Easy, topical reading

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash (Hardcover)
by Charles R. Morris

Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis (Hardcover)
by Paul Muolo and Mathew Padilla

A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation (Hardcover)
by Richard Bookstaber

Irrational Exuberance (Paperback) -- 2nd edition
by Robert J. Shiller

The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It (Hardcover)
by Robert J. Shiller

The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century (Paperback)
by Robert J. Shiller

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics) (Paperback)
by Charles P. Kindleberger

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Paperback)
by Charles MacKay

The Great Crash 1929
by John Kenneth Galbraith

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (Paperback)
by Edward Chancellor

Confessions of a Subprime Lender: An Insider's Tale of Greed, Fraud, and Ignorance (Paperback)
by Richard Bitner

Financial Shock A 360º Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis (Hardcover)
by Mark Zandi

The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy (Hardcover)
by David M. Smick

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means (Hardcover)
by George Soros

The Alchemy of Finance (Wiley Investment Classics) (Paperback)
by George Soros

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Paperback)by Nassim Nicholas Taleb