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Money & Finance book summaries

The best personal-finance and investing book summaries — building wealth and financial freedom, in a few minutes each.

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

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

Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter

2-min read

Think and Grow Rich cover

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

3-min read

The Psychology of Money cover

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

3-min read

The Intelligent Investor cover

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

3-min read

The Richest Man in Babylon cover

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason

5-min read

Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline, and a Winning Attitude cover

Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline, and a Winning Attitude

Mark Douglas

5-min read

Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success cover

Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success

Napoleon Hill

5-min read

I Will Teach You to Be Rich cover

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Ramit Sethi

4-min read

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant cover

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson and Naval Ravikant

4-min read

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

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

Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko

3-min read

One Up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market cover

One Up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market

Peter Lynch

5-min read

The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime cover

The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime

MJ DeMarco

5-min read

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable cover

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

5-min read

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder cover

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

5-min read

The Simple Path to Wealth cover

The Simple Path to Wealth

J.L. Collins

5-min read

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing cover

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

Burton G. Malkiel

5-min read

Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money cover

Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money

Vicki Robin

4-min read

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns cover

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

John C. Bogle

5-min read

The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness cover

The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

Dave Ramsey

5-min read

Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street cover

Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

Michael Lewis

5-min read

The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking cover

The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

Saifedean Ammous

3-min read

Die with Zero cover

Die with Zero

Bill Perkins

4-min read

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco cover

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

5-min read

1929 cover

1929

Andrew Ross Sorkin

5-min read

Frequently asked questions

What are the best Money & Finance books?

Among the most widely read money & finance titles summarized on SummaryShelf are Rich Dad Poor Dad, Think and Grow Rich, The Psychology of Money, The Intelligent Investor, and The Richest Man in Babylon — ordered here by how many readers have shelved them.

Where should I start with Money & Finance?

Rich Dad Poor Dad is the most-read pick in this topic and a solid place to begin. Each summary is a 4–5 minute read, so you can sample a few before deciding what to read in full.

How many Money & Finance book summaries are on SummaryShelf?

24, and growing — each distilled to its core ideas in a few minutes.