21 summaries and growing.
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.
by Ramit Sethi · 2019
A no-guilt personal finance system for your 20s and 30s: automate savings and investing, spend extravagantly on what you love, and cut mercilessly on everything else.
by Mark Manson · 2016
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.
by Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko · 1996
The landmark research study that revealed a shocking truth: most American millionaires are ordinary people who live in ordinary houses, drive ordinary cars, and quietly build extraordinary wealth by living well below their means.
by Timothy Ferriss · 2007
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.
by Carol S. Dweck · 2006
A Stanford psychologist's landmark discovery: the belief you hold about your own abilities — fixed or growable — shapes every aspect of your life, and you can change it.
by Dave Ramsey · 2003
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.
by Dale Carnegie · 1936
The all-time bestseller on human relations: 30 timeless principles for making people like you, winning them to your way of thinking, and changing behavior without resentment—all without manipulation.
by George S. Clason · 1926
Ancient Babylonian parables reveal the timeless rules of personal finance: seven cures for an empty wallet, five laws of gold, and the one habit that separates the wealthy from everyone else.
by Paulo Coelho · 1988
A shepherd boy's journey from Spain to Egypt becomes a meditation on destiny, courage, and the universal language that connects all things—and the revelation that treasure was always closer than he imagined.
by Stephen R. Covey · 1989
The classic framework for personal and professional effectiveness — 7 habits that move you from dependence to independence to interdependence, built on character rather than personality.
by Napoleon Hill · 1937
The classic self-help book that spent over 25 years studying the habits of 500 of history's most successful people — distilling their secrets into 13 proven principles for achieving wealth and success.
by Robert T. Kiyosaki · 1997
What the rich teach their kids about money that the poor and middle class do not — the financial education the school system never provided.
by Cal Newport · 2016
Rules for focused success in a distracted world — why the ability to perform deep, concentrated work is the superpower of the 21st century, and how to cultivate it.
by Morgan Housel · 2020
Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness — exploring why smart people make irrational financial decisions and how behavior matters more than knowledge.
by James Clear · 2018
The definitive guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones through tiny 1% improvements that compound into extraordinary results.