Time to get your Kindle or Audible app out and brush up on your personal finance knowledge. There's no time like lockdown for a little learning. Blogs, podcasts, videos and other digital media are all excellent. Getting lost in print is another way and some of my favourite personal finance authors have new books out that you can download online.
Oldies and goodies: Every year more and more personal finance books are published covering many different topics, from general at one end to how to get rich quick in options trading (yeah, nah) at the other. Some are bestsellers for years, such as The Millionaire Next Door, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Think and Grow Rich, The Total Money Makeover and The Barefoot Investor. I can't speak highly enough of the last one, but all will teach you something.
Some of the 2021 and other recent bestsellers are:
Behavioural economics
Managing your money well starts with taming your brain. Help in that comes from the newish fields of behavioural and neuro economics, which sit at the intersection of economics, psychology and neuroscience. My recommendation is Nudge: The Final Edition, by Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein. In this 2021 final update of his bestselling book, Thaler, a Nobel laureate, encourages readers to reframe choice to trick ourselves into making better decisions in personal finance and life. An alternative choice is Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler's Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter, published in 2017. This is arguably one of the best personal finance books I've ever read and had Ariely published a new book in 2021 it would have almost certainly been my number one choice. It's a stonking read that everyone can learn from. Also look out for any book written by Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Nicholas Taleb.