Ryan Holiday
Author, Entrepreneur, Executive, Influencer, Podcaster, Writer
Ryan Holiday is an American author of bestsellers including The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and The Daily Stoic, host of the Daily Stoic podcast, and owner of The Painted Porch Bookshop in Bastrop, Texas.
Ryan Holiday's 642 Book Recommendations
- Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
- Fahrenheit 451
- The War of Art
- Tough Jews
- What Makes Sammy Run?
- The Score Takes Care of Itself
- Tiny Beautiful Things
- The River of Doubt
- The Tiger
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- Wikinomics
- Up From Slavery
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Fish That Ate the Whale
- The Moviegoer
- The Moral Animal
- The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus
- The Harder They Fall
- The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects V3
- The Net Delusion
- Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
- Sex on the Brain
- The 33 Strategies Of War
- The 48 Laws of Power
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Shadow Divers
- The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
- Selected Epigrams
- On Sparta
- Rules for Radicals
- Reveille for Radicals
- Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
- My Life and Battles
- My Bondage and My Freedom
- Hamlet
- Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
- Here Comes Everybody
- Letters from a Stoic
- Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- Essays and Aphorisms
- Candide
- Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus
- Fight Club: A Novel
- Founders at Work
- Brave New War
- Boyd
- The Aeneid of Virgil
- Average Is Over
- Empire State of Mind
- Mastery
- The Makers of Rome
- The Pirate's Dilemma
- The Strategy Paradox
- The Boys in the Boat
- The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story: “Instead of giving descriptions for these, I’m just going to list titles. You need to read ALL of them. ... The New New Thing by Michael Lewis”
- You are Not a Gadget: “Instead of giving descriptions for these, I’m just going to list titles. You need to read ALL of them. Especially the ones marked with an * ... You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto * by Jaron Lanier”
- Bird by Bird
- Washington
- Titan
- Eisenhower in War and Peace
- Where Men Win Glory
- Eleven Rings
- Destiny of the Republic
- How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
- In the Heart of the Sea
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
- Shoe Dog
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- Deep Work
- The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
- The Road to Character
- Tribe
- But What If We're Wrong?
- The City and the Stars
- Tiger Woods
- Range
- The Second Mountain
- How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
- The Great Influenza
- The Road
- Parting the Waters
- Invisible Man
- Meditations
- The Choice
- Man's Search For Meaning
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- Caste
- The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Psychology of Money
- Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be
- The Splendid and the Vile
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
- Conundrum
- The Velveteen Rabbit
- Lincoln at Gettysburg
- The Odyssey
- Turning Pro
- Everything Is Figureoutable
- The Laws of Human Nature
- Atomic Habits
- Letters to a Young Athlete
- Four Thousand Weeks
- How to Live
- The Life You Can Save
- It can't happen here, a novel
- The Creative Act
- Excellent Advice for Living
- Bushido
- The Black Swan: Second Edition
- The 4-hour Workweek
- The Great Gatsby
- Amusing Ourselves to Death
- The Gift of Fear
- Discourses and Selected Writings
- The Dip
- Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me!)
- Ender's Game
- Endurance
- Essentialism
- The ONE Thing
- Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition
- Blood Meridian, Or, The Evening Redness in the West
- Babbitt
- Personal History
- Steal Like an Artist
- Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
- Status Anxiety
- What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
- Plutarch's Lives (Volumes I and II)
- Words That Work
- The Game
- Good to Great
- Purple Cow
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Tools of Titans
- Enchiridion
- Walden
- The Big Sleep
- The Long Goodbye
- On the Shortness of Life
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Eating Animals
- Facing Codependence
- A Sense of Where You Are
- The God Delusion
- The Origins of Virtue
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
- The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
- The Path to Power
- Zen in the Art of Archery
- Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
- Nudge
- Tao Te Ching
- Totto-Chan
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- The Prince
- The Book of Five Rings
- Steve Jobs
- Show Your Work!
