How to Be a Rich Old Lady
Your Guide to Easy Investing, Building Wealth, and Creating the Wild, Beautiful Life You Want
$39.18
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
10 September 2026
Summary
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A life-changing path to the financial freedom we all deserve: How to Be a Rich Old Lady is filled with humor, heart, and real-world perspective.
Amanda Holden spent years working in investment management, where she saw exactly who gets access to the power, ease, and opportunity money can bring—and it wasn’t people like her friends. She also saw how the financial system is designed to feel exclusive and confusing, and how it blames indivi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781668066928 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1668066920 |
| Author: | Amanda Holden |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Avid Reader Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 392g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 140mm x 213mm |

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Critics Review
“The most useful financial book I’ve read in a decade. Maybe longer.” —Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter
“You needed this book yesterday.” —Holly Whitaker, author of Quit Like a Woman
“In How to Be a Rich Old Lady, the investment expert [Amanda Holden] flips the traditional approach by empowering women… . Demystifying finance, the book equips readers with next steps, regardless of whether they’re decades into saving or just opening their first account… . How to Be a Rich Old Lady is a smart, quippy, easy-to-digest guide to investing. I’ll definitely share it with many of the women in my life.” —BookPage (starred review)
“A sharp and funny guide for women on investing and building wealth … Readers will feel equipped and inspired to live their best lives.” —Publishers Weekly
“Our verdict: Get it. A gifted teacher … [Holden] uses quirky examples, pop culture references, and outrageous metaphors to make learning about financial planning a breeze. Holden will make listeners laugh out loud while learning about IRAs—she’s that funny… . Financial planning has never been so effortless and fun.” —Kirkus Reviews
“In How to Be a Rich Old Lady, Amanda Holden does the impossible: bridge the gap between our desire to live a better life, and our need to build a better world. She is one of the few people who can give us the practical tools to create wealth, and the moral urgency to actually do something of value with that wealth. Amanda is the financial expert we all need right now.” —Chelsea Fagan, author of The Financial Diet
“Amanda Holden’s How to Be a Rich Old Lady is the best book I’ve read on investing. It’s so refreshingly approachable and comprehensive. Reading How to Be a Rich Old Lady feels like getting the investing low-down from your friend’s cool older sister—sharp, hilarious, and down-to-earth. I wish this book had been around when I was figuring out investing. I’m thrilled it’s here now.” —Paco de Leon, author of Finance for the People
Amanda Holden
Amanda Holden is the founder of Invested Development, an investing education business, as well as a leading voice at the intersection of money and feminism. She spent six years in investment management and holds degrees in economics and communications from UCLA. Known on social media as @Dumpster.Doggy, Amanda also shares about her advocacy work and signature secondhand “trashion” looks.
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