Reddit mentions of The Theory of Corporate Finance

I'm not sure there are many "classic" financial economics books you'll want to read. Economics is exceptionally broad, and I'm not sure we can say that there is a list of books I'd say are required reading. Pick any area and review articles will be your friend.

That said, I'll give you two books that would give someone a quick intro to financial economics. Cochrane's Asset Pricing and Tirole's The Theory of Corporate Finance. Both are excellent books that cover the basics of their fields very well.

If you wanted to pick an area of finance, I could probably come up with some review articles to get you started.

What part of finance are you interested in?

Asset pricing?

• Asset Pricing - Cochrane
  
• Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory - Duffie
  
  Corporate Finance?
  
  
• Theory of Corporate Finance - Tirole
  
• Theoretical Foundations of Corporate Finance - Matos
  
  Behavioral Finance?
  
  
• Inefficient Markets - Schleifer
  
  Financial Econometrics?
  
  
• The Econometrics of Financial Markets - Campbell, Lo, Mackinlay
  
• Analysis of Financial Time Series - Tsay
  
  Market Microstructure?
  
  
• Market Microstructure Theory - O'Hara
  
• Empirical Market Microstructure - Hasbrouck