Mastering Money: Essential Reads in Finance and Business Books

Hey there readers! For today’s blog we have brought you a collection of finance and business books. 

These will help you:

1. Sort out your personal finances.
2. Find the right place to invest your hard earned income
3. Improve your business and 
4. Learn how the rich keep getting richer!

So, let’s get into it.

Best Finance and Business Book Released in 2024

These recent releases offer practical advice applicable in today’s world. Particularly, the finance books will help you learn wealth management, investment strategies, and how to spot market trends.

On the other hand, these business books uncover insights from economic theories, innovations, and entrepreneurial wisdom.

The 80-20 Money Makeover by Arun Kumar

In The 80-20 Money Makeover, popular blogger and financial expert Arun Kumar takes you on a money makeover journey. Kumar’s proven model, based on the Pareto principle, or the 80-20 rule, helps you focus on the critical few decisions (versus the trivial many) and achieve great results with minimum fuss.

These frameworks will help you with different financial decisions required at crucial junctures in life-such as planning your children’s education, buying a house or a car, or even quitting your job and launching that start-up you always dreamt of. 

Buy Now 

The Anthology of Balaji by Eric Jorgenson

In The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future, Eric Jorgenson curates a collection of Balaji’s wisdom from his entire career. 

In “Technology” you will see how technology shapes our world today and the ways it could shape our future. 

In “Truth” you learn how to think for yourself through the constant clamour of information and media. 

Finally, in “Building the Future,” you will learn how to wield Technology and Truth to change your life, change your community, and-maybe-change the future of our species.

This guide will help you pick the next great investment, start a billion-dollar company, or even a new country. The Anthology of Balaji helps you visualize and build your brightest future.

Buy Now 

Beyond Three Generations by Navas Meeran, MSA Kumar, Firoz Meeran & George Skaria

Various global studies over the decades have shown that only a handful of family businesses survive beyond the third generation, while more than 90 percent flounder. Why? What is the secret sauce that keeps these organizations going strong from one generation to the next? Can their models be successfully replicated by other family businesses? 

For the first time, two entrepreneurs, a family business consultant and a senior journalist-all experts in their fields-have teamed up to understand why only some family businesses survive beyond the third generation and how other businesses can follow the same blueprint for longevity. 

With a special focus on micro, small and medium enterprises, Beyond Three Generations studies twelve family-run enterprises across industries.

Buy Now 

The Scrapper’s Way by Damodar Padhi

So, you were not born with a silver spoon? You did not study in a ‘well-known’ school? You could not afford to go to a great college? You were not privileged enough to secure your dream job? Like it or not, but we live in an unequal world; life here does not promise fair treatment to every individual. If you were born lucky and could afford it all, this book can at best intrigue you a bit, but it is not really meant for you. If not, this is exactly the book you need. 

Welcome to the Scrapper’s club. The only two things you need to be here are a dream to succeed and an urge to face life as it appears before you without whining. This book does not promise you the moon (and neither will it deliver any). For more than three decades, Damodar Padhi has used this time-tested and all weather resistant (read resilient) approach with great success. 

If you are someone who equates success to only money and power, keep the book back on the shelf and browse on. But if you are looking for success that includes financial freedom, happiness, and purpose, we are ON. 

The Scrapper’s Way will take you through life’s many crossroads and teach you the art of making sensible personal choices both at work and in personal life, and above all purpose to enrich every aspect of it. One part in every story as a behind-the-scenes memoir, the other part as the fuel to make you think; this book will lay out your own path to success in an unequal world.

Buy Now 

All Time Best Finance Books

Learn from the foundational texts that have shaped generations of investors and entrepreneurs with these all-time best finance books. 

Additionally, we have also included some personal finance books to help you manage your everyday finances with confidence.

The Making of a Value Investor by Gautam Baid

The Making of a Value Investor follows Gautam Baid’s development as an investor during a brutal bear market, when he recorded his reflections, observations and learnings in his investment journal in the face of an increasingly uncertain future. This book charts the mistakes and successes in the battle for investment survival during one of the most tumultuous market phases in history.

Through time travel-like storytelling, Baid skilfully captures his collective experiences of that period, allowing readers to truly connect with his evolving worldview. The entries from his journal presented in a chronological manner, with added retrospective commentary, are a treasure trove of everlasting investment principles. The result is a book that provides you invaluable lessons on navigating financial markets and building resilience.

