The Mother List of All Banking Books

Two hundred and forty three. That's the number of books in John Maxfield's banking book library. How do I know? He sent me his list.

First he had to download some obscure app that must read bindings. If you knew John, you can see him promenading down his bookshelf, phone in hand, camera at the ready. Why do it?

He was curating a library for a bank, of course. Doesn't your bank have a bank book library? Interesting idea. He didn't tell me the bank. 

Two hundred and forty three books. I bet he read them all. It oozes out of him in his writings and in his conversations. Don't take my word for it, follow him at his website, Maxfield On Banks. Or read him in Bank Director magazine. 

He sent me this list because I am appreciative to be on it. I published it with his permission. Because even if you're not curating your own library, his prescribed reading list is better than a five-star review. 

Books are in author last-name order. If you have difficulty reading I suggest zooming your browser. Because it's a library's worth of books!

Author	Author 2	TITLE	YEAR*
James R. Adams	Adams, James R.	The Big Fix: Inside the S&L Scandal — How an Unholy Alliance of Politics and Money Destroyed America's Banking System	1990
Anat Admati	Admati, Anat	The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It	2014
Liaquat Ahamed	Ahamed, Liaquat	Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World	2009
Frederick Lewis Allen	Allen, Frederick Lewis	The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950	1993
Frederick Lewis Allen	Allen, Frederick Lewis	Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s	2010
John Allison	Allison, John	The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism is the World Economy's Only Hope	2012
John Allison	Allison, John	The Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why the Future of Business Depends on the Return to Life, Liberty…	2014
Philip Augar	Augar, Philip	The Bank That Lived a Little: Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market	2019
Walter Bagehot	Bagehot, Walter	Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market	2020
Sheila Bair	Bair, Sheila	Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself	2012
Tamal Bandyopadhyay	Bandyopadhyay,  Tamal	HDFC Bank 2.0	2019
Mehrsa Baradaran	Baradaran, Mehrsa	The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth  Gap	2019
Neil Barofsky	Barofsky, Neil	Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street	2012
Patricia Beard	Beard, Patricia	Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley	2007
Ben S. Bernanke	Bernanke, Ben S.	Essays on the Great Depression	2004
Ben S. Bernanke	Bernanke, Ben S.	21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19	2022
Ben S. Bernanke	Bernanke, Ben S.	Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons	2019
Ben S. Bernanke	Bernanke, Ben S.	The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath	2015
Peter L. Bernstein	Bernstein, Peter L.	A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold	2008
Cordelia Frances Biddle	Biddle, Cordelia Frances	Biddle, Jackson, and a Nation in Turmoil: The Infamous Bank War	2021
Alan S. Blinder	Blinder, Alan S.	After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead	2013
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve	Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve	Federal Reserve System: Its Purposes and Functions	2021
Vince Boberski	Boberski, Vince	Community Banking Strategies: Steady Growth, Safe Portfolio Management, and Lasting Client Relationships	2010
Nick Bodemer	Bodemer, Nick	Boxing the Space Needle: A History of the Seattle-First National Bank Building	2017
Anne Boden	Boden, Anne	Banking on It: How I Disrupted an Industry	2020
Howard  Bodenhorn	Bodenhorn, Howard	A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building	2000
Howard  Bodenhorn	Bodenhorn, Howard	State Banking in Early America: A New Economic History	2002
Felice A. Bonadio	Bonadio, Felice A.	A. P. Giannini: Banker of America	1994
Richard X. Bove	Bove, Richard X.	Guardians of Prosperity: Why America Needs Big Banks	2013
John F. Bovenzi	Bovenzi, John F.	Inside the FDIC: Thirty Years of Bank Failures, Bailouts, and Regulatory Battles	2015
Louis D. Brandeis	Brandeis, Louis D.	Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It	1914
John Brooks	Brooks, John	The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s	2014
Connie Bruck	Bruck, Connie	The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders	1989
Robert F. Bruner	Bruner, Robert F.	The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm	2009
Lowell L. Bryan	Bryan, Lowell L.	Bankrupt: Restoring the Health and Profitability of Our Banking System	1991
Lowell L. Bryan	Bryan, Lowell L.	Breaking Up the Bank: Rethinking an Industry Under Seige	1988

