Mr. Money Mustache's Book Recommendations

"I immediately checked out of the library and read completely."

"Read any book by [this author], the founder of Vangard."

"Sums up my decision making process whenever anything is unknown. The basic idea is: understand how fun and useful probabilities and statistics are."

"A meat’n’potatoes summary of what everyone should do to make the biggest improvements in fitness and strength in minimal time."

"A really, really old fashioned book if someone just wants to wake themselves up and start turning into more of a positive, less depressed person."

"Has allowed me to gain or maintain muscle with only two short workouts per week."

"On decision making."

"After reading this you will know how to work out properly, as well as having a nice lifelong motivation to do so."

"Spectacularly opened up my mind."

"Mr. Money Mustache recommended this book on his blog."

"Read any book by [this author], the founder of Vangard."

"[An] 800-page description of the financial crisis and I found it pretty captivating."

"Teaches everything you really need to be a successful lifetime investor, yet it’s ridiculously simple."

"This book’s claim to fame is that it uses absolutely no graphs or numbers when explaining economics. It’s also moderately funny at times."

"If I had to sum up Early Retirement Extreme by inventing my own title for it, I would call it, 'The entirety of human civilization and thought, expressed as a series of equations and graphs.'"

"The main thing it will do is give you reassurance that I am not actually making this shit up. I’m following a very time-honored formula for making you rich."

"It argues compellingly that everything is not only going to be OK in the future, it is surely going to be Fucking Great. That much, I agree with."

"Significant because it was written by an ultra-rich investment manager."

"If you just get whatever the latest edition of that book is, it really teaches you a philosophy that’s pretty similar to mine."

"A very well-written book on economics."

"Finalized my desire to give away most of the money I earn over my lifetime to help eliminate third world poverty."

"A great explanation of why index investing rules, written by a very wise professor/investor guy who has personally researched and debunked most of the common 'wisdom' that exists about stock trading today."

"A historical perspective on how the use of debt has changed over the centuries and decades, most recently becoming a fast-moving tradable commodity."

"A nice financial and political trot around the globe that explains the changes going on in the world as countries like China, Brazil and India collectively become larger economies than the US/Europe/Japan."

"The complete story of Warren Buffett’s life. (He’s old, so there are over 700 pages)."

"The latest Giant Warren Buffett book. Rather than a story of his life, this one is more a collection of Fortune magazine stories about him and things he has written."

"An explanation of evolution since the beginning of life that explains things from the perspective of individual genes."

"Mrs. M. enjoyed the way a similar body of knowledge was presented in this book. It’s all about tailoring the message to the audience."

"Mr. Money Mustache recommended this book on his blog."

"Read any book by [this author], the founder of Vangard."

"Read any book by [this author], the founder of Vangard."

"Really a lesson on value investing fundamentals; how to understand if a company actually is a good deal to buy."

"I’ve actually got a huge, huge list of documentaries that I’ve been meaning to watch, many of them collected from the guests in Tools of Titans."

"Explains that with very little effort, you can drastically reduce the volatility of your investments, even while maintaining the same level of overall returns."

"A well written history of the stock market dating back to the 1800s."

"Read any book by [this author], the founder of Vangard."

"Read any book by [this author], the founder of Vangard."

"Read any book by [this author], the founder of Vangard."

"An explanation of what caused the US financial and housing sector crash in 2008."

"The idea of Plenitude is that we can all end up happier and with more free time, while maintaining a fully functioning and efficient economy."

"For aspiring writers and bloggers."

"Read any book by [this author], the founder of Vangard."

"Read any book by [this author], the founder of Vangard."

"Read any book by [this author], the founder of Vangard."

"Is I Will Teach You To Be Rich still worth reading? Yes – especially if you are a financial beginner."

"I’m a big fan [of this book]."