Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?

(which includes Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan)

Random Walk and Black Swan are two good reads.

(which includes Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan)

The classics are "The Intelligent Investor"

Debt makes some particularly interesting observations about currency before fractional reserve banking

Debt: The First 5000 Years

I’d recommend Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber.

A basic book would be rich dad, poor dad - it's quite cliche but it's a good introduction to "wealth" and assets vs liability == net worth.

and Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Random walk down wall street is good, but the angle is more “so you want to get into investing?”

The entire Incerto book series by Taleb (which includes Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan) are awesome

Flash Boys by Michael Lewis is a fun read and taught me a lot about what the stock market is. It's not the densest book. It's more of a narrative than a teaching tool, but for what it is I found it very informative.

"Security Analysis" (more academic but for me this is the gold standard).

I've been having an interesting time working through Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd.

Snowball - biography of Warren Buffet

another thing worth reading is Too Big to Fail, The Big Short, and Greatest Trade Ever.

The big short is a great book, but not sure it’s a good primer on how the financial system works for someone learning.

You can't go wrong with 'The Big Short'.