If a book sucks, you can stop reading it. Just wanted you to know that.
— Ryan Holiday
This list is curated from 635 mentions and sorted by most mentioned, then by date of most recent mention. The more a book is mentioned, the more likely it's recommended and a favorite... or they just like talking about it a lot!
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Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
In the course of those readings and my study of stoicism, a lot has changed. Marcus Aurelius has guided me through breakups and getting married, through being relatively young and poor and relatively older and well-off. His wisdom has helped me with getting fired and with quitting, with success and with struggles. I’ve carried him to close to a dozen countries and moved him to multiple houses. I’ve turned to him for articles and books and casual dinner conversation. The one pristine white cover is now its own shade of tan, but with every read, every time I’ve touched the book, I’ve gotten something new or been reminded of something timeless and important.
— Ryan Holiday
The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
We’ve also had many of my favorite authors stop by and sign copies of their books, such as: The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson, From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks, and Finding Ultra by Rich Roll.
— Ryan Holiday
The Power Broker
by Robert A. Caro
There might be a week where I read several books and then there might be a couple weeks where i'm not reading or I'm just really struggling with one book like a book like The Power Broker might take me a couple weeks but I'm always reading and I'm reading short books and long books.
— Ryan Holiday
Letters from a Stoic
by Seneca
Seneca one of my favorite stoic philosophers says, in fact, that we must read like a spy in the enemy's camp. Seneca writes letters from a stoic. He's a stoic philosopher and yet the philosopher he quotes most in his letters is Epicurus - his rival right. He says "I will quote a bad author if the line is good".
— Ryan Holiday
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
I think that the thing that struck me most about um Man's Search for Meaning was he has this paragraph in the book where he says, you know, we ask what is the meaning of life and he says that's wrong life is asking us what meaning we are going to create with our actions
— Ryan Holiday
The War of Art
by Steven Pressfield
My other favorite books is the Steven Pressfield's war of Art. My copy of this book is, you know, 10-12 and 13 years old now and it's filled with all sorts of different notations and, you know, things that I took from it.
— Ryan Holiday
Tiny Beautiful Things
by Cheryl Strayed
I love Cheryl Strayed, she's a great writer. She says all sorts of brilliant things. If you haven't read her book 'Dear Sugar' [Tiny Beautiful Things] you absolutely should.
— Ryan Holiday
Range
by David Epstein
So there's a book behind you I was just thinking about when I think of you, one of my favorite books, Range. Have you read Range?
— Ryan Holiday
Steal like an artist
by Austin Kleon
A favorite book of mine (and popular in the store) is Steal Like an Artist. You borrow, of course, but the key is that no one has the same combination of influences as you. So it creates a unique equation.
— Ryan Holiday
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
I’ll go reread a favorite novel, such as A Man in Full or The Moviegoer or Memoirs of Hadrian.
— Ryan Holiday
The Discourses of Epictetus
by Epictetus
Epictetus one of the great philosophers of all time from the great stoics of all time he summarizes his own book when he says the chief task in life is to separate things that are in our control from those that are not in our control.
— Ryan Holiday
The inner citadel
by Pierre Hadot
I like Donald Robertson's book *How To Think Like a Roman Emperor* but the best book about Stoicism that's not written by one of the Stoics has got to be *The Inner Citadel* by Pierre Hadot.
— Ryan Holiday
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Re-Read The Masters You were in high school when you read The Great Gatsby for the first time. You were just a kid when you read The Count of Monte Cristo or had someone tell you the story of Odysseus. The point is: You got it right? You read them. You’re done, right? Nope. We cannot be content to simply pick up a book once and judge it by that experience. It’s why we have to read and re-read.
— Ryan Holiday
A Man in Full
by Tom Wolfe
I’ll go reread a favorite novel, such as A Man in Full or The Moviegoer or Memoirs of Hadrian.
— Ryan Holiday
Keep Going
by Austin Kleon
.@austinkleon's books are some of my all-time favorites about writing/creativity. So it was pretty cool to have him at my book store The Painted Porch signing copies of his books including the 10-year anniversary edition of Steal Like An Artist. Grab a copy while we have them.
— Ryan Holiday
A Calendar of Wisdom
by Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoy
Some books I leaned on often throughout this were The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy.
— Ryan Holiday
Dying Every Day
by James Romm
I would add one other little book, Seneca book. I love 'Dying Every Day by James Romm. [...] I found this to be a fascinating biography about the intersection of philosophy and practice of which Seneca was not perfect.
— Ryan Holiday
Titan
by Ron Chernow
6 Books Every Ambitious Young Person Should Read The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. Titan by Ron Chernow. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Cyropaedia by Xenophon
— Ryan Holiday
Atomic Habits
by James Clear
It’s when things are chaotic and crazy, when the world feels like it’s falling apart, that we most need to develop good habits. I think about James Clear’s concept of atomic habits on a regular basis. To me, this is a sign of a great book—that even just thinking about the title has an impact on you. I love the double meaning of the word atomic—not just meaning explosive habits, but also focusing on the smallest possible size of habit, the tiniest step you can take to start the chain reaction that can in fact lead to explosive results.
— Ryan Holiday
Totto-Chan
by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
One of my absolute favorite books Totto-Chan the little girl at the window.
— Ryan Holiday
What makes Sammy run?
by Budd Schulberg
What Makes Sammy Run and The Moviegoer--two favorites in the store too
— Ryan Holiday
Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
by Charlie Mackesy
Courage is also asking for help. This is a little book I like to read to my young children, it's called The Boy The Fox The Horse and the mole and he says asking for help isn't giving up - it is refusing to give up.
— Ryan Holiday
The Second Mountain
by David Brooks
Have you read the book the Second Mountain by David Brooks? [...] I think you would like that book it's really good.
— Ryan Holiday
Mastery
by Robert Greene
Robert Greene’s metaphor for mastery (if you haven’t read Mastery, you must) is being on the inside of something.
— Ryan Holiday
Status anxiety
by Alain de Botton
6 Books Every Ambitious Young Person Should Read The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. Titan by Ron Chernow. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Cyropaedia by Xenophon
— Ryan Holiday
Cyropaedia
by Xenophon
6 Books Every Ambitious Young Person Should Read The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. Titan by Ron Chernow. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Cyropaedia by Xenophon
— Ryan Holiday
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
by Donald Robertson
I like Donald Robertson's book *How To Think Like a Roman Emperor* but the best book about Stoicism that's not written by one of the Stoics has got to be *The Inner Citadel* by Pierre Hadot.
— Ryan Holiday
History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
Let's say someone you know hears that you know History of the Peloponnesian War might help you understand the jostling between the United States and China, you know, don't just go buy that book off the shelf and think you're going to read it if you've never read some work of ancient history before.
— Ryan Holiday
American Caesar
by William Manchester
Have you read the William Manchester biography of of MacArthur [...] It's incredible!
— Ryan Holiday
Gates of fire
by Steven Pressfield
There's a line in um one of Steven Pressfield's books I love. Have you ever read his stuff? [...] You would love uh the War of Art or he has this novel called Gates of Fire that's amazing
— Ryan Holiday
The Daily Laws
by Robert Greene
I’ve always loved the “daily read” format, I’ve recommended some of my favorites here before, I’ve been lucky enough to publish one of my own, and now I feel even luckier to have been able to help Robert bring this book into existence. People ask me all the time, Where should I start with Robert Greene? What book should I read first? It’s been impossible to answer, so I suggested he do a book that was a kind of greatest hits album, a book that captures the totality of his brilliant, life-changing thinking. And now that book exists! Even though I’ve read and reread all of Robert’s books, this book has not left my desk since I got my copy.
— Ryan Holiday
Deep Work
by Cal Newport
Cal is not just one of my favorite thinkers, not just one of my favorite authors, but also one of my favorite people to talk to. I think Cal holds the record for most appearances on the Daily Stoic podcast (you can listen to our conversations here, here, here, and here). But anyone doing knowledge work in the 21st century has to be familiar with Cal’s concept of deep work. This is a book that explains how to cultivate and protect that skill—the ability to focus, be creative, and think at a high level.
— Ryan Holiday
The Choice
by EDITH EGER
Dr. Edith Eger is a complete hero of mine. At 16-years-old, she’s sent to Auschwitz. And how does this not break a person? How do they survive? How do they endure the unendurable? And how do they emerge from this, not just not broken, but cheerful and happy and of service to other people? The last thing Dr. Eger’s mother said to her before she was sent to the gas chambers was that very Stoic idea: even when we find ourselves in horrendous situations, we can always choose how we respond to them, who we’re going to be inside of them, what we’re going to hold onto inside of them.
— Ryan Holiday
Turning pro
by Steven Pressfield
This book is so good and so perfect for the moment, whether you’re an artist or an entrepreneur, a parent or a movie producer. Because the early 2020s have been separating the amateurs from the pros. When times are good, you can be soft and lazy. But when the going gets tough? I hope this book can be an investment in yourself this year. As Steven writes, “I wrote in The War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.”
— Ryan Holiday
Leadership In Turbulent Times
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
This is an absolutely incredible book. I think I marked up nearly every page. The book is a study of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR and Lyndon Johnson, and it is so clearly the culmination of a lifetime of research… and yet somehow not overwhelming or boring. Distillation at its best! I have read extensively on each of those figures and I got a ton out of it. Even stuff I already knew, I benefited from Goodwin’s perspective. This is the perfect book to read right now—a timely reminder that leadership matters.
— Ryan Holiday
Phosphorescence
by Julia Baird
I LOVED Julia Baird’s biography of Queen Victoria and have raved about it many times. When I heard she was writing a follow up, I assumed it would be another biography. I did not expect this powerful, inspiring book about resilience and powering through.
— Ryan Holiday
The Great Influenza
by John M. Barry
I've talked about John M. Barry's book The Great Influenza which is an incredible book that I think everyone should have read at the beginning of this pandemic
— Ryan Holiday
The Black Swan
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Taleb is one of my favorite writers if you haven't read the Black Swan or Anti-Fragile or Fooled by Randomness you absolutely should.
