January kicked off the year with a fun reading month with these books on amazon. Book topics include finance, a spy novel, and philosophy. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves, The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon), and Meditations: The Annotated Edition were all interesting in their way.

Of these three best books on Amazon in January, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves was my favorite. Author Andrew Ross Sorkin, like Michael Lewis, knows how to suck you in with a story about the 2008-2009 financial crisis.

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Best Books on Amazon

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves

Author Andrew Ross Sorkin kills it in Too Big to Fail. It’s a story about the 2008-2009 economic crisis that brought the world to its knees. Sorkin threads together all of the players involved in this book. You learn about the roller coaster that was the melting of the world’s financial system. This book was similar to Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World and The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. Both of these books are excellent companion reading to Too Big to Fail.

Recommend: Yes

The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon)

The Secret Servant is book seven in author Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon series. In this novel, Israeli spy Allon discovers a plot where the daughter of the American ambassador to London will be kidnapped. After learning about the plot, Allon is too late. As Allon races around the world chasing the kidnapping, he is sucked into the vortex that is world terrorism. Read to the end to see if Allon saves the ambassador’s daughter.

Recommend: Yes

Meditations: The Annotated Edition

Meditations: The Annotated Edition by author Robin Waterfield is the translation of emperor Marcus Aurelius’ notebooks that are now known as his Meditations. Aurelius’s journal entries pull back the curtain on one of history’s greatest philosophers. While Aurelius is the man when it comes to sharing what he thinks, this book fell short of expectations. I much prefer Meditations: A New Translation. Other philosophy books I enjoyed include The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living, Ego Is the Enemy, Stillness Is the Key, and The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

Recommend: No

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