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last updated: 22 March 2008
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To celebrate the recent launch of the Here Is The City Bookshop, we are giving away 10 copies each of 'Wealth of Nations' and the Wall Street thriller 'Naked Option' to certain lucky readers who participated in our poll to find the 'Best Book About The Financial Markets'.

First though, here's the results of the poll - the Top 20 books you voted as 'The Best Books About The Financial Markets':

1. Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis

2. When Genius Failed : The Rise & Fall Of Long Term Capital Management - Roger Lowenstein

3. Barbarians At The Gate - Bryan Burrough & John Helyar

4. Monkey Business - John Rolfe & Peter Troob

5. Bonfire Of The Vanities - Tom Wolfe

6. Rogue Trader - Nick Leeson

7. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator - Edwin Lefevre

8. The Great Crash - John Kenneth Galbraith

9. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay

10. The Corporation - Joel Bakan

11. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

12. Market Wizards - Jack D Schwager

13. F.I.A.S.C.O - Frank Partnoy

14. At Bonus Time No-one Can Here You Scream - David Charters & Alice Rosenbaum

15. Traders, Guns & Money - Satyajit Das

16. Rigged - Ben Mezrich

17. One Up On Wall Street - Peter Lynch & John Rothschild

18. Den of Thieves - James B Stewart

19. The Alchemy of Finance - George Soros

20. The Zurich Axioms - Max Gunther

To find out more about these books or to make a purchase, please go to our on-line bookshop. Link below:

Visit the HITC Bookshop

And the winners of the books are:

Naked Option

Chris Bentley - Grosvenor Securities

James Boorman - Calyon

William Bown - Sheffield Haworth

Fernando Del Puerto - Barclays Capital

Thomas East - Credit Suisse

Claire Farrell - Merrill Lynch

Bhisham Krishnani - ABN AMRO

Julian Ratcliffe - BNP Paribas

Wai Siow - Deloitte Consulting

Christopher Torrington - Barclays Capital

Wealth of Nations

Nikolay Dinev - Bank of America

Matt Gillie - Citi

Mark Howdle - Merrill Lynch

Lisa Jones - Citi

Barnaby Mannerings - Accenture

Danielle Paquette - Bear Stearns

Ross Renowden - Morgan Stanley

Christina Rosetti - Markit

Adrian Tan - UBS

Paul Zagaroti - UBS

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