--- description: Find out why "1929" is on TIME's list of the must-read books of the year. title: '1929' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd23c459c9b02d306/6998cb2993610c3e8ac301f3/100_Books_2025_1929-Andrew-Ross-Sorkin.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 12, 2025 # 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  The financial journalist and best-selling author of _Too Big to Fail_ returns with a landmark study of the 1929 Wall Street crash, which tipped the United States (and much of the world) into an unprecedented depression, an economy buoyed only by President Franklin Roosevelt’s activist New Deal. Andrew Ross Sorkin brings to life the cast of white men—magnates, speculators, politicians, and message boys—whose faith in capitalism blinkered them to the economic icebergs in front of them, with cameos by J.P. Morgan Jr., Herbert Hoover, and Joseph P. Kennedy. “Propelled along by a culture of hot tips, one-of-a-kind deals, killer sales pitches, and irresistible slogans, people lose their ability to calculate risk and distinguish between good ideas and bad ones,” Sorkin writes, a Cassandra-like warning to today's disciples of irrational exuberance. —_Hamilton Cain_ **_These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser._** **Buy Now:** _1929_ on [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780593296967 "undefined") | [Amazon](https://amzn.to/4nIfgzi "undefined") These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. 1929: 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/the-100-must-read-books-of-2025/7329471/1929/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/the-100-must-read-books-of-2025/7329471/1929/"},"headline":"1929","datePublished":"2025-11-12T13:00:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T01:02:08.988Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/the-100-must-read-books-of-2025/7329471/1929/","keywords":["Books","E-Commerce","list","ecommerce","Special Project"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd23c459c9b02d306/6998cb2993610c3e8ac301f3/100_Books_2025_1929-Andrew-Ross-Sorkin.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd23c459c9b02d306/6998cb2993610c3e8ac301f3/100_Books_2025_1929-Andrew-Ross-Sorkin.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/the-100-must-read-books-of-2025/7329471/1929/","name":"1929"}}]}] ```