Books on Hedge Funds


I am currently reading an interesting book More Money Than God, which is about the Hedge Fund industry and profiles some of the big names.

While reading about this book, I compiled the following list of  books, in the same genre:

1. No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets (Michael Steinhardt)

2. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Malcom Gladwell)

3. The Money Game (Adam Smith)

4. The Go-Go Years (John Brooks)

5. The World in Depression (Charles Kindleberger)

6. The Money Managers (Kaplan and Welles)

7. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (Roger Lowenstein)

8. Capital Ideas Evolving (Peter L. Bernstein)

9. A History of the Theory of Investments (Mark Rubenstein)

10. Hedgehogging (Barton M. Biggs)

11. Supermoney (Adam Smith)

12. Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders (Jack D. Schwager)

13. A Demon of Our Own Design (Richard Bookstaber)

14. The Myth of Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street (Justin Fox)

15. Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beats the Casinos and Wall Street (William Poundstone)

16. The Random Character of Stock Market Prices (Paul H. Cootner)

17. Up, Down, Up, Down, Up: My Career at Commodities Corporation (Irwin Rosenblum)

18. Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (Jeffrey A. Frieden)

19. Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire (Michael T. Kaufman)

20. The New Money Masters (John Train)

21. The Alchemy of Finance (George Soros)

22. The Unauthorized Biography, the Life, Times and Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor (Robert Slater)

23. Soros on Soros (George Soros)

24. An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (Donald Mackenzie)

25. Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets (Steven Drobny)

26. Julian Robertson: A Tiger in a Land of Bulls and Bears (Daniel A. Strachman)

27. Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust (Maggie Mahar)

28. Hedge Hunters: Hedge Fund Masters on the Rewards, the Risks, and the Reckoning (Katherine Burton)

29. Absolute Return (Julie Dalla-Costa)

30. In Office (Norman Lamont)

31. The World Is Curved (David M. Smick)

32. The Age of  Turbulence: Adventures In a New World (Alan Greenspan)

33. Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (Bob Woodward)

34. The Crisis of Global Capitalism (George Soros) 

35. The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF (Paul Blustein)

36. The Right Stuff (Tom Wolfe)

37. Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold (John Cassidy)

38. Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story (David Einhorn)

39. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Roger Lowenstein)

40. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (Michael Lewis)

41. Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment (David Swensen)

42. A Demon of Our Own Designs: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation (Richard Bookstaber)

43. The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History (Gregory Zuckerman)

44. Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis (Paul Muolo and Matthew Padilla)

45. House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street (William D. Cohan)

46. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves (Bryan Burroughs) 

47. Invasion of the Locusts: Intrigues, Power Struggles, and Market Manipulation (Werner Seifert)

48. Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P.Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Gillan Tett)

 I plan to read many or all of the above books in the next few years.

Invictus.



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