Jordan Peterson
Author, Influencer, Professor
Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, author, and a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. He began to receive widespread attention as a public intellectual in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues, often described as conservative.
Jordan Peterson's 156 Book Recommendations
- Demons
- Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ
- The Horse's Mouth
- Tolstoy
- Existence: A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology
- Genius: The Natural History of Creativity
- Psychology and Religion: West and East
- The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
- A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
- The Myth of Mental Illness
- Endurance
- Ordinary Men
- War and Peace
- Zorba the Greek
- Wuthering Heights
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Symbolic Life
- The World's Religions, Revised and Updated
- The Stone Angel
- The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
- The New Executive Brain:Frontal Lobes in a Complex World
- The Red and the Black
- The Rational Optimist
- The Origins and History of Consciousness
- The Old Man And The Sea
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- The Master and Margarita
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Long Goodbye
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- The Moral Judgment Of The Child
- The Mystery of Capital
- The Great Escape
- The House of God
- The Interpretation of Dreams
- The Great Code
- The Idiot
- The Great Mother
- The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception
- The Denial of Death
- In the First Circle
- The Crisis of Islam
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Discovery Of The Unconscious
- The Forge and the Crucible
- The Emotional Brain
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- The Brothers Karamazov
- The Big Sleep
- Symbols of Transformation
- The Charterhouse of Parma
- The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
- Shamanism
- Sometimes a Great Notion
- On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
- Our Culture, What's Left of It
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Point Counter Point
- Psychology and Alchemy
- Play, Dreams And Imitation In Childhood
- Lord of the Flies
- Mysterium Coniunctionis
- Notes from Underground
- Mephistopheles
- Of Mice and Men
- Myth and Reality
- Man's Search For Meaning
- Modern Man in Search of a Soul
- Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
- The Fratricides
- I, Claudius
- Flowers for Algernon
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
- Life at the Bottom
- On Becoming a Person
- Affective Neuroscience
- The Painted Bird
- A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity
- East of Eden
- Brain Architecture
- Cancer Ward
- Earth in Human Hands
- Brave New World
- Enlightenment Now
- Awakenings
- Anna Karenina
- An Anthropologist on Mars
- Animal Farm
- A Farewell to Arms
- Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self
- Answer to Job
- A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms
- Words with Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature
- Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
- Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
- The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
- Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
- Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence: “I learned an awful lot from that book”
- Island
- The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
- The Joyful Wisdom
- The Will to Power
- An Outline of Psychoanalysis
- Little Science, Big Science
- The Bible: “what should you have read? And the answer to that could easily be, well, you probably should have read the Bible.”
- Factfulness
- Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
- Crime and Punishment
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One: “It was my attempt to deal with the aftermath of Nietzsche's pronouncement of the Death Of God in his revelatory book, Thus Spake Zarathustra”
- 1984
- A Way of Being: “What can you recommend? First, a book: A Way of Being by Carl Rogers, 1980”
- "The Kingdom of God is Within You"
- A Confession and Other Religious Writings
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Down and Out in Paris and London
- Homage to Catalonia
- The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
- The Rape Of Nanking
- The Sacred and the Profane: “I read Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane at least five times over the last two decades. I thought it was a masterpiece the first time I read it. But every time I reread it, I thought it was better.”
- The Road to Wigan Pier
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human: “It's a great book”
- The Case for Trump: “Everybody who wants to understand Trump… should read @VDHanson The Case for Trump. I think he nails it”
- Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting: “This is an excellent book. Read it if you're feeling hopeless about the future.”
- Infidel: “she made a remarkable splash years ago with her first book, Infidel… And so that was a great book.”
- Panzram: “There's a great book, if you're interested in this sort of thing, called Panzram.”
- The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: “It's an amazing book”
- The Blank Slate: “Pinker's The Blank Slate is a book everyone should read… It's an amazing accomplishment.”
- Angela's Ashes: “it's an amazing book because it's written almost entirely without resentment”
- Wealth And Poverty Of Nations: “I read a great book at one point called The Wealth and Poverty of Nations”
- A Billion Wicked Thoughts: “the best book I've ever read investigating…”
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces: “it's a great book”
- How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place: “He wrote a great book called How to Spend $50 Billion… A book I would highly recommend.”
- The War on the West: “I highly recommend it.”
- Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves: “The book is a model of clarity and subtle depth”
- The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat: “The End of the Line is a great book”
- The Unnatural History of the Sea: “Unnatural History of the Sea, I love that.”
- Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World: “So it's a remarkable book. Cod, I love that, too.”
- Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind: “his textbook on evolutionary psychology is a great book”
- The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century: “a book that I've just been reading that I would recommend… The Great Leveler, which I really like”
- In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom: “In Order to Live, which is an amazing book”
- Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap -- and What Women Can Do About It: “I think that is a great book”
- Bullying at School: What We Know and What We Can Do: “I read a great book a long while back called Bullying…”
- Peacemaking among Primates: “Peacemaking Among Primates. I thought that was a great book… Good Nature… Another great book… Are We Smart Enough… another great book… Different… I would highly recommend…”
- Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals: “Peacemaking Among Primates. I thought that was a great book… Good Nature… Another great book… Are We Smart Enough… another great book… Different… I would highly recommend…”
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?: “Peacemaking Among Primates. I thought that was a great book… Good Nature… Another great book… Are We Smart Enough… another great book… Different… I would highly recommend…”
- Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist: “Peacemaking Among Primates. I thought that was a great book… Good Nature… Another great book… Are We Smart Enough… another great book… Different… I would highly recommend…”
- Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet: “wrote a great book recently called Super Abundance”
- The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis: A Commentary: “a great book… I found it extremely useful. I'm going to read it again.”
- Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt: “the best account that I've ever read… It's an amazing book”
- Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: “the following two books are invaluable… Understanding Postmodernism by Stephen R. Hicks”
- The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America: “some of them were really helpful”
- The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It: “Here's a link to his book. Read it if you have a son or brother or father.”