— Ryan Holiday
My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George
Have you read Hatchet? Or My Side of the Mountain?
— Ryan Holiday
Shadow Divers
by Robert Kurson
I recommended it below but Shadow Divers is great. So is River of Doubt.
— Ryan Holiday
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
I like The Inner Citadel a lot. Memoirs of Hadrian. Donald Robertson's book is also very good
— Ryan Holiday
Painting as a pastime.
by Winston S. Churchill
Churchill wrote a book called Painting as a Pastime and I was like 'What?' Why would... first off I don't think people think of Churchill as a writer but that's how he made his living.
— Ryan Holiday
Fishing for fun--and to wash your soul
by Herbert Clark Hoover - President of the USA (1929-1933)
Herbert Hoover actually wrote a book called 'Fishing for Fun' and then in parentheses the subtitle is 'or how to wash your soul'
— Ryan Holiday
Plutarch's Lives; Volume 1
by Plutarch
Some of the best biographies I’ve read: Plutarch’s Lives (Vol. 1 & 2) by Plutarch The Power Broker by Robert Caro The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Titan by Ron Chernow
— Ryan Holiday
Sherman
by B. H. Liddell Hart
Books on strategy that stand the test of time: - History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides - All the works of BH Liddell Hart - The Book of Five Rings by Musashi - The Prince by Machiavelli - 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
— Ryan Holiday
Hard Scrabble
by John Graves
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
Grant
by Ron Chernow
If you read the new Chernow book he paints a nuanced picture of Grant's presidency that I found quite compelling.
— Ryan Holiday
Rules for radicals
by Saul David Alinsky
No, it's a brilliant book that anyone involved in politics or strategy or marketing should read, whatever their persuasion.
— Ryan Holiday
Call Sign Chaos
by James N. Mattis
General Mattis talks about his idyllic childhood in Washington and he says the greatest gift that his parents gave him was that they introduced he and his siblings to the world of ideas [...] this is what instills in him a lifelong love of learning and of books. He says in his memoir, this is an important line i hope everyone remembers, it says if you haven't read hundreds of books about what you do you are functionally illiterate you will be incompetent because your own experiences are not broad enough to sustain you.
— Ryan Holiday
The Art of Happiness
by Epicurus
Seneca one of my favorite stoic philosophers says, in fact, that we must read like a spy in the enemy's camp. Seneca writes letters from a stoic. He's a stoic philosopher and yet the philosopher he quotes most in his letters is Epicurus - his rival right. He says "I will quote a bad author if the line is good".
— Ryan Holiday
The Odyssey
by Homer
Re-Read The Masters You were in high school when you read The Great Gatsby for the first time. You were just a kid when you read The Count of Monte Cristo or had someone tell you the story of Odysseus. The point is: You got it right? You read them. You’re done, right? Nope. We cannot be content to simply pick up a book once and judge it by that experience. It’s why we have to read and re-read.
— Ryan Holiday
The years of Lyndon Johnson
by Robert A. Caro
Robert Caro in his books on Lyndon Johnson he was saying something like um it's not that power corrupts it's that power reveals.
— Ryan Holiday
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
by Mark Manson
We’ve also had many of my favorite authors stop by and sign copies of their books, such as: The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson, From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks, and Finding Ultra by Rich Roll.
— Ryan Holiday
How to Be a Leader
by Plutarch
There's a great book it's a new translation of Plutarch called How to be a Leader and he has a good line he says a leader must be able and willing to do anything but can't do everything.
— Ryan Holiday
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, one of the best quotes from this book summarizes it completely - it's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything
— Ryan Holiday
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
by Mordecai Richler
Ooh The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. This was actually recommended to me by Dov Charney [...] wonderful fascinating novel that everyone should read.
— Ryan Holiday
Blue ocean strategy
by W. Chan Kim
I love this book it changed how I think about marketing and business competition.
— Ryan Holiday
The gift of failure
by Jessica Lahey
Failure is a gift and you are depriving your children of that gift when you do everything for them
— Ryan Holiday
Death be not proud
by John Gunther
So i found this book it's called Death Be Not Proud, it was written in 1949.
— Ryan Holiday
Born to Run
by Bruce Springsteen
Have you read the the Springsteen uh biography born to run, his autobiography?
— Ryan Holiday
Crisis of Conscience
by Tom Mueller
I read a good book uh called Crisis of Conscience.
— Ryan Holiday
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Like many public school kids, I was assigned Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 in high school. I remembered the book as a warning against totalitarian censorship by the government. It was only later, re-reading it as an adult, that I realized Bradbury—who had written the book on purchased time at a library typewriter—was depicting something much more insidious. As Captain Beatty explains to Montag, who had begun to doubt his terrible profession, censorship was what the people wanted. This horrendous burning of books hadn’t been forced on them by a tyrant. They had chosen this.
— Ryan Holiday
The Diary of Anne Frank
by Frances Goodrich
You know you read uh Anne Frank's diary and you see this precocious you know beautiful young girl who who's struck down in her prime
— Ryan Holiday
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
I read two books before I read yours, that that sort of informed my reading. Maybe people have brought this up to you but I stupidly reread Cormac McCarthy's The Road at the beginning of the pandemic and then I also recently read a book which you might not have read [...] Called Lincoln on the Verge.
— Ryan Holiday
A Man at Arms
by Steven Pressfield
I love Steven [...] his new book is incredible, uh A Man At Arms, but Steven's been a mentor of mine since I started as a writer and I reread Gates of Fire at the beginning of the pandemic and I'm very glad i did.
— Ryan Holiday
Montaigne
by Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig who I know you love wrote this amazing biography of Montaigne.
— Ryan Holiday
Letters to a Young Athlete
by Chris Bosh
I was lucky enough to help Chris bring this book into existence. Obviously, I am biased, but I think this is a book that very much needs to exist and Chris is a wonderful thinker and philosopher about sports, craft, the drive to win and responding to adversity. You can listen to my interview with him (recorded at the front table at the bookstore) here, but do read the book. He’s great. I think this is a future classic.
— Ryan Holiday
How to Live
by Sarah Bakewell
The book is spectacular. It was a bestseller in the UK and was featured in a 6 part series in The Guardian. The format of the book is a bit unusual, instead of chapters it is made up of 20 Montaigne style essays that discuss the man from a variety of different perspectives. Montaigne was a man obsessed with figuring himself out — why he thought the way he did, how he could find happiness, his fetishes, his near-death experiences. He lived in tumultuous times too and he coped by looking inward. We’re lucky he did, and we can do the same.
— Ryan Holiday
Parting the Waters
by Taylor Branch
I’ve raved about some of my favorite epic biographies before: Robert Caro’s LBJ and William Manchester’s Churchill, among others. Well, add another to the list: Taylor Branch’s definitive series on Martin Luther King Jr. and the American civil rights movement. I’ve come to believe that one of the best ways to become an informed citizen in the present is not to watch the news, but to read history.
— Ryan Holiday
The Inner Game of Tennis
by W. Timothy Gallwey
Have you read 'The Inner Game of Tennis'? [...] okay, so one you have to read it if you like tennis! But I believe it's Tom Brady's favorite book.
— Ryan Holiday
First Principles
by Thomas E. Ricks
On today's @dailystoic Podcast, I talk to historian @tomricks1 about his newest book First Principles, the founding fathers familiarity with the ancient Stoics, the wisdom that was embedded into the constitution, and more. Listen here: https://t.co/kYJ4cDrtBF pic.twitter.com/Q6bPlwJbbS
— Ryan Holiday
Yes to Life
by Viktor E. Frankl
Mind-blowingly there was a new Viktor Frankl book this year. They discovered a collection of old lectures and essays that he'd written and they gave it this incredible title that hit me so hard, it's 'Yes to Life in Spite of Everything'
— Ryan Holiday
Antifragile
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Taleb is one of my favorite writers if you haven't read the Black Swan or Anti-Fragile or Fooled by Randomness you absolutely should.
— Ryan Holiday
The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell
I think if a Malcolm Gladwell book came out today like The Tipping Point came out today I think it would not sell five million copies because um now people would want to know specifically how to create tipping points.
— Ryan Holiday
Strategy
by Freedman, Lawrence.
I read Lawrence Freedman's book and it's called the Future of War. I don't know if you read it but he wrote he wrote that great book Strategy and he was sort of looking at how at every generation they thought things have fundamentally changed and are different and how how naive that assumption turns out to be every single time
— Ryan Holiday
On looking
by Alexandra Horowitz
I read this great book On Looking by alexandra Horowitz and she talks about taking this walk with her kids and trying to see the walk through her daughter's eyes and what she catches herself realizing is that her daughter doesn't know that the walk starts when they leave her house. Her daughter thinks that the walk starts when she says we're taking a walk
— Ryan Holiday
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon
This is The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon. When I was in college I really wanted to read it but this set was like 150 dollars or something and so I told my parents that i needed it for class.
— Ryan Holiday
Talking to Strangers
by Malcolm Gladwell
I remember I first read The Tipping Point then I read Blink then Outliers then David and Goliath which is also very good, but then when I read Talking with Strangers last year [...] I remember I shot him an email and I said 'Malcolm this book is like the definition of mastery, it's like watching a master at work'. He took this subject matter that should have been so difficult and frankly not interesting and it's fascinating.
— Ryan Holiday
The Intelligent Investor
by Benjamin Graham
They don't realize that a book can be the greatest investment you ever make in your life that's what Warren Buffett said. He said the single best investment he ever made was buying a copy of Benjamin Graham's Intelligent Investor.
— Ryan Holiday
Roman honor
by Carlin A. Barton
If you want a book to start here's some: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, Roman Honor Carlin Barton, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's Letters.
— Ryan Holiday
The River of Doubt
by Candice Millard
I recommended it below but Shadow Divers is great. So is River of Doubt.
— Ryan Holiday
Taming the Tiger Within
by Thích Nhất Hạnh
Seneca's essay On Anger is worth reading and so is Agnes Callard's stuff on anger. I also like Taming the Tiger Within and there is an old AA book called You Can't Make Me Angry.