Author	Author 2	TITLE	YEAR*
Anne Burns	Burns, Anne	Time Well Kept (Selections From the Wells Fargo Corporate Archives)	2011
Anna Robeson Brown Burr	Burr, Anna Robeson Brown	The Portrait of a Banker: James Stillman, 1850-1918	2012
Bryan Burrough	Burrough, Bryan	Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR  Nabisco	1990
Bryan Burrough	Burrough, Bryan	Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra	1992
Charles W. Calomiris	Calomiris, Charles W.	Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit	2014
Duncan Campbell-Smith	Campbell-Smith, Duncan	Crossing Continents: A History of Standard Chartered Bank	2021
Stephen Campbell	Campbell, Stephen	The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America	2019
David Cannadine	Cannadine, David	Mellon: An American Life	2008
Edna Carew	Carew, Edna	Westpac: The Bank that Broke the Bank	1997
Simon Carswell	Carswell, Simon	Anglo Republic: Inside the Bank the Broke Ireland	2011
Dana Haight Cattani	Cattani, Dana Haight	A. P. Giannini: The Man with the Midas Touch	2009
Edward Chancellor	Chancellor, Edward	Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation	2000
Dr. Robert J. Chandler	Chandler, Dr. Robert J.	Wells Fargo: Images of  America	2006
Chemical Corn Exchange Bank	Chemical Corn Exchange Bank	History of the Chemical Bank: 1823-1913	2018
Ron Chernow	Chernow, Ron	The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family	2016
Ron Chernow	Chernow, Ron	The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance	2010
Ron Chernow	Chernow, Ron	The Death of the Banker: The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor	1997
Bernard F. Clark	Clark, Bernard F.	Oil Capital: The History of American Oil, Wildcatters, Independents and Their Bankers	2016
Dwight L. Clarke	Clarke, Dwight L.	William Tecusch Sherman Gold Rush Banker	1969
Harold van B. Cleveland	Cleveland, Harold van B.	Citibank, 1812-1970	1985
C. R. "Rusty" Cloutier	Cloutier, C.R. "Rusty"	Big Bad Banks: How Greed and Ego Among the Big Shots in Banking and Government Created the Crisis that Wrecked Our Economy	2009
William  D. Cohan	Cohan, William D.	Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World	2011
William  D. Cohan	Cohan, William D.	House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street	2009
William  D. Cohan	Cohan, William D.	The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.	2008
Richard P. Cooley	Cooley, Richard P.	Searching Through My Prayer List: A Memoir about Family, Career, and a Meaningful Retirement	2010
Gregory Corso	Corso, Gregory	The American Express	2015
Howard E. Covington	Covington, Howard E.	The Story of Nationsbank: Changing the Face of American Banking	1993
Patricia Crisafulli	Crisafulli, Patricia	The House of Dimon: How JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Rose to the Top of the Financial World	2009
Julian Dana	Dana, Julian	A. P. Giannini: Giant in the West	1947
Raymond P. Davis	Davis, Raymond P.	Leading for Growth: How Umpqua Bank Got Cool and Created a Culture of Greatness	2007
Raymond P. Davis	Davis, Raymond P.	Leading Through Uncertainty: How Umpqua Bank Emerged from the Great Recession Bigger and Stronger than Ever	2013
Kathleen Day	Day, Kathleen	S&L Hell: The People and the Politics Behind the $1 Trillion Savings and Loan Scandal	1993
Denver National Bank	Denver National Bank	After Forty Years: Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Founders and Directors of the Denver National Bank	2013
Frances Dinkelspiel	Dinkelspiel, Frances	Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California	2010
Jack & Roy Dinsdale	Dinsdale, Jack & Roy	Letting the Fences Go: Recollections of Family, Youth and Business	2000

