The Official "Your Money Or Your Life" Reading List

Readers, this reading list contains two sections. Part 1 contains a two-part list of what I consider required reading for anyone interested in becoming a more knowledgeable investor. (And if you closely read every investing book below, you'll be better educated than the majority of investment professionals on Wall Street. Don't think for a minute that I'm joking.)

Part 2 is a bonus reading list based on the philosophies of Your Money or Your Life. It's for readers seeking additional ideas and strategies for living a simpler, happier and less consumerist life.

PART 1: Recommended investing books:

The Investor's Manifesto by William J. Bernstein
Common Sense on Mutual Funds by Jack Bogle
Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy Siegel
One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch
Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World by Jim Cramer
Getting Back to Even by Jim Cramer
What Wall Street Doesn't Want You to Know by Larry E. Swedroe

For intermediate/advanced investors:

The Essays of Warren Buffett (free, public domain PDF)
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham


PART 2: Executing the strategies of YMOYL:

Radical Simplicity by Jim Merkel
The Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn
The True Cost of Happiness by Stacy Tisdale and Paula Boyer Kennedy
Getting a Life: Strategies for Simple Living Based on "Your Money or Your Life" by Jacqueline Blix and David Heitmiller

Anti-consumerism and simple living:

Simple Living: One Couple's Search for a Better Life by Wanda Urbanska
Work Less, Live More: The Way to Semi-Retirement by Bob Clyatt
Affluenza by John DeGraaf and Thomas Naylor
Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin
The Overspent American by Juliet Schor
Living Simply with Children by Marie Sherlock

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Next Week: YMOYL: The Ultimate, Final Review


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