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Three Great Books to Give Away This Season

By JLP | December 11, 2009

Here are three newly-published books that would make great gifts:

Common Sense On Mutual Funds
Common Sense on Mutual Funds – Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition
by John Bogle

I have been (slowly) reviewing this book chapter-by-chapter because it’s almost like a textbook for common sense investing. John Bogle is a great guy and is definitely on the side of the investor. This book—despite its size—is easy-to-read and interesting. It would be great for both a young person with limited understanding of personal finance and an older person who needs a kick in the pants to get started.

Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning
The Bogleheads’ Guide to Retirement Planning

This book is a follow-up to The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing. For those of you not familiar with the Bogleheads, they are a group of John Bogle “disciples.” They have their own forum (Bogleheads.org where they share ideas as well as offer advice and help to all who ask for it. I’m a member of the group but haven’t been active due to time restraints. I’m going to try to spend more time over there this next year.

What’s different about this book is that it is a group effort with each chapter written by a different author. What’s also kind of cool is all royalties from this book are donated The National Constitution Center. This book would be great for anyone with retirement in their future as well as those who are already retired.

The Little Book of Safe Money
The Little of Book of Safe Money
by Jason Zweig

This is the latest book in the ever-expanding “Little Books, Big Profits” series from Wiley. The cool thing about this book is that it’s small and can be read in one sitting. It’s also written by Jason Zweig, who seems to be everywhere these days. I’ll be talking more about this book in the near future.

There you have it. My short list of great books for giving away this season.

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Topics: Books | 3 Comments »


3 Responses to “Three Great Books to Give Away This Season”

  1. Greg Says:
    December 11th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    Another good choice would be The Investor’s Manifesto by William Bernstein.

  2. Nick Says:
    December 11th, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    …these are likely books worth reading, but you should disclose that you have a financial interest here in selling these books thru Amazon.

  3. JLP Says:
    December 11th, 2009 at 4:20 pm

    Thanks, Nick.

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