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Date Title (bold font indicates "bestseller") Author
2014 xxx. The Great Betrayal: How Washington Bailed Out Wall Street but Left Main Street Underwater Jennifer Taub (Survey)
10/18/2013 xxx. Stocks for the Long Run (5th edition with initial chapters about what caused the crisis) Jeremy Siegel
9/?/2013 xxx. Fragile By Design: Banking Crises, Scarce Credit, and Political Bargains (Source: WSJ 4/9/13 - see also paper and presentation) Calomiris & Haber
5/26/2013 xxx. Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy McCarty, Poole, & Rosenthal
4/4/2013 305. The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire (adapted excerpt) Neil Irwin
4/2/2013 304. The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America David Stockman
3/22/2013 303. The Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History Parker & Whaples
2/24/2013 302. The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis (CFA Review) Ben Bernanke
2/24/2013 301. The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It (excerpt 1, 2, 3) Anat Admati & Martin Hellwig
1/25/2013 300. Bad History, Worse Policy: How a False Narrative About the Financial Crisis Led to the Dodd-Frank Act Peter Wallison
1/24/2013 299. After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead Alan Blinder
1/22/2013 298. The AIG Story Hank Greenberg & Lawrence Cunningham
11/2/2012 297. Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don't See Them Coming (CFA Review) Gary Gorton
10/1/2012 296. Boom and Bust Banking: The Causes and Cures of the Great Recession David Beckworth
9/28/2012 295. Who Really Drove the Economy into the Ditch? Joe Fried
9/25/2012 294. Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself (excerpt) Sheila Bair
9/18/2012 293. Free Market Revolution Yaron Brook & Don Watkins
9/16/2012 292. Hedge Funds and Systemic Risk Rand (Dixon, Clancy, Kumar)
9/6/2012 291. The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure John Allison
9/1/2012 290. The Endless Crisis (Introduction via MonthlyReview) John Bellamy Foster, Robert W. McChesney
7/31/2012 289. The Crisis of Crowding: Quant Copycats, Ugly Models, and the New Crash Normal Ludwig Chincarini (Survey)
7/24/2012 288. Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street Neil Barofsky
7/5/2012 287. Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail: Governance and Management Lessons from the Crisis Thomas H. Stanton
6/7/2012 286. Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong (excerpt) Edward Conard
6/5/2012 285. A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity Luigi Zingales
6/5/2012 284. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Turning the American Dream into a Nightmare Oonagh McDonald
5/30/2012 283. The Economic Crisis: Notes from the Underground Thomas Palley
5/22/2012 282. Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America Charles Ferguson
5/22/2012 281. The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy---How to Save Yourself and Your Country Peter Schiff
5/15/2012 280. Masters of Nothing: How the Crash Will Happen Again Unless We Understand Human Nature (UK 9/9/11) Matthew Hancock & Nadhim Zahawi
4/30/2012 279. End This Depression Now! Paul Krugman
4/17/2012 278. The Occupy Handbook Janet Byrne (Editor)
4/16/2012 277. The Great Recession: Market Failure or Policy Failure? Robert L. Hetzel
4/13/2012 276. Rethinking Finance (sample chapters via Russell Sage Foundation - Shefrin and Litan surveys) (Editors Blinder, Lo, and Solow)
4/3/2012 275. Saving Europe: How National Politics Nearly Destroyed the Euro Carlo Bastasin
4/3/2012 274. The New Depression: The Breakdown of the Paper Money Economy Richard Duncan
4/3/2012 273. White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You Johnson & Kwak (Survey)
3/30/2012 272. Economics After the Crisis: Objectives and Means Adair Turner
3/20/2012 271. Finance and the Good Society Robert Shiller
3/6/2012 270. Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street John G. Taft
2/27/2012 269. From Financial Crisis to Stagnation: The Destruction of Shared Prosperity and the Role of Economics Thomas Palley
2/27/2012 268. Planet Ponzi Mitchell Feierstein
2/24/2012 267. In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy (CFA Review) Blanchard, Romer, Spence, Stiglitz
2/24/2012 266. Fixing the Housing Market: Financial Innovations for the Future Allen, Barth, & Yago
2/17/2012 265. Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us Levine (Survey) , Barth, & Caprio
2/15/2012 264. Learning From the Global Financial Crisis: Creatively, Reliably, and Sustainably Paul Shrivastava & Matt Statler
1/10/2012 263. Greedy Bastards Dylan Ratigan
1/1/2012 262. Financing Failure: A Century of Bailouts Vern McKinley
12/16/2011 261. Getting it Wrong: How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy William A. Barnett
12/8/20011 260. The Long Depression: The Slump of 2008 to 2031 Matthew Lynn (Survey)
12/5/2011 259. A Global History of the Financial Crash of 2007-10 Johan Lybeck (Survey)
