For "fun" I'd start with Michael Lewis - Liar's Poker, The Big Short and Flash Boys are great, entertaining reads about life in and among the world of finance. It will NOT teach you the first thing about managing your money but it will go a long way towards demystifying the market and the people who make and destroy money for a living. The order presented is chronological, if it matters. Liar's Poker is like 25 years old by now so it's damn near historical. For education I'd start with this tiny, cheap, overview of a Kindle book. Do NOT take their specific investment advice; I built a fake portfolio of their recommended ETFs and it got killed. Then I backtested it for a year or two and it got killed harder. However, it's a really, really simple place to get a handle on it. For real education the good basics are A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel and Charles Ellis' Winning the Loser's Game, both of which are pretty well ancient at this point but regularly updated. I'll be rinx has some suggestions, too.