10 Fruitful Books About Money Management and Building Wealth 

We all worry about money from time to time. Using strategies from her popular Financial Stress Reduction workshops, personal finance guru Chellie Campbell has created a “delightful, thought-provoking book” (Janet Bray, author of The Passion Test).  

Aimed particularly at women, she offers advice on how to not only achieve financial freedom but also build confidence and lead a more fulfilling life. "This isn’t just a book about money,” writes relationship coach Jeanne Michele, PhD, “it is a book about how to confidently walk in the world doing what you love without sacrificing who you are.”

Named one of the “Top 10 Books to Make You Rich” by Daily Worth, this book by certified financial planner Cary Carbonaro is broken down into the various stages of life, from the Roaring Twenties to the Smooth Sixties, with advice throughout on how to make the most of your money. “

Cary does an incredibly smart job of making you understand money instead of fearing it,” writes TV anchor and host Tamsen Fadel, while financial news correspondent Erika Miller hails The Money Queen’s Guide as “the jewel in the crown of financial planning guides for women.” Read it yourself to find out why!

Most financial guides provide tools and formulas to help you get more out of your money. Enter bestselling author and contributor to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Alan Cohen, who instead delivers his prosperity principles through 52 stories of financially successful people he has met, from entrepreneurs and celebrities to children and a stripper. 

Through these unforgettable anecdotes, he imparts wisdom about money, how we define success, and the importance of being yourself, all with the intention of teaching readers “how to get more by doing less.”

These days, it seems like we work harder than ever, yet it gets harder and harder to stretch a buck. What’s the solution? 

That’s the question that CNBC correspondent Sharon Epperson tries to answer in this “smashing read” that outlines 8 steps that any couple can follow to help make the most of their money and “live richly ever after (James J. Cramer, host of Mad Money).” 

Like almost anything else in a relationship, it starts with communication and extends to options for saving money, creating emergency accounts, planning for retirement, investing in a home, and much more.

Today, Madeline Pendleton is a TikTok superstar with nearly two million followers who can’t get enough of her practical advice on how to make ends meet and get ahead in a system that often feels rigged against you. But that wasn’t always the case. 

In this “witty and profound commentary on navigating the harsh terrain of poverty, inequality, class, and an oftentimes unforgiving, unfair financial system," Pendleton writes about growing up poor and intermittently homeless. 

Through it all, she found a way to start her own successful business with “punk optimism, cinematic storytelling, and a moral center undeterred by what ‘everyone else does’” (Paco de Leon, author of Finance for the People; Gabe Dunn, author of Bad with Money).

“It's not about the money” is the surprising message of this “magnificent book” from top financial adviser Brent Kessel, which will “show you how to align your financial decisions with your heart and soul” (bestselling author Ken Blanchard). 

Instead, Kessel teaches readers how to explore their relationship with money and identify their own “money type” in order to align their financial goals with their own inner lives and tell their “financial story” through examples and exercises that are “clear, kind, helpful, and empowering” (Vicki Robin, coauthor of Your Money or Your Life).

“Olszewski seeks to first inspire before she walks you down the path to prosperity,” raves the Washington Post about this volume that expounds upon the lessons that helped its author go from strapped-for-cash beginnings to a multimillion-dollar business by the age of thirty.

The result is a book that is “not only inspirational,” but also “a practical, indispensable guide for any woman looking to change her finances—and her life” (David Bach, author of Smart Women Finish Rich and The Automatic Millionaire). Read it, live it, and learn how to live the life of your dreams.

Do you really need a financial advisor? How do you pick the right one? And how do you know that they really have your best interests at heart?

“This book is mandatory reading for anyone who wants a better understanding of how to manage their money," with or without a financial advisor (InvestmentNews). 

From explaining the jargon of the financial system to red flags to look out for when picking a potential financial advisor, this “accessible and practical” guide offers a range of “valuable tools for managing one’s personal finances for maximum results” (Publishers Weekly).

Sure, all this talk about how to manage your money and build wealth is great, but what about those of us who are still suffocating in debt? That’s where this “charming and authentic” book comes in (Better Investing). 

A young photographer struggling with debt, Anna Newell Jones made headlines with her “spending fast,” which she chronicled on the website AndThenWeSaved.com, leading to interviews with Forbes, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, and more. 

Now, she brings the lessons she learned to this book, making it a perfect gift for college grads and those just starting out—or anyone who has more debt than they would like and less money than they need.

Does financial security seem hard to imagine and even harder to achieve? Enter financial educator Brooke M. Stephens, who led USA Today to exclaim, “move over Suze Orman!” This book takes a day-by-day approach to financial growth, showing how small changes can make a big difference over the course of just a year of your life. 

With wisdom, advice, and daily challenges and affirmations that will help you break out of debt, control your spending, choose investments, prepare for the future, and change your attitude and your relationship to money for life.