Novels and Philosophy
- Beyle, Marie-Henri (Stendhal): The Charterhouse of Parma
- Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
- Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita
- Cary, Joyce: The Horse’s Mouth
- Dalyrmple, Theodore: Our Culture, What’s Left of It (Read my highlights)
- Dalrymple, Theodore: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Demons
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
- Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
- Hammet, Dashiel: The Maltese Falcon
- Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
- Huxley, Aldous: Point Counterpoint
- Kazantzakis, Nikos: The Fratricides
- Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek (Read my highlights)
- Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Laurence, Margaret: The Stone Angel
- Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Nietzsche, Friedrich: Beyond Good and Evil
- Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Antichrist
- Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Gay Science
- Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Will to Power
- Pirsig, Robert: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Shem, Samuel: The House of God
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: Cancer Ward
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The First Circle
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3. (alternatively, all three volumes abridged into one)
- Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
- Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
- Thompson, Hunter S: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
- Troyat, Henri: Tolstoy
Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry
- Becker, Ernest: The Denial of Death
- Ellenberger, Henri: The Discovery of the Unconscious
- Eysenck, Hans: Genius
- Jung, Carl: Aion
- Jung, Carl: Answer to Job
- Jung, Carl: Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
- Jung, Carl: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
- Jung, Carl: Mysterium Coniunctionis (Difficult; read the last half)
- Jung, Carl: Psychology and Alchemy
- Jung, Carl: Psychology: East and West
- Jung, Carl: Symbols of Transformation
- Jung, Carl: The Symbolic Life
Neuroscience
- Gibson, James J: An Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
- Goldberg, Elkhonon: The New Executive Brain
- Gray, Jeffrey and Neil McNaughton: The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
- LeDoux, Joseph: The Emotional Brain
- Panksepp, Jaak: Affective Neuroscience
- Swanson, Larry: Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan
Religion and Religious History
- Burton Russell, Jeffrey: Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World
- Eliade, Mircea: A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3)
- Eliade, Mircea: Myth and Reality
- Eliade, Mircea: Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
- Eliade, Mircea: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
- Eliade, Mircea: The Forge and the Crucible
- Frye, Northrop: The Great Code
- Frye, Northrop: Words with Power
- Lewis, Bernard: The Crisis of Islam
- Smith, Huston: The World’s Religions
- The Bible: Designed to be Read as Living Literature
History/Systems Analysis
- de Solla Price, Derek J: Little Science, Big Science
- The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
- Gall, John: Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
- Radzinsky, Edvard: Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia’s Secret Archives
- Shirer, William L: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The State of the World: A 21st Century Update
- Deaton, Angus: The Great Escape
- Lomborg, Bjorn: How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
- Norberg, Johan: Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
- Pinker, Steven: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- Ridley, Matt: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
- Rosling, Hans: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- Grinspoon, David: Earth in Human Hands
Jordan Peterson’s Books