Books Like The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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If you loved The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, these books share similar qualities — same genre, comparable themes, and the kind of reader ratings that signal something special. Whether you read on Kindle, in print, or on audio, these recommendations deliver the same kind of experience.

10 books for fans of The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup cover

    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

    by John Carreyrou

    5.00 BLT Score (283.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (283.7K)
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    Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan cover

    Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

    Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series

    by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

    4.81 BLT Score (21.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (21.9K)
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    Humankind: A Hopeful History cover

    Humankind: A Hopeful History

    by Rutger Bregman, Elizabeth Manton, Erica Moore

    4.67 BLT Score (81.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.32 Goodreads (81.8K)
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    Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art cover

    Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

    by James Nestor

    4.68 BLT Score (118.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.14 Goodreads (118.1K)
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    Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World cover

    Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

    by David Epstein

    4.65 BLT Score (80.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (80.7K)
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    The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided cover

    The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided

    by Jonathan Haidt

    4.58 BLT Score (66.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (66.9K)
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    Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot cover

    Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

    Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series

    by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

    4.57 BLT Score (62.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (62.5K)
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    Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever cover

    Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

    Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series

    by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

    4.50 BLT Score (109.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.06 Goodreads (109.0K)
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    Quiet cover

    Quiet

    by Susan Cain

    4.47 BLT Score (478.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (478.1K)
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    The Democrat Party Hates America cover

    The Democrat Party Hates America

    by Mark R. Levin

    4.45 BLT Score (1.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.44 Goodreads (1.2K)

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