Jordan Peterson Book Recommendations
Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.
(Read more on Wikipedia)121 Books Recommended
The Myth of Mental Illness
Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
by Thomas S. Szasz
"It's a classic. You should read it if you're interested in psychology." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Also recommended by:
Naval Ravikant, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, Nick Szabo, Mr. Money Mustache, John Arnold, Bill Gurley, Anthony Pompliano, Rupert Murdoch
Panzram
A Journal of Murder
by Thomas E. Gaddis
"He made friends with this physician in the prison [...] and the physician encouraged him to write his autobiography." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
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The Gulag Archipelago (3 books)
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Jocko Willink, Esther Perel, Emma Watson, Naval Ravikant, David Blaine, Terry Crews, Jimmy Fallon, Tony Robbins, Simon Sinek, Michael Gervais, Daniel Pink, Ev Williams, Bryan Johnson, Dustin Moskovitz, Sam Altman, Chelsea Handler, Ryan Holiday, Maria Popova, Aniela Gregorek, Fedor Holz, Turia Pitt, Chip Conley, Dave Elitch, PewDiePie, Shane Parrish, Phil Jackson, Tom Bilyeu, Lex Fridman, Mark Manson, Alastair Humphreys, Steve Kerr, Robin Black, Jim Kwik, Michael Hyatt, Patrick Bet-David
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
And Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
History of Religious Ideas (3 books)
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Factfulness
Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Words with Power
Being a Second Study of "The Bible and Literature"
by Northrop Frye
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Origins and History of Consciousness
by Erich Neumann
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Our Culture, What's Left of It
The Mandarins and the Masses
by Theodore Dalrymple
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Affective Neuroscience
The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
by Jaak Panksepp
"One of the best books on the neuroscience of emotion." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
An Enquiry into the Functions of the Septo-Hippocampal System
by Jeffrey A. Gray
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Mephistopheles
The Devil in the Modern World
by Jeffrey Burton Russell
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Eric Weinstein, Jason Silva, Darren Aronofsky, Shay Carl, Tai Lopez, Mark Manson, Marc Maron
The Crisis of Islam
Holy War and Unholy Terror
by Bernard Lewis
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Also recommended by:
Yuval Noah Harari, Tristan Harris, Matt Mullenweg, Stewart Brand, Sam Altman, Christopher Hitchens, Sahil Lavingia, Winston Churchill, PewDiePie
Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Also recommended by:
Bill Gates, Sam Harris, Yuval Noah Harari, A.J. Jacobs, David Deutsch, Michael Mauboussin, Richard Dawkins, David Friedberg
The Gay Science
With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Paul Graham, Drew Houston, Josh Waitzkin, Bryan Johnson, Ev Williams, Austen Allred, Fred Wilson, Phil Jackson
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe
"A great book." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
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The Great Code
The Bible and Literature
by Northrop Frye
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird, Book 1
by Harper Lee
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Also recommended by:
Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, Kathie Lee Gifford, James Clear
War And Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Larry King, Christopher Hitchens, Ernest Hemingway, Nelson Mandela, Mark Manson
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Also recommended by:
Jack Dorsey, Josh Waitzkin, Phil Keoghan, PewDiePie, Lex Fridman, Mark Manson, Jack Edwards
Stalin
The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
by Edvard Radzinsky
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Road to Wigan Pier
by George Orwell
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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On Becoming a Person
A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
by Carl Rogers
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Emotional Brain
The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
by Joseph Ledoux
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
"I read [this book] four times, and it's still unbelievably deep." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
Also recommended by:
Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey, Max Levchin, PewDiePie, Jack Edwards
How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
by Bjørn Lomborg
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Great Escape
Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
by Angus Deaton
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Beyond Good And Evil
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Interpretation of Dreams
The Complete and Definitive Text
by Sigmund Freud
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Shamanism
Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
by Mircea Eliade
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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1984
by George Orwell
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Tristan Harris, J. Cole, Emma Watson, Noam Chomsky, Richard Branson, Matt Mullenweg, Christopher Hitchens, Sahil Lavingia, Jenn Im, Winston Churchill, Diane Rehm, Anna Akana, Brad Delong
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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J. Cole, Whitney Cummings, Daniel Pink, Vlad Tenev, Christopher Hitchens, Sahil Lavingia, Lex Fridman
The Mystery of Capital
Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
by Hernando De Soto
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Bible
Designed to be Read as Living Literature, the Old and the New Testaments in the King James Version
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Forge and the Crucible
The Origins and Structure of Alchemy
by Mircea Eliade
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The New Executive Brain
Frontal Lobes in a Complex World
by Elkhonon Goldberg
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Esther Perel, Larry King, Christopher Hitchens, PewDiePie, Jim Cramer, Ernest Hemingway, Jim Carrey, Brian Dean, Jack Edwards
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
by Theodore M. Porter
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Sacred and The Profane
The Nature of Religion
by Mircea Eliade
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Life at the Bottom
The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
by Theodore Dalrymple
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Discovery of the Unconscious
The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry
by Henri F. Ellenberger
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Great Mother
An Analysis of the Archetype
by Erich Neumann
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Zorba the Greek
by Nikos Kazantzakis
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Systemantics
How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
by John Gall
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Progress
Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
by Johan Norberg
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
by Carl Jung
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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An Outline of Psycho-Analysis
Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
by Sigmund Freud
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Brain Architecture
Understanding the Basic Plan
by Larry W. Swanson
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
by James J. Gibson
"One of the most influential books I ever read." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing, Book 1
by Hunter S. Thompson
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Big Sleep
Philip Marlowe, Book 1
by Raymond Chandler
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Existence
A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology
by Rollo May
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
I, Claudius
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius
by Robert Graves
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Little Science, Big Science...and Beyond
by Derek J.De Solla Price
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
An Anthropologist On Mars
Seven Paradoxical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Also recommended by:
Oprah Winfrey, Chelsea Handler, Jennifer Lawrence, Sam Altman, Laura R Walker, Austen Allred, Jen Wilkin, Ernest Hemingway, Bret Easton Ellis, Peter Thiel
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Play Dreams & Imitation in Childhood
by Jean Piaget
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Long Goodbye
Philip Marlowe, Book 6
by Raymond Chandler
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Earth in Human Hands
Shaping Our Planet's Future
by David Grinspoon
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Ordinary Men
Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher R. Browning
"The best book of its type." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
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The Rape of Nanking
The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
by Iris Chang
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosinski
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Endurance
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
"Read [this] book." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
Also recommended by:
Ray Dalio, Sam Altman, Bryan Johnson, Ryan Holiday, Scott Belsky, Max Levchin, Fred Wilson, Jason Fried, Dominic D'Agostino
Mercy Among the Children
by David Adams Richards
"The greatest novel I have read in many years." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
