General list of books that have been recommended.
Fiction
Religious
- Perspectives on religious experience - William James 1902
- Paul Washer (Religious author)
Jordan Peterson’s List
- Beyle, Marie-Henri (Stendhal): The Charterhouse of Parma
- Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
- Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita
- Cary, Joyce: The Horse’s Mouth
- Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep
- Chandler, Raymond: The Long Goodbye
- Dalyrmple, Theodore: Our Culture: What’s Left of It
- Dalrymple, Theodore: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
- Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
- Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground
- Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Devils
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
- Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
- Graves, Robert: I, Claudius
- Hammet, Dashiel: The Maltese Falcon
- Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell To Arms
- Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
- Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
- Huxley, Aldous: Island
- Huxley, Aldous: Point Counterpoint
- Kazantzakis, Nikos: The Fratricides
- Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek
- Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Kesey, Ken: Sometimes a Great Notion
- Keyes, Daniel: Flowers for Algernon
- Laurence, Margaret: The Stone Angel
- Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Nietzsche, Friedrich: Beyond Good and Evil
- Nietzsche, Friedrich: On the Genealogy of Morals
- Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Antichrist
- Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Gay Science
- Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Will to Power
- Orwell, George: 1984
- Orwell, George: Animal Farm
- Orwell, George: Road to Wigan Pier
- Pirsig, Robert: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Shem, Samuel: The House of God
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: Cancer Ward
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The First Circle
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3. (alternatively, all three volumes abridged into one)
- Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
- Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
- Steinbeck, John: Of Men and Mice
- Stendhal: The Red and the Black
- Thompson, Hunter S: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
- Troyat, Henri: Tolstoy
- Wolfe, Tom: The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry
- Becker, Ernest: The Denial of Death
- Ellenberger, Henri: The Discovery of the Unconscious
- Eysenck, Hans: Genius
- Frankl, Viktor: Man’s Search for Meaning
- Freud, Sigmund: An Outline of Psychoanalysis
- Freud, Sigmund: The Interpretation of Dreams
- Jung, Carl: Aion
- Jung, Carl: Answer to Job
- Jung, Carl: Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
- Jung, Carl: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
- Jung, Carl: Mysterium Coniunctionis (Difficult; read the last half)
- Jung, Carl: Psychology and Alchemy
- Jung, Carl: Psychology: East and West
- Jung, Carl: Psychology of Religion: East and West
- Jung, Carl: Symbols of Transformation
- Jung, Carl: The Symbolic Life
- Jung, Carl: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
- May, Rollo. Angel, Ernest & Ellenberger, Henri: Existence: A new dimension in psychiatry and psychology
- Neumann, Erich: The Origins and History of Consciousness
- Neumann, Erich: The Great Mother
- Piaget, Jean: Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood
- Piaget, Jean: The Moral Judgment of the Child
- Rogers, Carl: A Way of Being
- Rogers, Carl: On Becoming a Person
Neuroscience
- Gibson, James J: An Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
- Goldberg, Elkhonon: The New Executive Brain
- Gray, Jeffrey and Neil McNaughton: The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
- LeDoux, Joseph: The Emotional Brain
- Panksepp, Jaak: Affective Neuroscience
- Sacks, Oliver: The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
- Sacks, Oliver: Awakenings
- Sacks, Oliver: An Anthropologist on Mars
- Swanson, Larry: Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan
Religion and Religious History
- Burton Russell, Jeffrey: Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World
- Eliade, Mircea: A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3)
- Eliade, Mircea: Myth and Reality
- Eliade, Mircea: Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
- Eliade, Mircea: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
- Eliade, Mircea: The Forge and the Crucible
- Eliade, Mircea: The Sacred and the Profane
- Frye, Northrop: The Great Code
- Frye, Northrop: Words with Power
- Lewis, Bernard: The Crisis of Islam
- Smith, Huston: (introductory): The World’s Religions
- The Bible: Designed to be Read as Living Literature
History/Systems Analysis
- de Solla Price, Derek J: Little Science, Big Science
- De Soto, Hernando: The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
- Gall, John: Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
- Porter, Theodore M: The Rise of Statistical Thinking 1820-1900
- Radzinsky, Edvard: Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia’s Secret Archives
- Shirer, William L: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The State of the World: A 21st Century Update
- Deaton, Angus: The Great Escape
- Lomborg, Bjorn: How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
- Norberg, Johan: Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
- Pinker, Steven: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- Ridley, Matt: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
- Rosling, Hans: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- Grinspoon, David: Earth in Human Hands
My Books
- Peterson, Jordan B: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
- Peterson, Jordan B: Maps of Meaning
- Peterson, Jordan B: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
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