Aliber
4. Irrational Exuberance — Robert Shiller
5. The Alchemy of Finance — George Soros
6. The Hour Between Dog and Wolf — John Coates
2. The Great Depression & Early Financial Crises
7. Lombard Street — Walter Bagehot
8. 1873 — Liaquat Ahamed
9. The Panic of 1907 — Bruner & Carr
10. The Great Crash 1929 — John K. Galbraith
11. Lords of Finance — Liaquat Ahamed
12. The Forgotten Depression — James Grant
13. The Great Depression: A Diary — Benjamin Roth
3. The 2008 Global Financial Crisis
14. The Big Short — Michael Lewis
15. Too Big to Fail — Andrew Ross Sorkin
16. All the Devils Are Here — McLean & Nocera
17. Firefighting — Bernanke, Geithner & Paulson
18. Crashed — Adam Tooze
19. Hall of Mirrors — Barry Eichengreen
4. Leverage, Fraud & Wall Street Excess
20. Den of Thieves — James B. Stewart
21. When Genius Failed — Roger Lowenstein
22. Bull! — Maggie Mahar
23. The Misbehavior of Markets — Benoît Mandelbrot
5. Credit, Interest Rates & Central Banks
24. The Price of Time — Edward Chancellor
25. The Lords of Easy Money — Christopher Leonard
26. The Alchemists — Neil Irwin
27. This Time Is Different — Reinhart & Rogoff
6. Market Cycles, Capital Cycles & Long-Term Returns
28. Anatomy of the Bear — Russell Napier
29. Capital Returns — Edward Chancellor
30. Triumph of the Optimists — Dimson, Marsh & Staunton
Together, these books explain the recurring machinery of markets.