— Ryan Holiday
The Book of Five Rings
by Musashi Miyamoto
Books on strategy that stand the test of time: - History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides - All the works of BH Liddell Hart - The Book of Five Rings by Musashi - The Prince by Machiavelli - 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
— Ryan Holiday
The Woman's Hour
by Elaine Weiss
Some books to read in 2020: - Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch - Keep Going by @austinkleon - The Second Mountain by David Brooks - The Woman’s Hour by Elaine Weiss - My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George - Range by @DavidEpstein - How To Keep Your Cool by Seneca
— Ryan Holiday
Candide
by Voltaire
I read this copy of Candide on the day of my wedding with @samagerie five years ago because it was on the shelf at the venue. Then I stole it and took it home with me. "Il faut cultiver son jardin." https://t.co/XrcR89W1yS pic.twitter.com/yde8ZcoYsd
— Ryan Holiday
The Creative Habit
by Twyla Tharp
I wanted to do a little reading. This is a passage from Twyla Tharp who wrote an amazing book called the creative habit.
— Ryan Holiday
The rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
When I was 19 years old, I met @drdrewpinsky and asked him for some book recommendations. These are the three he gave me...and my Amazon receipt. That question changed my life and I still have the books. Passing along the recommendation if you haven't re… https://t.co/hACtooDiZS pic.twitter.com/SjsXXw4lrG
— Ryan Holiday
The 33 Strategies of War
by Robert Greene
In 2006, I went for a walk with @realtuckermax in New York City. He bought me this book and put me on a path to becoming a writer. You never know what moments or people will end up changing your life. https://t.co/YWJ9UEfLje pic.twitter.com/ngJ2yz63Mx
— Ryan Holiday
The Fish That Ate the Whale
by Rich Cohen
8 Life Changing Biographies To Read: Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch The Power Broker by Robert Caro Socrates by Paul Johnson Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Eisenhower by Jean Edward Smith Edison by Matthew Josephson The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen Sherman by B.H. Hart
— Ryan Holiday
Lincoln
by Fred Kaplan
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
The Strategy of Indirect Approach
by B. H. Liddell Hart
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
The Dip
by Seth Godin
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
The image
by Daniel J. Boorstin
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
Predictably Irrational
by Dan Ariely
Robert Greene's books at best in class here. Must reads. Vanessa Van Edwards is also good. Dan Ariely too.
— Ryan Holiday
Hero of the empire
by Candice Millard
Have you read any of Robert Kurson? Shadow Divers, Pirate Hunters, and his new one, Rocket Men is out soon. Rich Cohen is also a master of this genre (Tough Jews, The Fish That Ate The Whale). I also love Candace Millard (Destiny of the Republic, The River of Doubt and her Churchill book).
— Ryan Holiday
Bright Shiny Morning
by James Frey
The best books I read this year. Most were old (some very old), some new, some old but felt new. You can follow along on my reading list email (https://t.co/9yuC15FLai) if you want more recommendations next year. If you're stressed out and want to start … https://t.co/25uvubl5Zz pic.twitter.com/Qcwv0sAGt0
— Ryan Holiday
Bird by Bird
by Anne Lamott
Oh this is a great question. First off, just read any form of amazing writing. Doesn't matter if it is John McPhee writing about volcanos or Michael Lewis writing about flash trading. You just want to see the craft done well. As for specific writing related recommendations? Bird By Bird Tiny Beautiful Things Orwell's essay on writing Zissner's Writing Well And if I may be so bold, I think Perennial Seller is worth a shot.
— Ryan Holiday
What I learned losing a million dollars
by Jim Paul
Present! A few other recommendations: What I Learned Losing $1 Million Dollars by Jim Paul Anti-Fragile by Nassim Taleb Resilience by Eric Grietens How They Succeeded by Orison Swett Marden
— Ryan Holiday
Stoic Warriors
by Nancy Sherman
Nancy Sherman who is an instructor here for many years, a wonderful writer and thinker about stoicism, and her book Stoic Warriors she talks about how we get the concept of stoicism wrong. There's a difference between uppercase stoicism and lowercase stoicism.
— Ryan Holiday
Love Wins
by Rob Bell
Yeah have you read uh 'Love Wins' by Rob Bell, I think you would really like it. I read it a couple years ago and he's basically talking about the idea that like maybe hell is not a place that you go to in the afterlife and that's kind of more of a stoic argument.
— Ryan Holiday
American buffalo
by Steven Rinella
I just reread uh American Buffalo, which I told you is one of my favorites.
— Ryan Holiday
Everything Happens for a Reason
by Kate Bowler
Have you read uh do you know who Kate Bowler is. No oh you would love her?
— Ryan Holiday
The Night of the Gun
by David Carr
There's a great book by David Carr called, A Night of the Gun or something like that, it's sort of an addiction memoir
— Ryan Holiday
Old School
by Tobias Wolff
In his book, Old School, Tobias Wolf’s semi-autobiographical character takes the time to type out quotes and passages from great books to feel great writing come through him. I do this almost every weekend in what I call a “commonplace book”— a collection of quotes, ideas, stories and facts that I want to keep for later.
— Ryan Holiday
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Re-Read The Masters You were in high school when you read The Great Gatsby for the first time. You were just a kid when you read The Count of Monte Cristo or had someone tell you the story of Odysseus. The point is: You got it right? You read them. You’re done, right? Nope. We cannot be content to simply pick up a book once and judge it by that experience. It’s why we have to read and re-read.
— Ryan Holiday
First
by Evan Thomas
I just read this great book by Evan Thomas about uh Sandra Day O'Connor um who I knew like next to nothing about.
— Ryan Holiday
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole’s great book A Confederacy of Dunces was universally turned down by publishers, news that so broke his heart that he later committed suicide in his car on an empty road in Biloxi, Mississippi.
— Ryan Holiday
Show Your Work!
by Austin Kleon
.@austinkleon's books are some of my all-time favorites about writing/creativity. So it was pretty cool to have him at my book store The Painted Porch signing copies of his books including the 10-year anniversary edition of Steal Like An Artist. Grab a copy while we have them.
— Ryan Holiday
From Strength to Strength
by Arthur Brooks
We’ve also had many of my favorite authors stop by and sign copies of their books, such as: The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson, From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks, and Finding Ultra by Rich Roll.
— Ryan Holiday
Finding Ultra
by Rich Roll
We’ve also had many of my favorite authors stop by and sign copies of their books, such as: The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson, From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks, and Finding Ultra by Rich Roll.
— Ryan Holiday
How to Fight Anti-Semitism
by Bari Weiss
How to Fight Semitism by Barry Weiss, the jews are one of the most persecuted attacked groups in all of human history.
— Ryan Holiday
Hold Me Tight
by Sue Johnson
Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson, I was recommended this by a therapist but basically she says that all couples are in a dance and one person reaches out and the other person pulls away and then this creates a toxic cycle in a relationship and so it's about recognizing this dance and stopping it before you end up in these long arguments and fights where no one gets what they want.
— Ryan Holiday
Essentialism
by Greg McKeown
Essentialism by Greg McKeown, Most of what we do and say and think is not essential, you have to know what's essential and you focus only on that.
— Ryan Holiday
Origin
by Jennifer Raff
I spoke with anthropological geneticist @JenniferRaff about her new book "Origins" and the genetic history of America on today's Daily Stoic Podcast. Listen here: https://t.co/h6mTssAr5W pic.twitter.com/fSSnVKcydu
— Ryan Holiday
What Made Maddy Run
by Kate Fagan
I had Kate Fagan on the podcast who wrote this amazing book called uh what makes Maddie run about this uh collegiate uh runner who who ended up committing suicide.
— Ryan Holiday
Lost & Found
by Kathryn Schulz
On today's @dailystoic podcast I talk to @kathrynschulz about the perpetual disconnect between reality and rhetoric, the importance of confronting darkness and dealing with grief, and her new book Lost & Found: A Memoir. Listen here: https://t.co/9Luo3yfiJj pic.twitter.com/QpfLyLIF3F
— Ryan Holiday
Empower
by Tareq Azim
On today's @dailystoic podcast I talk to NFL trainer and author Tareq Azim about his new book Empower, the distinction between ego and confidence, the power of meditating on death, and more. Listen here: https://t.co/rclqYMCAQG pic.twitter.com/fcfyaSAjPs
— Ryan Holiday
Boundary Boss
by Terri Cole
On today's @dailystoic podcast I talk to psychotherapist and author @terri_cole about her new book Boundary Boss, the power of saying no, and more. Listen here: https://t.co/FUvtawfNPl pic.twitter.com/GjtcqK1mqa
— Ryan Holiday
Out of Darkness
by Ashley Hope Pérez
The high school my sons will go to has been in the news for challenging a book called Out of Darkness, about segregation in a Texas oil town in the 1930s. More comically, another parent angrily protested an example of gay sex from a book called Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison at one of our school board meetings in September…but as the school librarian later pointed out, the school doesn’t even carry that book.
— Ryan Holiday
Lawn Boy
by Jonathan Evison
The high school my sons will go to has been in the news for challenging a book called Out of Darkness, about segregation in a Texas oil town in the 1930s. More comically, another parent angrily protested an example of gay sex from a book called Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison at one of our school board meetings in September…but as the school librarian later pointed out, the school doesn’t even carry that book.
— Ryan Holiday
Not My Idea
by Anastasia Higginbotham
They’ve also helped donate thousands of copies of books like Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham, King and the Dragon Flies by Kacen Callender, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and New Kid by Jerry Craft, among others, to give away to students in my local community (as a result, one small publisher told me they’re having to print extra copies of some banned titles).
— Ryan Holiday
King and the Dragonflies
by Kacen Callender
They’ve also helped donate thousands of copies of books like Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham, King and the Dragon Flies by Kacen Callender, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and New Kid by Jerry Craft, among others, to give away to students in my local community (as a result, one small publisher told me they’re having to print extra copies of some banned titles).
