Reading list

Reading list
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Here are some books that have influenced my journey in personal finance and beyond. Click on any book to learn more or grab a copy!

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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Best Investment Guide That Money Can Buy

Burton G. Malkiel

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I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. Just a 6-Week Program That Works

Ramit Sethi

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Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Robert T. Kiyosaki

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The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet

Nicoletta Batini

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The Four Pillars of Investing, Second Edition: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio

William J. Bernstein

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Bull: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004

Maggie Hahar

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Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World

Mohamed El-Erian

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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered 

E.F. Schumacher

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Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever

Robin Wigglesworth

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The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

Morgan Housel

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Space Economy: The New Frontier for Development

Simonetta Di Pippo

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Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

T. Harv Eker

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Money Honey: A Simple 7-Step Guide For Getting Your Financial $hit Together

Rachel Richards

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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy 

Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West

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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

Charles Wheelan

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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails

Yanis Varoufakis

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When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany

Adam Fergusson

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Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys

Patty Civalleri

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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

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The Caesars Palace Coup: How A Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street

Suheet Indap, Max Frumes

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The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy

Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Ellen Reese

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Capitalism and Freedom

Milton Friedman, Binyamin Appelbaum

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Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy

Iain Martin

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Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis

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The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire

Neil Irwin

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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

Michael Lewis

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The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

Mel Lindauer, Taylor Larimore, Michael LeBoeuf

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From Piggy Banks to Stocks: The Ultimate Guide for a Young Investor

Maya Corbic

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The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

Peter Zeihan

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The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

Stephanie Kelton

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Just Keep Buying: Proven ways to save money and build your wealth

Nick Maggiulli

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded

David Graeber

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Macroeconomics for Professionals: A Guide for Analysts and Those Who Need to Understand Them

Leslie Lipschitz, Susan Schadler

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Tax Haven Ireland

Brian O'Boyle, Kieran Allen

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Chip War

Chris Miller

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Irrational Exuberance

Robert J. Schiller

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An Introduction to Islamic Finance

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The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

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False Economy

Alan Beattie

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Good Economics for Hard Times

Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo

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Edible Economics

Ha-Joon Chang

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The Almighty Dollar: Follow the Incredible Journey of Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works

Dharshini David

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