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r/financialindependence · 2023

Most-mentioned books in r/financialindependence during 2023

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/financialindependence within the published source unit for 2023. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2023
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Cover of The Simple Path to Wealth #1

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.

122 in 2023
Cover of The Psychology of Money #2

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.

54 in 2023
Cover of The Millionaire Next Door #3

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.

48 in 2023
Cover of The White Coat Investor #4

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.

30 in 2023
Cover of I Will Teach You to Be Rich #5

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.

28 in 2023
Cover of Rich Dad Poor Dad #6

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.

18 in 2023
Cover of The Little Book of Common Sense Investing #7

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.

14 in 2023
Cover of Your Money or Your Life #8

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.

13 in 2023
Cover of A Random Walk Down Wall Street #9

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 2023
Cover of Quit Like a Millionaire #10

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.

10 in 2023
Cover of The Richest Man in Babylon #11

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.

10 in 2023
Cover of If You Can #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.

9 in 2023
Cover of The Total Money Makeover #13

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.

7 in 2023
Cover of Winning the Loser's Game #14

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.

5 in 2023
Cover of The Four Pillars of Investing #15

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.

4 in 2023
Cover of The Index Card #16

The Index Card

Helaine Olen

Harold Pollack's entire financial philosophy fits on one index card, written after a family medical emergency forced him to actually use it.

4 in 2023
Cover of The Wealthy Barber #17

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.'

4 in 2023
Cover of Broke Millennial #18

Broke Millennial

Erin Lowry

A personal-finance guide aimed at millennials that Reddit has mentioned eleven times in seven years and never once argued about.

3 in 2023
Cover of Just Keep Buying #19

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.

3 in 2023
Cover of The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing #20

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.

3 in 2023
Cover of The Intelligent Investor #21

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.

3 in 2023
Cover of Millionaire Teacher #22

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 2023
Cover of Misbehaving #23

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 2023
Cover of Never Split the Difference #24

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

A former FBI hostage negotiator teaches you to get what you want in any negotiation by never actually accepting the middle.

1 in 2023
Cover of One Up on Wall Street #25

One Up on Wall Street

Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch's case that a regular investor spotting McDonald's or Apple before Wall Street can beat the pros — using nothing but their own shopping cart.

1 in 2023