The Goldman Sachs reading list for incoming (summer) analysts has not changed much over the years. The best banks for breaking into investment banking.
Industry Background and Flavour
Emerging Markets
Billion Dollar Whale (not on the official list but by far the most entertaining)
Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman’s Ruthless Quest for Global Power
The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy
Emerging Markets
Understanding Wall Street, Fifth Edition
The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing
The Visual Investor: How to Spot Market Trends (Wiley Trading)
The Essays Of Warren Buffett: Lessons For Corporate America
The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market (Wiley Investment Classics)
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Wordsworth Reference)
Greed and Glory on Wall Street: Fall of the House of Lehman (Penguin Business Library)
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
The House of Nomura: The Inside Story of the Legendary Japanese Financial Dynasty
The New Crowd: The Changing of the Jewish Guard on Wall Street
Secrets of Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
Guerrilla Investing: Winning Strategies for Beating the Wall Street Professionals
The Battle for Investment Survival (Wiley Investment Classics)
Money and Power: The History of Business
The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power, 1653-2000
Toward Rational Exuberance: the Evolution of the Modern Stock Market
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
The Chastening: Inside The Crisis That Rocked The Global Financial System And Humbled The Imf
After the Trade Is Made, Revised Ed.: Processing Securities Transactions
The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered
General Industry Reference
Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms (Barron’s Dictionary of Finance & Investment Terms)
The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing
International Economics with MyEconLab: Theory & Policy
FT Guide to Using the Financial Pages (The FT Guides)
Fixed Income and Equities
Controlling and Managing Interest-Rate Risk
The Handbook of Fixed Income SecuritiesStigum’s Money Market, 8E
Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment
Options and Derivatives
How I Trade Options (Wiley Trading)
Options as a Strategic Investment
Options:Essential Concepts, 3rd Edition
All About Options, 3E: The Easy Way to Get Started (All About Series)
Mastering Derivatives Markets: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Products, Applications and Risks
The New Financial Instruments (Frontiers in Finance Series)
Options, Futures and Other Derivatives
Investment Management
Analysis of Investments and Management of Portfolios: WithThomson One – Business School Edition
Written About, By or For Money Managers and Traders
Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders
The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders
Trader Vic: Methods of a Wall Street Master
Exceptional Trading: The Mind Game
Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets
The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes
Stan Weinstein’s Secrets for Profit in Bull and Bear Markets
Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline, and a Winning Attitude
Trading With Crowd Psychology (Wiley Trading)
Street Smarts: High Probability Short Term Trading Strategies
The Real Holy Grail: Money Management Techniques of Top Traders
Written by Goldman Sachs Employees
• Exploring General Equilibrium by Fischer Black; MIT Press; 1995
• Business Cycles and Equilibrium by Fischer Black; Blackwell Publishers; 1991
• Managing Currency Risk by Fischer Black; Association for Investment Management & Research; 1989
• Old Girls’ Network: Insider Advice for Women Building Businesses in a Man’s World by Connie Duckworth, Sharon Whiteley
• Goldman Sachs : The Culture of Success by Lisa Endlich; Knopf; 1999
• Beginning the Journey: China the United States and the WTO by Robert Hormats; Council on Foreign Relations Press; 2001
• Global Aging and Financial Markets: Hard Landings Ahead by Robert Hormats; Center for Strategic and International Studies; 2002
• The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organization Structure, Revised and Updated by Steve Kerr
• The GE Work-Out : How to Implement GE’s Revolutionary Method for Busting Bureaucracy & Attacking
Organizational Proble by Steve Kerr; McGraw-Hill Trade; 2002
• The Practice of Risk Management by Bob Litterman; Euromoney Publications PLC, 1998
• Foundations for Financial Economics by Bob Litzenberger and Chi-fu Hwang Prentice Hall; 1998
• Markets, Mobs & Mayhem: How to Profit From the Madness of Crowds by Robert Menschel John Wiley & Sons; 2002
• Adam Smith and the Origins of American Enterprise by Roy C. Smith St. Martin’s Press; 2002
• Wealth Creators : The Rise of Today’s New Rich and Super-Rich by Roy C. Smith; St. Martin’s Press; 2001
• The Global Bankers by Roy C. Smith; BeardBooks, Incorporated; 2000
• High Finance in the Euro-Zone: Competing in the New European Capital Market by Roy C. Smith; Pearson Education; 2000
• The Money Wars: The Rise & Fall of the Great Buyout Boom of the 1980s by Roy C. Smith; BeardBooks, Incorporated; 2000
• Cases and Readings in Markets, Ethics, and Law by Roy C. Smith; Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing; 1996
• Street Smarts: Linking Professional Conduct With Shareholder Value in the Securities Industry by Roy C. Smith; Harvard Business School Publishing, 1997 Global Banking by Roy C. Smith Oxford University Press; 1995
• Comeback: The Restoration of American Banking Power in the New World Economy by Roy C. Smith; Harvard Business School Publishing; 1993
• Securities Markets in the 1980s: The New Regime 1979-1984 by Barrie A. Wigmore; Oxford University Press; 1997
• The Crash and Its Aftermath: A History of Securities Markets in the United States, 1929-1933
(Contributions in Economics and Economic History) by Barrie A. Wigmore; Greenwood Publishing Group; 1986