11/30/2011 258. The Global Financial Crisis: What Have We Learnt? Steven Kates
11/22/2011 257. Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations Are Crippling the Global Economy Yalman Onaran (Survey)
11/15/2011 256. Exile on Wall Street: One Analyst's Fight to Save the Big Banks from Themselves Mike Mayo
11/10/2011 255. Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis James Rickards
10/31/2011 254. Way Too Big to Fail (How Government and Private Industry Can Build a Fail-Safe Mortgage System) Frey & Gradman (Editor) (Survey)
10/25/2011 253. Debunking Economics - Revised and Expanded Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned? (sample chapter) Steve Keen (Survey)
10/25/2011 252. Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life Emanuel Derman
10/11/2011 251. The Global Minotaur: The true causes and nature of the current economic crisis Yanis Varoufakis
10/11/2011 250. Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street Aaron Brown (Survey)
10/3/2011 249. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World Michael Lewis
9/27/2011 248. Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises 6th Edition Kindleberger & Aliber
9/20/2011 247. Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President Ron Suskind
9/19/2011 246. Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery Chinn and Frieden
9/14/2011 245. The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism David Harvey
9/13/2011 244. Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers Jared Dillian
9/12/2011 243. Black Box Casino: How Wall Street's Risky Shadow Banking Crashed Global Finance Robert Stowe England
9/8/2011 242. Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation Friedman & Kraus
8/17/2011 241. Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Satyajit Das
6/14/2011 240. America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb Peter Ferrara
6/7/2011 239. Corporate Psychopaths: Organizational Destroyers Clive Boddy (Survey)
5/31/2011 238. Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present Jeff Madrick
5/24/2011 237. Reckless Endangerment (NYT excerpt) Morgenson & Rosner
5/10/2011 236. Global Financial Crisis: The Ethical Issues Dobos, Barry, Pogge
5/3/2011 235. Debt, Deficits, and the Demise of the American Economy Tanous (Survey) & Cox
5/3/2011 234. A Decade of Delusions: From Speculative Contagion to the Great Recession Frank Martin
4/28/2011 233. The Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2011: The Global Economic Crisis and the Case of Greece Botsiou (Editor)
4/15/2011 232. Corporate Governance Failures: The Role of Institutional Investors in the Global Financial Crisis (CFA Review) Hawley, Kamath, and Williams
4/12/2011 231. Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World William Cohan
4/5/2011 230. Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide Roddy Boyd (Survey)
4/5/2011 229. Financial Origami Brendan Moynihan
3/21/2011 228. Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance (FAJ Review) Acharya (Survey) and others
3/9/2011 227. How I Predicted the Global Economic Crisis John Talbott (Survey)
3/1/2011 226. Reforming U.S. Financial Markets: Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank Kroszner & Shiller
2/28/2011 225. The Great American Housing Bubble: The Road to Collapse Robert Hardaway (Survey)
2/15/2011 224. Preludes to the Icelandic Financial Crisis Robert Aliber
2/15/2011 223. Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance Greta Krippner
1/28/2011 222. The Financial Crisis of Our Time Robert Kolb
1/26/2011 221. The Subprime Virus: Reckless Credit, Regulatory Failure, and Next Steps Engel & McCoy
1/26/2011 220. Final Report on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the US (or online here) Commentary Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
1/21/2011 219. Liquidity and Crises Franklin Allen (Editor)
1/18/2011 218. The Great American Bank Robbery: The Unauthorized Report About What Really Caused the Great Recession Paul Sperry (Survey)
1/7/2011 217. Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System Barry Eichengreen
1/4/2011 216. The Financial Crisis: Origins and Implications Arestis (Editor)
1/1/2011 215. Maynard's Revenge: The Collapse of Free Market Macroeconomics Lance Taylor
12/28/2010 214. Uprising: Will Emerging Markets Shape or Shake the World Economy George Magnus
12/28/2010 213. Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century Anya Schiffrin
12/21/2010 212. Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis Matthew Lynn (Survey)
12/17/2010 211. What Caused the Financial Crisis Jeffrey Friedman (Editor)
12/7/2010 210. The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences David Skeel
12/7/2010 209. Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization Gordon Brown
12/7/2010 208. Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story David Einhorn
12/7/2010 207. Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream Christopher Whalen
11/30/2010 206. Lehman Brothers' Dance with Delusion: Wrestling Wall Street Stanley J. Dziedzic Jr.
