The Best Retirement Planning Books of All Time

Discover the most influential retirement planning books, recommended by leaders, experts, and readers worldwide

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Book Cover of Ed Slott - The New Retirement Savings Time Bomb: How to Take Financial Control, Avoid Unnecessary Taxes, and Combat the Latest Threats to Your Retirement Savings

By Ed Slott – Nationally recognized IRA distribution expert & best-selling author (you?) 

4.90
| 2021 | 448 Pages
Recommended for: 
Retirement savers seeking advanced tax strategies. Beginner to Intermediate readers.
Reviews:
Informative
Well-Structured
Expert Advice
Timely Information
Clear Explanations
Missing Pages
Slanted Writing Style
  • #35 Best Seller in Retirement Planning on Amazon
Recommended by Jill Schlesinger, Kathleen Pender, Jane Bryant Quinn and 4 others
Jill SchlesingerEd Slott is my go-to resource on the nuances of tax and retirement planning. His non-nonsense style makes the dizzying changes in the rules and laws surrounding these often confusing topics understandable and more importantly, actionable
Kathleen PenderCongress has turned retirement savings into a quagmire of laws, regulations and acronyms that can serve as tax traps or opportunities. When advisers and journalists need help understanding the latest complexities, they often turn to Ed Slott, who can explain them with care and flair
Jane Bryant QuinnEd Slott is my go-to person for smart tax-saving advice on retirement plans. Right now, people planning for retirement especially need his help. Congress has passed a slew of new laws affecting your personal tax-favored plans, some of which make them less secure. This book shows you how to wring all the tax benefits possible from your plans, including smart ways of passing any remaining money to your heirs. Highly recommended!
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Book Cover of Kristy Shen, Bryce Leung, JL Collins - Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required

By Kristy Shen – Co-creator of Millennial-Revolution.com (you?) and 2 more 

4.89
| 2019 | 336 Pages
Recommended for: 
Young adults and aspiring retirees. Ages 12 to Adults.
You will:
  • Learn how to achieve financial independence through practical strategies and personal stories.
  • Discover effective methods to reduce living expenses without sacrificing quality of life.
  • Understand the importance of a strong saving rate and its impact on financial freedom.
  • Explore investment strategies that can help grow wealth over time.
  • Gain insights into the FIRE movement and how to apply its principles to your life.
  • Poor people buy stuff. The middle class buys houses. Rich people buy investments.
  • At the end of the day, it isn’t about money, it’s about time—and how to use it wisely to live the best life possible.
  • When someone’s starving, their brain ignores almost everything—except that one thing it doesn’t have.
Reviews:
Informative
Engaging Story
Actionable Advice
Humorous
Practical Strategies
Oversimplified
Repetitive
  • #6 Best Seller in Budget Travel Guides on Amazon
  • New York Times Bestseller
  • Rated Amazon Best Book of the Year
Recommended by Grant Sabatier, Elizabeth Willard Thames, Vicki Robin and 4 others
Grant SabatierQuit Like A Millionaire is about so much more than making money, traveling the world, and retiring early (although it teaches you how to do all three insanely well!). It’s a new roadmap to living an awesome life! You don't need to settle for status quo. Life's too short for that; so don't. This book will both inspire and entertain you, while actually giving you the steps and mindset to become a millionaire. Retiring early isn't easy, but it's never been easier in history to make it happen. There’s no fluff here. This is the real deal
Elizabeth Willard ThamesShen takes readers on a journey through her incredible life from impoverished childhood in China to world traveling early retired millionaire. With precision and humor, Shen outlines the choices she made along the way and the math behind her successes. Her uplifting personal story is undergirded by resonant, easy-to-understand explanations of financial mechanics that enable unusual life choices and unconventional alternatives. Shen inspires, explains, and guides with aplomb
Vicki RobinKristy Shen and Bryce Leung, in a few hundred delightful, information-packed pages, show exactly how Kristy went from rags (in China) to riches (retired world traveler millionaire at 30). Their stories are fascinating, told in a no-nonsense style that busts through any excuses. Their precise investment strategies, explained clearly, show you how to both get financially independent—and stay there. And they're hilarious
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4.98
| 2025 | 30-300 pages
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Recommended for: 
All readers across all knowledge levels.
You will:
  • Get a Retirement Planning book tailored to your interests, goals, and background
  • Receive a book precisely matching your background and level of knowledge
  • Select which topics you want to learn, exclude the topics you don't
  • Define your learning goals and let your book guide you to accomplish them
  • Get all the knowledge you need consolidated into a single focused book
Reviews:
Insightful
Focused
Highly Personalized
Easy to Read
Engaging
Actionable
Up-to-Date
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Book Cover of Jane Bryant Quinn - How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide

By Jane Bryant Quinn – America’s dean of personal finance (you?) 

4.88
| 2016 | 384 Pages
Recommended for: 
Retirement planners and individuals seeking financial security in retirement. Beginner to Intermediate readers.
Recommended by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Burton Malkiel, Joseph Nocera and 10 others
Rosabeth Moss KanterA practical tour de force from the maven of money. This is simply the best handbook for managing personal finances that I have ever seen. It belongs on every bookshelf — or best yet, on every desk near every checkbook or computer
Burton MalkielThe class book for practical financial advice—encyclopedic in scope and written with clarity and style
Joseph NoceraThere is no more trustworthy figure in all of American journalism
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