Books Recommended by Jordan Peterson
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Panzram
A Journal of Murder
Thomas E. Gaddis
Source: "He made friends with this physician in the prison [...] and the physician encouraged him to write his autobiography." - Jordan Peterson
2 recommenders
Mercy Among the Children
David Adams Richards
Source: "The greatest novel I have read in many years." - Jordan Peterson
1 recommender
The Myth of Mental Illness
Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Thomas S. Szasz
Source: "It's a classic. You should read it if you're interested in psychology." - Jordan Peterson
1 recommender
The Gulag Archipelago (3 books)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
Affective Neuroscience
The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
Jaak Panksepp
Source: "One of the best books on the neuroscience of emotion." - Jordan Peterson
1 recommender
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Source: "I read [this book] four times, and it's still unbelievably deep." - Jordan Peterson
The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
James J. Gibson
Source: "One of the most influential books I ever read." - Jordan Peterson
1 recommender
History of Religious Ideas (3 books)
Mircea Eliade
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
2 recommenders
The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross
A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East
John M. Allegro
Source: "A book to bend your mind." - Jordan Peterson
2 recommenders
The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
3 recommenders
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
And Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
Factfulness
Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
2 recommenders
Words with Power
Being a Second Study of "The Bible and Literature"
Northrop Frye
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
The Origins and History of Consciousness
Erich Neumann
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
1 recommender
Our Culture, What's Left of It
The Mandarins and the Masses
Theodore Dalrymple
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
An Enquiry into the Functions of the Septo-Hippocampal System
Jeffrey A. Gray
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
Mephistopheles
The Devil in the Modern World
Jeffrey Burton Russell
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
2 recommenders
The Crisis of Islam
Holy War and Unholy Terror
Bernard Lewis
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
1 recommender
Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
The Gay Science
With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
2 recommenders
The Great Code
The Bible and Literature
Northrop Frye
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
5 recommenders
1 recommender
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird, Book 1
Harper Lee
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
Stalin
The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
Edvard Radzinsky
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
3 recommenders
1 recommender
1 recommender
The Emotional Brain
The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
Joseph Ledoux
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
On Becoming a Person
A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Carl Rogers
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
1 recommender
1 recommender
1 recommender
How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
Bjørn Lomborg
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
The Great Escape
Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Angus Deaton
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
2 recommenders
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Complete and Definitive Text
Sigmund Freud
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
4 recommenders
Shamanism
Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Mircea Eliade
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
2 recommenders
The Mystery of Capital
Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Hernando De Soto
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
1 recommender
1 recommender
2 recommenders
1 recommender
1 recommender
1 recommender
The Bible
Designed to be Read as Living Literature, the Old and the New Testaments in the King James Version
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Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
The New Executive Brain
Frontal Lobes in a Complex World
Elkhonon Goldberg
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
The Forge and the Crucible
The Origins and Structure of Alchemy
Mircea Eliade
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
The Sacred and The Profane
The Nature of Religion
Mircea Eliade
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
Theodore M. Porter
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
1 recommender
The Discovery of the Unconscious
The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry
Henri F. Ellenberger
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
Life at the Bottom
The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
Theodore Dalrymple
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
2 recommenders
The Great Mother
An Analysis of the Archetype
Erich Neumann
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
1 recommender
Systemantics
How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
John Gall
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
1 recommender
Progress
Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
Johan Norberg
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
2 recommenders
The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
Carl Jung
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
2 recommenders
1 recommender
1 recommender
3 recommenders
1 recommender
1 recommender
1 recommender
Brain Architecture
Understanding the Basic Plan
Larry W. Swanson
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
An Outline of Psycho-Analysis
Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
1 recommender
The Big Sleep
Philip Marlowe, Book 1
Raymond Chandler
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing, Book 1
Hunter S. Thompson
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
3 recommenders
1 recommender
1 recommender
1 recommender
Little Science, Big Science...and Beyond
Derek J.De Solla Price
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
I, Claudius
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius
Robert Graves
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
Existence
A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology
Rollo May
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender- 1 recommender
An Anthropologist On Mars
Seven Paradoxical Tales
Oliver Sacks
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
1 recommender
The Long Goodbye
Philip Marlowe, Book 6
Raymond Chandler
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
2 recommenders
1 recommender
4 recommenders
1 recommender
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
3 recommenders
1 recommender
1 recommender
Earth in Human Hands
Shaping Our Planet's Future
David Grinspoon
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
1 recommender
1 recommender
3 recommenders
The Rape of Nanking
The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
2 recommenders
Ordinary Men
Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning
Source: "The best book of its type." - Jordan Peterson
2 recommenders
2 recommenders
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