11/16/2010 205. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis McLean and Nocera
11/9/2010 204. When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out: The World's Most Resilient Country and Its Struggle to Rise Again David Lynch
11/9/2010 203. Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance Viral Acharya (Survey)
11/8/2010 202. The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort Perry Mehrling
11/7/2010 201. How Big Banks Fail and What to Do about It Darrell Duffie
11/2/2010 200. Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America Matt Taibbi
11/2/2010 199. Crash of the Titans (The Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America) Greg Farrell
10/26/2010 198. The Monster (How Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America) Michael Hudson
10/7/2010 197. A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy Amar Bhidé
10/1/2010 196. Investment Management after the Global Financial Crisis Fabozzi (CFA)
10/1/2010 195. Casino Capitalism: How the Financial Crisis Came About and What Needs to be Done Now Hans-Werner Sinn
9/28/2010 194. The Financial Crisis: Who is to Blame? Howard Davies
9/28/2010 193. Ruthless: How Enraged Investors Reclaimed Their Investments and Beat Wall Street Phil Trupp
9/21/2010 192. Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future Robert Reich
9/14/2010 191. Capital Offense (How Washington Turned America's Future Over to Wall St.) Michael Hirsh (Survey)
9/9/2010 190. The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism David Harvey
9/7/2010 189. The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street Robert Scheer
9/7/2010 188. The Weekend That Changed Wall Street: An Eyewitness Account (FAJ Review) Maria Bartiromo
9/2/2010 187. The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008 Peter Chapman
9/1/2010 186. The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big To Jail Danny Schechter
8/30/2010 185. Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street Janet Tavakoli
8/23/2010 184. Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity Hubbard & Navarro
8/15/2010 183. Booms and Busts: An Encyclopedia of Economic History from Tulipmania of the 1630's to the Global Financial Crisis of the 21st Century James Ciment
8/11/2010 182. After the Crash: The Future of Finance Editors Fuchita, Herring, Litan (Survey)
8/5/2010 181. The Story Behind the Mortgage and Housing Meltdown: The Legacy of Greed Kenneth Clark
7/22/2010 180. Risk and Liquidity Hyun Song Shin
7/19/2010 179. Anatomy of a Meltdown: A Dual Financial Biography of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis Michael Malloy
7/14/2010 178. Markets on Trial: The Economic Sociology of the U.S. Financial Crisis Michael Lounsbury
7/13/2010 177. Alchemists of Loss: How modern finance and government intervention crashed the financial system Dowd (Survey) & Hutchinson
7/6/2010 176. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Great Recession Tom Gorman
6/29/2010 175. The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane Randall Lane
6/22/2010 174. Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis Anatole Kaletsky
6/22/2010 173. The Concise Encyclopedia of The Great Recession 2007-2010 Jerry Rosenberg
6/22/2010 172. Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager Anonymous
6/21/2010 171. The Puzzle of Modern Economics: Science or Ideology? Roger Backhouse
6/15/2010 170. Chasing Goldman Sachs: How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down Suzanne McGee
6/15/2010 169. Crisis: Cause, Containment and Cure Thomas Huertas
6/15/2010 168. Understanding the financial crisis: Investment, Risk and Governance Thomsen and others
6/10/2010 167. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite Sebastian Mallaby
6/8/2010 166. Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Our Economic Future Robert Kolb
6/8/2010 165. Broke USA: How the Working Poor Became Big Business Gary Rivlin
6/3/2010 164. The Bankers: How the Banks Brought Ireland to Its Knees Shane Ross
6/1/2010 163. Senseless Panic: How Washington Failed America William M. Isaac
6/1/2010 162. The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan Greenberg
5/25/2010 161. The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System (FAJ Review) French and others
5/25/2010 160. The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century Chossudovsky and Marshall
