7 Deadly Sins: Greed

Books where avarice is a central theme.

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created by j.bateman

last updated October, 2026

25 books

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

Karen Hao

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

I Could Be Famous: Stories

Sydney Rende

Making Money

Terry Pratchett

Long Island Compromise

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Sarah Wynn-Williams

The Compound

Aisling Rawle

Animal's People

Indra Sinha

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Mohsin Hamid

King of Greed

Ana Huang

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Pearl

John Steinbeck

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

Needful Things

Stephen King

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Kate Moore

The Glass Hotel

Emily St. John Mandel

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

Trust

Hernan Diaz

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j.batemanOP

Here's the last installment of my Seven Deadly Sins series of booklists! I added nonfiction to this one, it just felt right.

homeofcedar

I have loved following along with your sin lists and I thank you for creating them! 🤘

j.batemanOP

Thanks for following along! There are a lot of ways someone could come at this prompt, so I'd be curious to see what other people would do. I'll also keep updating these ones as relevant titles come up.

homeofcedar

I love that you included non-fiction as well, it is refreshing to see and is especially relevant for this sin in particular!

j.batemanOP

Thank you! I might go back and add nonfiction to some of the other lists as well, if I think of anything particularly relevant. I just hadn't thought of it until I got to this one. There have been so many well researched take-downs of corporate greed in the last decade.

ctrlP

Would you feel Empire of AI, Shock Doctrine, The big short, or History of the world in 7 cheap things to be relevant?

j.batemanOP

All good options, especially The Big Short (not sure how I missed something about the housing crisis,) I'll add them!

ctrlP

must be an unconscious attempt to repress those horrors 😅

j.batemanOP

hahaha seriously!