Author	Author 2	TITLE	YEAR*
Darrell Duffie	Duffie, Darrell	How Big Banks Fail and What to Do about It	2010
Nicholas Dungan	Dungan, Nicholas	Gallatin: America’s Swiss Founding Father	2010
Charles D. Ellis	Ellis, Charles D.	The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs	2008
David Enrich	Enrich, David	Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction	2020
Greg Farrell	Farrell, Greg	Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America	2010
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.	Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.	History of the Eighties: An Examination of the Banking Crises of the 1980s and Early 1990s (Volumes 1 & 2)	1997
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.	Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.	Crisis and Response: An FDIC History, 2008-2013	2017
Niall Ferguson	Ferguson, Niall	High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg	2010
Niall Ferguson	Ferguson, Niall	The House of Rothschild: Volume 2	2000
Niall Ferguson	Ferguson, Niall	The House of Rothschild: Volume 1	1999
Niall Ferguson	Ferguson, Niall	The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World	2008
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission	Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission	The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States	2011
Philip L. Fradkin	Fradkin, Philip L.	Stagecoach: Book One, Wells Fargo and the American West; Book Two, Wells Fargo and the Rise of the American Financial Services Industry	2002
Ian Fraser	Fraser, Ian	Shredded: Inside RBS — The Bank That Broke Britain	2021
James Freeman	Freeman, James	Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts, and Bailouts at Citi	2018
Milton Friedman	Friedman, Milton	A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960	2008
John Kenneth Galbraith	Galbraith, John Kenneth	A Short History of Financial Euphoria	1994
John Kenneth Galbraith	Galbraith, John Kenneth	The Great Crash 1929	1988
Lothar Gall et. al	Gall, Lothar et. al	The Deutsche Bank, 1870-1995	1995
Shennette Garrett-Scott	Garrett-Scott, Shennette	Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal	2019
Timothy F. Geithner	Geithner, Timothy F.	Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises	2014
Carter H. Golembe	Golembe, Carter H.	But I Never Made a Loan: My Career in Banking — The Early Years	2009
Gary B. Gorton	Gorton, Gary B.	The Maze of Banking: History, Theory, Crisis	2015
Gary B. Gorton	Gorton, Gary B.	Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don't See Them Coming	2012
James Grant	Grant, James	Money of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken	1992
James Grant	Grant, James	The Forgotten Depression: 1921 — The Crash That Cured Itself	2014
James Grant	Grant, James	Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian	2019
Joseph M. Grant	Grant, Joseph M.	The Great Texas Banking Crash: An Insider's Account	1996
Howard Green	Green, Howard	Banking On America: How TD Bank Rose to the Top and Took on the U.S.A.	2013
Joshua R. Greenberg	Greenberg, Joshua R.	Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic	2020
Alan Greenspan	Greenspan, Alan	The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World	2007
William Greider	Greider, William	Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country	1989
G. Edward Griffin	Griffin, G. Edward	The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve	2010
Kirsten Grind	Grind, Kirsten	The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History	2012
Peter Z. Grossman	Grossman, Peter Z.	American Express: The Unofficial History of the People Who Built the Great Financial Empire	1987

