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Brad Barrett’s book club picks
Brad Barrett has picked 4 books for the book club on ChooseFI. The latest is Happy Money by Ken Honda, first picked in October 2026. Every pick, newest first:
Brad Barrett’s most recommended books
- The Simple Path to Wealth by Jl Collins
- Die with Zero by Bill Perkins
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
- The Simple Path to Wealth by J. L. Collins
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
- Outlive by Peter Attia
- Your Money Or Your Life by Joseph R. Dominguez
- The Simple StartUp by Rob Phelan
Brad Barrett is the host of ChooseFI. On the podcast, he frequently discusses and recommends various books to listeners and guests. He directed listeners to purchase Jesse Mecham's Never Worry About Money Again and praised Cody Garrett and Sean Mullaney's Tax Planning To and Through Early Retirement as a breakthrough success in the top one percent of books. Barrett brought up Bryce Leung and Kristy Shen's Parent Like a Millionaire (Without Being One), describing it as a Trojan horse for introducing people outside the financial independence community to financial concepts. He also mentioned JL Collins's The Simple Path to Wealth to illustrate the effectiveness of low-cost index fund investing, and Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets as essential for decision-making. Additionally, Barrett mentioned purchasing Russ Harris's The Happiness Trap because it offers useful tools for examining thoughts, and he recommended Rob Phelan's M Is for Money as a helpful resource for kids learning about personal finance.
Books recommended by Brad Barrett
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The Simple Path to Wealth
The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins is a clear and accessible guide to achieving financial independence through low-cost index fund investing and simple savings habits.
Discussed“And it was fascinating because I was listening to an old episode with JL Collins, the original episode he did on Choose a VI about the simple path to wealth.”
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Die with Zero
Die with Zero by Bill Perkins is a provocative financial and lifestyle philosophy book that challenges conventional wealth accumulation by encouraging people to optimize their life experiences and spend or distribute their money while they are still alive.
Discussed“And in that book, the author Bill Perkins talks about exactly this, gifts to your children. And it's like, do you wait to do this until you've passed and it goes through your state when maybe you're in your 90s and your kids are in their 70s.”
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Thinking in Bets
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke is a popular nonfiction book that explores decision-making, probability, and how to evaluate choices objectively despite uncertain outcomes.
Recommended“So she wrote a book called Thinking in Bets, which I think is just an absolutely essential book for just living, basically.”
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Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a widely acclaimed guide to habit formation and personal development that provides actionable strategies for building good behaviors and breaking bad ones through incremental changes.
Discussed“This reminds me of something that James Clear talked about in Atomic Habits in terms of basically I'm the type of person that, and it's even just going to the gym for a minute or five minutes the first time you have your shoes and your clothes all laid out.”
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The 4-Hour Workweek
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss is a lifestyle design manual that challenges conventional career paths by advocating for time autonomy, remote work, automation, and outsourcing.
Discussed“the most neglected chapter in the 4-hour work week, which is the filling the void chapter, right?”
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The Simple Path to Wealth
The Simple Path to Wealth by J.
Discussed“I'm reading The Simple Path to Wealth, educating myself on my options and just trying to take the fear out of my future.”
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams is a self-improvement and business book that advocates for building a diverse talent stack and focusing on repeatable systems rather than rigid long-term goals.
Discussed“we talked a very long time ago about about the talent stack and I read that book by Scott Adams I think it's how to fail at nearly everything and still win big or something like that”
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Outlive
Outlive by Peter Attia and Bill Gifford is a comprehensive health and longevity guide focused on practical steps to improve vitality, manage biological markers, and extend lifespan through proactive medicine.
Critiqued“We've all seen in the last couple of weeks the author of Outlive who a lot of us would have considered one of the pinnacle people in the longevity movement is essentially a total scumbag, right?”
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Your Money Or Your Life
Your Money Or Your Life by Joseph R.
Discussed“Vicki Robin in her book your money or your life famously says are you making a living”
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The Simple StartUp
The Simple StartUp by Rob Phelan is a beginner's guide and student workbook designed to help young people create their very first entrepreneurial venture over the course of a semester.
