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Key Resources for understanding finance career tracks and what employers are looking:

The Fast Track: The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking and Securities Trading, Mariam Naficy

The Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Finance (2002), Ying Liu (editor)

Vault Guides:
You can download these books for free (pdf file) from the Vault Career Library: http://www.vault.com/cb/careerlib/careerlib_main.jsp?parrefer=292

Downloadable Vault Guides Include:

Useful Resources:

Analysis for Financial Management, Robert C. Higgins
Case in Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation 2nd Edition, by Marc P. Cosentino
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, by Richard A. Brealey
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 3rd Edition, by McKinsey & Company Inc.
Analysis for Financial Management, by Robert C. Higgins
Aswath Damodaran's web-site – Professor Damodaran has several books on valuation, if you are serious about banking than it is strongly encouraged that you study his books before your interviews. http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/

If you're looking for stories about life on Wall Street:

Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle, John Rolfe and Peter Troob (topic: investment banking)
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street, Michael Lewis (topic: sales and trading)
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, Bryan Burrough (topic: leveraged buyouts)
Den of Thieves, James Brewer Stewart (topic: insider trading)