Author	Author 2	TITLE	YEAR*
Ben Haller	Haller, Ben	A History of Banking in Nebraska, 1854-1990	1990
Bray Hammond	Hammond, Bray	Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War	1991
Gary Hector	Hector, Gary	Breaking the Bank: The Decline of Bankamerica	1988
Christopher Hibbert	Hibbert, Christopher	The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall	1999
Luther H. Hodges Jr.	Hodges, Luther H.	Bank Notes: An Inside Look at the Launching of North Carolina's Banking Ascendancy and a Commentary on the Current New World of Banking	2016
J. T. W. Hubbard	Hubbard, J. T. W.	For Each the Strength of All: A History of Banking in New York State	1995
Philip G. Hubert	Hubert, Philip G.	The Merchants' National Bank of the City of New York: A History of Its First Century	2019
Edward  Hungerford	Hungerford,  Edward	Wells Fargo: Advancing the American Frontier	1949
Icon Group International	Icon Group International	Citibank: Webster's Timeline History, 1894 - 2007	2010
William M. Isaac	Isaac, William M.	Senseless Panic: How  Washington Failed America	2012
F. Cyril James	James, F. Cyril	The Growth of Chicago Banks: Volumes 1 & 2	1938
Marquis James	James, Marquis	Biography of a Bank: The Story of Bank of America N.T. & S.A.	1954
Simon Johnson	Johnson, Simon	13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown	2010
Moira Johnston	Johnston, Moira	Roller Coaster: The Bank of America and the Future of American Banking	1990
Billy M. Jones	Jones, Billy M.	The Chandlers of Kansas: A Banking Family	1983
Jesse H. Jones	Jones, Jesse H.	Fifty Billion Dollars: My Thirteen Years with the RFC, 1932-1945	1951
Matthew Josephson	Josephson,  Matthew	The Money Lords	1972
Paul Kahan	Kahan, Paul	The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance	2015
Zachary Karabell	Karabell, Zachary	Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power	2021
Kate Kelly	Kelly, Kate	Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street	2009
Daniel C. Kibbie	Kibbie, Daniel C.	Their Bank, Our Bank, the Quality Bank: A History of the First Interstate Bank of California	1982
Kerry Killinger	Killinger, Kerry	Nothing is Too Big to Fail: How the Last Financial Crisis Informs Today	2021
Charles P. Kindleberger	Kindleberger, Charles P.	The World in Depression, 1929–1939	2013
Charles P. Kindleberger	Kindleberger, Charles P.	Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises	2005
John Jay Knox	Knox, John Jay	A History of Banking in the United States	2017
Timothy Koch	Koch, Timothy	Bank Management (8th ed.)	2014
John A. Kouwenhoven	Kouwenhoven, John A.	Partners in Banking: An Historical Portrait of a Great Private Bank, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., 1818-1968	1968
Niels Kroner	Kroner, Niels	A Blueprint for Better Banking: Svenska Handelsbanken and a proven model for post-crash banking	2009
David Kynaston	Kynaston, David	The Lion Wakes: A Modern History of HSBC	2015
Edward M. Lamont	Lamont, Edward M.	The Ambassador from Wall Street: The Story of Thomas W. Lamont, J.P. Morgan's Chief Executive	1993
Thomas W. Lamont	Lamont, Thomas W.	Henry P Davison: The Record of a Useful Life	2015
Hope Lampert	Lampert, Hope	Behind Closed Doors: Wheeling and Dealing in the Banking World	1986
Monica Langley	Langley, Monica	Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World . . . and Then Nearly Lost It All	2003
David Leinsdorf	Leinsdorf, David	Citibank: Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on First National City Bank	1971
Michael Lewis	Lewis, Michael	Liar's Poker	2010

Author	Author 2	TITLE	YEAR*
Michael Lewis	Lewis, Michael	Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World	2012
Michael Lewis	Lewis, Michael	The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine	2010
Sheridan A. Logan	Logan, Sheridan A.	George F. Baker and His Bank, 1840-1955: A Double Biography	1981
Roger Lowenstein	Lowenstein, Roger	America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve	2015
Roger Lowenstein	Lowenstein, Roger	Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War	2022
Vicki A. Mack	Mack, Vicki A.	Frank A. Vanderlip: The Banker Who Changed America	2013
Charles Mackay	Mackay, Charles	Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds	1995
Maggie Mahar	Mahar, Maggie	Bull: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004	2004
Sebastian Mallaby	Mallaby, Sebastian	The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan	2016
Steven G. Mandis	Mandis, Steven G.	What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences	2013
Elliot Marple	Marple, Elliot	The National Bank of Commerce of Seattle, 1889-1969: Territorial to Worldwide Banking in Eighty Years	1972
Jeffrey Marsico	Marsico, Jeffrey	Squared Away: How Can Bankers Succeed as Economic First Responders	2021
Martin Mayer	Mayer, Martin	The Bankers: The Next Generation	1997
Martin Mayer	Mayer, Martin	The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry	1990
Martin Mayer	Mayer, Martin	The Bankers	1974
James P McCollom	McCollom, James P	The Continental Affair: The rise and Fall of the Continental Illinois Bank	1987
John B. McCoy	McCoy, John B.	Here's the Deal: How the McCoys Built America's Most Admired Bank One Acquisition at a Time	2018
John B. McCoy	McCoy, John B.	Bottomline Banking: Meeting the Challenges for Survival & Success	1993
Thomas K. McCraw	McCraw, Thomas K.	The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy	2012
Richard T McCulley	McCulley, Richard T	Banks and Politics During the Progressive Era	2014
Duff McDonald	McDonald, Duff	Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase	2010
Lawerence G. McDonald	McDonald, Lawrence G.	A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers	2010
Bethany McLean	McLean, Bethany	All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis	2011
Perry Mehrling	Mehrling, Perry	The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort	2010
Members of the New York Press	Members of the New York Press	A Brief Popular Account of All the Financial Panics and Commercial Revulsions in the United States, 1690-1857	2018
Laurence H. Meyer	Meyer, Laurence H.	A Term at the Fed: An Insider's View	2004
John Moody	Moody, John	The Masters of Capital: A Chronicle of Wall Street	2012
George S. Moore	Moore, George S.	The Banker's Life	1987
Sharon Ann Murphy	Murphy, Sharon A.	Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic	2017
Allen Nevins	Nevins, Allen	History of the Bank of New York and Trust Company, 1784-1934	2006
George A. Newbury	Newbury, George A.	A Story Of Men, A Frontier City, and A Bank: Manufacturers & Traders Trust Company, 1856-1956	2013
James O'Shea	O'Shea, James	The Daisy Chain: How Borrowed Billions Sank a Texas S&L	1991
Franklin Parker	Parker, Franklin	George Peabody, a Biography	1971
Henry M. Paulson	Paulson, Henry M.	On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System	2011
Stephen Pizzo	Pizzo, Stephen	Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans	1991
Werner Plumpe	Plumpe, Werner	Deutsche Bank: The Global Hausbank, 1870-2020	2020

