The Best Personal Finance Audiobooks

Ranked

The best personal finance audiobooks, ranked

Personal finance is a handful of durable truths dressed up a hundred different ways, and on audio the dressing matters less than the voice reading them out. We ranked these by how soon you can act on the advice rather than by our own score, so a book that changes what you do this month outranks one that only matters once you have a surplus to invest. six titles, each read in full and scored before it got here, with the narrator and the running time on every entry.

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   I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. Just a 6-Week Program That Works (Second Edition)

   Narrated by Ramit Sethi, 12 hr 8 min

   Ramit Sethi narrating his own book is the whole appeal: blunt, funny, a little cocky, and every jab at guilt-based budgeting lands on his timing rather than a stranger's reading of it. The six-week structure survives audio because you take a chapter a week on the commute instead of bingeing the lot. 12 hr 8 min, and of everything on this shelf it is the one you can act on by Friday.

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   Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Fully Revised and Updated for 2018

   Narrated by Vicki Robin, 11 hr 21 min

   Vicki Robin reads her own philosophy and it lands closer to coaching than lecturing, especially the central move of pricing a purchase in hours of your life rather than dollars. Listening on a commute puts that exercise to work in real time, since the commute is one of the hours in question. 11 hr 21 min for nine steps that change how you think about a purchase well before they change what you buy.

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   The Millionaire Next Door

   Narrated by Cotter Smith, 8 hr 16 min

   Cotter Smith reads the survey data flatly, like results rather than a system being sold, which suits a book whose finding is that the real millionaires are the unflashy neighbors. The accumulation of evidence is the argument, so 8 hr 16 min straight through beats skimming for highlights. What it hands you is a picture of what wealth actually looks like rather than a program to run, so it earns its place on evidence rather than on anything you can do tomorrow.

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   Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

   Narrated by Tom Parks, 8 hr 22 min

   Tom Parks finds a relaxed, slightly wry register that keeps Kiyosaki's two-father parable from turning into a lecture, and the ideas are simple enough to absorb while you do something else. That is the honest case for it: 8 hr 22 min of reframing and very little you can execute on Monday. Our 4.7 score is among the highest here, but the ranking is about what you can use.

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   The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing

   Narrated by Luke Daniels, 17 hr 48 min

   Luke Daniels never rushes the parts Graham means you to sit with, which is the right call for a book about temperament as much as arithmetic. 17 hr 48 min makes it the longest listen here and the one you come back to whenever the market gets loud. It does nothing for you until you have a surplus to invest, and becomes the first thing you reach for the moment you do.

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   Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom

   Narrated by Tim Wheeler, 8 hr 48 min

   The book is built around one diagram and an audiobook cannot show it to you. Tim Wheeler handles that by naming and renaming the four columns, employee, self-employed, business owner, investor, until they sit in your head without a page in front of you. 8 hr 48 min is short enough to run twice, which is how it expects to be used. Our 4.9 is the highest score on this shelf; what holds it back here is that the format fights the content.