The Big Short by Michael Lewis

Brilliant written book on the subprime crisis which hit the US economy and brought it to its knees. But instead of writing about the crisis, he has focussed on the few sideliners that knew about it before and bet against it, and won big time.
Written it in a way which would make any Hollywood scriptwriter proud.
But since its a complex subject on the stock market et al, normal readers might find it difficult to grasp the intensity & enormity of the situations being described in the book.