Author	Author 2	TITLE	YEAR*
Nomi Prins	Prins, Nomi	All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power	2015
Barry L Provorse	Provorse, Barry L	Banking on Independence: The First Century of Puget Sound Bancorp	1990
Binfords and Mort Publisher	Binfords and Mort Publisher	The United States National Bank of Portland, Oregon	2013
Fritz Redlich	Redlich, Fritz	The Molding of American Banking: Men and Ideas, 1781-1910	2012
Cary Reich	Reich, Cary	Financier, The Biography of Andre Meyer: A Story of Money, Power, and the Reshaping of American Business	1983
Carmen M. Reinhart	Reinhart, Carmen M.	This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly	2011
Robert V. Remini	Remini, Robert V.	Andrew Jackson and the Bank War	1967
Alasdair Roberts	Roberts, Alasdair	America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837	2013
Michael A. Robinson	Robinson, Michael A.	Overdrawn: The Bailout of American Savings	1990
David Rockefeller	Rockefeller, David	Memoirs	2003
Felix G. Rohatyn	Rohatyn, Felix G.	Dealings: A Political and Financial Life	2010
Walter S. Ross	Ross, Walter S.	People's Banker: The Story of Arthur T. Roth and the Franklin National Bank	1987
E. Michael Rosser	Rosser, E. Michael	A History of Mortgage Banking in the West: Financing America's Dreams	2018
Benjamin Roth	Roth, Benjamin	The Great Depression: A Diary	2010
Rick Rothacker	Rothacker, Rick	Banktown: The Rise and Struggles of Charlotte's Big Banks	2010
Anthony Sampson	Sampson, Anthony	The Money Lenders: Bankers and a World in Turmoil	2013
Nicholas P. Sargen	Sargen, Nicholas P.	JPMorgan’s Fall and Revival: How the Wave of Consolidation Changed America’s Premier Bank	2020
Shelby Scates	Scates, Shelby	Firstbank: The Story of Seattle-First National Bank	1970
Brent Schondelmeyer	Schondelmeyer, Brent	Building a First Class Bank: The Story of United Missouri Bank	1986
Fred Schwed	Schwed, Fred	Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: Or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street	2006
William Seidman	Seidman, William	Full Faith and Credit: The Great S&L Debacle and Other Washington Sagas	1993
Robert J. Shiller	Shiller, Robert J.	Irrational Exuberance	2006
William  L. Silber	Silber, William L.	Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence	2012
Claude Singer	Singer, Claude	U.S. National Bank of Oregon and U. S. Bancorp 1891-1984	1984
Mark Singer	Singer, Mark	Funny Money	1985
George Richard Slade	Slade, George Richard	Banking in the Great Northern Territory: An Illustrated History	2005
Greg Smith	Smith, Greg	Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story	2012
Robert H. Smith	Smith, Robert H.	Bye Bye Banks: The End of Community Banking as an Engine of Economic Growth	2010
Robert H. Smith	Smith, Robert H.	Dead Bank Walking: One Gutsy Bank's Struggle for Survival and the Merger that Changed Banking Forever	2010
Winthrop H. Smith Jr.	Smith, Winthrop H.	Catching Lightning in a Bottle: How Merrill Lynch Revolutionized the Financial World	2013
Robert Sobel	Sobel, Robert	Panic on Wall Street: A History of America's Financial Disasters	1999
Andrew Ross Sorkin	Sorkin, Andrew Ross	Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System — and Themselves	2009
Robert Spector	Spector, Robert	Banking Without Boundaries: A History of Security Pacific Bank Washington	1989
John Sperling	Sperling, John	GREAT DEPRESSIONS: 1837-1844, 1893-1896, 1929-1939	1966
Joan Edelman Spero	Spero, Joan Edelman	The Failure of the Franklin National Bank: Challenge to the International Banking System	1999

