The world of finance has gone through many great challenges and crises in the modern history, which plenty of authors have written about. This finance book and movie list is recommended by Tracey McVicar, one of UBC Sauder's faculty advisory board members who is currently the Managing Partner at CAI Capital Management Co. This list will help financial professionals who are looking to better understand their industry history and important financial principles.

Books

1. The Big Short  - Michael Lewis
2. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life - Alice Schroeder
3. The Forgotten Man – A New History of the Great Depression - Amity Shlaes
4. 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 - Gillian Tett
5. The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers - Vicky Ward
6. Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story - Kurt Eichenwald
7. The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street - Jonathan A. Knee
8. The Running of the Bulls: Inside the Cutthroat Race from Wharton to Wall Street - Nicole Ridgway
9. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco - Bryan Burrough
10. Den of Thieves - James B. Stewart
11. Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street - Michael Lewis
12. The Predators’ Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders - Connie Bruck 
13. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Management - Roger Lowenstein
14. The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities, 6th Edition - Frank J. Fabozzi
15. Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success - Lisa Erlich
16. Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle - John Rolfe
17. Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg - Christopher Ogden
18. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance - Ron Chernow
19. The Money Culture - Michael Lewis
20. eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work - Randall E. Stross
21. Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business With a New Afterword by the Author - George Anders
22. Personal History (Vintage) - Katharine Graham
23. Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Charles MacKay
24. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary - Simon Winchester
25. The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers - Vicky Ward
26. Street Fighters The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street - Kate Kelly
27. A Week in December - Sebastian Faulks
28. Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O’Neill 
29. Big Deal: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Digital Age - Bruce Wasserstein