Ryan Holiday's Book Recommendations
Ryan Holiday is a bestselling author and media strategist known for his books on stoicism, including The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy. He is a leading voice in modern stoic philosophy, teaching readers how to apply ancient wisdom to achieve personal and professional success. Holiday’s work emphasizes resilience, discipline, and humility as keys to navigating life’s challenges. He has consulted with major companies and individuals on marketing and strategy, blending stoic principles with contemporary business practices. His books have been translated into over 30 languages.
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Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
Radical Acceptance
Tara Brach
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Baby 411
Ari Brown, Denise Fields
The Body Keeps the Score
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No-Drama Discipline
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Bringing Up Bébé
Pamela Druckerman
The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
Titan
Ron Chernow
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Mastery
George Leonard
Founders at Work
Jessica Livingston
The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
The Fish That Ate the Whale
Rich Cohen
Hackers & Painters
Paul Graham
Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed
The Moral Animal
Robert Wright
Boyd
Robert Coram
Fight Club: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Michael Lewis
The Tiger
John Vaillant
Here Comes Everybody
Clay Shirky
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
How to Live
Sarah Bakewell
The Aeneid
Virgil
Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey
Plutarch: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Complete and Unabridged)
Plutarch
Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Candide
Voltaire
The Second Mountain
David Brooks
Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky
Sherman
B. H. Liddell Hart
What Makes Sammy Run?
Budd Schulberg
You are Not a Gadget
Jaron Lanier
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Average is Over
Tyler Cowen
Edison
Matthew Josephson
Brave New War
John Robb
Keep Going
Austin Kleon
The Net Delusion
Evgeny Morozov
George Marshall
David L. Roll
The River of Doubt
Candice Millard
Douglas MacArthur
Arthur Herman
Reveille for Radicals
Saul Alinsky
My Life and Battles
Jack Johnson
De ira
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Giorgio Vasari
The Complete Perfectionist
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
The Cathedral & the Bazaar
Eric S. Raymond
Totto-chan
黒柳徹子
Sex on the Brain
Deborah Blum
Selected Epigrams
Martial
Ulysses S. Grant
Brooks Simpson
The Pirate's Dilemma
Matt Mason
Tough Jews
Rich Cohen
Asylum
William Seabrook
Sixteen Satires
Juvenal
Wikinomics
Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Epigrams
Martial
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
Mordecai Richler
The Satires of Juvenal
Juvenal Juvenal
Call Sign Chaos
Bing West, Jim Mattis
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