Finance
First principles
A hundred years later, the rules of money are still the same.
The Richest Man in Babylon · by George S. Clason
Babylonian parables that teach the basics of money better than most modern books.
Why read it
Written in 1926 and set in ancient Babylon, it's probably the simplest personal-finance book there is — and that's exactly its strength. No ETFs, no crypto, no equations: just short parables that leave one rule stuck in your head. The first: a part of all you earn is yours to keep.