Best business-oriented, but novel-style books with good writing, style, & interesting characters? Not really self-help/advise focused, more of actual literature with business themes/plots. Any recs?

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Barbarians at the Gate. Best business book of all time.

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The Goal

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The Fountainhead

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K1, was there a French-Fanadian movie based on that book?

Came here to say what K1 said. Barbarians at the gate is a phenomenal story of greed and hubris, and is very well written.

Also like most of Michael Lewis’s work, lowenstein’s “when genius failed” (LTCM downfall), and “the smartest guys in the room”

The books on Bear and Lehman are interesting to read as well. (“Street fighters” and “a colossal failure of common sense”, respectively)

The cool thing about these books is that if you read enough of them, the same characters start to pop up. It’s interesting to me that there are a good number of people who had their hands in the downfalls of some of America’s most storied institutions.

Also “Losing the Signal”—story of rise and fall of BlackBerry is good

I read all things Michael Lewis.

House of Lies. The book is good, the show is not

I second The Goal

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