Summer Reading List

Summer Reading List

June 24, 2026

On the June 25, 2026 episode of Your Money with David Hays, Doug Hughes and Jim Inman shared a number of books to add to your summer reading list.  

Here are some suggestions!

For Kids 

  • Investing for Kids
  • Why Does Money Matter?
  • Dollars & Sense: A Kid's Guide to Using - Not Losing - Money
  • What Is Money? 

For Teens and Young Adults – check online reviews to determine if age-appropriate 

  • The Simple Plan to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and Rich, Free Life – J. L. Collins
  • I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. Just a 6-Week Program That Works (Second Edition) - Ramit Sethi
  • Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties - Beth Kobliner
  • How to Money: Your Ultimate Visual Guide to the Basics of Finance - Jean Chatzky and Kathryn Tuggle 

For Adults

  • 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – and How It Shattered a Nation – Andrew Ross Rorskin
  • Doug Hughes review - Lots of good historic insights, characters and insights into the investment activities of people such as Winston Churchill
  • The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life – Morgan Housel
  • Women with Money – The Judgement-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve - Jean Chatzky
  • How to Adult: Personal Finance for the Real World – Jake Cousineau

Tried and True Books

  • Don’t Retire, Rewire – Jeri Sedlar and Ric Miners (3rd Edition)
  • Dave Ramsey’s books – content for all ages and interests
  • Are You a Stock or Are You a Bond? - Moshe Milevsky – Great for business owner
  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
  • Millionaire Next Door – Thomas Stanley, PhD and William Danko, PhD
  • Start Late, Finish Rich – David Bach
  • The Richest Man in Babylon – George S. Clason
  • The Power of Zero: How to Get to the 0% Tax Bracket & Transform Your Retirement – David McKnight (Ed Slott, Foreword)