Books Recommended by Ryan Holiday
Who is Ryan Holiday:
Writer, thinker, bestselling author, and modern day Stoic philosopher, providing guidance for acquiring wisdom and living your best life.
What’s on the list:
Ryan’s reading list: Books To Base Your Life on. Philosophy, fiction, non-fiction, biographies, strategy, psychology, classics.
Books by Ryan Holiday: The Daily Stoic, The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, Stillness in the Key, Courage Is Calling, Discipline Is Destiny, Right Thing, Right Now, Lives of the Stoics, Trust Me, I’m Lying, Perennial Seller
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Inner Citadel, by Pierre Hadot
Philosophy as a Way of Life. by Pierre Hadot
Letters from a Stoic, by Seneca
Essays, by Michel de Montaigne
How to Live, by Sarah Bakewell
Fooled By Randomness, by Nassim Taleb
The Bed of Procrustes, by Nassim Taleb
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl
The Will to Meaning. by Victor Frankl
Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning, by Victor Frankl
The 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, by George Horace Lorimer
Letters to His Son by Lord Chesterfield
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation, by Tyler Cowen
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Life and Love from Dear Sugar, by Cheryl Strayed
The Score Takes Care of Itself, by Bill Walsh
The Education of a Coach, by David Halberstam
This Boy’s Life, by Tobias Wolff
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy
What Makes Sammy Run?, by Budd Schulberg
The Harder They Fall, by Budd Schulberg
The Disenchanted, by Budd Schulberg
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosiński
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, by Mordecai Richler
Civil War Stories, by Ambrose Bierce
All The King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, by Giorgio Vasari
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
The Power Broker, by Robert A. Caro
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American, by B.H Liddell Hart
My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
My Life and Battles, by Jack Johnson
Up from Slavery, by Booker T. Washington
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris
The fish that ate the whale, by Rich Cohen
No Hiding Place, by William Seabrook
The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Rules for Radicals, by Saul D. Alinsky
Reveille for Radicals, by Saul D. Alinsky
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot who Changed the Art of War, by Robert Coram
33 Strategies of War, by Robert Greene
The Book of Five Rings, by Musashi
The Strategy Paradox, by Michael E. Raynor
The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, by Alan Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa
Sex on the Brain, by Deborah Blum
The Evolution of Desire, by David Buss
The Origins of Virtue, by Matt Ridley
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization, by John Robb
The Pirate’s Dilemma, by Matt Mason
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, by Jaron Lanier
The New New Thing, by Michael Lewis
Founders at Work, by Jessica Livingston
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, by Evgeny Morozov
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, by Don Tapscott
The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source, by Eric S Raymond
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard
Destiny of the Republic, by Candice Millard
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage , by Alfred Lansing