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Personal Finance

The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Roadmap to Financial Independence and a Rich Free Life – JL Collins
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness – Morgan Housel
I Will Teach You To Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No B.S. Just a 6-Week Program That Works – Ramit Sethi
Tipped: The life changing guide to financial freedom for waitresses, bartenders, strippers, and all other service industry professionals – Barbara Sloan
Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life – John C. Bogle & Bill Clinton (forward)
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds – Michael Lewis

Investing

Little Book of common sense investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns – John C. Bogle, L.J. Ganser, et al.
The Investment Answer: Learn to Manage Your Money & Protect Your Financial Future – Gordon Murray, Daniel C. Goldie, et al.
The BogleHeads Guide to Investing – Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer and Michael LeBoeuf
The FAMA Portfolio: Selected Papers of Eugene F. Fama (very technical) – Eugene Fama, John H. Cochrane, et al.
Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies – Jeremy Siegel
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book On Value Investing – Benjamin Graham & Jason Zweig

Money History

Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929 – Maury Klein
Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938 – John Brooks
The Go Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street’s Bullish 60s – John Brooks
con: How America Lost It’s Mind in the Internet Era – John Cassidy
American Sucker – David Denby
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management – Roger Lowenstein
A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation – Scott Nations
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation – Edward Chancellor
An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power – John Steele Gordon
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy – Daniel Yergin & Joseph Stanislaw

Money Biography

Morgan: American Financier – Jean Strouse
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. – Ron Chernow
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life – Alice Schroeder
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist – Roger Lowenstein

Money in the Context of Life

Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend – Jonathan DeYoe
Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life – Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
Money and the Meaning of Life – Jacob Needleman
The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources – Lynne Twist
Natural Capitalism – Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, & L. Hunter Lovins

Family and Money

Family Wealth: Keeping In in the Family – How Family Members and Their Advisors Preserve Human, Intellectual, and Financial Assets for Generations – James E. Hughes Jr.
Preparing Heirs: Five Steps to a Successful Transition of Family Wealth and Values – Roy Williams & Vic Preisser
Wealth in Families – Charles W. Collier
Silver Spoon Kids: How Successful Parents Raise Responsible Children – Eileen Gallo, Jon Gallo, et al.
Raising Financially Fit Kids – Joline Godfrey

Long-term Positive Trends

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves – Matt Ridley
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future – Johan Norberg
Abundance: The Future is Better Than Your Think – Steven Kotler & Peter H. Diamandis

Thinking / Writing

Poor Charlie’s Almanac: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger – Peter D. Kaufman & Warren E. Buffet
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles - Steven Pressfield
Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work – Steven Pressfield
Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us – Seth Godin
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work – Seth Godin
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur – Derek Sivers
Hell Yeah or NO: What’s Worth Doing – Derek Sivers
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action – Simon Sinek

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