5/24/2010 159. Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy Raghuram Rajan
5/11/2010 158. Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression Jack Rasmus
5/11/2010 157. Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance Roubini and Mihm
5/9/2010 156. Balancing the Banks: Global Lessons from the Financial Crisis Dewatripont & others
5/3/2010 155. The Death of Capital: How Creative Policy Can Restore Stability (FAJ Review) Michael Lewitt
5/3/2010 154. Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century William Engdahl
4/27/2010 153. The Stiglitz Report: Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Systems in the Wake of the Global Crisis Joseph Stiglitz
4/26/2010 152. The Fearful Rise of Markets: Global Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How To Prevent Them in the Future John Authers
4/26/2010 151. Profiting from the World's Economic Crisis: Finding Investment Opportunities by Tracking Global Market Trends Bud Conrad
4/26/2010 150. Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff Christine Richard (Survey)
4/13/2010 149. Rebound: Why America Will Emerge Stronger From the Financial Crisis Stephen Rose
4/12/2010 148. The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications Dick Nanto
4/8/2010 147. How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Roger Farmer
4/6/2010 146. The End of Wall Street Roger Lowenstein
4/3/2010 145. Financing the Future: Market-Based Innovations for Growth Allen & Yago
3/31/2010 144. The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy Richard Posner
3/30/2010 143. 13 BANKERS: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown Johnson and Kwak (Survey)
3/30/2010 142. Anatomy of a Financial Crisis: A Real Estate Bubble, Runaway Credit Markets, and Regulatory Failure Marc Jarsulic
3/30/2010 141. Macroeconomic Theory and Its Failings: Alternative Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis Steven Kates (Editor)
3/22/2010 140. Uncontrolled Risk: Lessons of Lehman Brothers and How Systemic Risk Can Still Bring Down the World Financial System Mark Williams
3/22/2010 139. The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers Vicky Ward
3/18/2010 138. The Age of Instability: The Global Financial Crisis and What Comes Next David Smith
3/16/2010 137. Panic: The Betrayal of Capitalism by Wall Street and Washington Redleaf and Vigilante
3/15/2010 136. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (NYT1) Michael Lewis
3/12/2010 135. Nowhere to Hide: The Great Financial Crisis and Challenges for Asia Michael Lim Mah-Hui (Survey) & Lim Chin
3/12/2010 134. Time for a Visible Hand: Lessons from the 2008 World Financial Crisis Griffith-Jones and others
3/8/2010 133. Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague Laurence Kotlikoff
3/8/2010 132. Slapped by the Invisible Hand: The Panic of 2007 (FAJ Review) Gary Gorton
3/5/2010 131. In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives Albo, Gindin, Panitch
3/2/2010 130. Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger Fintan O'Toole
3/2/2010 129. The Economic Crisis and the State of Economics Robert Skidelsky (Editor)
3/2/2010 128. ECONned: (Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism) Yves Smith
2/19/2010 127. The Global Financial Crisis (Global Viewpoints) Noah Berlatsky
2/12/2010 126. Bailouts: Public Money, Private Profit Robert Wright
2/9/2010 125. Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status Laffer & Moore
2/2/2010 124. The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It Scott Patterson
2/1/2010 123. The Storm: The World Economic Crisis & What It Means Vince Cable
2/1/2010 122. On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System Henry Paulson
1/31/2010 121. Global Finance in Crisis: The Politics of International Regulatory Change Helleiner, Pagliari & Zimmermann (Editors)
1/26/2010 120. The Road from Ruin: How to Revive Capitalism and Put America Back on Top Bishop & Green
1/26/2010 119. Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable Mark Gilbert
1/19/2010 118. Paper Fortunes: Modern Wall Street; Where It's Been and Where It's Going Roy Smith
1/18/2010 117. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy Joseph Stiglitz
1/15/2010 116. False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy Dean Baker (Survey)
1/12/2010 115. Diary of a Hedge Fund Manager: From the Top, to the Bottom, and Back Again Keith McCullough
1/5/2010 114. I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay John Lanchester
