December 2024: Our Book Recommendations
5 Book recommendations to check out this month
The holiday season is here 🎄, and we know you’re always on the hunt for your next good read!
To celebrate the season of giving (and self-care), we’ve put together a list of December book recommendations.
These are perfect for cozying up with a cup of cocoa, starting the new year on the right foot, or gifting to your book-loving friends and family.
If you’ve read any of these books before? Let us know in the comments.
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Finance pick: Clever Girl Finance, Expanded & Updated: Ditch Debt, Save Money and Build Real Wealth
If you’ve never read Clever Girl Finance: Ditch Debt, Save Money and Build Real Wealth, or need a refresher, this expanded 2nd edition will help you take your money game to the next level!
Author (and our founder!) Bola Sokunbi, founder and mastermind of personal finance brand Clever Girl Finance, has revamped her book to help you have a complete money makeup. Reset how you think, feel, and interact with money by identifying your money values and goals to overcome limiting beliefs and cultivate habits that lead to financial success.
If you’ve been haunted by debt, this book will help you tackle it for good by showing you how to develop a repayment plan, negotiate a lower interest rate, and help you devise a strategy to eliminate your biggest debts.
Struggled with saving money? Fear not. After reading this book, you’ll have solid plans for your retirement, to start building an emergency fund, and to achieve your other savings goals.
No matter your financial challenges, you can overcome them with the knowledge inside the Clever Girl Finance book.
Self-help pick: A Year of Self-Care: Daily Practices and Inspiration for Caring for Yourself
Do you feel like 2024 was the year you put everyone else’s needs before your own, and now you’re burnt out? To save yourself from having a mental breakdown, it’s time to start prioritizing your self-care!
The question is, where do you start? Although self-care is marketed to make you think you need to take three days off and go to the spa, flashy self-care isn’t always necessary.
Sometimes, all you need is a self-guided journal like A Year of Self-Care, filled with short yet impactful exercises to help you find more joy and be your most authentic self. With only 15 minutes each day, you can develop a sustainable route to self-care.
How would your life be different if you committed to self-care? Be sure to check out this book!
Business pick: The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months
As 2025 approaches, 12 months is the perfect amount of time to achieve your goals. But imagine for a second that you didn’t need those 12 months. What would your life be like if you could achieve your goals in less time?
Would you spend more time with family or finally take that trip you’ve always wanted?
Many businesses and corporations teach us that we need a 12-month execution plan to succeed. However this book, The 12-Week Year, smashes that way of thinking by redefining your “ year” into 12 weeks.
This might sound crazy, maybe even impossible. However, this unconventional approach helps you prioritize what matters most so you can take immediate action and achieve remarkable results in less time.
Fiction Pick: The Lost Bookshop
If you’re a book lover, why wouldn’t you want to read a book about a bookshop?
The Lost Bookshop is about a mystical bookstore and follows three characters: Henry, Martha, and Opaline. Their lives are transformed when they stumble upon a vanishing bookshop. Within the bookshelves, these three strangers discover fascinating tales of their own lives.
Readers have raved about this book, saying it is a must-read for book lovers!
Career Advice: The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You: Command an Audience and Sell Your Way to Success
Do you want to be the most powerful woman in the room? Have you imagined yourself being able to captivate an audience? What if you could sell anything to anyone?
According to Lydia Fenet in her book, The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You, you can possess all these skills. Learn how to present yourself with confidence and integrity, build connections that open doors, and apologetically negotiate and advocate for yourself.
The book will guide you in becoming a powerful woman with real-life case studies, actionable advice, and insight from some of the most successful women in business.
A new you starts with a new book!
Whether you gift one of these books to a friend or you gift one to yourself, knowledge is the best present to receive.
Which book are you considering? Let us know in the comments!
Don’t forget you can stay motivated and learn other financial tips and tricks from our completely free financial courses!
Happy reading and happy holidays!