Buy Now 

Let’s Talk Mutual Funds by Monika Halan

Bestselling author and India’s most respected financial writer Monika Halan is back! And this time she’s talking mutual funds. In easy, simplified terms, Halan demystifies mutual funds and shows you how to make the most of them. From managing your cash flow and planning your children’s education to getting your own house and preparing for retirement, Let’s Talk Mutual Funds sets you on the path to achieving your financial goals. No tips. No tricks. Just a smart system to get mutual funds to work for you.

Buy Now 

Let’s Talk Money by Monika Halan

India’s most trusted name in personal finance, Monika Halan offers you a feet-on-the-ground system to build financial security. Not a get-rich-quick guide, this book provides you a smarter way to live your dream life, rather than stay worried about the ‘right’ investment or ‘perfect’ insurance. Unlike many personal finance books, Let’s Talk Money is written specifically for you, keeping the Indian context in mind.

Buy Now

The Anxious Investor by Scott Nations

From the CNBC analyst and volatility expert, a revelatory new guide to building wealth amidst stock market crashes and uncertain economic conditions, drawing upon financial modeling, behavioral psychology, and market history to offer practical advice to everyday investors.

Buy Now 

All Time Best Business Books

Here’s our collection of the most influential business books. From management principles to entrepreneurial insights, these business books have stood the test of time.

Spreading Joy by Joy Alukkas, Thomas Scaria & Nidhi Jain

Thrissur, on the coast of Kerala, is known as India’s ‘gold town’. It was here that Puthussery Alukkas Joseph Varghese moved into jewellery retail from his umbrella business in the late 1950s. One of his ­fifteen children, Joy Alukkas, seemed to have inherited his father’s entrepreneurial spirit. In 1986, the quest for his personal El Dorado took Joy to the modern ‘city of gold’: Dubai.

Getting to know the lay of the land, including aspects of procurement, staffing, sales and other regulations, exacerbated by the language barrier, was a challenge that could dampen any entrepreneur’s spirit, but Joy persisted and opened the fi­rst ‘Alukkas’ jewellery store in Abu Dhabi, followed soon after by another in Dubai. 

Just as business was taking off, the Gulf War broke out in 1990, disrupting every aspect of life and forcing Joy to return to India. Not only did a resilient Joy go back to the Gulf some months later, but he also re-established the Alukkas footprint, opening stores within and around the UAE. 

In the next two decades, he expanded his business to eleven countries with more than 160 outlets and revolutionized the gold-retailing business with innovations such as the use of karatmeter, the fi­rst billing so-ware in the industry and board rate for gold price, to mention a few. Throughout the years, the ethos of his business has remained the same: to be the ‘customer’s favourite jeweller’.

Buy Now 

Indomitable by Arundhati Bhattacharya

Indomitable is the story of Arundhati’s life as a banker and the challenges she faced in a male-dominated bastion. She takes the reader through her childhood and early education in the 1960s, getting to Kolkata for her college education and then into the State Bank of India (SBI), where she started her career.

The life of a woman banker with a family in a frequently transferrable job isn’t easy. In Arundhati’s life, too, there were breaking points when she almost thought of quitting her career to balance her personal aspirations with her family’s needs. But she didn’t give up. Instead, she faced her challenges with humour and positivity and took up every assignment as a new chapter in learning and adapting.

In her role as the chairman of SBI, she steered the bank through some of its worst phases. She inspired confidence in the banking sector when the NPA crises led to a significant public-trust deficit. Under her leadership, SBI metamorphosed into a customer-centric and digitally advanced bank while playing a pivotal role in national development. Some of her human resources initiatives included industry-first practices that were appreciated and later adopted by other banks.

Buy Now 

The Great Tech Game by Anirudh Suri

In The Great Tech Game, Anirudh Suri offers us a big-picture view by weaving a masterful story of the world we are living in and how we got here. Technology is the new wealth of nations, and the ‘great tech game’ is the global contest for technological, economic and geopolitical success. 

This contest is transforming the distribution of power in the world, intensifying economic rivalries, forging new geopolitical alignments and changing the nature of war. This game is not only about the US-China strategic competition. All countries, including all of us, need to think about how to remain competitive and relevant in this new era. 

We can’t expect to win in the future by playing a game that belongs to the past. This book offers a game plan for nations to draw upon their comparative advantages and compete in the ‘great tech game’ through tailored strategies.

Buy Now