Fiscal Femme Non-Fiction Book Recommendations

To say I’ve been reading a lot of nonfiction lately would be an understatement. If I’m interviewing someone for the book, and they’ve written their own book, you better believe I’m going to read it (or at least skim it). Reading personal finance and money-related books has been a strategy I’ve used since the very beginning of my money journey. 

One of the reasons books help me cut through all the extra info and noise is because a book is a finite number of pages. It’s different from a TV show that can air every day or even a blog that can have endless articles. A book is a compilation of what a certain expert thinks I need to know on a topic - and that’s incredibly valuable. I’ve compiled a list of your favorite books related to money and personal finance, and I’ve included my own as well!

Ashley's Recs (in alpha order)

• Broke Millennial Takes On Investing: A Beginner's Guide to Leveling Up Your Money, by Erin Lowry

• Broke Millennial Talks Money: Scripts, Stories, and Advice to Navigate Awkward Financial Conversations, by Erin Lowry

• Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping by and Get Your Financial Life Together, by Erin Lowry

• Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance, by Edgar Villanueva

• Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole, by Tiffany the Budgetnista Aliche

• How to Skimm Your Life

• I Will Teach You to Be Rich, by Ramit Sethi

• Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities, by Andre M. Perry

• Ladies Get Paid: Breaking Barriers, Owning Your Worth, and Taking Command of Your Career, by Claire Wasserman

• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, by Mehrsa Baradaran

• The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment, by Linda Scott

• Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change, by Tanja Hester (Coming Soon!)

Fiscal Femme Community Recs (in Alpha Order)

• All of the Robert Caro books about LBJ

• Any book by Brene Brown

• Eve Ensler's Poems

• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling

• How to Be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran

• Peace Pilgrim

• Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself, by Nedra Glover Tawwab

• Terrible, Thanks for Asking, by Nora McInerny

• The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another, by Ainissa Ramirez

• The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer, by Nicholas Shaxson

• Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence, by Vicki Robin