r/personalfinance · 2024

Most-mentioned books in r/personalfinance during 2024

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/personalfinance 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.

10 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.

5 in 2024

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

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.

2 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.

2 in 2024

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

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.

2 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.

1 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.

1 in 2024