Ryan Holiday's Books To Base Your Life On

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"Pick one of them up and let it lead you to another. And then when you come to a dead end, come back to the list." - Ryan Holiday
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Letters from a Stoic
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger
3,175 members
25 reviews
4.1
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The Odyssey
by Homer
62,709 members
522 reviews
4
3
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
37,387 members
336 reviews
4.1
4
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
27,929 members
303 reviews
½ 3.7
5
The Aeneid (translations)
by Virgil
26,819 members
229 reviews
3.9
6
Candide
by Voltaire
23,149 members
344 reviews
3.8
7
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
21,205 members
352 reviews
4.1
8
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
19,468 members
368 reviews
4.2
9
The Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
18,811 members
197 reviews
4.1
10
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,430 members
231 reviews
4
11
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
18,397 members
381 reviews
3.9
12
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
11,547 members
261 reviews
4.1
13
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
11,416 members
144 reviews
½ 4.3
14
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
10,451 members
133 reviews
3.8
15
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
9,664 members
207 reviews
½ 3.7
16
The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9,256 members
151 reviews
½ 3.6
17
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
8,964 members
69 reviews
4
18
The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
7,088 members
85 reviews
3.9
19
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
6,273 members
153 reviews
½ 4.4
20
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
5,134 members
102 reviews
½ 3.7
21
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
5,059 members
44 reviews
4
22
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4,786 members
71 reviews
3.9
23
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
4,644 members
58 reviews
½ 4.4
24
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by Candice Millard
4,141 members
151 reviews
4.2
25
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
3,745 members
66 reviews
½ 4.5
26
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
by Candice Millard
3,509 members
173 reviews
½ 4.3
27
On War
by Carl von Clausewitz
3,385 members
27 reviews
3.9
28
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
2,846 members
30 reviews
4.2
29
Julius Caesar (New Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
2,830 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
30
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by Don Tapscott
2,732 members
41 reviews
½ 3.5
31
On the Shortness of Life [and other works]
by Seneca
2,723 members
51 reviews
4.1
32
Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
by Saul D. Alinsky
2,495 members
44 reviews
½ 3.6
34
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
by Cheryl Strayed
2,406 members
88 reviews
½ 4.3
35
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-Up Artists
by Neil Strauss
2,265 members
38 reviews
½ 3.7
36
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
by Sarah Bakewell
2,245 members
90 reviews
4.1
37
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
by Ryan Holiday
2,180 members
44 reviews
3.9
39
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
by Clay Shirky
1,998 members
58 reviews
4
40
The Satires of Juvenal
by Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
1,976 members
15 reviews
3.8
41
Mastery
by Robert Greene
1,894 members
19 reviews
3.9
42
The 33 Strategies of War
by Robert Greene
1,692 members
12 reviews
4.1
43
Essays and Aphorisms
by Arthur Schopenhauer
1,654 members
10 reviews
4
44
You are not a gadget : a manifesto
by Jaron Lanier
1,613 members
57 reviews
½ 3.4
45
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
by Mordecai Richler
1,500 members
18 reviews
3.8
46
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by John Vaillant
1,482 members
75 reviews
4
47
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
by Michael Lewis
1,475 members
22 reviews
½ 3.6
48
The Essays: A Selection
by Michel de Montaigne
1,443 members
12 reviews
4
49
The Book of Five Rings
by Musashi Miyamoto
1,386 members
15 reviews
3.8
50
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
1,312 members
26 reviews
4
52
My Bondage and My Freedom
by Frederick Douglass
1,228 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
53
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
by John Vaillant
1,217 members
48 reviews
4
54
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
by Matt Ridley
1,170 members
14 reviews
3.9
55
The Makers of Rome: Nine Lives (Penguin Classics)
by Plutarch
1,088 members
8 reviews
3.8
56
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
1,048 members
12 reviews
4.1
57
Fragments
by Heraclitus
958 members
13 reviews
3.8
58
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
941 members
15 reviews
½ 3.5
59
Civil War Stories [Dover]
by Ambrose Bierce
866 members
7 reviews
4
60
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
by Robert Coram
780 members
19 reviews
4.2
61
Selected Political Speeches
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
763 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
62
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
by Ryan Holiday
745 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
63
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
696 members
12 reviews
4.2
64
Four Tragedies and Octavia
by Seneca
696 members
½ 3.7
65
Epigrams
by Martial
670 members
8 reviews
3.8
66
Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault
by Pierre Hadot
663 members
4 reviews
4.1
67
What Makes Sammy Run?
by Budd Schulberg
662 members
12 reviews
3.8
68
On Sparta (Penguin Classics)
by Plutarch
589 members
1 review
3.9
69
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
by Evgeny Morozov
569 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
70
Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
by Viktor Frankl
566 members
9 reviews
½ 4.3
71
The Education of a Coach
by David Halberstam
558 members
10 reviews
3.9
72
The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
by David M. Buss
541 members
3 reviews
4
73
Lord Chesterfield's Letters
by Lord Chesterfield
460 members
1 review
½ 3.7
74
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
by Rich Cohen
422 members
7 reviews
3.9
75
Reveille for Radicals
by Saul Alinsky
409 members
1 review
½ 3.7
76
The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
by Pierre Hadot
408 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
77
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
by Tyler Cowen
323 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
78
Essays
by Plutarch
312 members
1 review
3.8
79
Why beautiful people have more daughters
by Alan S. Miller
298 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
80
Company K
by William March
291 members
11 reviews
4.1
81
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
by Bill Walsh
287 members
3 reviews
3.9
82
The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
by Matt Mason
277 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
83
Plutarch’s Lives
by Plutarch
273 members
84
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
by George Horace Lorimer
255 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
85
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
by Neil Strauss
228 members
6 reviews
3.8
86
Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization
by John Robb
204 members
8 reviews
3.9
87
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
by B. H. Liddell Hart
199 members
1 review
3.9
88
Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women
by Deborah Blum
196 members
3.1
90
The Moral Sayings Of Publius Syrus
by Publilius Syrus
153 members
2 reviews
4.1
91
The Harder They Fall
by Budd Schulberg
144 members
½ 4.3
93
Asylum
by William Seabrook
73 members
2 reviews
3.8
94
Cato: A Tragedy
by Joseph Addison
66 members
3.8
95
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part 1-2
by Demosthenes
41 members
½ 1.5
96
My Life and Battles
by Jack Johnson
35 members
1 review
97
No Hiding Place An Autobiography
by William Seabrook
22 members
½ 4.7