12/14/2009 113. The Corruption of Capitalism: A strategy to rebalance the global economy and restore sustainable growth Richard Duncan
12/14/2009 112. Financial Market Bubbles and Crashes Harold L. Vogel
12/3/2009 111. The Great Recession Michael Roberts
11/30/2009 110. The Great Crash of 2008 Garnaut, Smith
11/24/2009 109. After the Crash: Designing a Depression-free Economy Mason Gaffney
11/24/2009 108. After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street and Washington Nicole Gelinas
11/10/2009 107. The Trouble with Markets: Saving Capitalism from Itself Roger Bootle
11/10/2009 106. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities John Cassidy
11/9/2009 105. Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown Wiedemer and others
11/9/2009 104. Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System Robert Pozen
11/3/2009 103. The Sellout (Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement) Charles Gasparino
11/3/2009 102. The Greatest Trade Ever (How John Paulson Made Financial History) Gregory Zuckerman
10/29/2009 101. The Return of the Great Depression Vox Day (Survey)
10/22/2009 100. Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession Frederick Sheehan
10/20/2009 99. Too Big To Fail (Wall Street and Washington) Andrew Ross Sorkin
10/15/2009 98. The Murder of Lehman Brothers: An Insider's Look at the Global Meltdown Joseph Tibman
10/12/2009 97. Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It Richard Wolff
10/6/2009 96. Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase Duff McDonald
10/6/2009 95. Architects of Ruin: How big government liberals wrecked the global economy Peter Schweizer
9/30/2009 94. The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle Harold James
9/29/2009 93. Meltdown Iceland: Lessons on the World Financial Crisis from a Small Bankrupt Island Roger Boyes
9/22/2009 92. Crash Proof 2.0 (updated follow-up with over 80 new pages) Peter Schiff
9/22/2009 91. It Takes a Pillage: An Epic Tale of Power, Deceit, and Untold Trillions Nomi Prins
9/22/2009 90. Lights In The Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future Martin Ford
9/16/2009 89. Financial Fiasco (Infatuation with Home Ownership and Easy Money Created the Crisis) Johan Norberg
9/16/2009 88. End the Fed Ron Paul
9/15/2009 87. Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy Peter Goodman
9/11/2009 86. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Reinhart and Rogoff
9/8/2009 85. Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets Frank Partnoy
9/8/2009 84. The Meltdown Years: The Unfolding of the Global Economic Crisis Wolfgang Munchau
9/1/2009 83. The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know Magdoff & Yates
9/1/2009 82. How I Caused the Credit Crunch: An Insider's Story of the Financial Meltdown Tetsuya Ishikawa
9/1/2009 81. Subprime Nation: American Power, Global Capital, and the Housing Bubble Herman Schwartz
8/24/2009 80. Housing America Powell/Holcombe
8/19/2009 79. The Undoing of Cowardice Bill Feingold
8/12/2009 78. Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America Charles Geisst
8/4/2009 77. In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic David Wessel
8/3/2009 76. The Road to Financial Reformation: Warnings, Consequences, Reforms (FAJ Review) Henry Kaufman
8/3/2009 75. The New Empire of Debt: The Rise and Fall of an Epic Financial Bubble Bonner & Wiggin
7/31/2009 74. The Fall of the House of Credit: What Went Wrong in Banking and What can be Done to Repair the Damage? Alistair Milne
7/21/2009 73. A Colossal Failure of Common Sense (Collapse of Lehman Brothers) Lawrence McDonald
7/13/2009 72. Why Iceland?: How One of the World's Smallest Countries Became the Meltdown's Biggest Casualty Asgeir Jonsson
7/24/2009 71. Wall Street Revalued: Imperfect Markets and Inept Central Bankers Andrew Smithers
6/23/2009 70. Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us Alyssa Katz
6/22/2009 69. Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street Karen Ho
6/22/2009 68. And Then the Roof Caved In: How Wall Street's Greed and Stupidity Brought Capitalism to Its Knees David Faber
6/17/2009 67. The Road Ahead for the Fed Ciorciari and others
6/15/2009 66. Managed by the Markets: How Finance Reshaped America Gerald Davis
6/10/2009 65. The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream John Wasik (Survey)