Recommended“and Rob's book The Simple startup series”
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The Golden Albatross
The Golden Albatross by Grumpus Maximus and Doug Nordman is a financial guide that helps military personnel and public service workers evaluate whether staying in their jobs for a pension is truly worth the personal and professional costs.
Recommended“as from our friend grumpus Maximus who we had on the show way back when episode 57 and 227 and he wrote a great book called The Golden Albatross how to determine if your pension is worth it”
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Freelance to Freedom
Freelance to Freedom by Vincent Pugliese is an inspiring guide that teaches professionals how to break free from traditional employment models, build sustainable independent businesses, and take control of their time and income.
Recommended“and the third book from Vincent buglesi freelance to Freedom”
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Make Time
Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky is a practical productivity guide designed to help readers focus on what truly matters each day by stepping away from endless content consumption and intentionally reclaiming their schedules.
Recommended“and I think I'm reading this book called make time and how to focus on what matters every day”
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Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor
Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor by Chad Carson is a practical guide designed to help individuals achieve financial freedom by managing a smaller, highly efficient portfolio of rental properties rather than accumulating massive debt.
Recommended“So that's uh Chad Carson, our great friend, has a book called The Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor. And I think this is fantastic.”
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Tax Planning To and Through Early Retirement
This practical finance book provides actionable strategies for managing wealth and taxes leading up to and during retirement.
Recommended“As we mentioned, your book, tax planning, two and through early retirement, it's incredible. It's hard stop to end a story. I think it's pretty hard to make a book about tax planning really interesting and compelling and a must read.”
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Influence
Influence by Robert B.
Discussed“like sometimes I'm thinking back to like the Robert chini's book influence and like I think the psychological study was something silly”
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Unstoppable
Unstoppable by David Hauser is a four-step framework designed to help individuals transform their lives, achieve personal balance, and improve decision-making.
Recommended“or if you'd like to get a copy of Dave Hauser's book Unstoppable”
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Raising Your Money-Savvy Family For Next Generation Financial Independence
Raising Your Money-Savvy Family For Next Generation Financial Independence by Doug Nordman and Carol Pittner is a practical guide designed to help parents teach children financial literacy and life skills.
Recommended“so he along with his daughter Carol wrote the book raising your money Savvy family for Next Generation Financial Independence that was phenomenal phenomenal book”
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Why Does The Stock Market Go Up?
Why Does The Stock Market Go Up? by Brian Feroldi is an accessible primer designed to teach everyday investors the fundamental mechanics of Wall Street and the power of compounding.
Recommended“so I would have to mention his book which is literally called why does the stock market go up so you can find links for that at choosefi.com”
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Tools of Titans
Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss is a comprehensive compilation of tactics, routines, and habits drawn from extensive interviews with billionaires, icons, and world-class performers.
Recommended“So just to quickly catch anyone up who doesn't know, Tim Urban's article 'The Tail End,' you should Google it. It's essentially a visual representation of the timeline of your life.”
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- Set for Life by Scott Trench
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- The Gap and The Gain by Dr. Benjamin Hardy
- Reset : How to Restart Your Life and Get F. U. Money by Charlie Spedding
- Get Good with Money by Tiffany the Budgetnista Aliche
- Retire Often by Jillian Johnsrud
- Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin
- Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
- Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charles T. Munger
- The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle
- The ONE Thing by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
- A Complaint Free World by Will Bowen
- Factfulness by Hans Rosling
- Goodbye, things by Fumio Sasaki
- How to Decide by Annie Duke
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Just Keep Buying by Nick Maggiulli
- Millionaire Women Next Door by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley
- Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
- We're Talking Millions! by Richard Buck, Paul A Merriman
- Design Your Future by Dominick Quartuccio
- Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker
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Brad Barrett’s book recommendations by year
All 140 books Brad Barrett recommended or discussed across 263 episodes, filed by the year each episode came out. Each year goes episode by episode, with the minute every book came up.