Books recommended by Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday Books - 66 Favorite Picks


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Ryan Holiday reading list - 66 books to read to strengthen your mind. Ryan Holiday is the most famous stoics author of the 21st century. His books are logical, well-reasoned, and filled with severe motivation. That's why it is interesting to find out the genuine source of his power of will, inner drive, and motivation. We believe that Ryan Holiday book recommendations reveal more about his personality than some interviews, which makes this reading list only more intriguing. It is one of the largest lists of the Ryan Holiday best books that he recommends reading to everyone. Most of them are with quotes and sources. We continuously follow Ryan to check if he has more reading suggestions for stoics or just his fans. So, stay tuned for more Ryan Holiday books! Check out Ryan Holiday 66 favorite books - UPDATED 2021!
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The Tiger

Holy shit, this book is good. Just holy shit.
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The Fish That Ate the Whale

Sucked me in completely. Everyone I’ve recommended it to loves it.
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Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1766-71

[The author] wrote his letters to his illegitimate son, tutoring him on how to learn, how to think, how to act, how to deal with important people. I don’t agree with all his advice but most of it is great.
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The New New Thing

In the last years of the millennium, Michael Lewis, bestselling author of The Big Short and The Undoing Project, sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He...
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The Power Broker

One of the most magnificent books I’ve ever read.
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

A friend and peer of Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Raphael Titian and all the other great minds of the Renaissance sat down in 1550 and wrote biographical sketches of the people he knew or had influenced him.
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Here Comes Everybody

Welcome to the new future of involvement. Forming groups is easier than it�s ever been: unpaid volunteers can build an encyclopaedia together in their spare time, mistreated customers can join forces to get their revenge on airlines and...
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Sherman

his was someone I knew little about before I read the book, and by the end of it found myself referencing and thinking of him constantly.
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Sex on the Brain

One of the better books on evolutionary biology that focuses almost entirely on the biological and psychological differences between men and women.
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Endurance

"This book (and his life) were living proof of his family motto: 'Fortitudine vincimus' (By endurance we conquer).
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You Are Not A Gadget

Something went wrong around the start of the 21st century. Individual creativity began to go out of fashion. Music became an endless rehashing of the past. Scientists were in danger of no longer understanding their own research. Indeed,...
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Asylum

I actually ended up helping get [this book] back in print
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Selected Epigrams

Hilarious. I have one hanging on the gate in front of my house
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Fight Club

I’m amazed how many young people haven’t read this book. Truly life-changing.
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Brave New War

"For my money, John Robb, a former Air Force officer and tech guru, is the futurists' futurist." —Slate The counterterrorism expert John Robb reveals how the same technology that has enabled globalization also allows terrorists and...
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On War

The most authoritative and feature-rich edition of On War in EnglishCarl von Clausewitz’s On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the...
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The River of Doubt

I thought I knew about Theodore Roosevelt.
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The Moviegoer

The novel that every young kid stuck in their own head needs to read.
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The Harder They Fall

About boxing and loosely based on the Primo Carnera scandal.
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Rules for Radicals

This is the '48 Laws of Power' written in more of an idealist, activist tone.
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Mastery

Read [this book] so that you can figure your life’s task and how to dedicate yourself to it.
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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

The (supposedly) preserved correspondence between Old Gorgon Graham, a self-made millionaire in Chicago, and his son who is coming of age and entering the family business.
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The Pirate's Dilemma

It started with punk. Hip-hop, rave, graffiti, and gaming took it to another level, and now modern technology has made the ideas and innovations of youth culture increasingly intimate and increasingly global at the same time. In The...
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What Makes Sammy Run?

Ari Gold before Ari Gold existed.
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