Required Reading for Stewards

These are the books our editors return to and recommend. We choose them for the quality of their ideas, and we say plainly when one of them is written by someone at this magazine. Looking for something specific? Read our editorial standards to see how we choose what to recommend.

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Editor’s Pick

How To Manage God’s Money: From Paycheck to Purpose

D. Brandon Campbell

Our Editor’s Pick: a practical, scripture-anchored system for turning every paycheck into provision, generosity, and legacy.

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Kingdom Stewardship

Tony Evans

Tony Evans makes the case that everything you hold is managed rather than owned. It is the theological floor this magazine is built on, argued by one of the most widely read Black pastors in America.

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Take Your Seat at the Table

Anthony O’Neal

Anthony O’Neal writes for the reader who was never handed a seat and has stopped waiting to be offered one. Money, purpose and spiritual wellness treated as one subject rather than three.

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The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires

Dennis Kimbro

Kimbro interviewed a thousand Black millionaires to find out what they actually did. The answers are less glamorous and considerably more useful than the ones circulating on social media.

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Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice

Dennis Kimbro and Napoleon Hill

Kimbro took Napoleon Hill’s research and rebuilt it around Black achievement, working from Hill’s own notes. If you have read the original, this is the edition that answers the question the original never asked.

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Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole

Tiffany Aliche

Aliche calls the goal financial wholeness rather than wealth, and the distinction matters. Ten steps that end where most money books stop short, at insurance, wills and what your beneficiaries actually inherit.

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Your Journey to Financial Freedom

Jamila Souffrant

Souffrant maps the road from paycheck to freedom in stages, which is how it happens in real life. Written for readers who are not starting with a windfall.

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We Should All Be Millionaires

Rachel Rodgers

Rodgers argues that Black women earning more is not a personal ambition but an economic correction. Direct, unapologetic, and specific about the how.

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You Deserve to Be Rich

Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings

The Earn Your Leisure founders built the largest financial literacy platform in Black America by explaining ownership in plain language. This is that conversation in book form.

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Black Fortunes

Shomari Wills

Wills tells the story of the first six African Americans to become millionaires, most of them born into slavery. Evidence that the ambition is not new. Only the paperwork is.

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The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness. Behavior beats spreadsheets in building a fortune that lasts.

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Atomic Habits

James Clear

Tiny changes, remarkable results. The operating manual for the daily discipline that compounds into wealth.

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