September Reading List

These Books Might Change Your Finances

• Get Good with Money - Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche

• The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less - Christine Platt

• We Should All be Millionaires - Rachel Rodgers

• Women with Money - Jean Chatzky

• Financial Feminist - Tori Dunlap

• Pound Foolish - Helaine Olen

• The Year of Less - Cait Flanders

Lists available on Amazon or Bookshop.

This month’s reading list is all about your finances. As usual, there are many many books I could have put on this list, but the point of the list is to give you somewhere to start, not to be an exhaustive catalog of books. Speaking of starting, Get Good with Money is the perfect place to get started on your journey to getting your money together. The Budgetnista gives us ten steps to financial wholeness, at the end of which you have the foundation of a healthy financial life.

If you’re a woman, chances are the only advice you’ve received is to shop less, and save more. Financial Feminist and Women with money both go beyond this advice to talk about the unique challenges that women might face when it comes to money, including an unarticulated fear of having it.

There are also some books here about the life you live with the money you have. In We Should All Be Millionaires, Rachel Rodgers talks about figuring out how much the life you want to live would cost, and designing a life to match that desire. On the other hand, maybe your best life means having less. In that case, the Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less, and the Year of Less are a good place to start, with helping you examine what your priorities really are in terms of how you spend your money and accumulate (or get rid of) things.

In Pound Foolish, Helaine Olen reminds us to approach all advice from financial gurus with caution, and I’m passing that caution on to you. All advice is not advice for you, and you should be wary of anyone trying to give blanket advice to you.