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I would add Thomas J. Stanley's sequel to "The Millionaire Next Door" "The Millionaire Mind" which I found even more revealing and informative.

For those really into investing in publicly traded securities the original 1934 edition (reprinted) of "Security Analysis" by Graham and Dodd is a bit of a tome but worth studying.

Although my father had rental houses and I was the maintenance slave what got me really interested in real estate investing was "How I turned $1,000 into a Million in Real Estate in my Spare Time" by William Nickerson. He updated it to $1,000 to $5,000,000 a few years later but I picked up the original at a Brentano's in Washington, D.C on my lunch hour in 1966 and shortly thereafter bought my first real estate investment, a four unit building on Capitol Hill.