— Ryan Holiday
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
They’ve also helped donate thousands of copies of books like Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham, King and the Dragon Flies by Kacen Callender, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and New Kid by Jerry Craft, among others, to give away to students in my local community (as a result, one small publisher told me they’re having to print extra copies of some banned titles).
— Ryan Holiday
New Kid
by Jerry Craft
They’ve also helped donate thousands of copies of books like Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham, King and the Dragon Flies by Kacen Callender, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and New Kid by Jerry Craft, among others, to give away to students in my local community (as a result, one small publisher told me they’re having to print extra copies of some banned titles).
— Ryan Holiday
This Is Your Time
by Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges wrote a children's book um and uh i'm reading the back of it and she's only 66 years old and you're uh 79 80 it's not it wasn't that long ago that this happened.
— Ryan Holiday
The stranger in the woods
by Michael Finkel
Did you read The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel?
— Ryan Holiday
Lincoln on the Verge
by Ted Widmer
I read two books before I read yours, that that sort of informed my reading. Maybe people have brought this up to you but I stupidly reread Cormac McCarthy's The Road at the beginning of the pandemic and then I also recently read a book which you might not have read [...] Called Lincoln on the Verge.
— Ryan Holiday
Corruptible
by Brian Klaas
On today's @dailystoic podcast I talk to professor @brianklaas about his new book Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us, why we should minimize the psychological distance between leaders and the people they lead, and more. Listen here: https://t.co/SsPETAeqWO pic.twitter.com/V4TK6U9ZgF
— Ryan Holiday
The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty
by William Bligh
I was i was just reading a book about Captain Bligh and mutiny on the bounty and it was it was a really interesting book and it reminded me of this expression "character's fate".
— Ryan Holiday
Four Thousand Weeks
by Oliver Burkeman
As I’ve said before, I carry this memento mori coin in my pocket to remind me: You can leave life at any minute. Let that determine what you do and say and think. (I also have a piece of a tombstone on my bathroom counter). Oliver Burkeman’s new book illustrates the same point well–we have roughly four thousand weeks on this planet. How will we spend them? How should we think about them? And don’t be deceived by medical advancements. As I said in my monuments talk, I got to know a guy who lived to be 112. That’s still ‘only’ like 5,800 weeks.
— Ryan Holiday
The Last Lion
by Willian Manchester
I’ve raved about some of my favorite epic biographies before: Robert Caro’s LBJ and William Manchester’s Churchill, among others. Well, add another to the list: Taylor Branch’s definitive series on Martin Luther King Jr. and the American civil rights movement. I’ve come to believe that one of the best ways to become an informed citizen in the present is not to watch the news, but to read history.
— Ryan Holiday
Victoria The Queen
by Julia Baird
I LOVED Julia Baird’s biography of Queen Victoria and have raved about it many times.
— Ryan Holiday
How to Be a Farmer
by M. D. Usher
On today's @dailystoic podcast I talk to professor M.D. Usher about about his new book How to Be a Farmer, what the Stoics mean by living in accordance with nature, and more. Listen here: https://t.co/zxn9YAzf2m pic.twitter.com/ae5i1DCOHC
— Ryan Holiday
Empire of the Summer Moon
by S. C. Gwynne
Have you uh... S.C. Gwynne who wrote uh Empire of the Summer Moon one of the greatest uh nonfiction books I think of all time. I've had him on the podcast but did you read his book The Perfect Pass?
— Ryan Holiday
The Perfect Pass
by S. C. Gwynne
Have you uh... S.C. Gwynne who wrote uh Empire of the Summer Moon one of the greatest uh nonfiction books I think of all time. I've had him on the podcast but did you read his book The Perfect Pass?
— Ryan Holiday
How the Word Is Passed
by Clint Smith III
This was one of the absolute best books that i read this year. [...] I really love this book. This is how the word is passed - a reckoning with the history of slavery across America.
— Ryan Holiday
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
I love Jack Weatherford's book Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world. Highly recommend it.
— Ryan Holiday
Indian Givers
by Jack Weatherford
This book 'Indian Givers' not the most politically correct title I will grant you that [...] I just seriously found this book utterly fascinating. It's very rare that I read a book and almost nothing in it had I heard before, did I know about and that's what I felt was happening on page after page of this book.
— Ryan Holiday
Martha
by Agnes De Mille
This was a biography of Martha Graham [...] it was just amazing. I'm fascinated with anyone who is truly great at what they did.
— Ryan Holiday
Victory Over Myself
by Floyd Patterson
I'm not a huge boxing fan but I read two books: Victory Over Myself, this is the autobiography of Floyd Patterson [...] I just love the title of this book 'Victory Over Myself' to me that's the essence of what stoicism is the victory over oneself. [...] Great book, I really love this.
— Ryan Holiday
The harder they fall
by Budd Schulberg
One of my favorite boxing books this book 'The Harder They Fall by Bud Schulberg. Now I've read this book at least two other times. I remembered this book as being a deeply influential life-changing book for me because it's the fictional memoir basically of a public relations man, a press agent as they used to call him, who's sort of in this corrupt broken world and he's struggling to get out of it but he likes the money, he likes the attention. He keeps telling himself he's going to get out of it, he just needs like one more job.
— Ryan Holiday
Robert E. Lee
by Guelzo, Allen C.
On today’s @dailystoic podcast I talk to Historian Allen C. Guelzo about his new book Robert E. Lee: A Life, the importance of cherishing/protecting democratic principles, Lincoln’s complexity of depth and Lee’s complexity of confusion, and more. Listen: https://t.co/ZTPzugZzbY pic.twitter.com/BcV9ynZahM
— Ryan Holiday
Walking Miracle
by Ryan Shazier
On today’s episode of the @dailystoic Podcast I talk to former NFL linebacker @RyanShazier about his new book Walking Miracle, how he managed to overcome incredible adversity after a career ending spinal cord injury, and more. Listen here: https://t.co/iKwomzUBfs pic.twitter.com/O22j2HAXBI
— Ryan Holiday
Twelve and a Half
by Gary Vaynerchuk
On today's @dailystoic Podcast I talk to entrepreneur @garyvee about his new book Twelve and a Half, how to get comfortable with vulnerability and emotional development, and more. Listen here: https://t.co/GO8xyd8W5e pic.twitter.com/ZLKX41THs7
— Ryan Holiday
Fooled by Randomness
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Taleb is one of my favorite writers if you haven't read the Black Swan or Anti-Fragile or Fooled by Randomness you absolutely should.
— Ryan Holiday
The Moral Animal
by Robert Wright
One might think what does the the ideas in The Moral Animal which is my favorite book of yours connect to your work on buddhism
— Ryan Holiday
Play Nice But Win
by Michael Dell
On today's episode of the @dailystoic Podcast I talk to founder and CEO of one of America’s largest technology companies @MichaelDell about his new book Play Nice But Win, the balance between trusting yourself and experts, and more. Listen here: https://t.co/7X3wrVrmIn pic.twitter.com/SmRWTbMeGl
— Ryan Holiday
The Good Kings
by Kara Cooney
On today's @dailystoic Podcast, I talk to @KaraCooney about her new book The Good Kings, ancient strategies that were used to gain and maintain power, and more. Listen here: https://t.co/kiOSoiZs1X pic.twitter.com/MAnAZs1PPl
— Ryan Holiday
The Future of War
by Lawrence Freedman
I read Lawrence Freedman's book and it's called the Future of War. I don't know if you read it but he wrote he wrote that great book Strategy and he was sort of looking at how at every generation they thought things have fundamentally changed and are different and how how naive that assumption turns out to be every single time
— Ryan Holiday
Rationality
by Steven Pinker
On today's @dailystoic Podcast I talk to @sapinker about his new book Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, the importance of pursuing effective altruism, and more. Listen here: https://t.co/9R1Ds3Ec2G pic.twitter.com/nQQqDgG8kM
— Ryan Holiday
The American Experiment
by David M. Rubenstein
On today's @dailystoic podcast, I talk to American billionaire David Rubenstein about his new book The American Experiment, his original concept of patriotic philanthropy and giving back after coming from a middle class family, and more. Listen here: https://t.co/jIbzbYO9Mm pic.twitter.com/hZm7nDP88K
— Ryan Holiday
Leaders
by Nixon, Richard M.
I read a book that Nixon wrote. It's this fascinating book called Leaders where Nixon wrote about all the leaders he had spent time with and I just love, yeah I love that story and it's [...] just called leaders, it was really interesting. He's actually a very intelligent interesting person despite the big stain on him in history.
— Ryan Holiday
Great contemporaries
by Winston S. Churchill
There's another similar book to the Nixon one that Churchill wrote called Great Contemporaries.
— Ryan Holiday
Here, Right Matters
by Alexander Vindman
On today’s episode of the @dailystoic podcast, I speak with Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman about his book Here, Right Matters, the difference between physical and moral courage, and more. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/ohxXrcv0jP pic.twitter.com/K5Cvu3YUUD
— Ryan Holiday
High Five
by Adam Rubin
On today's @dailystoic Podcast, I talk to author @Rubingo about his newest book High Five, the magic that is being able to express yourself creatively, following your destiny and inspiring others to do the same, and more. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/uARaDl6Yns pic.twitter.com/zlqdEBLKPs
— Ryan Holiday
This Bright Future
by Bobby Hall
On today’s @dailystoic podcast, I talk to recording artist @Logic301 about his new memoir This Bright Future, dealing with pain and struggle in an expressive and creative way, and more. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/4CFGrjzb8i pic.twitter.com/PBjjHJWsMc
— Ryan Holiday
The Gift of Fear
by Gavin De Becker
What am I missing by choosing to worry or be afraid? One of my favorite books is the Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker and he says when you worry ask yourself what am I choosing not to see right now?
