50+ Must-Read Books That Helped Me Grow as a Virtual Assistant and Freelancer

My Must-Read Books That Helped Me Grow as a Virtual Assistant and Freelancer 

When I first started working online, I devoured books like my business depended on it -- because honestly, it did. The right books helped me think way bigger, manage my money better, and helped me to build a business that I actually loved.

So if you're a virtual assistant, freelancer, or creative entrepreneur looking to grow, this is a list to check out. These 50+ reads cover everything from mindset and money to business strategy and personal development.

Save it, share it, and come back to it whenever you need a little spark:

• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher

• The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear Markets by Mebane T. Faber and Eric W. Richardson

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

• Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell

• Mastering the Market Cycle by Howard Marks

• The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason

• The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks

• The Little Book That Still Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

• The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success by Joel Greenblatt

• The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns by Mohnish Pabrai

• You Are the Placebo by Joe Dispenza

• Atomic Habits by James Clear

• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

• Stocks For the Long Run by Jeremy Siegel

• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

• One Upon Wall Street by John Rothchild and Peter Lynch

• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

• Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises by Ray Dalio

• Richer, Riser, Happier: How the World’s Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life by William Green

• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

• The Real Crash by Peter D. Schiff

• Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt

• The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young

• Undo It!: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases by Dean Ornish, M.D.

• The Wealthy Barber Returns by David Barr Chilton

• The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Niel Howe

• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss

• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• Modern Value Investing by Sven Carlin

• F.U. Money by Dan Lok

• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• MONEY Master the Game by Tony Robbins

• You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits by Joel Greenblatt

• The Education of a Value Investor by Guy Spier

• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams

• Principles for Success by Ray Dalio

• Aftermath: Seven Secrets of Wealth Preservation in the Coming Chaos by James Rickards

• What Works on Wall Street by James O’Shaughnessy

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

• Billion Dollar Whale by Bradley Hope and Tom Wright

• Just One Thing by John Mauldin

• Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

• Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell

• Dismantling America by Thomas Sowell

• Wealth, Poverty, and Politics by Thomas Sowell

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger

• The Dao of Capital by Mark Spitznagel

• The Future for Investors by Jeremy J. Siegel

• Financial Freedom by Grant Sabatier

• Blitzscaling by Chris Yeh and Reid Hoffman

• High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard

• 100 to 1 in the Stock Market by Thomas W. Phelps

• All About Hedge Funds: The Easy Way to Get Started by Robert Jaeger

• Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk by Roger C. Gibson

• Martin Zweig’s Winning on Wall Street by Martin Zweig

• The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman

• Investing in REITS: Real Estate Investment Trusts by Ralph L. Block

• Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment by David F. Swenson

• Private Equity as an Asset Class by Guy Fraser-Sampson

• 2020 Vision: Investment Wisdom for Tomorrow by Harry Liem

• Pioneering Portfolio Management by David F. Swenson

• Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short Story by David Einhorn and Joel Greenblatt

• Your Money and Your Brain by Martin Zweig

• The Acquirer’s Multiple by Tobias E. Carlisle

• Absolute Returns by Alexander M. Ineichen

• Hedge Hunters by Katherine Burton

• The Fundamental Index by Robert D. Arnott

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