Goldman Sachs Recommended Reading List

Goldman Sachs’s recommended reading list from its careers site, shared on X by @F_Compounders on July 31, 2025.

The books

92 books; ✓ marks the ones Kyle has read.

• 100 Years of Wall Street — Charles R. Geisst, Richard A. Grasso
• A History of Corporate Finance — Jonathan Barron Baskin, Paul J. Miranti Jr.
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street — Burton G. Malkiel
• Adam Smith and the Origins of American Enterprise — Roy C. Smith
• After the Trade Is Made — David M. Weiss
• Against the Gods — Peter L. Bernstein
• Barbarians at the Gate — Bryan Burrough, John Helyar ✓
• Beating the Street — Peter Lynch, John Rothchild
• Beginning the Journey — China, the United States, and the WTO — Robert D. Hormats
• Bill Gross on Investing — William H. Gross
• Buffettology — Mary Buffett, David Clark
• Business Cycles and Equilibrium — Fischer Black
• Capital Ideas — Peter L. Bernstein
• Cases and Readings in Markets, Ethics, and Law — Roy C. Smith
• Comeback — The Restoration of American Banking Power in the New World Economy — Roy C. Smith
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits — Philip A. Fisher
• Confessions of a Street Addict — James J. Cramer
• Den of Thieves — James B. Stewart
• Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms — John Downes, Jordan Elliot Goodman
• Exploring General Equilibrium — Fischer Black
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds — Charles Mackay
• F.I.A.S.C.O. — Frank Partnoy
• Financial Times Guide to Using the Financial Pages — Romesh Vaitilingam
• Foundations for Financial Economics — Chi-fu Huang, Robert H. Litzenberger
• From Here to Economy — Todd G. Buchholz
• Global Aging and Financial Markets — Robert Hormats
• Global Banking (Book) — Roy C. Smith, Ingo Walter
• Goldman Sachs — The Culture of Success — Lisa Endlich
• Greed and Glory on Wall Street — Ken Auletta
• Guerrilla Investing — Peter Siris
• High Finance in the Euro-Zone — Roy C. Smith, Ingo Walter
• In the Black — A History of African Americans on Wall Street — Gregory S. Bell
• International Economics — Theory and Policy — Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld
• Investment Banking — A Tale of Three Cities — Samuel L. Hayes III, Philip M. Hubbard
• Liar’s Poker — Michael Lewis
• Maestro — Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom — Bob Woodward
• Managing Currency Risk — Fischer Black
• Manias, Panics, and Crashes — Charles P. Kindleberger
• Markets, Mobs & Mayhem — Robert Menschel
• Martin Zweig’s Winning on Wall Street — Martin Zweig
• Money and Power — The History of Business — Howard B. Means
• Money Masters of Our Time — John Train
• Monkey Business — Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle — John Rolfe, Peter Troob
• Next — The Future Just Happened — Michael Lewis
• Old Girls’ Network — Sharon Whiteley, Kathy Elliott, Connie Duckworth
• One Up on Wall Street — Peter Lynch, John Rothchild
• Our Crowd — Stephen Birmingham
• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator — Edwin Lefèvre
• Secrets of the Temple — William Greider
• Securities Markets in the 1980s — Barrie A. Wigmore
• Soros on Soros — George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen
• Street Smarts — Linking Professional Conduct With Shareholder Value in the Securities Industry — Roy C. Smith, Ingo Walter
• The Alchemy of Finance — George Soros
• The Battle for Investment Survival — Gerald M. Loeb
• The Big Board — Robert Sobel
• The Boundaryless Organization — Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick, Steve Kerr
• The Chastening — Paul Blustein
• The City of London (Book) — David Kynaston
• The Crash and Its Aftermath — Barrie A. Wigmore
• The Crisis of Global Capitalism — George Soros
• The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism — Philip Augar
• The Essays of Warren Buffett — Lawrence A. Cunningham & Warren E. Buffett
• The Fed — The Inside Story — Martin Mayer
• The Five Great Myths About China and the World — Jonathan Anderson, Fred Hu
• The GE Work-Out — Dave Ulrich, Steve Kerr, Ron Ashkenas
• The Global Bankers — Roy C. Smith
• The Go-Go Years — John Brooks
• The Great Game — The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power — John Steele Gordon
• The House of Morgan — Ron Chernow
• The House of Nomura — Albert J. Alletzhauser
• The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham
• The Irwin Guide to Using the Wall Street Journal — Michael B. Lehmann
• The Last Partnerships — Charles R. Geisst
• The London Stock Exchange — A History — Ranald Michie
• The Money Game — Adam Smith (George J. W. Goodman)
• The Money Masters — John Train
• The Money Wars — Roy C. Smith
• The New Crowd — Judith Ramsey Ehrlich, Barry J. Rehfeld
• The New Money Masters — John Train
• The New New Thing — Michael Lewis ✓
• The Practice of Risk Management — Bob Litterman
• The Predators’ Ball — Connie Bruck
• The Quotations of Chairman Greenspan — Larry Kahaner
• The Rise and Fall of the Merchant Banks — Erik Banks
• The Visual Investor — John J. Murphy
• The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing — Kenneth M. Morris, Alan M. Siegel
• The Warren Buffett Way — Robert G. Hagstrom
• The Wealth Creators — Roy C. Smith
• Toward Rational Exuberance — B. Mark Smith
• Understanding Wall Street — Jeffrey B. Little, Lucien Rhodes
• Wall Street Women — Anne B. Fisher
• When Genius Failed — Roger Lowenstein

Connections

• Goldman Sachs Recommended reading list… (tweet) — the original post, archived.
• Book Lists — Master