— Ryan Holiday
Our Own Worst Enemy
by Tom Nichols
On today's @dailystoic podcast, I talk to @RadioFreeTom about his new book Our Own Worst Enemy, how to bridge the gap between detailed knowledge and the public conversation, and more. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/ONIcfrbLsA pic.twitter.com/KfhxgeDCOT
— Ryan Holiday
The Practice of Groundedness
by Brad Stulberg
On today's @dailystoic podcast, I talk to author @BStulberg about his new book The Practice of Groundedness, practical steps to alleviate the anxiety that comes with the lifelong pursuit of greatness, and more. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/YHobJGkJit pic.twitter.com/hal7vRneQ1
— Ryan Holiday
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
Adam Smith who was the economist, he wrote the Wealth of Nations but he also wrote a book called the Theory of Moral Sentiments which is this sort of brilliant book about philosophy and kind of like why we do the right thing.
— Ryan Holiday
The theory of moral sentiments
by Adam Smith
Adam Smith who was the economist, he wrote the Wealth of Nations but he also wrote a book called the Theory of Moral Sentiments which is this sort of brilliant book about philosophy and kind of like why we do the right thing.
— Ryan Holiday
The Art of Living
by Epictetus
On today's @dailystoic podcast, I talk to @sharonlebell about her translation of Epictetus – The Art Of Living, the imbalance in the Stoic writings concerning gender roles, and more. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/ILEziisc9U pic.twitter.com/ly50IBBDpI
— Ryan Holiday
What do you say?
by William Stixrud
On today's @dailystoic podcast I talk to Dr. William Stixrud and @NedJohnson about their new book What Do You Say?, facing adversity and building resilience, and more. Listen to the interview: https://t.co/ibXjqMpapP pic.twitter.com/XSA3g1kNtg
— Ryan Holiday
Battle for the Soul
by Edward-Isaac Dovere
On today’s episode of the @dailystoic podcast, I talk to journalist and author @IsaacDovere about his new book Battle for the Soul, being courageous and fighting for what’s right, and more. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/8ZZgZcAo67 pic.twitter.com/duE35KfstP
— Ryan Holiday
Fast This Way
by Dave Asprey
On today's @dailystoic podcast, I talk to @bulletproofexec about his new book Fast This Way, the benefits of intermittent fasting, how to optimize your life to maximize both physical and mental performance, and more. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/z7UIHDHI7Q pic.twitter.com/AIu6QiaFDn
— Ryan Holiday
Le Petit Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I don't know if you ever read the children's story The Little Prince? It's a it's a wonderful story that we tell children. There's a quote in it I think it's very important, he's saying 'vain men never hear anything but praise'
— Ryan Holiday
Amazon Unbound
by Brad Stone
on today's @dailystoic podcast I talk to journalist and author @BradStone about his new book Amazon Unbound, the future implications of technology guided business practices, and more. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/Gq3Ngsk3t3 pic.twitter.com/kNPrHaJySD
— Ryan Holiday
Blink
by Malcolm Gladwell
I remember I first read The Tipping Point then I read Blink then Outliers then David and Goliath which is also very good, but then when I read Talking with Strangers last year [...] I remember I shot him an email and I said 'Malcolm this book is like the definition of mastery, it's like watching a master at work'. He took this subject matter that should have been so difficult and frankly not interesting and it's fascinating.
— Ryan Holiday
Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell
I remember I first read The Tipping Point then I read Blink then Outliers then David and Goliath which is also very good, but then when I read Talking with Strangers last year [...] I remember I shot him an email and I said 'Malcolm this book is like the definition of mastery, it's like watching a master at work'. He took this subject matter that should have been so difficult and frankly not interesting and it's fascinating.
— Ryan Holiday
David and Goliath
by Malcolm Gladwell
I remember I first read The Tipping Point then I read Blink then Outliers then David and Goliath which is also very good, but then when I read Talking with Strangers last year [...] I remember I shot him an email and I said 'Malcolm this book is like the definition of mastery, it's like watching a master at work'. He took this subject matter that should have been so difficult and frankly not interesting and it's fascinating.
— Ryan Holiday
The Self-Driven Child
by William Stixrud PhD
On today's @dailystoic podcast I talk to Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson about their book The Self-Driven Child, the difference between a healthy drive for excellence and having enough, and more. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/mdBcYJNOwj pic.twitter.com/ZYznwD4VRa
— Ryan Holiday
All the Colors Came Out
by Kate Fagan
On today's @dailystoic Podcast, I talk to Kate Fagan about her new book All the Colors Came Out, her reflections on the bond that she shared with her father and his difficult fight with ALS, and more. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/uHWZ8H5eFE pic.twitter.com/P3onUqlPGm
— Ryan Holiday
The Aeneid
by Virgil
On today’s @dailystoic podcast I talk to Classics scholar and professor @ShadiBartsch about how to use the classics as a way to reflect and think critically about oneself, her translation of Virgil’s The Aeneid, and more. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/PlQLVEu7GQ pic.twitter.com/wpks7wjcXn
— Ryan Holiday
Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year
by Allie Esiri
There's a couple of daily books I read. I read this book called A Poem for Every Night of the Year. I read a daily Shakespeare book. I read a book that Tolstoy wrote called a calendar of wisdom. I have all these different daily books that I like.
— Ryan Holiday
Poem For Every Night Of The Year
by Esiri Allie (ed)
There's a couple of daily books I read. I read this book called A Poem for Every Night of the Year. I read a daily Shakespeare book. I read a book that Tolstoy wrote called a calendar of wisdom. I have all these different daily books that I like.
— Ryan Holiday
The Bomber Mafia
by Malcolm Gladwell
On today's episode of the @dailystoic Podcast I talk to Malcolm Gladwell (@Gladwell) about his new book, The Bomber Mafia, the process of writing, our mutual love of endurance sports, and more. Listen to the full episode here: https://t.co/tjVVkb2EPM pic.twitter.com/AaBVMWxHHc
— Ryan Holiday
Freedom
by Sebastian Junger
On the @dailystoic podcast, I spoke with author and filmmaker @sebastianjunger about his new book 'Freedom', the unforeseen consequences of fighting for freedom, how the fragility of life reveals a wonderment at existence, and more. Full Podcast: https://t.co/c6vQAECB4r pic.twitter.com/PhhyLisjdV
— Ryan Holiday
Civil War Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce, Civil War Stories. His ghost stories are great too. He was a real cynic (wrote The Devil's Dictionary) and would fit in on Reddit for sure.
— Ryan Holiday
Ralph Ellison
by Arnold Rampersad
I am reading Arnold Rampersand's biography of Ralph Ellison. A little slow but learning a lot.
— Ryan Holiday
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
I think the most underrated genre out there is narrative nonfiction--true stories that read like novels. Truman Capote more or less invented it with In Cold Blood. A bunch of my favorite books are in that category so we sell a lot of those.
— Ryan Holiday
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
Have you ever read any Raymond Chandler? He is the OG.
— Ryan Holiday
The tiger
by John Vaillant
The Tiger by John Vallaint Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson Both true. Both incredible.
— Ryan Holiday
A Poem for Every Night of the Year
by Allie Esiri
Every night we read Allie Essiri's A Poem for Every Night of the Year, which I really like. My Side of the Mountain is great too. I just read Bonnie Tsui's Sarah and the Big Wave which your daughter might like.
— Ryan Holiday
Sarah and the Big Wave
by Bonnie Tsui
Every night we read Allie Essiri's A Poem for Every Night of the Year, which I really like. My Side of the Mountain is great too. I just read Bonnie Tsui's Sarah and the Big Wave which your daughter might like.
— Ryan Holiday
You Can't Make Me Angry
by Paul O.
Seneca's essay On Anger is worth reading and so is Agnes Callard's stuff on anger. I also like Taming the Tiger Within and there is an old AA book called You Can't Make Me Angry.
— Ryan Holiday
Why We Swim
by Bonnie Tsui
On the Daily Stoic podcast, I spoke with @bonnietsui about her new book, "Why We Swim", their mutual love of swimming, how exercise can spur creativity, and more Full Podcast: https://t.co/i1LNV9AgkI Subscribe now! Apple: https://t.co/ZROTZyjhFq Spotify: https://t.co/0Yyoxc8mNx pic.twitter.com/AgK93FsYeB
— Ryan Holiday
Digital Minimalism
by Cal Newport
You can check out his new Time Block Calendar. We talk all about that and of course if you haven't read Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, So Good They Can't Ignore You, you are definitely missing out.
— Ryan Holiday
Time-Block Planner
by Cal Newport
You can check out his new Time Block Calendar. We talk all about that and of course if you haven't read Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, So Good They Can't Ignore You, you are definitely missing out.
— Ryan Holiday
So Good They Can't Ignore You
by Cal Newport
You can check out his new Time Block Calendar. We talk all about that and of course if you haven't read Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, So Good They Can't Ignore You, you are definitely missing out.
— Ryan Holiday
Trillion Dollar Coach
by Eric Schmidt
There's another quote i love from Bill Campbell. I read it in this book Trillion Dollar Coach. I've tried to make it a little bit of mantra for my life, he says if you've been blessed be a blessing.
— Ryan Holiday
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
I went back and read one of my favorite books Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Just an overall an incredible book and again this idea that history is the same thing that happens over and over again.
— Ryan Holiday
The legend of Bagger Vance
by Steven Pressfield
Have you read Steven Pressfield at all? [...] So you would love Steven Pressfield, he wrote a book called The War of Art which I think is like the best book about the sort of creative process ever written but he also he made a novel about it called the the Legend of Bagger Vance.
— Ryan Holiday
George Marshall
by David L. Roll
His father as it happens is also an amazing writer. He wrote a brilliant book about George Marshall which I've recommended on the reading list newsletter so check that out as well.
— Ryan Holiday
Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey, author of the new book Greenlights. My blurb for it is, it shouldn't surprise you that this book is good but it will surprise you just how good it is.
— Ryan Holiday
Belichick
by Ian O'Connor
I was reading the Belichick biography and it was like it's interesting Belichick has like basically never done an endorsement or a television commercial.
