Finance 8 min read
The Simple Path to Wealth
by JL Collins · 2016
4.7
A finance blogger's letters to his teenage daughter, built into a case for owning the whole stock market through one low-cost index fund.
All Summaries
21 summaries and growing.
Personal Development 8 min read
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl · 1946
4.7
A Viennese psychiatrist survives three years across four Nazi camps and emerges with a theory: the primary human drive is meaning, not pleasure or power.
Finance 8 min read
Your Money or Your Life
by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez · 1992
4.5
A nine-step program built on one reframe: money is life energy, the hours you trade to earn it — and that changes how you see every purchase.
Personal Development 6 min read
The Four Agreements
by don Miguel Ruiz · 1997
4.7
A Toltec master's four-part framework for personal freedom — impeccable words, not taking things personally, and dropping assumptions you never chose.
Finance 8 min read
The Intelligent Investor
by Benjamin Graham · 1949
4.7
The foundational text of value investing: why Wall Street's formulas fail, and why margin of safety — not forecasting — protects your money.
Personal Development 7 min read
The Power of Now
by Eckhart Tolle · 1997
4.7
A guide to spiritual enlightenment built around one idea: almost all suffering comes from living in your head instead of the only moment that exists.
Finance 8 min read
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
by Ramit Sethi · 2019
4.6
A no-guilt personal finance system for your 20s and 30s: automate savings and investing, spend on what you love, and cut everything else.
Personal Development 7 min read
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
by Mark Manson · 2016
4.5
A counterintuitive guide to living well — not by finding more things to care about, but by choosing fewer, better things to give a f*ck about.
Finance 8 min read
The Millionaire Next Door
by Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko · 1996
4.6
The landmark study revealing that most American millionaires are ordinary people who live in ordinary houses and build wealth below their means.
Personal Development 9 min read
The 4-Hour Workweek
by Timothy Ferriss · 2007
4.5
The cult manifesto for lifestyle design: how to escape the 9-5, automate your income, live anywhere in the world, and stop deferring life until retirement.
Personal Development 8 min read
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck · 2006
4.6
A Stanford psychologist's discovery: the belief you hold about your abilities — fixed or growable — shapes your life, and you can change it.
Finance 8 min read
The Total Money Makeover
by Dave Ramsey · 2003
4.7
A no-nonsense, step-by-step plan to get out of debt, build an emergency fund, and create lasting wealth — based on behavior change, not financial theory.
Personal Development 7 min read
How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie · 1936
4.7
The all-time bestseller on human relations: 30 timeless principles for making people like you and changing behavior without resentment or manipulation.
Finance 6 min read
The Richest Man in Babylon
by George S. Clason · 1926
4.8
Ancient Babylonian parables reveal timeless rules of personal finance: seven cures for an empty wallet, five laws of gold, and the habit of the wealthy.
Personal Development 7 min read
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho · 1988
4.6
A shepherd boy's journey from Spain to Egypt becomes a meditation on destiny, courage, and the universal language connecting all things.
Personal Development 8 min read
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey · 1989
4.8
The classic framework for personal and professional effectiveness — 7 habits that build character and move you toward true interdependence.
Finance 7 min read
Think and Grow Rich
by Napoleon Hill · 1937
4.8
The classic that spent 25 years studying 500 of history's most successful people, distilling their secrets into 13 principles for success.
Finance 6 min read
Rich Dad Poor Dad
by Robert T. Kiyosaki · 1997
4.7
What the rich teach their kids about money that the poor and middle class do not — the financial education the school system never provided.
Personal Development 7 min read
Deep Work
by Cal Newport · 2016
4.7
Rules for focused success in a distracted world — why deep, concentrated work is the superpower of the 21st century, and how to cultivate it.
Finance 7 min read
The Psychology of Money
by Morgan Housel · 2020
4.8
Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness — exploring why smart people make irrational financial decisions and how behavior matters more than knowledge.
Personal Development 6 min read
Atomic Habits
by James Clear · 2018
4.9
The definitive guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones through tiny 1% improvements that compound into extraordinary results.