6/9/2009 64. Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets? Pablo Triana
6/9/2009 63. The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall St. Justin Fox
6/8/2009 62. Unravelling the Credit Crunch David Murphy
6/2/2009 61. Bubbles, Booms, and Busts: The Rise and Fall of Financial Assets Donald Rapp (Survey)
6/2/2009 60. The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed... Les Leopold (Survey)
6/1/2009 59. Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America's Mortgage Market Dan Immergluck
5/26/209 58. Bailout Nation, with New Post-Crisis Update Barry Ritholtz
5/26/2009 57. The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession Andrew Gamble
5/22/2009 56. Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown Edmund Andrews
5/19/2009 55. Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed Paul Mason
5/12/2009 54. Fool's Gold (J.P. Morgan and How Wall St. Created a Financial Catastrophe) Gillian Tett
5/12/2009 53. Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall St. Kate Kelly
5/11/2009 52. More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times Tilson and Tongue
5/4/2009 51. The Rise and Fall of the US Mortgage and Credit Markets (Market Meltdown Analysis) James Barth
5/1/2009 50. A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression Richard Posner
4/27/2009 49. The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street John Talbott (Survey)
4/27/2009 48. The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It Douglas Hubbard
4/25/2009 47. Financial Shock: Global Panic and Government Bailouts Mark Zandi
4/24/2009 46. The Housing Boom and Bust Thomas Sowell
4/14/2009 45. Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation Daniel Gross
4/14/2009 44. Financial Boom and Gloom: The Credit and Banking Crisis of 2007-2009 and Beyond Dimitris Chorafas
4/9/2009 43. The Skinny on the Housing Crisis: What Every Homeowner and Homebuyer Needs to Know Jim Randel
4/6/2009 42. The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide Martin Weiss
3/30/2009 41. The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets George Soros
3/23/2009 40. Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System (FAJ Review) NYU Biz School
3/10/2009 39. House of Cards (Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street - Bear Stearns) William Cohan
3/9/2009 DJIA closes at 6547 (short-term market bottom - S&P500 676)
3/1/2009 38. The Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking (UK 11/1/8) Phillip Anderson
2/25/2009 37. Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis John Taylor
2/9/2009 36. Meltdown (Why the Market Collapsed, Economy Tanked, and Bailouts Make it Worse) Tom Woods
2/9/2009 35. The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash Charles Morris
1/29/2009 34. Animal Spirits: How Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Capitalism Akerlof & Shiller
1/27/2009 33. The Wall Street Journal Guide to the End of Wall Street as We Know It Dave Kansas
1/27/2009 Iceland government coalition collapses
1/22/2009 32. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Liaquat Ahamed
1/6/2009 31. Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover Katrina vanden Heuvel (Editor)
1/6/2009 30. The Foreclosure of America: Life Inside Countrywide Home Loans and the Selling of the American Dream Adam Michaelson
1/1/2009 29. The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences Foster and Magdoff
1/1/2009 28. Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy Dean Baker (Survey)
12/31/2008 27. Contagion (The Financial Epidemic Sweeping the Global Economy) John Talbott (Survey)
12/1/2008 26. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 Paul Krugman
11/30/2008 25. The Mortgage Meltdown: The Mindsets That Got Us Here and What You Can Do About It Stanley J. Kazwell Jr.
10/29/2008 24. The Origin of Financial Crises: Central Banks, Credit Bubbles and the Efficient Market Fallacy George Cooper
10/14/2008 23. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets Nassim Nicholas Taleb
10/9/2008 22. The Great Housing Bubble: Why Did House Prices Fall? Lawrence Roberts
9/23/2008 21. Fixing Global Finance (Forum on Constructive Capitalism) Martin Wolf
9/17/2008 U.S. Federal Reserve loans AIG $85 billion
9/15/2008 Lehman Brothers fails to find a buyer and files for bankruptcy (the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history) and Bank of America announces a $50 billion purchase of Merrill Lynch.
