r/Bogleheads · 2025

Most-mentioned books in r/Bogleheads during 2025

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/Bogleheads within the published source unit for 2025. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2025

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The Simple Path to Wealth

JL Collins

A father writes his daughter a set of letters explaining why buying one index fund beats almost everything Wall Street sells you.

58 in 2025

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Morgan Housel pays off a 3% mortgage early and calls it the dumbest math and the best decision he's ever made.

48 in 2025

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Burton G. Malkiel

A Princeton economist argues no one, professional or amateur, can consistently beat a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at the stock listings.

28 in 2025

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

John C. Bogle

John Bogle spends one short book making the case that owning the entire stock market beats trying to pick the winners in it.

25 in 2025

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

Taylor Larimore

A forum built entirely around index funds ranks this book third on its own reading list, then tells beginners to read it anyway.

21 in 2025

The Millionaire Next Door

Thomas J. Stanley

The people who actually have money are the ones driving a twenty-year-old Corolla, the book argues, not the ones leasing a new BMW every three years.

17 in 2025

The White Coat Investor

James M. Dahle

A doctor who nearly wrecked his own finances writes the money manual nobody handed him in medical school.

17 in 2025

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Ramit Sethi

Ramit Sethi tells a broke twentysomething to automate every account and stop apologizing for buying good coffee.

9 in 2025

The Four Pillars of Investing

William J. Bernstein

A neurologist-turned-portfolio-theorist explains why the financial services industry exists mainly to extract fees from you, then shows you four ways to stop it.

7 in 2025

#10

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

A Columbia professor teaches you to treat the stock market as a manic-depressive partner named Mr. Market, who offers you a new price every day whether you want one or not.

6 in 2025

#11

All About Asset Allocation

Richard A. Ferri

Rick Ferri hands Bogleheads a fixed international-equity percentage, and one reader is still running it fifteen years later, underperformance and all.

5 in 2025

#12

If You Can

William J. Bernstein

William Bernstein's free sixteen-page PDF telling you to save half your paycheck and buy three index funds, no purchase required.

5 in 2025

#13

The Intelligent Asset Allocator

William J. Bernstein

A 66-year-old on r/Bogleheads reads one book about stock and bond splits and wishes he'd stopped being 100% stocks years earlier.

5 in 2025

#14

The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning

Taylor Larimore

A retirement planning guide built around one principle: own VTI, VXUS, and BND, then adjust the bond slice as the finish line approaches.

4 in 2025

#15

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason

A bricklayer in ancient Babylon is told to keep a tenth of every coin he earns, and Reddit's finance subs still repeat that rule word for word.

3 in 2025

#16

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

A Nobel-winning psychologist splits the mind into a fast intuitive system and a slow deliberate one, then catalogues where the fast one lies to you.

3 in 2025

#17

Winning the Loser's Game

Charles D. Ellis

Charles Ellis explaining why professional stock-picking became a loser's game, and how indexing lets you avoid playing it.

3 in 2025

#18

The Total Money Makeover

Dave Ramsey

A couple kills time in a Hawaii bookstore, reads the whole book in one sitting, and realizes nobody around them can afford the plan.

2 in 2025

#19

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A trader spends a decade mistaking luck for skill, then one bad draw from the same random distribution erases every 'genius' trade that came before it.

1 in 2025

#20

Just Keep Buying

Nick Maggiulli

Nick Maggiulli's investing blog becomes a book, and the best Reddit will say is that it won't blow your mind but it works.

1 in 2025

#21

Misbehaving

Richard H. Thaler

Richard Thaler's account of how behavioral economics got built, from the anomalies that standard theory couldn't explain to a Nobel Prize.

1 in 2025

#22

Same as Ever

Morgan Housel

Morgan Housel builds an entire book from one repeated claim: the specifics of every market cycle change, but the way people panic and rationalize through it never does.

1 in 2025

#23

Security Analysis

Benjamin Graham

In 1934, Benjamin Graham wrote hundreds of pages on how to value a stock properly, and by the end of his life he told people not to bother with most of it.

1 in 2025

#24

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A former options trader argues the disaster nobody predicted will shape your portfolio more than every year you correctly predicted.

1 in 2025

#25

The Wealthy Barber

David Chilton

A Canadian barber tells his three young clients how to get rich slowly, one parable at a time, decades before anyone said 'index fund.'

1 in 2025