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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe · 690 pages
Mergers & Acquisitions
Dana Vachon · 304 pages
Tommy Quinn just landed his dream job as an investment banker, as well as his dream girl, the daughter of one of New York's oldest moneyed families. But in the course of a year, as he moves from the bank's boardrooms and Park Avenue bedrooms to the yacht of a debauched Mexican billionaire to a Ritalin-strewn prep school dorm room, he finds that neither the job nor the girl are quite what they seem
The Futures
Anna Pitoniak · 368 pages
Falling in love as Yale students and moving to New York City in 2008, hedge fund employee Evan is embroiled in a deal that risks everything he has worked for, while nonprofit employee Julia reconnects with someone from her past who represents a different kind of life. For Evan, a scholarship student from a rural Canadian town, Yale is a whole new world, and Julia-- blond, beautiful, and rich--
The Widow of Wall Street
Randy Susan Meyers · 352 pages
Putting her complete trust in her husband as he builds a financial empire, Phoebe is shattered when she discovers that her husband's successes are tied to an elaborate Ponzi scheme, a situation that forces her to make a terrible choice.
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis · 399 pages
A Week in December
Sebastian Faulks · 392 pages
Powerful contemporary novel set in London from a master of literary fictionLondon, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led
Our Little Racket
Angelica Baker · 617 pages
In the aftermath of the collapse of Weiss & Partners investment bank, CEO Bob D'Amico's daughter Madison, her mother, her best friend, her nanny, and a family friend begin to question their shifting roles in the insular, moneyed world of Greenwich, Connecticut. All these women have witnessed more than they've disclosed, all harbor secret insecurities and fears, and all must ask themselves: where i
The Privileges
Jonathan Dee · 258 pages
Smart, socially gifted, and chronically impatient, Adam and Cynthia Morey are so perfect for each other that united they become a kind of fortress against the world. In their hurry to start a new life, they marry young and have two children before Cynthia reaches the age of twenty-five. Adam is a rising star in the world of private equity and becomes his boss's protege. With a beautiful home in th
If God Was a Banker
Ravi Subramanian · 260 pages
Ghosts of Manhattan
Douglas Brunt · 275 pages
It's 2005. Nick Farmer is a bond trader with Bear Stearns clearing seven figures a year. The novelty of a work-related nightlife centering on liquor, hookers, and cocaine has long since worn thin, though Nick remains keenly addicted to his annual bonus. But the lifestyle is taking a toll on his marriage-- and on him. When a nerdy analyst approaches him with apocalyptic prognostications of where Be
Private Citizens
Tony Tulathimutte · 378 pages
From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition, and friendship in millennial San Francisco. With the social acuity of Adelle Waldman and the murderous wit of Martin Amis, Tony Tulathimutte’s Private Citizens is a brainy, irreverent debut—This Side of Paradise for a new era. Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts,
A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism
Peter Mountford · 304 pages
Opening Belle
Maureen Sherry · 352 pages
A whip-smart and funny novel told by a former Wall Street insider who reveals what it's like for a working woman to balance love, ambition, and family in a world of glamorous excess, outrageous risk-taking, and jaw-dropping sexism. In 2008, Isabelle--a self-made, thirty-something Wall Street star--appears to have it all: an Upper West Side apartment, three healthy children, a handsome husband, and
Bond Girl
Erin Duffy · 293 pages
Alex Garrett, a recent college graduate who began her Wall Street career in 2006, dreams of fast-talking days on the trading floor while living a life tied to a government bond desk and performing other peculiar tasks.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple · 330 pages
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.
Hedge Fund Wives
Tatiana Boncompagni · 336 pages
In this amazingly timely story about what the wealthy do when Wall Street lays an egg, the author of Gilding Lily once again delivers a witty and insightful treatment of today's woman, as she explores the sacrifices they make, the bargains they strike, the rules they follow, and what happens when it all starts to fall apart.Who could have guessed that Wall Street would go south just as Marcy Emers
Running of the Bulls
Christopher Smith · 302 pages
Meltdown
Ben Elton · 404 pages
A biting satire of the credit crunch from this hugely popular and bestselling authorFor amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab.But Jimmy was as lucky in love as he was at betting on dodgy derivatives, so instead of burning out,
Made for Love
Alissa Nutting · 320 pages
Moving to a senior citizen trailer park with her father, Hazel, the estranged wife of a corporate CEO who demanded she install a brain chip so that they could be constantly connected, tries to carve out a new life while her ex uses sophisticated technology to stalk her.
Disclosure
Michael Crichton · 455 pages
Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton, his ninth under his own name and nineteenth overall, and published in 1994. The novel is set at a fictional computer hardware manufacturing company. The plot concerns protagonist Tom Sanders and his struggle to prove that he was sexually harassed by his female employer. --- Also contained in: - [Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Volume 5, 1994](ht
Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo · 224 pages
"Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town.". "His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving. Stalled in traffic by a preside