r/financialindependence · 2021

Most-mentioned books in r/financialindependence during 2021

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/financialindependence within the published source unit for 2021. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2021

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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.

99 in 2021

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.

74 in 2021

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Robert T. Kiyosaki

A kid picks his best friend's father, who quit school in eighth grade, over his own PhD-holding dad as the one worth learning money from.

46 in 2021

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.

31 in 2021

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.

27 in 2021

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.

21 in 2021

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.

19 in 2021

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.

13 in 2021

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.

12 in 2021

#10

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.

11 in 2021

#11

Your Money or Your Life

Vicki Robin

Two authors ask whether that nice dinner was worth the six hours of labor it cost, and build an entire retirement philosophy on the answer.

7 in 2021

#12

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.

6 in 2021

#13

Quit Like a Millionaire

Kristy Shen

Kristy Shen argues "follow your passion" is bullshit, then explains how to buy your freedom from a career you merely tolerate.

6 in 2021

#14

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.

6 in 2021

#15

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.

6 in 2021

#16

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.

4 in 2021

#17

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Taleb argues recessions are forest fires you shouldn't suppress, and one Redditor took the advice literally enough to trim convexity out of their growth assets.

2 in 2021

#18

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.

1 in 2021

#19

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman

You get about four thousand weeks total, and Oliver Burkeman spends the whole book arguing your to-do list was never going to fit inside them.

1 in 2021

#20

Mastering the Market Cycle

Howard Marks

A billionaire distressed-debt investor argues the best return of your career comes not from predicting the market, but from knowing exactly where in the cycle you're standing.

1 in 2021

#21

Millionaire Teacher

Andrew Hallam

An expat teacher turns an ordinary salary into a seven-figure portfolio, then writes the book explaining exactly how, down to the chapter on buying a used car.

1 in 2021

#22

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 2021

#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 2021

#24

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

A consultant argues that Apple and Martin Luther King succeeded for the same underlying reason, then builds an entire framework around explaining it.

1 in 2021

#25

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.

1 in 2021