Expert summaries that reveal the key lessons from the best books on finance, habits, and personal growth — so you decide what's worth your time.
Essential reads, condensed
by JL Collins · 2016
A finance blogger's letters to his teenage daughter, built into a case for owning the entire stock market through a single low-cost index fund, ignoring the noise, and letting five decades of market history do the rest.
by Viktor E. Frankl · 1946
A Viennese psychiatrist survives three years across four Nazi concentration camps and emerges with a theory that would define the rest of his life's work: that the primary human drive isn't pleasure or power, but the search for meaning — and that even when everything else is taken away, the freedom to choose your attitude toward what happens to you cannot be.
by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez · 1992
A nine-step program built on one reframe: money is life energy, the hours of your life you trade to earn it — and once you calculate your real hourly wage, you may never look at a purchase the same way again.
by don Miguel Ruiz · 1997
A Toltec master's four-part framework for personal freedom: why most of what you believe about yourself was never actually chosen, and how being impeccable with your word, refusing to take things personally, and dropping assumptions can undo it.
by Benjamin Graham · 1949
The foundational text of value investing: why Wall Street's favorite formulas fail, why 'Mr. Market' should never set your mood, and why margin of safety — not forecasting — is what actually protects your money.
by Eckhart Tolle · 1997
A guide to spiritual enlightenment built around one idea: almost all human suffering comes from living in your head instead of in the only moment that actually exists.