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Every year Bloomberg asks a host of “high-profile readers” what books they liked in the last 12 months. It’s a great list of reading material, but they don’t exactly make it easy to parse and figure out what you want to buy.

Hopefully this fixes that problem.

The Most Popular
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert A. Caro
Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence – William L. Silber
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty – Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
The Signal and the Noise – Nate Silver

Adrienne Arsht
Former chairman of TotalBank and treasurer of the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 – Dick Couch

Sheila Bair
Former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman
Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin

Lael Brainard
U.S. Department of the Treasury undersecretary for international affairs
Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World – Liaquat Ahamed

Ian Bremmer
President and founder of Eurasia Group
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 – Charles Murray
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty – Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams – Charles King
The Hydrogen Sonata – Iain M. Banks

Stephen Cecchetti
Head of the monetary and economic department at the Bank for International Settlements
Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence – William L. Silber

Lars Seier Christensen
Co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Saxo Bank A/S:
Europe: The Shattering of Illusions – Vaclav Klaus
Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

Tyler Cowen
Professor of Economics at George Mason University and co-author of the Marginal Revolution blog
China Airborne – James Fallows

Charles Dallara
Managing Director of the Institute of International Finance
One for the Books – Joe Queenan

Alistair Darling
Former U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer
Hubris: How HBOS Wrecked the Best Bank in Britain – Ray Perman
Dominion – C.J. Sansom

Satyajit Das
Author of “Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk”
Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How It Got There and Where It Is Heading – Jonathan Fenby

Rodolfo De Benedetti
Chief Executive Officer of Compagnie Industriali Riunite SpA
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Nemesis – Philip Roth

Brad DeLong
Professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and blogger
The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 – Eric Hobsbawm

Barry Eichengreen
Professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert A. Caro

Mohamed El-Erian
CEO of Pacific Investment Management Co.
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Thomas Enders
CEO of European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co.
Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar and the Genius of Leadership – Barry Strauss

Marc Faber
Managing Director and founder of Marc Faber Ltd.
Capitalism and Freedom – Milton Friedman
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time – Will Durant
The Collapse of Complex Societies – Joseph A. Tainter

Stanley Fischer
Governor of the Bank of Israel
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy – Antony Beevor

Peter Fisher
Head of fixed income at BlackRock Inc.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years – David Graeber
Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don’t See Them Coming – Gary B. Gorton
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel – John Guy

Richard Fisher
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president
Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World – Evan Thomas

James Gorman
Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley
The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers – Richard McGregor
The Longest Shot – Neil Sagebiel
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rowing Faster – Volker Nolte
The Tourist – Olen Steinhauer

Alan Greenspan
Former Federal Reserve chairman
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman

Stuart Gulliver
CEO of HSBC Holdings Plc
Stalingrad – Antony Beevor

Amy Gutmann
President of the University of Pennsylvania
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert A. Caro
The Signal and the Noise – Nate Silver
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity – Katherine Boo
Sweet Tooth – Ian McEwan

Andrew Haldane
Executive director for financial stability at the Bank of England
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – Thomas Kuhn
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right – Atul Gawande

Guy Hands
Chairman of Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd.
How Do We Fix This Mess? – Robert Peston

Jan Hatzius
Chief economist of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
The Signal and the Noise – Nate Silver

Glenn Hubbard
Dean of Columbia Business School and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert A. Caro
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace – H.W. Brands
Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence – William L. Silber

Anshu Jain
Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank AG
Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History – Simon Winder
A Possible Life – Sebastian Faulks

Simon Johnson
Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bloomberg View columnist
Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street From Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself – Sheila Bair
Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abdandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street – Neil Barofsky
The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins – Jeff Connaughton

Kay Krill
President and CEO of Ann Inc.
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 – Madeleine Albright

Christine Lagarde
Managing director of the International Monetary Fund
Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption and the Hijacking of America – Charles H. Ferguson
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 – Madeleine Albright

Pascal Lamy
Director-general of the World Trade Organization
Le Jour ou la Vierge a Marche sur la Lune – Rolf Bauerdick
Congo – David Van Reybrouck
Entrer Dans une Pensee: Ou des Possibles de l’Esprit – Francois Jullien

Myles Lee
CEO of building-material supplier CRH Plc
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert A. Caro
Canada – Richard Ford

Sebastian Mallaby
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence – William L. Silber

Thomas Mayer
Senior adviser to Deutsche Bank AG
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics – Ludwig von Mises

Allan Meltzer
Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business and author of “Why Capitalism?”
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert A. Caro

Axel Merk
President and chief investment officer at Merk Investments LLC
30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice From the Wisest Americans – Karl Pillemer
Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition – Milton Friedman