9/7/2008 U.S. government seizes control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
9/4/2008 20. The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy David Smick
9/3/2008 19. Behind the Housing Crash Aaron Clarey (Survey)
9/1/2008 18. Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal Danny Schechter
8/31/2008 17. The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan’s Great Recession Richard Koo
8/4/2008 16. The Subprime Solution (How the Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It) Robert Shiller
7/11/2008 Regulators seize IndyMac Bank (the largest thrift ever to fail in the US). Barrel of oil hits a record price of $147.50.
7/8/2008 15. Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis Muolo & Padilla
6/30/2008 14. Confessions of a Subprime Lender: An Insider's Tale of Greed, Fraud, and Ignorance Richard Bitner
6/30/2008 13. Subprime Mortgage Credit Derivatives Fabozzi/Goodman
6/20/2008 12. The Credit Crunch: Housing Bubbles, Globalisation and the Worldwide Economic Crisis Graham Turner
5/27/2008 11. The Uprising (Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall St. and Washington) David Sirota
5/23/2008 10. When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change Mohamed El-Erian
5/5/2008 9. The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means George Soros
4/15/2008 8. Greed, Fraud & Ignorance: A Subprime Insider's Look at the Mortgage Collapse Richard Bitner
4/15/2008 7. Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, & the Global Crisis of American Capitalism Kevin Phillips
4/14/2008 6. The Cost of Capitalism: Understanding Market Mayhem & Stabilizing our Economic Future Robert Barbera
3/16/2008 JP Morgan buys Bear Stearns
3/4/2008 5. The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash Charles Morris
2/11/2008 4. Gringos In Real Estate: A Housing Crash Survivor Tells All G. Robert Baglio
1/16/2008 3. Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve Fleckenstein, Sheehan
10/9/2007 Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closes at 14164 (highest ever prior to 3/6/2013)
9/18/2007 U.S. Federal Reserve makes its first in a series of interest rate cuts
9/17/2007 2. Plight of the Fortune Tellers: Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently Riccardo Rebonato
6/28/2007 1. Subprime Mortgages: America's Latest Boom and Bust Edward Gramlich

Pre-Crisis Books - Who Predicted the Crisis?

Date Title (focus) Author
4/17/2007 28. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Second Edition) Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4/6/2007 27. A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation Richard Bookstaber
4/2/2007 New Century files for bankruptcy
3/9/2007 26. Cashing in on the Real Estate Bubble Mike Stathis
3/1/2007 25. Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes Michael Panzner
2/26/2007 24. Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse Peter Schiff
2/7/2007 HSBC announcemount of anticipated losses on subprime mortgages
10/14/2006 23. America's Financial Apocalypse: How to Profit from the Next Great Depression Mike Stathis
10/6/2006 22. America's Bubble Economy: Profit When It Pops Wiedemer, Spitzer, Janszen
10/2/2006 21. The Coming First World Debt Crisis Ann Pettifor (Survey)
9/25/2006 20. Bubbles, Booms, and Busts: Make Money in ANY Real Estate Market Blanche Evans
2/21/2006 19. Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust David Lereah
1/17/2006 18. Cash in on the Coming Real Estate Crash Decker and Sheldon
1/10/2006 17. Sell Now!: The End of the Housing Bubble John Talbott (Survey)
11/11/2005 16. Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis Bonner, Wiggin
11/1/2005 15. House Poor: How to Buy and Sell Your Home Come Bubble or Bust June Fletcher
6/1/2005 14. America's Housing Bubble: The Real Estate Outlook for 2006-2012 Clif Droke
4/1/2005 13. Boom Bust: House Prices, Banking and the Depression of 2010 Fred Harrison (Survey)
2/22/2005 12. Are You Missing the Real Estate Boom? David Lereah
2/22/2005 11. Irrational Exuberance: Second Edition Robert Shiller
11/22/2004 10. Undue Influence: How the Wall Street Elite Puts the Financial System at Risk Charles Geisst
9/21/2004 9. The Next Great Bubble Boom Harry Dent
7/31/2004 8. Das Greenspan-Dossier in German Claus Vogt & Claus Leuschel
9/29/2003 7. Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving the Soft Depression of the 21st Century William Bonner
9/20/2003 6. How to Profit from the Coming Real Estate Bust John Rubino (Survey)
7/25/2003 5. The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures Richard Duncan
4/28/2003 4. The Coming Crash in the Housing Market John Talbott (Survey)
11/25/2002 3. The Great Bust Ahead: The Greatest Depression in American and UK History is Just Several Short Years Away Daniel Arnold
6/21/2002 2. Conquer the Crash: You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression Robert Prechter
August 1997 1. The Chaos Makers Jones & Harrison (Survey)

Some prior books of note

More books that may be relevant (I haven't read them),
but don't seem specific to the crisis.