— Ryan Holiday
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
by Plutarch
Some of the best biographies I’ve read: Plutarch’s Lives (Vol. 1 & 2) by Plutarch The Power Broker by Robert Caro The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Titan by Ron Chernow
— Ryan Holiday
The lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects
by Giorgio Vasari
Some of the best biographies I’ve read: Plutarch’s Lives (Vol. 1 & 2) by Plutarch The Power Broker by Robert Caro The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Titan by Ron Chernow
— Ryan Holiday
The Prince and the Discourses
by Niccolò Machiavelli
Books on strategy that stand the test of time: - History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides - All the works of BH Liddell Hart - The Book of Five Rings by Musashi - The Prince by Machiavelli - 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
— Ryan Holiday
Matterhorn
by Karl Marlantes
Karl Marlantes wrote a beautiful sort of haunting novel about his experiences in Vietnam and there's a phrase in that book it appears something like 40 times and the phrase is "there it is" and I think that's kind of a beautiful expression
— Ryan Holiday
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
by William T. Sherman
Two of the best memoirs in American history were written by two men who were not professional authors. It goes to show, the best way to be a writer is to live an interesting life. If you haven't read Sherman or Grant's memoirs, you don't understand Ameri… https://t.co/IlnpEaJOTS pic.twitter.com/vIq3JHv6Mn
— Ryan Holiday
Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant
by Ulysses S. Grant
Two of the best memoirs in American history were written by two men who were not professional authors. It goes to show, the best way to be a writer is to live an interesting life. If you haven't read Sherman or Grant's memoirs, you don't understand Ameri… https://t.co/IlnpEaJOTS pic.twitter.com/vIq3JHv6Mn
— Ryan Holiday
Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
I was like what could we listen to that would make my kid better yeah and so I found these old radio recordings of Aesop's Fables
— Ryan Holiday
How to Keep Your Cool
by Seneca
Some books to read in 2020: - Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch - Keep Going by @austinkleon - The Second Mountain by David Brooks - The Woman’s Hour by Elaine Weiss - My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George - Range by @DavidEpstein - How To Keep Your Cool by Seneca
— Ryan Holiday
Things to read everyday: - A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy - Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen - Calling It a Day by Robert Larranaga - Listening to Your Life by Frederick Buechner - You Are the Beloved by Henri J. M. Nouwen - The Daily Stoic (@dailystoic)
— Ryan Holiday
Calling it a day
by Robert D. Larranaga
Things to read everyday: - A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy - Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen - Calling It a Day by Robert Larranaga - Listening to Your Life by Frederick Buechner - You Are the Beloved by Henri J. M. Nouwen - The Daily Stoic (@dailystoic)
— Ryan Holiday
Listening to Your Life
by Frederick Buechner
Things to read everyday: - A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy - Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen - Calling It a Day by Robert Larranaga - Listening to Your Life by Frederick Buechner - You Are the Beloved by Henri J. M. Nouwen - The Daily Stoic (@dailystoic)
— Ryan Holiday
You Are the Beloved
by Henri J. M. Nouwen
Things to read everyday: - A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy - Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen - Calling It a Day by Robert Larranaga - Listening to Your Life by Frederick Buechner - You Are the Beloved by Henri J. M. Nouwen - The Daily Stoic (@dailystoic)
— Ryan Holiday
Sex on the Brain
by Deborah Blum
When I was 19 years old, I met @drdrewpinsky and asked him for some book recommendations. These are the three he gave me...and my Amazon receipt. That question changed my life and I still have the books. Passing along the recommendation if you haven't re… https://t.co/hACtooDiZS pic.twitter.com/SjsXXw4lrG
— Ryan Holiday
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
I remember when I was first reading Marcus Aurelius I was in college and then I had to read John Steinbeck's book East of Eden shortly thereafter and it was like whoa stoicism is in this book.
— Ryan Holiday
Philosophy as a way of life
by Pierre Hadot
There's another book let me get it 'Philosophy As A Way Of Life by Pierre Hadot, also very good.
— Ryan Holiday
Socrates
by Paul Bede Johnson
8 Life Changing Biographies To Read: Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch The Power Broker by Robert Caro Socrates by Paul Johnson Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Eisenhower by Jean Edward Smith Edison by Matthew Josephson The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen Sherman by B.H. Hart
— Ryan Holiday
Eisenhower
by Jean Edward Smith
8 Life Changing Biographies To Read: Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch The Power Broker by Robert Caro Socrates by Paul Johnson Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Eisenhower by Jean Edward Smith Edison by Matthew Josephson The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen Sherman by B.H. Hart
— Ryan Holiday
Edison a Biography
by Josephson, Matthew
8 Life Changing Biographies To Read: Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch The Power Broker by Robert Caro Socrates by Paul Johnson Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Eisenhower by Jean Edward Smith Edison by Matthew Josephson The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen Sherman by B.H. Hart
— Ryan Holiday
On the Shortness of Life
by Seneca
I'd probably go with Seneca, I'd read either letters of a stoic the Penguin Classics translation or I'd read his essay on the shortness of life.
— Ryan Holiday
Lone Star
by T. R. Fehrenbach
The best books I read this year. Thanks @austinkleon and @susanorlean and among others. If you want reading recommendations, sign up for the reading list email at https://t.co/9yuC15FLai. Can’t believe it is in its tenth year. https://t.co/dXeMpcFjsj pic.twitter.com/m7gEc6NDpF
— Ryan Holiday
The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
The best books I read this year. Thanks @austinkleon and @susanorlean and among others. If you want reading recommendations, sign up for the reading list email at https://t.co/9yuC15FLai. Can’t believe it is in its tenth year. https://t.co/dXeMpcFjsj pic.twitter.com/m7gEc6NDpF
— Ryan Holiday
Four Hour Work Week
by Tim Ferriss
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
Facing codependence
by Pia Mellody
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Alex Haley
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
President Lincoln
by William Lee Miller
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
What I talk about when I talk about running
by Haruki Murakami
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
Facing love addiction
by Pia Mellody
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
The brass check
by Upton Sinclair
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
Why don't we learn from history?
by B. H. Liddell Hart
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
Prescription for Adversity
by Lawrence I. Berkove
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
The Mirror Effect
by Drew Pinsky
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
Letters to His Son
by Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
The death and life of great American cities
by Jane Jacobs
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
Awareness
by Anthony de Mello
Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.
— Ryan Holiday
How to Think about God
by Cicero
Six weeks on the road for the new book. This is what I managed to read. https://t.co/X030F0JM5i pic.twitter.com/mJTHp6RMQ1
— Ryan Holiday
Lying About Hitler
by Sir Richard J. Evans FBA FRSL FRHistS
Six weeks on the road for the new book. This is what I managed to read. https://t.co/X030F0JM5i pic.twitter.com/mJTHp6RMQ1
— Ryan Holiday
The Saboteur
by Paul Kix
Six weeks on the road for the new book. This is what I managed to read. https://t.co/X030F0JM5i pic.twitter.com/mJTHp6RMQ1
— Ryan Holiday
Bible
by
Six weeks on the road for the new book. This is what I managed to read. https://t.co/X030F0JM5i pic.twitter.com/mJTHp6RMQ1
— Ryan Holiday
Everything Is Figure Outable
by Marie Forleo
Six weeks on the road for the new book. This is what I managed to read. https://t.co/X030F0JM5i pic.twitter.com/mJTHp6RMQ1
— Ryan Holiday
Hymns of the Republic
by S. C. Gwynne
Six weeks on the road for the new book. This is what I managed to read. https://t.co/X030F0JM5i pic.twitter.com/mJTHp6RMQ1
— Ryan Holiday
Holding the Line
by Guy M. Snodgrass
Six weeks on the road for the new book. This is what I managed to read. https://t.co/X030F0JM5i pic.twitter.com/mJTHp6RMQ1
— Ryan Holiday
The Age of Caesar
by Plutarch
Six weeks on the road for the new book. This is what I managed to read. https://t.co/X030F0JM5i pic.twitter.com/mJTHp6RMQ1
— Ryan Holiday
Captivate
by Vanessa Van Edwards
Robert Greene's books at best in class here. Must reads. Vanessa Van Edwards is also good. Dan Ariely too.
— Ryan Holiday
Letters to friends, family, and editors
by Franz Kafka
I really like Kafka’s Letter to The Father. Helped me with my dad.
— Ryan Holiday
The Laws of Human Nature
by Robert Greene
Robert worked on this book for over half a decade, and took himself totally out of the game while he did it. Then two months before it came out, he had a stroke that nearly killed him. This week the numbers came in on first week sales: 30,000 copies. Tha… https://t.co/hxTSe3C21q pic.twitter.com/jQFoHdW7EG
— Ryan Holiday
How to Be a Friend
by Cicero
The last ten days were six talks in four countries (San Antonio, Austin, Vancouver, LA, Milan and São Paulo). Got a good amount of swimming and running in, plus I lugged these around and read them (How to Be A Friend by Cicero, How to Be Right by Schopen… https://t.co/RhjuFRNwYr pic.twitter.com/EtPGhNpE7y
— Ryan Holiday
Three Uses of the Knife
by David Mamet
The last ten days were six talks in four countries (San Antonio, Austin, Vancouver, LA, Milan and São Paulo). Got a good amount of swimming and running in, plus I lugged these around and read them (How to Be A Friend by Cicero, How to Be Right by Schopen… https://t.co/RhjuFRNwYr pic.twitter.com/EtPGhNpE7y
— Ryan Holiday
Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande
The last ten days were six talks in four countries (San Antonio, Austin, Vancouver, LA, Milan and São Paulo). Got a good amount of swimming and running in, plus I lugged these around and read them (How to Be A Friend by Cicero, How to Be Right by Schopen… https://t.co/RhjuFRNwYr pic.twitter.com/EtPGhNpE7y
— Ryan Holiday
Through the Wheat
by Thomas Boyd
The last ten days were six talks in four countries (San Antonio, Austin, Vancouver, LA, Milan and São Paulo). Got a good amount of swimming and running in, plus I lugged these around and read them (How to Be A Friend by Cicero, How to Be Right by Schopen… https://t.co/RhjuFRNwYr pic.twitter.com/EtPGhNpE7y
— Ryan Holiday
The collected autobiographies of Maya Angelou
by Maya Angelou
The last ten days were six talks in four countries (San Antonio, Austin, Vancouver, LA, Milan and São Paulo). Got a good amount of swimming and running in, plus I lugged these around and read them (How to Be A Friend by Cicero, How to Be Right by Schopen… https://t.co/RhjuFRNwYr pic.twitter.com/EtPGhNpE7y
— Ryan Holiday
Johnny Cash
by Robert Hilburn
The last ten days were six talks in four countries (San Antonio, Austin, Vancouver, LA, Milan and São Paulo). Got a good amount of swimming and running in, plus I lugged these around and read them (How to Be A Friend by Cicero, How to Be Right by Schopen… https://t.co/RhjuFRNwYr pic.twitter.com/EtPGhNpE7y
— Ryan Holiday
The Art of Always Being Right
by Arthur Schopenhauer
The last ten days were six talks in four countries (San Antonio, Austin, Vancouver, LA, Milan and São Paulo). Got a good amount of swimming and running in, plus I lugged these around and read them (How to Be A Friend by Cicero, How to Be Right by Schopen… https://t.co/RhjuFRNwYr pic.twitter.com/EtPGhNpE7y
— Ryan Holiday
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
It was common practice that slaveowners could rent out their slaves, particularly skilled slaves like carpenters or musicians and so on. Frederick Douglass actually talks about this in his memoir.
