The Richest Man in Babylon

This book has helps point me in the right direction with my finances time and time again. A friend gave it to me in 2023 to read, and to this day it’s my favourite book.

I saw a social media clip of Robert Greene recommending it, and countless other people saying it’s a good one. So I gave it a go and have read it yearly since.

It’s a book of parables in the Babylonian time teaching you lessons using stories from that era. I think the stories were inspired by actual real life clay tablets. I’ve read many other finance books after this one, and they all seem to borrow concepts taught here. It makes me wonder if this book was truly written from the clay tablets, or if there was some other historical influence this is based off of.

If you want to sort your finances out, or take your wealth to the next level, and love fantasy-esc stories, then give this a read.