Date Title (focus) Author
10/4/2011 50. Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business Bower, Leonard, & Paine
6/7/2011 49. The Greatest Trades of All Time: Top Traders Making Big Profits from the Crash of 1929 to Today Vince Veneziani
4/5/2011 48. Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst Vikram Mansharamani
2/17/2011 47. The Unfinished Global Revolution: The Pursuit of a New International Politics Mark Malloch-Brown
1/1/2011 46. Maynard's Revenge: The Collapse of Free Market Macroeconomics Lance Taylor
12/28/2010 45. Uprising: Will Emerging Markets Shape or Shake the World Economy George Magnus
12/7/2010 44. The Global Debt Trap: How to Escape the Danger and Build a Fortune Vogt, Leuschel, & Weiss
11/16/2010 43. Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx Chris Harman
11/9/2010 42. Decision Points George W. Bush
10/26/2010 41. The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments Charles Goye
9/21/2010 40. The Shadow Market: How a Group of Wealthy Nations and Powerful Investors Secretly Dominate the World Eric Weiner
9/7/2010 39. History of Greed: Financial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff David Sarna
9/2/2010 38. The Postcatastrophe Economy: Rebuilding America and Avoiding the Next Bubble Eric Janszen
6/27/2010 37. Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800 Richard Grossman
6/17/2010 36. Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives Satyajit Das
5/13/2010 35. The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? Ian Bremmer
2/1/2010 34. A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 2, Book 2, 1970-1986 Allan Meltzer
2/1/2010 33. A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 2, Book 1, 1951-1969 Allan Meltzer
12/29/2009 32. The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Debt Crisis of 2010 - 2012 Harry Dent
9/29/2009 31. The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs Charles Ellis
9/23/2009 30. Wall Street Revalued: Imperfect Markets and Inept Central Bankers Andrew Smithers
3/13/2009 29. Inside the Fed: Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin through Greenspan to Bernanke Stephen Axilrod
1/27/2009 28. The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century George Friedman
1/19/2009 27. Synthetic CDOs: Modelling, Valuation and Risk Management C. C. Mounfield
12/30/2008 26. Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Margaret Atwood
11/17/2008 25. Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity Michael Lewis (Editor)
9/16/2008 24. Structured Finance and Collateralized Debt Obligations Janet Tavakoli
8/11/2008 23. Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan Ethan Harris
7/1/2008 22. Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics John Talbott
5/5/2008 21. Deception and Abuse at the Fed: Henry B. Gonzalez Battles Alan Greenspan's Bank Robert Auerbach
4/30/2008 20. The Revolution: A Manifesto Ron Paul
4/22/2008 19. Wall Street: America's dream palace Steve Fraser
4/17/2008 18. The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria
4/15/2008 17. The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker Steven Greenhouse
2/1/2008 16. International Financial Instability Douglas Evanoff
9/17/2007 15. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World Alan Greenspan
6/12/2007 14. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression Amity Shlaes
5/17/2007 13. Understanding Financial Crises Allen & Gale
12/7/2007 12. The Foundations of Credit Risk Analysis Semmler & Bernard
4/15/2007 11. Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets Hoffman & Others
10/9/2006 10. The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream Jacob Hacker
2/7/2006 9. Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life Steve Fraser
11/7/2005 8. An American Epidemic: Mortgage Fraud--A Serious Business Michael Richardson
10/25/2005 7. Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power John Gordon
9/26/2005 6. Systemic Financial Crises: Containment and Resolution Patrick Honohan (Editor)
4/14/2005 5. Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy Ravi Batra
4/1/2005 4. The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry William Black
9/8/2004 3. Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk LiPuma & Others
1/15/2003 2. A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913-1951 Allan Meltzer
11/5/2002 1. The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market Levy and Linden

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