— Ryan Holiday
The Oresteia
by Aeschylus
These are the books I managed to read on my tour the last month. Thanks to @brainpickings for the Cage recommendations, @artofmanliness for the Grant recommendation, @markmansonnet for the Deenon recommendation, @bookpassages for the Mamet book and @thel… https://t.co/uhEBse0vKA pic.twitter.com/O8Ar773shm
— Ryan Holiday
Thoughts in solitude
by Thomas Merton
These are the books I managed to read on my tour the last month. Thanks to @brainpickings for the Cage recommendations, @artofmanliness for the Grant recommendation, @markmansonnet for the Deenon recommendation, @bookpassages for the Mamet book and @thel… https://t.co/uhEBse0vKA pic.twitter.com/O8Ar773shm
— Ryan Holiday
The Forest Unseen
by David George Haskell
These are the books I managed to read on my tour the last month. Thanks to @brainpickings for the Cage recommendations, @artofmanliness for the Grant recommendation, @markmansonnet for the Deenon recommendation, @bookpassages for the Mamet book and @thel… https://t.co/uhEBse0vKA pic.twitter.com/O8Ar773shm
— Ryan Holiday
Where the heart beats
by Kay Larson
These are the books I managed to read on my tour the last month. Thanks to @brainpickings for the Cage recommendations, @artofmanliness for the Grant recommendation, @markmansonnet for the Deenon recommendation, @bookpassages for the Mamet book and @thel… https://t.co/uhEBse0vKA pic.twitter.com/O8Ar773shm
— Ryan Holiday
Why Liberalism Failed
by Patrick J. Deneen
These are the books I managed to read on my tour the last month. Thanks to @brainpickings for the Cage recommendations, @artofmanliness for the Grant recommendation, @markmansonnet for the Deenon recommendation, @bookpassages for the Mamet book and @thel… https://t.co/uhEBse0vKA pic.twitter.com/O8Ar773shm
— Ryan Holiday
Chicago
by David Mamet
These are the books I managed to read on my tour the last month. Thanks to @brainpickings for the Cage recommendations, @artofmanliness for the Grant recommendation, @markmansonnet for the Deenon recommendation, @bookpassages for the Mamet book and @thel… https://t.co/uhEBse0vKA pic.twitter.com/O8Ar773shm
— Ryan Holiday
Discourses on Livy
by Niccolò Machiavelli
It really was insane to see Discourses on Livy on Thiel's shelf in his apartment (not his desk), given that I had just read it as research for the book. And for him to be able to reference the section from memory was just one of those things that made this feel somewhat meant to be.
— Ryan Holiday
The fifteen decisive battles of the world
by Creasy, Edward Shepherd Sir
The other funny anecdote is that he gave me a copy of The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World thinking it was this obscure text that would make me realize what he had tried to do...and it happened that I'd already read it a few years before and had recently pulled my notes from it to see where there might be some insights for this book.
— Ryan Holiday
Pirate Hunters
by Robert Kurson
Have you read any of Robert Kurson? Shadow Divers, Pirate Hunters, and his new one, Rocket Men is out soon. Rich Cohen is also a master of this genre (Tough Jews, The Fish That Ate The Whale). I also love Candace Millard (Destiny of the Republic, The River of Doubt and her Churchill book).
— Ryan Holiday
Rocket men
by Robert Kurson
Have you read any of Robert Kurson? Shadow Divers, Pirate Hunters, and his new one, Rocket Men is out soon. Rich Cohen is also a master of this genre (Tough Jews, The Fish That Ate The Whale). I also love Candace Millard (Destiny of the Republic, The River of Doubt and her Churchill book).
— Ryan Holiday
Tough Jews
by Rich Cohen
Have you read any of Robert Kurson? Shadow Divers, Pirate Hunters, and his new one, Rocket Men is out soon. Rich Cohen is also a master of this genre (Tough Jews, The Fish That Ate The Whale). I also love Candace Millard (Destiny of the Republic, The River of Doubt and her Churchill book).
— Ryan Holiday
The destiny of the republic
by Candice Millard
Have you read any of Robert Kurson? Shadow Divers, Pirate Hunters, and his new one, Rocket Men is out soon. Rich Cohen is also a master of this genre (Tough Jews, The Fish That Ate The Whale). I also love Candace Millard (Destiny of the Republic, The River of Doubt and her Churchill book).
— Ryan Holiday
Animalish
by Susan Orlean
He's an ex-petting zoo "rescue" (in that we bought him off Craigslist). Loved your book Animalish. I think subconsciously inspired ours.
— Ryan Holiday
The Score Takes Care of Itself
by Bill Walsh
Have you read The Score Takes Care Of Itself?
— Ryan Holiday
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
The best books I read this year. Most were old (some very old), some new, some old but felt new. You can follow along on my reading list email (https://t.co/9yuC15FLai) if you want more recommendations next year. If you're stressed out and want to start … https://t.co/25uvubl5Zz pic.twitter.com/Qcwv0sAGt0
— Ryan Holiday
Magellan
by Stefan Zweig
The best books I read this year. Most were old (some very old), some new, some old but felt new. You can follow along on my reading list email (https://t.co/9yuC15FLai) if you want more recommendations next year. If you're stressed out and want to start … https://t.co/25uvubl5Zz pic.twitter.com/Qcwv0sAGt0
— Ryan Holiday
This hallowed ground
by Bruce Catton
The best books I read this year. Most were old (some very old), some new, some old but felt new. You can follow along on my reading list email (https://t.co/9yuC15FLai) if you want more recommendations next year. If you're stressed out and want to start … https://t.co/25uvubl5Zz pic.twitter.com/Qcwv0sAGt0
— Ryan Holiday
Bodyguard of lies
by Anthony Cave Brown
The best books I read this year. Most were old (some very old), some new, some old but felt new. You can follow along on my reading list email (https://t.co/9yuC15FLai) if you want more recommendations next year. If you're stressed out and want to start … https://t.co/25uvubl5Zz pic.twitter.com/Qcwv0sAGt0
— Ryan Holiday
The Complacent Class
by Tyler Cowen
The best books I read this year. Most were old (some very old), some new, some old but felt new. You can follow along on my reading list email (https://t.co/9yuC15FLai) if you want more recommendations next year. If you're stressed out and want to start … https://t.co/25uvubl5Zz pic.twitter.com/Qcwv0sAGt0
— Ryan Holiday
Black Privilege
by Charlamagne Tha God
The best books I read this year. Most were old (some very old), some new, some old but felt new. You can follow along on my reading list email (https://t.co/9yuC15FLai) if you want more recommendations next year. If you're stressed out and want to start … https://t.co/25uvubl5Zz pic.twitter.com/Qcwv0sAGt0
— Ryan Holiday
The Vanishing American Adult
by Ben Sasse
The best books I read this year. Most were old (some very old), some new, some old but felt new. You can follow along on my reading list email (https://t.co/9yuC15FLai) if you want more recommendations next year. If you're stressed out and want to start … https://t.co/25uvubl5Zz pic.twitter.com/Qcwv0sAGt0
— Ryan Holiday
Highwire Moon
by Susan Straight
In 2005, when I was a freshman in college, our convocation speaker was Susan Straight. We read her book Highwire M… https://t.co/XV02OYa9EJ pic.twitter.com/jQoJ73N1Ro
— Ryan Holiday
The Pirate's Dilemma
by Matt Mason
Matt Mason's book The Pirate's Dilemma is very good.
— Ryan Holiday
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
I remember very vividly going to the store Priceless with my parents as a kid and they let me pick out one book from the Great Illustrated Classics series each time. I think they were like $1.99 or $2.99 each? Anyway, I read basically the whole series book by book as a kid and it was an amazing introduction not just to reading but to really good stories and books. Robinson Crusoe. The Jungle Book. Tale of Two Cities. Huckleberry Finn. It was great. It was only later that I realized just how edited and different the books actually were. For instance, Tale of Two Cities does NOT begin with "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." But anyway, I just bought the whole set for my newborn on eBay and am already starting again.
— Ryan Holiday
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
I remember very vividly going to the store Priceless with my parents as a kid and they let me pick out one book from the Great Illustrated Classics series each time. I think they were like $1.99 or $2.99 each? Anyway, I read basically the whole series book by book as a kid and it was an amazing introduction not just to reading but to really good stories and books. Robinson Crusoe. The Jungle Book. Tale of Two Cities. Huckleberry Finn. It was great. It was only later that I realized just how edited and different the books actually were. For instance, Tale of Two Cities does NOT begin with "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." But anyway, I just bought the whole set for my newborn on eBay and am already starting again.
