I Will Teach You to Be Rich

+1 for I Will Teach You To Be Rich. The title is a turn-off but the book is great. It has some life-changing financial literacy advice and is worth the price many times over, IMHO. And yeah, you can get an AI to dump the key points out of the book, but they don't do the book justice.

Some personal favorites: - Your Money Or Your Life Great book on financial independence and simple investing. Get the 2017 version since they made modifications to their investing recs to be less bond centric. - I Will Teach You To Be Rich The name is gaudy IMO, but the contents are very rational and cover pretty much all the foundations of personal finance, from investing to budgeting, to enjoying your life. The name feels like a get rich quick thing, but it's about what the other describes as "living your rich life" - essentially enjoying your money in addition to saving and investing for the future. - The Simple Path To Wealth Great simple investing book. Probably the best investing book for the average person, in my opinion. Well written, to the point, and rational. There are some other great books out there, but those are three solid ones to start with. I Will Teach You To Be Rich is the most catch all based on what you're looking for.

I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi. Corny name, but generally good advice for people who don't have an interest in personal finance. I buy it for friends when they get engaged.

I Will Teach You to Be Rich. Bad title, but this helped me to automate saving and put my energy into more important things.

I keep an active list of books I've read, along with my reviews at my book review website, https://books.brianseitel.com. One of the benefits of this is that my favorite books automatically populate on the left. In 2016, I read over 60 books. My top 10 for 2016 (so far) are, in rough order of favorite-ness: - "All the Birds in the Sky" by Charlie Jane Anders - "The Shards of Heaven" and its sequel "The Gates of Hell" by Michael Livingston (fictional story set in Roman times) - "The Last Breath" by Charlie Magee - "The Guns of Empire" by Django Wexler (Book 4 of The Shadow Campaigns series, which I highly recommend) - "The King's Traitor" by Jeff Wheeler (original take on Arthurian legend) - "Uprooted" by Naomi Novik - "End Game" by Lindsay Buroker (Book 8 of her sci-fi series, The Fallen Empire, which is a pretty fun series overall. Short and sweet adventures.) - "Soulblade" by Lindsay Buroker (Book 8 of her fantasy series, Dragon Blood, which is another great series. All of Buroker's books are good, imo.) - "Ghost Talkers" by Mary Robinette Kowal (It's WWII, ghosts are real... and they're spies.)…

"I Will Teach You To Be Rich" by Ramit Sethi (http://amzn.to/2aF1vjF). It's a fantastic, easy read that takes you step-by-step into automating your finances and making smart decisions toward not necessarily being rich, but being richer and having some financial security on a month to month basis. Every once in awhile, I'll have a conversation with friends about finances, and they'll complain about how much work it is to manage money, and I'll go home and order them this book. It's an easy $10 gift, and they've all told me it changed the way they approach finances. Good stuff. Cannot recommend it enough.

I'll second this recommendation. Very good for young single people. It's not a get rich quick book. It's a get rich slow the old fashion way book. What it does best is provides a framework for budgeting and saving that's easy to follow.

Ramit Sethi's I Will Teach You To Be Rich was nicely written and has a lot of supplementary stuff, mostly centred around managing personal finance well. Probably not one of the "seminal" books - it's new - but a decent read.