While you can’t read your way out of brokeness, learning the basics of financial literacy can better help you manage money and plan for costly future goals.
Check out this list of five financial literacy books this Financial Literacy Month — from personal finance advice for young people to rules on landing a romantic partner with money.
Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
Tori Dunlap, a money expert influencer, believes in fighting the patriarchy and getting rich, leading her to write a New York Times bestseller, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love.
Throughout Financial Feminist, Dunlap examines how common spending advice is misogynistic and shaming. The book also looks at why, statistically, women are better investors than men even though men invest more than women and the impact of the wage gap on women.
Mind Your Money
Mind Your Money explores everything from money taboos to building generational wealth with a data-driven strategy. Like most Americans, author and financial literacy educator Yanely Espinal didn’t receive education on money while growing up. That inspired her to write a book that provides everything to know about managing your money.
Throughout the book, Espinal strikes the balance between personal finance advice and the money lessons she’s been taught in her culture as a Dominican-American daughter of immigrants.
Sprinkle Sprinkle: How To Date a Provider and Avoid a Dusty
Financial literacy with a sprinkle of dating advice is how Shera Seven, a viral TikTok and YouTube influencer, meets women where they are with rules and lessons for landing a man with money in her book, Sprinkle Sprinkle: How To Date a Provider and Avoid a Dusty.
Across social media, Seven’s followers will ask questions like, “What do you say when a guy asks, ‘what do you bring to the table?’” Throughout her book, she answers similar questions with personality and humor: “Nothing, I’m not no waitress. And if I was, I’m putting extra food on the bill so you can give me extra.” Not only does she break down how to date a provider, but also why you are the prize and deserve someone to financially support you.
How to Adult: Personal Finance for the Real World
Young people, from high school graduates to college students, need a book like How to Adult: Personal Finance for the Real World to prepare them for adulthood. Jake Cousineau, an educator and author, wrote his personal finance guide as his mission to help young people adult.
This financial realities guide offers young people a foundational concept of personal finance, shows them how to budget, the importance of their taxes and how to prepare for life’s big expenses.
Get Your Money Right: Understanding your money and making it work for you
Emmanuel Asuquo, a TV financial adviser and author, uses his book to break down complicated financial concepts into easy-to-understand money advice.
In Asuquo’s book, Get Your Money Right: Understanding your money and making it work for you, he dives into ways for people to earn more, spend less, build wealth and how to pass on generational wealth. By breaking down the importance of side gigs and extra streams of income, Asuquo teaches this growing generation of side gig workers the ins and outs of managing their part-time hustle and their money.