— Ryan Holiday
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
I remember very vividly going to the store Priceless with my parents as a kid and they let me pick out one book from the Great Illustrated Classics series each time. I think they were like $1.99 or $2.99 each? Anyway, I read basically the whole series book by book as a kid and it was an amazing introduction not just to reading but to really good stories and books. Robinson Crusoe. The Jungle Book. Tale of Two Cities. Huckleberry Finn. It was great. It was only later that I realized just how edited and different the books actually were. For instance, Tale of Two Cities does NOT begin with "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." But anyway, I just bought the whole set for my newborn on eBay and am already starting again.
— Ryan Holiday
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
I remember very vividly going to the store Priceless with my parents as a kid and they let me pick out one book from the Great Illustrated Classics series each time. I think they were like $1.99 or $2.99 each? Anyway, I read basically the whole series book by book as a kid and it was an amazing introduction not just to reading but to really good stories and books. Robinson Crusoe. The Jungle Book. Tale of Two Cities. Huckleberry Finn. It was great. It was only later that I realized just how edited and different the books actually were. For instance, Tale of Two Cities does NOT begin with "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." But anyway, I just bought the whole set for my newborn on eBay and am already starting again.
— Ryan Holiday
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
As for books I quit, I really wanted to like Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb but 200 pages in it was still boring and I stopped.
— Ryan Holiday
Goodbye to a river
by Graves, John
I strongly recommend reading John Graves--particularly Goodbye to a River and Hard Scrabble as an introduction to the world of Texas ranching and farm life.
— Ryan Holiday
Self-reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I actually read Self-Reliance long before I'd heard of Marcus Aurelius.
— Ryan Holiday
Lancelot
by Walker Percy
I also loved his book Lancelot which is this sort of dark revenge fantasy against the terribleness of the modern world. It's almost more appropriate in the Trump-world than it was before it.
— Ryan Holiday
The Millionaire Next Door
by Thomas J. Stanley
The Millionaire Next Door The Black Swan Zero to One
— Ryan Holiday
Permission Marketing
by Seth Godin
Some other good books to check out: Kevin Kelly’s 1000 True Fans: http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ Permission Marketing by Seth Godin Blue Ocean Strategy by Renee Mauborgne and Chan Kim Monster Loyalty by Jackie Huba
— Ryan Holiday
1000 True Fans
by Kevin Kelly
Some other good books to check out: Kevin Kelly’s 1000 True Fans: http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ Permission Marketing by Seth Godin Blue Ocean Strategy by Renee Mauborgne and Chan Kim Monster Loyalty by Jackie Huba
— Ryan Holiday
Monster Loyalty How Lady Gaga Turns Followers Into Fanatics
by Jackie Huba
Some other good books to check out: Kevin Kelly’s 1000 True Fans: http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ Permission Marketing by Seth Godin Blue Ocean Strategy by Renee Mauborgne and Chan Kim Monster Loyalty by Jackie Huba
— Ryan Holiday
American War
by Omar El Akkad
I recently read the novel American War which was brilliant, beautiful and very very alarming.
— Ryan Holiday
When Violence Is the Answer
by Tim Larkin
Shit. Well good stuff. I've been working on a similarly excellent book this year. Check out When Violence Is The Answer by Tim Larkin. You and her should both read it.
— Ryan Holiday
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell
by George Orwell
Oh this is a great question. First off, just read any form of amazing writing. Doesn't matter if it is John McPhee writing about volcanos or Michael Lewis writing about flash trading. You just want to see the craft done well. As for specific writing related recommendations? Bird By Bird Tiny Beautiful Things Orwell's essay on writing Zissner's Writing Well And if I may be so bold, I think Perennial Seller is worth a shot.
— Ryan Holiday
On Writing Well
by William Zinsser
Oh this is a great question. First off, just read any form of amazing writing. Doesn't matter if it is John McPhee writing about volcanos or Michael Lewis writing about flash trading. You just want to see the craft done well. As for specific writing related recommendations? Bird By Bird Tiny Beautiful Things Orwell's essay on writing Zissner's Writing Well And if I may be so bold, I think Perennial Seller is worth a shot.
— Ryan Holiday
Quiet
by Susan Cain
A great book on introverts is Susan Cain's book Quiet but I think generally people waste far too much time on these things.
— Ryan Holiday
The Storm Before the Storm
by Mike Duncan
Indeed. I have an early copy of Mike's new book which I am about to start
— Ryan Holiday
Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
Um yeah I would. If more people had read Mein Kampf and taken it seriously WWII wouldn't have happened. You're being an idiot.
— Ryan Holiday
The Strategy Paradox
by Michael E. Raynor
The point I think you're looking for to handle this particular problem you're facing is a book called The Strategy Paradox by Michael Raynor. Essentially it's aimed at your question: How do you begin to pursue a new strategy without undermining your old or ongoing ones.
— Ryan Holiday
The Shepherd's Life
by James Rebanks
@herdyshepherd1 reading your book now, and love it.
— Ryan Holiday
The Revenge of Analog
by David Sax
Hadn't heard of this Sax book. Going to check it out
— Ryan Holiday
Twelve Against the Gods
by William Bolitho
Just spent $139 on this book because I am a weirdo. Here's why https://t.co/mEngViJfe4 pic.twitter.com/6pEw40rryn
— Ryan Holiday
Anything you want
by Derek Sivers
@sivers thank you. Just saw your post. Honored (I've read both of yours)
— Ryan Holiday
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
Kuhn is much more important. That book will change how you see a lot of things.
— Ryan Holiday
The World According to Star Wars
by Cass R. Sunstein
@CassSunstein Just read your book on Star Wars. Loved it.
— Ryan Holiday
A Moral Equivalent to War
by William James
Seneca also has a wonderful play about Hercules that is worth reading: http://www.theoi.com/Text/SenecaHerculesOetaeus.html Also suggest reading William James' essay A Moral Equivalent to War http://www.constitution.org/wj/meow.htm
— Ryan Holiday
Hercules
by Seneca the Younger
Seneca also has a wonderful play about Hercules that is worth reading: http://www.theoi.com/Text/SenecaHerculesOetaeus.html Also suggest reading William James' essay A Moral Equivalent to War http://www.constitution.org/wj/meow.htm
— Ryan Holiday
Resilience
by Eric Greitens
Present! A few other recommendations: What I Learned Losing $1 Million Dollars by Jim Paul Anti-Fragile by Nassim Taleb Resilience by Eric Grietens How They Succeeded by Orison Swett Marden
— Ryan Holiday
How They Succeeded
by Orison Swett Marden
Present! A few other recommendations: What I Learned Losing $1 Million Dollars by Jim Paul Anti-Fragile by Nassim Taleb Resilience by Eric Grietens How They Succeeded by Orison Swett Marden
— Ryan Holiday
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t
by Steven Pressfield
Amazing book from an amazing author
— Ryan Holiday
The 50th law
by Robert Greene
I was his research assistant on The 50th Law and Mastery and some misc projects between.
— Ryan Holiday
Twilight of the elites
by Christopher L. Hayes
@TVMoJoe @chrislhayes Really liked Chris's book Twilight of the Elites. Could argue we miss the obligation/duty elites are supposed to have
— Ryan Holiday
Extreme Ownership
by Jocko Willink
@ZackMooreNFL @jockowillink Oh thanks Zack. Jocko--I have your book waiting for me at home.
— Ryan Holiday
When I stop talking, you'll know I'm dead
by Jerry Weintraub
@brockmclaughlin @richcohen2003 Amazing book
— Ryan Holiday
A slave in the White House
by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
@shloky look up Robert Smalls. The book A Slave in the Whitehouse is good. So are Olaudah Equiano's memoir
— Ryan Holiday
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
by Olaudah Equiano
@shloky look up Robert Smalls. The book A Slave in the Whitehouse is good. So are Olaudah Equiano's memoir
— Ryan Holiday
Days of Rage
by Bryan Burrough
@briankoppelman only slightly related but read Days of Rage. Burrough is amazing.
— Ryan Holiday
Do over
by Jonathan Acuff
@JonAcuff well it was a great book. Going to do the speaking/packing check list
— Ryan Holiday
Creatocracy
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
@LizzieWurtzel just read Creatocracy. Really a beautiful little book.
— Ryan Holiday
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
by Albert Camus
@austinkleon The Stranger. I read Sisyphus in college
— Ryan Holiday
Sayings of Dr. Johnson
by Samuel Johnson LL.D.
@gretchenrubin @mikedariano There is also a book called Collection of Sayings I think--that's what I read
— Ryan Holiday
News from nowhere
by Edward Jay Epstein
@lisapease His book on the history of the tv news biz is one of there best there is: News from Nowhere
— Ryan Holiday
Lincoln's Melancholy
by Joshua Wolf Shenk
@austinkleon Both are amazing. Someone was telling me almost every phrase in 2nd Inaugural address is a book title
— Ryan Holiday
Endurance
by Alfred Lansing
Alive time vs Dead time. The books I read while away on business recently pic.twitter.com/RRFlYKTu3L
— Ryan Holiday
Humilitas
by John Dickson
Alive time vs Dead time. The books I read while away on business recently pic.twitter.com/RRFlYKTu3L
— Ryan Holiday
The Ultimate Sales Machine
by Chet Holmes
Alive time vs Dead time. The books I read while away on business recently pic.twitter.com/RRFlYKTu3L
— Ryan Holiday
Slouching towards Bethlehem
by Joan Didion
Alive time vs Dead time. The books I read while away on business recently pic.twitter.com/RRFlYKTu3L
— Ryan Holiday
Fierce patriot
by Robert L. O'Connell
Alive time vs Dead time. The books I read while away on business recently pic.twitter.com/RRFlYKTu3L
— Ryan Holiday
Natchez Burning
by Greg Iles
Alive time vs Dead time. The books I read while away on business recently pic.twitter.com/RRFlYKTu3L
— Ryan Holiday
Confessions of a sociopath
by M. E. Thomas
@ardensirens The sociopath book is quite good actually
— Ryan Holiday
Choose Yourself!
by James Altucher
Read James Altucher's new book...and then it is free. http://t.co/8dqk1Yxk45
— Ryan Holiday
