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Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your Attention

There are countless Financial Independence courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.

Contents
  1. The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life (2016)
  2. Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early): How Far Would You Go for Financial Freedom? (2019)
  3. Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Fully Revised and Updated for 2018 (2008)
  4. Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence (2019)
  5. The Fiology Workbook: Your Guide to Financial Independence (2019)
  6. The Military Guide to Financial Independence and Retirement (2011)
  7. Financial Independence in the 21st Century – Life Insurance * Utilize the Infinite Banking Concept * Complement Your 401K – Retirement Planning With … Peace by Dwayne Burnell (2012-06-01) (2012)
  8. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy (2010)
  9. Common Sense: A Simple Plan for Financial Independence (1989)
  10. Common Sense: A Simple Plan for Financial Independence (2013)
  11. The $500 Cup of Coffee: A Lifestyle Approach to Financial Independence Especially for Millennials and the People Who Love Them (2017)
  12. One Rental At A Time: The Journey to Financial Independence through Real Estate (2019)
  13. The Book on Rental Property Investing: How to Create Wealth and Passive Income Through Intelligent Buy & Hold Real Estate Investing! (2015)
  14. The Financial Planning Workbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Successful Financial Plan (2019 Edition) (2019)
  15. The Wealthy Gardener: Life Lessons on Prosperity between Father and Son (2018)

The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life (2016)

 Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your Attention“In the dark, bewildering, trap-infested jungle of misinformation and opaque riddles that is the world of investment, JL Collins is the fatherly wizard on the side of the path, offering a simple map, warm words of encouragement and the tools to forge your way through with confidence.
Author(s): J L Collins, Mr. Money Mustache

Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early): How Far Would You Go for Financial Freedom? (2019)

 Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your AttentionWhat if a happier life was only a few simple choices away? A successful entrepreneur living in Southern California, Scott Rieckens had built a “dream life”: a happy marriage, a two-year-old daughter, a membership to a boat club, and a BMW in the driveway. But underneath the surface, Scott was creatively stifled, depressed, and overworked trying to help pay for his family’s beach-town lifestyle.
Author(s): Scott Rieckens, Mr. Money Mustache

Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Fully Revised and Updated for 2018 (2008)

 Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your AttentionFor more than twenty-five years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered the go-to book for taking back your life by changing your relationship with money. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin’s guidance. This fully revised and updated edition with a foreword by “the Frugal Guru” (New Yorker) Mr.
Author(s): Vicki Robin , Joe Dominguez, et al.

Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence (2019)

 Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your AttentionA Blueprint for Financial IndependenceA common resolution set at the beginning of a new year is to “get my financial house in order.” But how can you build a house, let alone pour any kind of foundation, without a blueprint? There are dozens of books and gurus trying to push their advice and tell you how to spend and invest your money.
Author(s): Chris Mamula , Brad Barrett, et al.

The Fiology Workbook: Your Guide to Financial Independence (2019)

 Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your AttentionBuy One, Give One. For every Fiology workbook purchased, the author will give a workbook to promote Financial Independence education.Fiology is a free online resource for anyone looking to understand their finances, take action, and become Financially Independent. In addition to the mechanics of saving and investing, the course addresses the issues of happiness, mindset, decision-making, dreaming big, and philosophy, enhancing your Financial Independence journey.
Author(s): David Q Baughier, MK Williams

The Military Guide to Financial Independence and Retirement (2011)

 Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your AttentionThis book provides service members, veterans, and their families with a critical roadmap for becoming financially independent prior to committing themselves to full-time retirement. It outlines how retiring military personnel in their early 40s can become happily semi-retired. Emphasizing the importance of family, lifestyle, and bridge careers, the book shows how to build a sound financial house based upon military benefits, savings, frugal living, and investing in oneself.
Author(s): Nordman author of The Military Guide To Financial Independence And Retirement; founder of The-Military-Guide.com, Doug

Financial Independence in the 21st Century – Life Insurance * Utilize the Infinite Banking Concept * Complement Your 401K – Retirement Planning With … Peace by Dwayne Burnell (2012-06-01) (2012)

 Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your AttentionWe hear the same financial advice recycled time and time again: put your money in a 401(k), pay off your house and hope for the best. What if there is a better way to manage your money and your future other than hoping your money will grow in an unpredictable market? This book opens you to new financial possibilities. You can set yourself on a different financial path—one that enables you to reach a level of financial security, control and independence you might never have thought possible.
Author(s): Dwayne Burnell, Suzanne Burnell

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy (2010)

 Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your AttentionThe bestselling The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don’t live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door. This new edition, the first since 1998, includes a new foreword for the twenty-first century by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley.
Author(s): Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

Common Sense: A Simple Plan for Financial Independence (1989)

 Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your AttentionPaperback: 68 pages Publisher: Parklake Publishers; 7th edition (1989) Language: English ASIN: B0007206RS Package Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars 9 customer reviews Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,735,815 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #602660 in Business & Money (Books) Would you like to tell us about a lower price?
Author(s): Art Williams

Common Sense: A Simple Plan for Financial Independence (2013)

 Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your AttentionCommon Sense is one of the very first books to address family finances and how to save, invest and get ahead and achieve financial independence. Art did it and so did many of the members of his start up company that revolutionized the insurance industry for the better. Over 16 million copies sold!
Author(s): Mr Art L Williams

The $500 Cup of Coffee: A Lifestyle Approach to Financial Independence Especially for Millennials and the People Who Love Them (2017)

 Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your Attention“The $500 Cup of Coffee” helps balance present-day choices and future needs by asking, “why are you paying $500 for a cup of coffee?” If you’re a baby-boomer, like authors Steve Lome and Dave Kramer, you’re not. But if you’re 20 or 30-something years old, consistent investment of small amounts adds up over time. When you invest rather than ingest your coffee money, the future value of one week of gourmet coffee could easily exceed $500 thanks to the power of compound interest.
Author(s): Steven Lome, David Kramer

One Rental At A Time: The Journey to Financial Independence through Real Estate (2019)

 Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your AttentionHave you ever thought about real estate investing as a path to financial freedom?
Author(s): Michael Zuber

The Book on Rental Property Investing: How to Create Wealth and Passive Income Through Intelligent Buy & Hold Real Estate Investing! (2015)

 Best Financial Independence Books Worth Your AttentionIn The Book on Rental Property Investing, real estate investor and co-host of the BiggerPockets Podcast Brandon Turner has one goal in mind: to give you every strategy, tool, tip, and technique needed to become a millionaire rental property investor―while helping you avoid the junk that pulls down so many wannabes!Written for both new and experienced investors, this book will impart years of experience through the informative and entertaining