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California Financial Literacy Month (CFLM)

Financial Literacy Reading

Please find the below reading list of financial literacy books/materials that are available for purchase and/or many from your your local library. Remember, if your local library doesn’t have the book you are looking for, you can borrow it from another library and pick it up and return it to your local library.

Visit the California Library Directory Web site

The information in the California Library Directory is drawn from annual reports submitted by California's academic, special, state agency and county law libraries. These pages offer library data sorted by city. You will need to enter the California city or county or zip code of the libraries you want to find. http://www.library.ca.gov/html/main.cfm

Financial Literacy Titles by Author

• Allen, C. W. - Incorporate and Grow Rich
• Allen, James - As a Man Thinketh
• Allen, Robert - Creating Wealth
• Babbitt, Dave & Kathy - Downscaling: Simplify and Enrich your Lifestyle
• Blanchard, Kenneth, Johnson, Spencer - The One Minute Manager (also available in audio format)
• Blue, Ron - Master Your Money: A Step by Step Plan for Financial Freedom
• Bodnar, Janet - Kiplinger's Money-Smart Kids (and Parents, Too)
• Bogosian, Wayne and Lee, Dee - Complete Idiots/401K
• Bolles, Richard Nelson - What Color is Your Parachute (also available in audio format)
• Bryant, John - Banking on Our Future
• ByDesign Financial Solutions -
  • Financial Firsts (young-adult focus (ages 16-22) - First Job, First Checking Account, First Car, First Credit Card, First Home-Away-From-Home
  • Identity Theft Resolution Guide
  • Personal Finance Management, 3rd. Ed. (English, Spanish)
• Claflin, Edward, Kitchheimer, Sid - Cut Your Spending in Half Without Settling for Less
• Cotton, Kathleen L. - Financial Planning for the Not Yet Wealthy
• Covey, Stephen - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (also available in audio format)
• Dacyczyn, Amy - The Tightwad Gazette
• Elder, Alexander - Trading for a Living
• Enns, Grey, and Black, Jan - It's Not Okay Anymore
• Estess, Patricia Schiff & Irving Barocas - Kids, Money and Values: Creative ways to teach your kids about money
• Gerber, Michael - E-Myth
• Gleick, James - Chaos Making a New Science
• Hagstrom, Robert - The Warren Buffet Way
• Hancock, Maxine - Living on Less and Liking it More: How to reduce your spending and increase your living
• Housing, and Urban Affairs United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking - The Importance of Financial Literacy Among College Students
• Jenks, Jim & Zevnik, Brian - Planning for a Financially Secure Retirement
• Johnson, Spencer - Who Moved My Cheese?
• Jump$tart Coalition Clearinghouse - To identify additional books and materials on financial literacy, please visit the online Jump$tart Coalition Clearinghouse
• Kiyosake, Robert T., Lechter, Sharon L. - Rich Dad, Poor Dad (also available in audio format)
• Kiyosake, Robert T., Lechter, Sharon L. - The Cashflow Quadrant (also available in audio format)
• Koblinger, Beth - Get a Financial Life (also available in audio format)
• Lee, Dee - Let's Talk Money
• Lewin, Elizabeth - Simple Ways to Help Your Kids Become Dollar Smart
• Lewis, Michael - The New New Thing (also available in audio format)
• Lynch, Peter - Beating the Street (also available in audio format)
• McCall, Karen - It's Your Money
• Mellan, Olivia - Finding Balance in Your Moneylife (audiocasette)
• Mellan, Olivia - In the Prime: Couples and Money with Olivia Mellan (videocassette)
• Mellan, Olivia - Money Harmony
• Mellan, Olivia - Money Psychology Tips for Financial Planners (audiocasette)
• Mellan, Olivia - Overcoming Overspending
• Mellan, Olivia - Women, Myth & Money: A Roadmap for Financial well-being
• Moe, Harold - Make your paycheck last: The Complete Step by Step Guide to Personal and Family Financial Success
• Monroe, Paula Ann - Left Brain Finance for Right Brain People
• Morris, Robert M., Siegel, Allan M. - The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing
• Mundis, Jerrold - How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt and Live Prosperously, & Earn What You Deserve
• Ormon, Suze - Nine Steps to Financial Freedom  (also available in audio format)
• Pifher, Johnathan - My First Finance Book
• Pilzer, Paul Zane - Unlimited Wealth
• Quinn, Jane Bryant - Making the Most of Your Money
• Renick, Sam X - It's a Habit, Sammy Rabbit! Will Sammy Ride the World's First Space Coaster? Music cd - "Get in the Habit!"
• Robbins, Anthony - Unlimited Power  (also available in audio format)
• Rogers, Jim - Investment Biker
• Schwab, Charles R. - You're Fifty--Now What? (also available in audio format)
• Schwager, Jack - Market Wizards
• Sheridan, Karen - A Woman's Path to Abundance
• Sheridan, Karen - Finding Your Way Out
• Sheridan, Karen - Never Take NO for an Answer
• Sheridan, Karen - Your Money's Worth
• Stanley, Thomas J. - The Millionaire Mind
• Stanley, Thomas J. - The Millionaire Next Door (also available in audio format)
• Stanny, Barbara - Prince Charming Isn't Coming
• Stephens, Brooke M. - Talking Dollars and Making Sense
• Trout, Jack - The New Positioning
• Trump, Donald - Trump: The Art of the Deal
• Yetunde, Pamela Ayo - Beyond 40 Acres
• Yetunde, Pamela Ayo - The Inheritance
• Ziglar, Zig - Over the Top (also available in audio format)

Please note: Although we have reviewed the materials for appropriateness for educational use, inclusion in this list does not constitute endorsement of any of the materials included in this list by the Department.