Bank of America's Joe Quinlan releases top reading recommendations for Fall 2025

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

In June of 2024, thirty-one years after its founding in a Denny’s restaurant, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth.

The Thinking Machine is the astonishing story of how a designer of video game equipment conquered the market for AI hardware, and in the process re-invented the computer.

House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company

In House of Huawei, Washington Post technology reporter Eva Dou pieces together a remarkable portrait of Huawei’s reclusive founder, Ren Zhengfei, and how he built a sprawling corporate empire—one whose rise Western policymakers have become increasingly obsessed with

halting.

 Kaput: The End of the German Miracle

Until recently, Germany appeared to be a paragon of economic and political success. But recent events – from Germany’s dependence on Russian gas to its car industry’s delays in the race to electric – have undermined this view. In Kaput, Wolfgang Münchau argues that the

weaknesses of Germany’s economy have, in fact, been brewing for decades.

Stay at Risk and Live Forever

Byron Wien, a legendary figure on Wall Street, shares his profound insights and life lessons.

Known for his famous "Ten Surprises" and "Life's Lessons" lists, Wien guides readers through the complexities of investment strategy, risk management, and lifelong learning.

Abundance

To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage.

After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, America has a national housing crisis.

After years of limiting immigration, we don’t have enough workers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven’t built anything close to the clean-energy infrastructure we need. 

Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring.

Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors ... all these are becoming part.

Kochland

The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and US Steel combined. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food to the chemicals that make our pipes to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers to the

Wall Street trading in all these commodities.

Waste Wars

Journalist Alexander Clapp spent two years roaming five continents to tell readers: While some trash gets tossed onto roadsides or buried underground, much of it actually lives a secret hot potato second life, getting shipped, sold, re-sold, or smuggled from one country to

another, often with devastating consequences for the poorest nations.

They Poisoned the World

In 2014, after losing several friends and relatives to cancer, an unassuming insurance underwriter in New York began to suspect that the local water supply was polluted. 

When he tested his tap water, he discovered dangerous levels of forever chemicals.

Our Dollar, Your Problem

Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached today’s lofty pinnacle without a certain amount of good luck.

Drawing in part on his own experiences, including with policymakers and world leaders, Kenneth Rogoff animates the remarkable postwar run of the dollar and the challenges it faces today from crypto and the Chinese yuan, the end of reliably low inflation and interest rates, political instability, and the fracturing of the dollar bloc.