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.
#1 The Simple Path to Wealth
JL Collins
A retired fund manager distills 40 years of index investing into one rule: buy VTSAX, ignore the noise, and wait.
#2 The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Morgan Housel paid off a 3% mortgage early and calls it his best money decision ever — 209 Reddit mentions say the paradox is the whole point.
#3 A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel
Burton Malkiel's 50-year argument that you can't beat the market, backed by data, and Reddit's most-cited reason to stop stock-picking.
#4 The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
John C. Bogle
John Bogle's case for index funds in 200 pages: own the whole market, pay almost nothing, and wait — cited 262 times on Reddit and counting.
#5 The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Taylor Larimore
The index-fund bible that turns 136 Reddit mentions into one repeatable answer: buy, hold, ignore the noise.
#6 The Millionaire Next Door
Thomas J. Stanley
A 1996 study of 1,000 American millionaires found they drove used cars, lived in modest houses, and got rich by spending less than they earned.
#7 The White Coat Investor
James M. Dahle
A physician-turned-blogger tells high earners that chasing alpha is a bad idea mutual funds are legally required to warn you about.
#8 I Will Teach You to Be Rich
Ramit Sethi
Ramit Sethi's personal finance system for people who hate budgeting: automate everything, ignore avocado toast, stop leaving money in savings accounts.
#9 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.
#10 The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham's 1949 framework for distinguishing investment from speculation, cited 100 times on Reddit by people still arguing whether it applies to today's markets.
#11 All About Asset Allocation
Richard A. Ferri
Rick Ferri's guide to building a multi-asset portfolio: choose your allocation, stop tinkering, and go enjoy your life.
#12 If You Can
William J. Bernstein
A free 16-page PDF from William Bernstein that tells millennials exactly how to invest for retirement using three index funds and nothing else.
#13 The Intelligent Asset Allocator
William J. Bernstein
William Bernstein's case that a rebalanced stock/bond portfolio beats most investors' instincts, backed by math a non-quant can follow.
#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.
#15 The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason
A 1926 book about a Babylonian merchant that r/Bogleheads still hands to newcomers because nothing else this short covers the basics this cleanly.
#16 Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
A Nobel laureate maps the two systems running your brain — and shows how often the faster one gets you killed in a bull market.
#17 Winning the Loser's Game
Charles D. Ellis
Charles Ellis argues that active stock-picking is a game professional managers reliably lose, and that ordinary investors win by refusing to play.
#18 The Total Money Makeover
Dave Ramsey
Dave Ramsey's seven baby steps: the debt half works, the investing half gets blocked alongside his YouTube channel.
#19 Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Taleb's argument that most successful traders are lucky, not skilled — told through trading floors, coin flips, and survivorship bias.
#20 Just Keep Buying
Nick Maggiulli
Nick Maggiulli's case that most people should stop optimizing their portfolio and start earning more first.
#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.
#22 Same as Ever
Morgan Housel
Morgan Housel's follow-up to The Psychology of Money finds the patterns in human behavior that don't change — and asks what to do with that.
#23 Security Analysis
Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham's 1936 manual for dissecting a balance sheet, now mostly cited as proof that the method he later disowned still has its uses.
#24 The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A derivatives trader turns the logic of rare catastrophes against the financial models that pretend they don't exist.
#25 The Wealthy Barber
David Chilton
A Canadian barber explains index funds and pay-yourself-first saving to his regulars, and the advice still holds up decades later.