Books Recommended by Mr. Money Mustache
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The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria
Source: "A nice financial and political trot around the globe that explains the changes going on in the world as countries like China, Brazil and India collectively become larger economies than the US/Europe/Japan." - MMM
2 recommendersA Random Walk Down Wall Street
The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
Burton G. Malkiel
Source: "A great explanation of why index investing rules, written by a very wise professor/investor guy who has personally researched and debunked most of the common 'wisdom' that exists about stock trading today." - MMM
2 recommendersTap Dancing to Work
Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013
Carol J. Loomis
Source: "The latest Giant Warren Buffett book. Rather than a story of his life, this one is more a collection of Fortune magazine stories about him and things he has written." - MMM
2 recommendersEarly Retirement Extreme
A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
Jacob Lund Fisker
Source: "If I had to sum up [this book] by inventing my own title for it, I would call it, 'The entirety of human civilization and thought, expressed as a series of equations and graphs.'" - MMM
2 recommendersThe Millionaire Next Door
The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
Thomas J. Stanley
Source: "The main thing it will do is give you reassurance that I am not actually making this shit up. I’m following a very time-honored formula for making you rich." - MMM
2 recommendersThe Intelligent Asset Allocator
How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk
William Bernstein
Source: "Explains that with very little effort, you can drastically reduce the volatility of your investments, even while maintaining the same level of overall returns." - MMM
1 recommenderBorrow
The American Way of Debt
Louis Hyman
Source: "A historical perspective on how the use of debt has changed over the centuries and decades, most recently becoming a fast-moving tradable commodity." - MMM
1 recommenderPlenitude
The New Economics of True Wealth
Juliet B. Schor
Source: "The idea of [this book] is that we can all end up happier and with more free time, while maintaining a fully functioning and efficient economy." - MMM
1 recommenderThe Magic of Thinking Big
David J. Schwartz
Source: "A really, really old fashioned book if someone just wants to wake themselves up and start turning into more of a positive, less depressed person." - MMM
Struck by Lightning
The Curious World of Probabilities
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
Source: "Sums up my decision making process whenever anything is unknown. The basic idea is: understand how fun and useful probabilities and statistics are." - MMM
1 recommenderStarting Strength
Basic Barbell Training
Mark Rippetoe
Source: "A meat’n’potatoes summary of what everyone should do to make the biggest improvements in fitness and strength in minimal time." - MMM
2 recommendersThe Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley
Source: "It argues compellingly that everything is not only going to be OK in the future, it is surely going to be Fucking Great. That much, I agree with." - MMM
Sculpting Her Body Perfect
Brad Schoenfeld
Source: "Mrs. M. enjoyed the way a similar body of knowledge was presented in this book. It’s all about tailoring the message to the audience." - MMM
1 recommenderNaked Economics
Undressing the Dismal Science
Charles Wheelan
Source: "This book’s claim to fame is that it uses absolutely no graphs or numbers when explaining economics. It’s also moderately funny at times." - MMM
1 recommenderTools of Titans
The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Tim Ferriss
Source: "I’ve actually got a huge, huge list of documentaries that I’ve been meaning to watch, many of them collected from the guests in [this book]." - MMM
The Life You Can Save
How To Do Your Part To End World Poverty
Peter Singer
Source: "Finalized my desire to give away most of the money I earn over my lifetime to help eliminate third world poverty." - MMM
1 recommenderThe Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Source: "An explanation of evolution since the beginning of life that explains things from the perspective of individual genes." - MMM
The Little Book That Still Beats the Market
Joel Greenblatt
Source: "Really a lesson on value investing fundamentals; how to understand if a company actually is a good deal to buy." - MMM
2 recommendersYour Money or Your Life
9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence
Vicki Robin
Source: "If you just get whatever the latest edition of that book is, it really teaches you a philosophy that’s pretty similar to mine." - MMM
3 recommendersArnold's Bodybuilding for Men
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Source: "After reading this you will know how to work out properly, as well as having a nice lifelong motivation to do so." - MMM
1 recommender
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