Five books that explore the complexities of the stock market

Samantha Greene Woodruff is the author of Amazon #1 bestseller The Lobotomist’s Wife. She studied history at Wesleyan University and continued her studies at NYU’s Stern School of Business, where she earned an MBA. Woodruff spent nearly two decades working on the business side of media, primarily at Viacom’s Nickelodeon, before leaving corporate life to become a full-time mom. In her newfound “free” time, she took classes at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, where she accidentally found her calling as a historical fiction author. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, Writer’s Digest, Female First, Read 650, and more.

Woodruff's new novel is The Trade Off.

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At Lit Hub the author tagged five standout books that explore the complexities of the stock market:

David Liss, A Conspiracy of Paper

This historical mystery isn’t a book about the New York Stock Exchange, instead, it takes place in eighteenth-century London, in the earliest days of the first stock market. A story about a Jewish former boxer turned investigator who seeks to uncover the truth about his father’s death, is both a stealth examination of the complex social pecking order of the 1700s, and a rare glimpse into the beginning of the trading of “paper money” and the first major market crash: the burst of the South Sea bubble.

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