Jordan B. Peterson
Psychologist & author
Clinical psychologist, professor, and author of 12 Rules for Life. Peterson's reading list is dominated by literature, Jungian psychology, and Russian novels — he reads Dostoevsky obsessively. His book recommendations come with detailed psychological interpretations.
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Oldest book
Stood the test of time — old, widely published, and repeatedly endorsed
The Republic
Plato
24k
“Plato's Republic is the foundational text of Western political philosophy. You cannot understand the West without reading it.”
1984
George Orwell
23k
“Seneca was one of the great practical philosophers. Letters from a Stoic belongs in every serious person's library.”
“The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. A book from my great books list:”
“The Brothers Karamazov is the greatest novel ever written. The Grand Inquisitor scene is the most sophisticated analysis of freedom and meaning I've ever encountered.”
“Tolstoy's portrayal of the intersection of individual lives and historical forces in War and Peace is unparalleled.”
“Crime and Punishment is the best account of what happens to a person who lets an ideology override their humanity. Dostoevsky understood the 20th century before it happened.”
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
8.8k
“The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway a book from my great books list”
“Reading Stephen C. Meyer's Return of the God Hypothesis. It's a difficult book, well-written, densely informative. He claims (p. 211) "without functional criteria to guide a search through the vast space of possible sequences, random variation is probabilistically doomed."”
“The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary. A book from my great books list:”
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The Great Mother
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“See the great book The Great Mother by Erich Neumann. The negative elementary feminine is the archetypal devouring mother: death and torment by compassion.”
Island
Aldous Huxley
3.6k
“Island by Aldous Huxley a book from my great books list”
The Discovery of the Unconscious
Henri F. Ellenberger
3.5k
“This is accurate. Clinicians participating are implicit in producing a psychogenic epidemic. For the history of such social illnesses, which almost always preferentially affect young women, see Henri Ellenberger: The History of the Unconscious (a truly great book).”
Mama's Last Hug
Frans de Waal
1.7k
“Reading Mama's Last Hug, by the eminent and brilliant primatologist Frans de Waal, who revolutionized our understanding of chimpanzee social organization. The book is a model of clarity and subtle depth”
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know
Ronald Bailey
1.6k
“Everyone should have this book.”
Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity
Christopher Kaczor, Matthew Petrusek
1.4k
“A beautifully produced book...”