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Books like The Index Card

The Index Card by Helaine Olen is about personal finance, simplicity, investing. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Psychology of Money
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    The Psychology of Money

    Morgan Housel · Economics

    The Psychology of Money is Morgan Housel's argument that financial success depends less on technical knowledge than on behavior — specifically, on understanding how your personal history, emotions, and cognitive biases shape every financial decision you make.

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  2. A Random Walk Down Wall Street
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    A Random Walk Down Wall Street

    Burton G. Malkiel · Economics

    A Random Walk Down Wall Street is Burton Malkiel's argument that stock prices move in a way that is effectively unpredictable, that professional fund managers cannot consistently beat the market, and that the rational response for most investors is to buy and hold a diversified index fund.

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  3. The Total Money Makeover
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    The Total Money Makeover

    Dave Ramsey · Self-help

    The Total Money Makeover is Dave Ramsey's step-by-step program for eliminating debt and building wealth, structured around seven sequential "baby steps." Ramsey is a Christian personal finance personality who built his following through a syndicated radio show, and the book reflects his background: the approach is moral as well as financial, framing debt as slavery and personal financial responsibility as a form of integrity.

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  4. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
    The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

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    The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

    John C. Bogle · Economics

    The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is John Bogle's concise case for why buying the entire stock market through a low-cost index fund is the most rational investment strategy available to most people.

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  5. Your Money or Your Life
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    Your Money or Your Life

    Vicki Robin · Self-help

    Your Money or Your Life is Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez's argument that money is something we trade our life energy for, and that most people in modern consumer society have made that trade without ever stopping to examine the terms.

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  6. 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
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    100 to 1 in the Stock Market

    Thomas Phelps · Economics

    100 to 1 in the Stock Market, published in 1972 by Thomas Phelps, is a study of the conditions under which stocks return one hundred times an investor's original investment — and an argument that such stocks are more common and more identifiable in advance than most investors believe.

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