Prompts

What are the best books to read in your 20s?

You're out of school and starting your own life in whatever shape that takes. What books are essential reading for someone entering this stage of life to be successful in life? This could mean non-fiction books that help with skills that weren't taught in school, or it could mean fiction that helps round out emotional development – or whatever else you think people in their 20s should read.

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

2006 • 70 Readers • 336 pages 4.6

The Simple Path to Wealth

2016 • 18 Readers • 286 pages 4.5

A Short History of Nearly Everything

2003 • 960 Readers 4.2

The Midnight Library

2020 • 2,828 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Cover 5

2017 • 4 Readers • 492 pages 5

Your Money or Your Life

1992 • 195 Readers • 350 pages 3.9

Ishmael

1992 • 174 Readers • 274 pages 4

The Happiness Project

2009 • 229 Readers • 315 pages 3.6

Everything I Know About Love

2018 • 376 Readers • 336 pages 3.7

Moby-Dick

1851 • 1,002 Readers • 24h 50m 3.6

The Great Adventure Catholic Bible

2018 • 1 Reader • 44 pages

I Am the Messenger

2002 • 206 Readers • 376 pages 4.1

Return of the God Hypothesis

2021 • 5 Readers • 576 pages 4

Digital Minimalism

2019 • 634 Readers • 284 pages 4

Narcissus and Goldmund

1930 • 96 Readers • 320 pages 4.1

The Catcher in the Rye

1951 • 2,714 Readers • 288 pages 3.6

Cat's Cradle

1963 • 1,067 Readers • 192 pages 4.1