7 books

Money

Every money book we've recommended, in one place.

Cover of Get Good with Money by Tiffany Aliche

Get Good with Money

by Tiffany Aliche

Aliche calls it financial wholeness and breaks it into ten steps you can finish one at a time: budget, savings, debt, credit, insurance, and the rest. She dug herself out of debt and foreclosure after a layoff, and the plan carries the marks of it.

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Lead from the Outside

by Stacey Abrams

Abrams on building power when you are not the expected candidate, including a frank section on money, debt, and running for office while owing the IRS. Practical about ambition in a way few leadership books are.

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Cover of Girl, Get Your Credit Straight by Glinda Bridgforth

Girl, Get Your Credit Straight

by Glinda Bridgforth

A step-by-step plan for getting out from under debt, written for Black women by a financial counselor who has sat across from thousands of them. Warm about the shame, unsentimental about the numbers.

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Girl, Make Your Money Grow

by Glinda Bridgforth and Gail Perry-Mason

For the stage after the debt is handled. Investing basics, retirement, and building something to pass down, free of the jargon that keeps people out of the conversation.

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Cover of Real Money Answers for Every Woman by Patrice Washington

Real Money Answers for Every Woman

by Patrice Washington

Structured as questions and answers, so you can open it straight to your situation instead of reading front to back. Good for the woman who wants one clear answer about her car note today.

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The One Week Budget

by Tiffany Aliche

Aliche's first and shortest book. A system you can set up in a week and then mostly leave alone. If Get Good with Money feels like a lot right now, start with this one instead.

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Sister CEO

by Cheryl D. Broussard

A business-building guide for Black women that predates most of the genre. The tech references have aged, the parts about capital, pricing, and betting on yourself have not.

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