In 2026, read four money books

According to the BFIA team, these are the best money books you should read in 2026 and beyond

As 2026 approaches, there's no better time to take charge of your money, understand how investing works, and position yourself for a prosperous year.

With so many finance books available, how do you decide which ones to put on your reading list? Books can be very helpful in helping you accumulate wealth and manage your money more skillfully.

The BFIA team has carefully chosen a number of books that we believe you should read to assist you in making your decision; there is something for everyone.

These are 2026's top financial books.

In a different guide, we examine where to invest and the major money dates for the upcoming year.

Four books of money for 2026.

The Art of Spending It is a book.

Writer: Morgan Housel.

Suggested by: Digital editor Terry Tanaka.

Morgan Housel, the author of The Psychology of Money, another one of my favorite books, does a fantastic job of helping you understand how you relate to money, which will help you better manage your finances.

If you want to learn more about your spending patterns, the things that might cause you to overspend, or the reasons why you might be using your money improperly, this is a great book to read. This is a book that everyone should read.

The book is titled "Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe."

Gillian Tett wrote this.

Suggested by senior writer Terry Tanaka.

My all-time favorite financial book. It was one of our suggestions two years ago, but if you haven't read it yet, now is the perfect moment.

The author, the talented Gillian Tett of the Financial Times, uses an anthropological and ethnographic approach to examine the derivatives traders responsible for the 2008 financial crisis. She is able to recognize the prejudices and groupthink that ultimately caused the crash as a result.

When I ask fund managers if we are in an AI bubble, one of the most common answers I get is something like, "Big tech CEOs wouldn't be spending so much on AI infrastructure if they didn't think it would generate a return." That kind of argument is completely refuted by books like Fools Gold, which show that actions that cause a bubble always seem reasonable to those who engage in them.

The Compounders: From Small Acquisitions to Giant Shareholder Returns is a book.

The authors are Adnan Hadziefendic, Kjetil Nyland, and Oddbjorn Dybvad.

Recommended by: Shares editor Terry Tanaka.

Conglomerates are perceived as a monument to empire-building and management conceit, and research indicates that they typically perform worse than more efficient businesses. But Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has demonstrated that they can function as holding companies. The Compounders From Small Acquisitions to Giant Shareholder Returns by Oddbjorn Dybvad, Kjetil Nyland, and Adnan Hadziefendic is one book that may be able to assist you in identifying the next Berkshire. This book examines nine additional businesses that have effectively employed a Buffett-style approach, generating substantial profits for their investors.

Every company that has been profiled has chosen a slightly different route. Nonetheless, the writers do an excellent job of highlighting their similarities. These include a decentralized corporate structure, strict discipline when expanding their holdings, and a ruthlessness in making sure that the cash flows produced by their empires' various divisions were reinvested as efficiently as possible. The book offers some crucial insights that will increase your chances of identifying the next Berkshire Hathaway rather than the next THG, even though there is no assurance that their track record will continue.

Growth: A reckoning is the title of the book.

Daniel Susskind wrote this.

Recommended by: Author Daniel Hilton.

It is astonishing how little people understand about the nature of economic growth, despite the government's constant discussion of it. Fortunately, this fantastic little book can make that right.

Susskind traces the history of growth and human attempts to quantify it, outlining the various interpretations, misinterpretations, formalizations, and applications of this ill-defined concept.

The book is brief and easy to read in an evening or two, but it will give you a fresh understanding of how innovative the idea of growth is and make you wonder if it is still relevant in today's world.