Reading List: 21 Books to Invest Simply as a Kiwi

Start with this free, 16 page PDF called If You Can: How Anyone Can Get Rich Slowly

If you’re going to read only one book, make it The Simple Path to Wealth – J.L. Collins

Absolute Beginners to money and Paying off Debt

  • Total Money Makeover – Dave Ramsey
  • I Will Teach You To Be Rich – Ramit Sethi
  • The Simple Path to Wealth – J.L. Collins
  • Money for Couples – Ramit Sethi
  • The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel

Investing Philosophy

Advanced and after you become financially independent

  • Die with Zero – Bill Perkins
  • Strangers in Paradise – James Grubman

If you want to understand the history of oil and the broader history of the 20th century:

  • The Prize – Daniel Yergin

Where Humanity Came from and Where We are Going (Should be Read Together)

  • Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
  • The Beginning of Infinity – David Deutsch
  • The Fabric of Reality – David Deutsch

How to succeed in life and business:

  • How to Get Rich: One of the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets – Felix Dennis
  • The Almanac of Naval Ravikant
  • Anything you Want – Derek Sivers

What to do after you succeed in life and business:

  • From Strength To Strength – Arthur C. Brooks
  • The Second Mountain – David Brooks
  • The Comfort Crisis – Michael Easter
  • 4,000 Weeks – Oliver Burkeman