Jordan Peterson Recommended Books

Literature

1. The Charterhouse of Parma
2. Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
3. Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
4. Cary, Joyce: The Horse’s Mouth
5. Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep
6. Chandler, Raymond: The Long Goodbye
7. Dalyrmple, Theodore: Our Culture: What’s Left of It
8. Dalrymple, Theodore: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
9. Fyodor Dostoevsky- Crime and Punishment
10. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
11. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
12. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Devils
13. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
14. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
15. Graves, Robert: I, Claudius
16. Hammet, Dashiel: The Maltese Falcon
17. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell To Arms
18. Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls
19. Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
20. Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
21. Huxley, Aldous: Island
22. Huxley, Aldous: Point Counterpoint
23. Kazantzakis, Nikos: The Fratricides
24. Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek
25. Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
26. Kesey, Ken: Sometimes a Great Notion
27. Keyes, Daniel: Flowers for Algernon
28. Laurence, Margaret: The Stone Angel
29. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
30. Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
31. Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morality
32. Nietzsche - The Antichrist
33. Nietzsche - The Gay Science
34. Nietzsche - The Will to Power
35. George Orwell - 1984
36. George Orwell - Animal Farm
37. George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier
38. Pirsig, Robert: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
39. Shem, Samuel: The House of God
40. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: Cancer Ward
41. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The First Circle
42. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3. (alternatively, all three volumes abridged into one)
43. Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
44. Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
45. Steinbeck, John: Of Men and Mice
46. Stendhal: The Red and the Black
47. Thompson, Hunter S: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
48. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
49. Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
50. Troyat, Henri: Tolstoy
51. Wolfe, Tom: The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry

1. Becker, Ernest: The Denial of Death
2. Ellenberger, Henri: The Discovery of the Unconscious
3. Eysenck, Hans: Genius
4. Frankl, Viktor: Man’s Search for Meaning
5. Freud, Sigmund: An Outline of Psychoanalysis
6. Freud, Sigmund: The Interpretation of Dreams
7. Carl Jung - Aion
8. Carl Jung - Answer to Job
9. Carl Jung - Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
10. Carl Jung - Modern Man in Search of a Soul
11. Carl Jung - Mysterium Coniunctionis (Difficult; read the last half)
12. Carl Jung - Psychology and Alchemy
13. Carl Jung - Psychology: East and West
14. Carl Jung - Psychology of Religion: East and West
15. Carl Jung - Symbols of Transformation
16. Carl Jung - The Symbolic Life
17. Carl Jung - Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
18. May, Rollo. Angel, Ernest & Ellenberger, Henri: Existence: A new dimension in psychiatry and psychology
19. Neumann, Erich: The Origins and History of Consciousness
20. Neumann, Erich: The Great Mother
21. Piaget, Jean: Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood
22. Piaget, Jean: The Moral Judgment of the Child
23. Rogers, Carl: A Way of Being
24. Rogers, Carl: On Becoming a Person

Neuroscience

1. Gibson, James J: An Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
2. Goldberg, Elkhonon: The New Executive Brain
3. Gray, Jeffrey and Neil McNaughton: The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
4. LeDoux, Joseph: The Emotional Brain
5. Panksepp, Jaak: Affective Neuroscience
6. Sacks, Oliver: The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
7. Sacks, Oliver: Awakenings
8. Sacks, Oliver: An Anthropologist on Mars
9. Swanson, Larry: Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan

Religion/History of Religion

1. Burton Russell, Jeffrey: Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World
2. Eliade, Mircea: A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3)
3. Eliade, Mircea: Myth and Reality
4. Eliade, Mircea: Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
5. Eliade, Mircea: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
6. Eliade, Mircea: The Forge and the Crucible
7. Eliade, Mircea: The Sacred and the Profane
8. Frye, Northrop: The Great Code
9. Frye, Northrop: Words with Power
10. Lewis, Bernard: The Crisis of Islam
11. Smith, Huston: (introductory): The World’s Religions
12. The Bible: Designed to be Read as Living Literature

History/Systems Analysis (?)

1. de Solla Price, Derek J: Little Science, Big Science
2. De Soto, Hernando: The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
3. Gall, John: Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
4. Porter, Theodore M: The Rise of Statistical Thinking 1820-1900
5. Radzinsky, Edvard: Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia’s Secret Archives
6. Shirer, William L: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

The State of the World: A 21st Century Update

1. Deaton, Angus: The Great Escape
2. Lomborg, Bjorn: How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
3. Norberg, Johan: Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
4. Pinker, Steven: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
5. Ridley, Matt: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
6. Rosling, Hans: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
7. Grinspoon, David: Earth in Human Hands

Books by Jordan Peterson

• Peterson's 12 Rules
• Beyond Order
• Maps of Meaning

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