Jordan Peterson Recommended Books
Jordan Peterson has recommended 121 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.
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The Myth of Mental Illness
Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
"It's a classic. You should read it if you're interested in psychology." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
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
"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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Demons
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Man's Search for Meaning
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
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
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Idiot
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Words with Power
Being a Second Study of "The Bible and Literature"
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Origins and History of Consciousness
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Will to Power
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Our Culture, What's Left of It
The Mandarins and the Masses
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Affective Neuroscience
The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
"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
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Mephistopheles
The Devil in the Modern World
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
A History of Nazi Germany
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Denial of Death
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
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Anti-Christ
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Brave New World
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
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
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry Into Values
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
East of Eden
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
"A great book." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
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The Great Code
The Bible and Literature
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird, Book 1
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Also recommended by:
Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, Kathie Lee Gifford, James Clear
Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
War And Peace
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Also recommended by:
Larry King, Christopher Hitchens, Ernest Hemingway, Nelson Mandela, Mark Manson
Modern Man In Search of a Soul
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Old Man and the Sea
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
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Road to Wigan Pier
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Symbolic Life
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Stone Angel
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
On Becoming a Person
A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Emotional Brain
The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Master and Margarita
"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
The Moral Judgment of the Child
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Tolstoy
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Answer to Job
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Great Escape
Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Beyond Good And Evil
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Interpretation of Dreams
The Complete and Definitive Text
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Shamanism
Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Of Mice and Men
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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1984
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Also recommended by:
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
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
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Notes from Underground
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Red and the Black
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Island
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The House of God
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The World's Religions
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 Horse's Mouth
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Brothers Karamazov
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Forge and the Crucible
The Origins and Structure of Alchemy
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The New Executive Brain
Frontal Lobes in a Complex World
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Crime and Punishment
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Also recommended by:
Esther Perel, Larry King, Christopher Hitchens, PewDiePie, Jim Cramer, Ernest Hemingway, Jim Carrey, Brian Dean, Jack Edwards
Genius
The Natural History of Creativity
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Sacred and The Profane
The Nature of Religion
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Life at the Bottom
The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Discovery of the Unconscious
The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Great Mother
An Analysis of the Archetype
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Zorba the Greek
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Myth and Reality
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Systemantics
How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Maltese Falcon
Detective Sam Spade, Book 1
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Progress
Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Grapes of Wrath
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Awakenings
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Flowers for Algernon
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Myths Dreams and Mysteries
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Point Counter Point
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Wuthering Heights
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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A Way of Being
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
An Outline of Psycho-Analysis
Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Brain Architecture
Understanding the Basic Plan
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Psychology and Religion
West and East
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
"One of the most influential books I ever read." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
The First Circle
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Cancer Ward
A Novel
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing, Book 1
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Big Sleep
Philip Marlowe, Book 1
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Aion
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Existence
A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
I, Claudius
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Little Science, Big Science...and Beyond
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Psychology and Alchemy
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Charterhouse of Parma
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
A Farewell to Arms
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
An Anthropologist On Mars
Seven Paradoxical Tales
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Anna Karenina
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
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Fratricides
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Lord of the Flies
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Play Dreams & Imitation in Childhood
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
The Long Goodbye
Philip Marlowe, Book 6
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Earth in Human Hands
Shaping Our Planet's Future
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Sometimes a Great Notion
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Symbols of Transformation
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Mysterium Coniunctionis
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
Ordinary Men
Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"The best book of its type." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
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The Rape of Nanking
The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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The Painted Bird
Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website. (Source)
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Endurance
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"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
"The greatest novel I have read in many years." - Jordan Peterson (Source)
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