Scott Minerd
Chief investment officer of Guggenheim Partners LLC
Faust: Parts 1 and 2 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics – Nicholas Wapshott
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
The Road to Serfdom – Friedrich Hayek

Andrea Morante
CEO of Pomellato SpA
The Hedge Fund Mirage: The Illusion of Big Money and Why It’s Too Good to Be True – Simon Lack
What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism – Jack Fuller

Nader Mousavizadeh
Chief Executive of Oxford Analytica and co-author, with Kofi Annan, of “Interventions: A Life in War and Peace”
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty – Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Sylvia Nasar
Author of “Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius” and professor at Columbia Journalism School
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao’s Great Famine – Yang Jisheng
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 – Anne Applebaum

Grover Norquist
President of Americans for Tax Reform
The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future – Arthur C. Brooks
Trade the Congressional Effect: How to Profit From Congress’s Impact on the Stock Market – Eric T. Singer
Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government – Yaron Brook and Don Watkins

Ewald Nowotny
President of the National Bank of Austria and member of the European Central Bank Governing Council
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy – Raghuram G. Rajan
Finance and the Good Society – Robert J. Shiller

Jim O’Neill
Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Macroeconomics: Understanding the Global Economy – David Miles, Andrew Scott and Francis Breedon
On China – Henry Kissinger

Peter Orszag
Vice chairman of corporate and investment banking at Citigroup Inc., former director of U.S. Office of Management and Budget and Bloomberg View columnist
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert A. Caro
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty – Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
The Signal and the Noise – Nate Silver

Edmund Phelps
Nobel laureate in economics and professor at Columbia University
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began – Stephen Greenblatt

Richard Portes
Professor of economics at London Business School
L’Argent – Emile Zola

Olli Rehn
European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner
Waging Heavy Peace – Neil Young
Saving Europe: How National Politics Nearly Destroyed the Euro – Carlo Bastasin
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius – Sylvia Nasar
Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics – Nicholas Wapshott

Barry Ritholtz
CEO of FusionIQ and author of the Big Picture blog
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood – James Gleick
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Wait: The Art and Science of Delay – Frank Partnoy

Stephen Roach
Senior lecturer at Yale University and former nonexecutive chairman for Morgan Stanley Asia
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion – Jonathan Haidt
Globalization and Its Enemies – Daniel Cohen

Robert Rubin
Former U.S. Treasury secretary, former chairman of Citigroup Inc. and co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941 – William L. Shirer
Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth – Frederick Kempe

Jeffrey Sachs
Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University
The Social Conquest of Earth – Edward O. Wilson
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth – Fred Pearce

Alan Schwartz
Executive chairman of Guggenheim Partners LLC and former CEO of Bear Stearns Cos.
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression – Amity Shlaes

Robert Skidelsky
Professor emeritus at the University of Warwick and biographer of John Maynard Keynes
Economics After the Crisis: Objectives and Means – Adair Turner
Capital – John Lanchester
Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor – Jack Straw

Anne-Marie Slaughter
Professor at Princeton University and former director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department
Thinking About Leadership – Nannerl O. Keohane
China Airborne – James Fallows
Sleeping With Your Smartphone – Leslie Perlow

Martin Sorrell
CEO of WPP Plc.
Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman – Robert K. Massie
A Technique for Producing Ideas – James Webb Young

Michael Spence
Nobel laureate in economics and professor at New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century – Burton Richter

Lawrence Summers
Former U.S. Treasury secretary and former director of the National Economic Council
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined – Steven Pinker
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else – Chrystia Freeland

Cass Sunstein
Former administrator of the White House office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and Bloomberg View columnist
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman

Shirley Tilghman
President of Princeton University
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert A. Caro

Jean-Claude Trichet
Former European Central Bank president
Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises – Charles P. Kindleberger
Stabilizing an Unstable Economy – Hyman Minsky
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly – Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff
Agent-Based Models and Economic Policy – Jean-Luc Gaffard and Mauro Napoletano

Adair Turner
Chairman of the U.K. Financial Services Authority
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined – Steven Pinker

John Vickers
Former chairman of the U.K.’s Independent Commission on Banking and warden of All Souls College, University of Oxford
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert A. Caro

William White
Former head of the monetary and economic department at the Bank for International Settlements
Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence – William L. Silber
Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government and the Free Market – Janine Wedel
Boomerang – Michael Lewis
Debt: The First 5,000 Years – David Graeber
The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers – Richard McGregor

Neal Wolin
Deputy U.S. Treasury secretary
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert A. Caro
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity – Katherine Boo

Daniel Yergin
Vice chairman of IHS Inc. and author of “The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World”
Charles Dickens: A Life – Claire Tomalin

Dieter Zetsche
CEO of Daimler AG
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson

Zhang Xin
Chief executive officer of Soho China Ltd.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life – Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson