Underrated books for future finance professionals? It seems like social media always tries to push the same old 50 business/finance books that everyone seems to have in their house now. I’ve done my research and have gone to bookstores, so I’m interested in a few that I hadn’t heard of before. I’m just wondering what may be a must-have.

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Commenting to follow. I am always looking for new books to add to my reading list.

I feel like i only ever see the same 7 out of those 50! I'd recommend The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson and The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

Meh, a lot of the ones on social media are popular for a reason. Sometimes the reason is a great marketing team, and other times the book is just great. The 10X financial advisor was very helpful to me even though people are annoyed with 10X culture *shrug*.

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