From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonfire of the Vanities, funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, his is a tale of hysterical greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world.

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
• Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
• Flash Boys
• Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management