r/financialindependence · 2024

Most-mentioned books in r/financialindependence during 2024

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/financialindependence within the published source unit for 2024. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2024

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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.

92 in 2024

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.

31 in 2024

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.

19 in 2024

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.

13 in 2024

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.

11 in 2024

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.

7 in 2024

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.

7 in 2024

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.

7 in 2024

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.

6 in 2024

#10

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.

6 in 2024

#11

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.

5 in 2024

#12

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.

2 in 2024

#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.

2 in 2024

#14

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.

2 in 2024

#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.

2 in 2024

#16

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 2024