Michael Lewis Books in Order

Draws on close access to Sam Bankman-Fried to tell the story of FTX’s dizzying rise and collapse, tracing how a crypto exchange built on big promises and effective-altruism branding ended in bankruptcy, criminal charges, and huge losses for customers.

Follows a small group of doctors, scientists, and local health officials who saw the danger of a fast-moving virus long before COVID-19 hit, and shows how bureaucratic hesitation left the United States vulnerable to a preventable catastrophe.

Through his daughters’ travel-softball journey, Lewis digs into the booming youth-sports industry, showing how families, coaches, and businesses turn kids’ games into high-stakes projects that eat money and time while raising hard questions about winning and joy.

Explores what happens when new political leaders ignore the expertise inside key U.S. agencies, profiling the quiet civil servants at Energy, Agriculture, and Commerce who manage nuclear safety, food programs, and weather data that most citizens never see.

Centers on the people who collect and interpret America’s weather and climate data, examining how public information, private companies, and political appointees collide—and what it could mean when lifesaving forecasts are treated as a profit opportunity.

In this audio report turned standalone piece, Lewis roams Washington during the Trump era, from the White House press room to the Trump International Hotel, capturing the mood, the players, and the uneasy sense of a government running on spectacle.

Tells the intertwined story of psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose research on judgment, bias, and decision-making reshaped economics, medicine, and politics, and of the intense friendship that powered, and eventually strained, their work together.

Follows a group of traders and technologists who uncover how high-frequency trading skims fractions of a cent from everyday orders, then race to build a fairer stock exchange that slows markets down just enough to protect ordinary investors.

An extended essay that imagines a major Tokyo earthquake and traces how Japan’s selling of overseas assets could ripple through global markets, revealing surprising vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial system decades before they were widely discussed.

Expands the story of the global financial crisis by traveling through countries like Iceland, Greece, and Ireland, revealing how cheap credit, local culture, and political choices combined to create booms, busts, and long-lasting economic pain.

This book follows a handful of outsiders who realized the subprime mortgage market was doomed, used credit default swaps to bet against it, and watched as the 2008 financial crisis exposed how fragile and reckless Wall Street had become.

Collects funny, sharp snapshots from Lewis’s first years as a father, charting sleepless nights, small disasters, and unexpected joys as he tries to understand what modern parenting really asks of him and how family life actually feels.

An anthology of reporting and essays on recent financial crises—from the 1987 crash to the subprime meltdown—selected and introduced by Lewis to show how fear, leverage, and wishful thinking repeatedly push markets to the edge.

Curates classic works of economic thought, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, into one volume, framing them with Lewis’s commentary so readers can see how big ideas about markets, government, and inequality developed long before modern finance.

Blending the evolution of modern football strategy with the true story of Michael Oher, a homeless teenager taken in by the Tuohy family, this book shows how his size and talent at left tackle reshape his life and the meaning of opportunity.

A slim, emotional portrait of Billy Fitzgerald, the demanding high-school baseball coach who shaped Lewis’s teenage years, exploring how tough practices, hard truths, and unwavering expectations can leave a deeper mark than any trophy or final score.

Lewis shows how Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane used statistics and undervalued players to build a winning baseball team on a shoestring budget, challenging decades of scouting wisdom and changing how fans, front offices, and players think about the game.

Through teenage stock traders, online legal whizzes, and early fan-funded bands, this book shows how the internet scrambles old hierarchies, pushing power toward people with information and nerve rather than age, credentials, or traditional gatekeepers.

A practical resource for language teachers, this collection explains the lexical approach and offers classroom activities, examples, and theory to help students notice and practice collocations, multi-word chunks, and other patterns that build real-world fluency.

Follows Silicon Valley billionaire Jim Clark across startups, sailing adventures, and the 1990s internet boom, using his restless drive to show how venture capital, code, and hype combined to create a new, wildly speculative kind of capitalism.

Lewis hits the 1996 presidential campaign trail to follow the also-rans and long-shots, offering a darkly funny, ground-level view of American politics that asks why anyone would run for president and what the process does to everyone involved.

A collection of essays from the late 1980s and early 1990s, this book skewers Wall Street deal-making, junk bonds, and celebrity financiers, capturing the swagger and absurdity of an era when the pursuit of money drowned out almost everything else.

Uses the story of two businessmen, one American and one Japanese, to explore the cultural misunderstandings and conflicting expectations that shape U.S.-Japan trade, showing how different views of loyalty, risk, and success ripple through global business.

Part memoir, part exposé, this book describes Lewis’s years as a young bond salesman at Salomon Brothers, capturing the swagger, fear, and excess of 1980s Wall Street and the birth of the mortgage-backed securities boom.