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What are the top 10 Boglehead Books?

Investing can be overwhelming.  In my journey, I found these books to guide my Boglehead investing strategy.

This blog post is the top 10 Boglehead books I used to craft my investment strategy including my key takeaways from each book.

I hope this helps to shortcut your path to Vanguard Boglehead investing.

#1: Bogleheads Guide to Investing

Bogleheads Guide to Investing is a foundational book to the Bogleheads community.

Key Takeways:

  • I learned the Boglehead guiding principles covered in detail in this Blog
  • The Boglehead 3 Fund Portfolio is the staple investment as it keeps investing simple, diversified, and low cost
  • Jack Bogle founded Vanguard
  • Bogleheads are a massive community including local community meetings

#2: Common Sense of Investing

Common Sense Investing is a foundational book to the Bogleheads community.

Key Takeways:

  • I learned the Boglehead guiding principles covered in detail in this Blog
  • The Boglehead 3 Fund Portfolio is the staple investment as it keeps investing simple, diversified, and low cost
  • Jack Bogle founded Vanguard
  • Bogleheads are a massive community including local community meetings

#3: The Intelligent Investor

Ben Graham was an early innovator of value investing, which included a great deal of research and data points on the stock market over time.

Key Takeways:

  • The historical stock market increases over time
  • Rebalancing portfolios is to reduce volatility 
  • Stocks will outperform bonds but be more volatile

#4: The Millionare Next Door

Millionare Next Door is an important foundational book for investors as it explains how to structure your finances from a young age.

Key Takeways:

  • Structure your finances as a “pie chart” of savings, expenses, and disposable income
  • Hit your savings targets, then expenses, then disposable income
  • Spend your disposable income freely, but only after you hit your savings targets

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