Resources

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