* The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Disaster of America in the '60s (1973)
* Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street (1991)
* The Great Crash, 1929 (2001)
* The Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (2008)
* Hubris: The Inside Story of the Fall of Lehman Brothers (2009)
John Brooks was also a staff writer for *The New Yorker* magazine from 1961 to 1994. He wrote more than 100 articles for the magazine, primarily on business and financial topics.