Five Books Every New Banker Should Read

Add these books to your reading list if you want to master the business of banking.

Some people are born to be bankers, like Jamie Dimon, while the rest of us must work at developing the temperament and behavior needed to profitably run a highly leveraged institution through multiple swings in the credit cycle.

It’s for the latter group — the rest of us — that I’ve put together the following list of banking books. These five books will teach you about the cycles of American banking, some of the leading institutions through time, and the behavioral characteristics needed to succeed in an industry in which failure is the rule and success is the exception.