List of best books I have read in college, aside from required readings for class:

On General Finance:

1. Accounting for Dummies (Tracy)

2. Trading for Dummies (Griffis & Epstein)

3. Commodities for Dummies (Bouchentouf)

4. Corporate Finance for Dummies (Taillard)

5. Direct Path to the CFA Charter (Bryant)

6. The Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy (Stewart)

7. Standard & Poor's Fundamentals of Corporate Credit Analysis (Ganguin & Bilardello)

8. Business Consulting: A Guide to How It Works and How to Make It Work (Economist Series, Toppin &

Czerniawska)

On Financial Statistics and Quantitative Trading:

1. Keeping Up with the Quants (Davenport & Kim)

2. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Taleb)

3. The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty (Savage)

4. Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines, and Wired Markets (Leinweber)

5. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (Lewis)

6. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (Bernstein)

On Investment Management:

1. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Mallaby)

2. Investment for Dummies (Mladjenovic)

3. Psychology of Investing (Lifson &Geist))

4. Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street (Appelbaum & Batt)

On Short-sell Securities:

1. Sold Short: Uncovering Deceptions in the Marketplace (Asensio)

2. Selling Short (Michael Shulman)

3. Pump and Dump: The rancid rules of the New Economy (Tillman & Indergaard)

4. The Streetsmart Guide to Short Selling: Techniques the Pros Use to Profit in Any Market (Taulli)

5. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Lewis)

On US Economy/Business:

1. When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era (Panzner)

2. The Housing Boom and Bust (Sowell)

3. That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

(Friedman &Mandelbaum)

4. Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business (Livesay)

On International Economy:

1. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Ferguson)

2. The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire. Inside the secret world of central bankers

(Neil Irwin)

3. Currency Wars: The making of the next global crisis (James Rickards)

4. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff)

5. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Acemoğlu & Robinson)

6. The End of Copycat China: The Rise of Creativity, Innovation, and Individualism in Asia (Rein)

7. China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa (Deckle Edge)

On International Affairs:

1. The Post-American World (Zakaria)

2. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America

(Friedman)

3. Kissinger (Issacson)

4. On China (Kissinger)

5. Global Corruption: Money, Power, and Ethics in the Modern World (Cockcroft)

6. McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld (Glenny)

7. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (Yergin)

8. The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (Yergin)

9. Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? (Dawisha)

10. Civilization: The West and the Rest (Ferguson)

On Technology:

1. Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion (Abelson)

2. Excel 2016 for Dummies (Greg Harvey)

3. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

(Brynjolfsson & McAfee)

Miscellaneous:

1. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Lewis)

2. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – (Levitt & Dubner)