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Books to Read:

Real Estate:

- How I Turned $1,000 into Five Million in Real Estate in My Spare Time by William Nickerson

- How to Make a Fortune Today Starting From Scratch by William Nickerson

- Landlording by Leigh Robinson

- What’s a Landlord to Do? by Leigh Robinson

- Streetwise Investing in Rental Housing by H. Roger Neal

- Missed Fortune 101 by Douglas R. Andrew

Stock:

- Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham

- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher

- The Theory of Investment Value by John Burr Williams

Biographies:

- The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie

- Made in America by Sam Walton

- Grinding it Out: The Making of McDonald’s by Ray Kroc

- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroder

- Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson

- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Others:

- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

- The Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki

- Guide to Investing by Robert Kiyosaki

- The E-Myth Revisitied by Michael Gerber

- Law of Success by Napoleon Hill

- The Greatest Salesman in the World: Part 1 by Og Mandino

- The Greatest Salesman in the World: Part 2 by Og Mandino

- The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason

- The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki

- Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar

- See You at the Top by Zig Ziglar

- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey

- Any college textbook on accounting or finance

These books are good starting points. If you know absolutely nothing about money or getting rich, start with books in the Others and Biographies categories. These do not give any technical information of any kind, and many who know more about the ways of money might criticize some of these books. Oh, well. I started with Rich Dad, Poor Dad and have moved way beyond it, but I still accredit it as the book that got me started.