Author	Author 2	TITLE	YEAR*
Irvine H. Sprague	Sprague, Irvine H.	Bailout: An Insider's Account of Bank Failures and Rescues	1986
Agnes Wright Spring	Spring, Agnes Wright	The First National Bank of Denver: The Formative Years, 1860-1865	1960
Benn Steil	Steil, Benn	The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order	2013
James B. Stewart	Stewart, James B.	Den of Thieves	1991
Walter Stewart	Stewart, Walter	Towers of Gold, Feet of Clay: The Canadian banks	1982
Joseph E. Stiglitz	Stiglitz, Joseph E.	The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade	2004
Amey Stone	Stone, Amey	King of Capital: Sandy Weill and the Making of Citigroup	2002
Jean Strouse	Strouse, Jean	Morgan: American Financier	1999
Gillian Tett	Tett, Gillian	Fool's Gold: The Inside Story of J.P. Morgan and How Wall St. Greed Corrupted Its Bold Dream and Created a Financial Catastrophe	2010
Tim Todd	Todd, Tim	Confidence Restored: The History of the Tenth District's Federal Reserve Bank	2008
Joseph B. Treaster	Treaster, Joseph B.	Paul Volcker: The Making of a Financial Legend	2005
John D. Turner	Turner, John D.	Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles	2020
Francesca Valente	Valente, Francesca	A. P. Giannini: The People's Banker	2018
Frank A. Vanderlip	Vanderlip, Frank A.	From Farm Boy To Financier	2017
Paul M. Warburg	Warburg, Paul M.	The Federal Reserve System and the Banks	2012
Bruce Wasserstein	Wasserstein, Bruce	Big Deal: 2000 And Beyond	2000
Joseph Wechsberg	Wechsberg, Joseph	The Merchant Bankers	2014
Sandy Weill	Weill, Sandy	The Real Deal: My Life in Business and Philanthropy	2006
Ben Ames Williams	Williams, Ben Ames	Bank of Boston 200: A history of New England's leading bank, 1784- 1984	1984
George Wilson	Wilson, George	Stephen Girard: The Life and Times of America's First  Tycoon	1996
John Donald Wilson	Wilson, John Donald	The Chase: The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., 1945-85	1986
Martin Wolf	Wolf, Martin	The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned — and Have Still to Learn — from the Financial Crisis	2014
Arthur M. Woodford	Woodford, Arthur M.	Detroit and Its Banks: The Story of Detroit Bank & Trust	1974
Bob Woodward	Woodward, Bob	Maestro: Greenspan's Fed And The American Boom	2000
Robert Wright	Wright, Robert	Genealogy of American Finance	2015
Robert E. Wright	Wright, Robert E.	Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich	2006
Walter B. Wriston	Wriston, Walter B.	Risk & Other Four-Letter Words	1986
Ross Yockey	Yockey, Ross	McColl: The Man with America's Money	1999
Philip Ziegler	Ziegler, Philip	The Sixth Great Power: A History of One of the Greatest of All Banking Families, The House of Barings, 1762-1929	1988
Phillip L. Zweig	Zweig, Phillip L.	Wriston: Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy	1996
Phillip L. Zweig	Zweig, Phillip L.	Belly Up: The Collapse of the Penn Square Bank	1986