I'm not sure why, but I love reading books on personal finance. The advice rarely changes except for the rare books that have links to cutting-edge apps, so the material is largely the same from book to book. This means that presentation is the key to setting a book apart. This book sets itself apart with humor and with expert interview transcripts from the Stacking Benjamins podcast.
Stacked: Your Super-Serious Guide to Modern Money Management is funny. It takes the math of financial management seriously, but everything else is a big goof, like the author Joe Saul-Sehy. He and his writing partner, Emily Guy Birken, use colorful metaphors to make personal finance make sense. My favorite example from the book is the concept of marginal tax rates, a topic that is dry and which most people fail to understand. In a matter of two paragraphs, Saul-Sehy and Birken manage to make the mechanism colorful and clear.
Although this book would be an ideal read for a college or just-out-of-college young person, it's certainly applicable to just about anyone (in the U.S.) up through the pre-retirement period. The focus is on fixing one's finances (getting clarity, reducing debt, managing credit) and stabilizing them (investing, risk management/insurance, estate planning).
It would be great to see this pair write a similarly explanatory and amusing book about financial issues for older adults — more expanded estate planning discussion, Social Security, Medicare, etc. I'd love to see them give a similar treatment to all of the complex, eyes-glazing-over issues, like health insurance, blockchain, NFTs, etc.