- Letters to a Young Poet
- The Way to Love
- Hillbilly Elegy
- When Breath Becomes Air
- Being Nixon
- American Caesar
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Empire of the Summer Moon
- Pillar of Fire
- At Canaan's Edge
- Fooled by Randomness
- Ask the Dust
- Dreams from Bunker Hill
- The Brotherhood of the Grape
- Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
- Twelve Years a Slave
- Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
- All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- Company K
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting
- A Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
- The Education of a Coach
- The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players
- The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership
- George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon
- Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
- Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography
- The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
- Bodyguard of Lies
- The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader
- Montaigne
- Magellan
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- Bright Shiny Morning
- This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War
- A Stillness at Appomattox
- The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
- Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It
- A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul
- The Captain Class: A New Theory of Leadership
- Sadaharu Oh: A Zen Way of Baseball
- Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
- Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- The Fall
- What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
- Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
- The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
- Memoirs of Hadrian
- George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
- Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
- How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management
- The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work
- Leadership: In Turbulent Times
- Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
- Florence Nightingale
- The Reason Why
- De Gaulle
- Truman
- The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business
- Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
- How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership
- Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones
- How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
- Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World
- The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature
- Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham
- First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
- Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
- The Children
- Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman
- Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
- Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature
- The Nineties: A Book
- Gift from the Sea
- The Johnstown Flood
- Address Unknown
- How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
- The Book with No Pictures
- I Need a New Butt!
- Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six
- The Son
- Pontius Pilate
- Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
- The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
- The Past That Would Not Die
- Three Lives for Mississippi
- Blue Nights
- The Year of Magical Thinking
- Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
- The Greek Way
- Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
- The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History
- Night of the Grizzlies
- James
- Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
- Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
- The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
- Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
- The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
- Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of the World
- Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor
- Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
- Hot Dog
- The Rock from the Sky
- That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic
- The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- Death Be Not Proud
- The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH
- Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
- Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
- 84, Charing Cross Road
- How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World
- Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
- The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
- Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
- Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character
- Maxims
- Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1884-1933
- The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
- A New Pair of Glasses
- Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War
- The Man Without a Country
- Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
- Hunger
- Asylum
- Wait Until Spring, Bandini
- The Road to Los Angeles
- This Boy's Life: A Memoir
- The Disenchanted
- All the King's Men
- How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by Themselves
- Lives of the Later Caesars
- Profiles in Courage
- Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark
- Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
- Why Don't We Learn from History?
- Buddha
- Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
- The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
- The Daily Pressfield
- The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
- On the Good Life
- Essays
- The Power of No: Because One Little Word Can Bring Health, Abundance, and Happiness
- Civil War Stories
- The Sea-Wolf
- The Crack-Up
- On the Rock: Twenty-Five Years in Alcatraz
- The Measure of My Days
- The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ and Other Essays
- The Kid Stays in the Picture
- Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
- Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years
- The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man
- Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern
- The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
- The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
- The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca
- Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior
- Nature and Selected Essays
- The Art of Happiness
- Moralia
- Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy
- Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
- The Lady in the Lake
- Southern California: An Island on the Land
- Los Angeles: Portrait of a City
- The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory
- City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
- The Price of Experience: Money, Power, Image, and Murder in Los Angeles
- L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
- The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies
- Playback
- Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood
- Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
- And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
- Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
- Addiction: A Disorder of Choice
- Black Like Me
- Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again
- Bright Lights, Big City
- The 50th Law
- The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals
- The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.
- Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
- Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems
- Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species
- Theory of War
- A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
- Ambition: The Secret Passion
- My Wicked, Wicked Ways
- Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation
- Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity
- Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
- Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
- The Tacit Dimension
- The Book of My Life
- The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream
- Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road
- The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
- Within the Context of No Context
- Education of a Felon: A Memoir
- The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism
- The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves
- Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
- War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
- My War Gone By, I Miss It So
- On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
- The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
- Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
- Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
- Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality
- Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
- Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
- Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
- Four Reasonable Men: Marcus Aurelius, John Stuart Mill, Ernest Renan, Henry Sidgwick
- Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
- The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
- The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
- The Sixteen Satires
- Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays
- Julius Caesar
- The Hunters
- Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
- Strategy
- The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood
- Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865
- A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War
- Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
- The Legacy of the Civil War
- Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
- Mencken: The American Iconoclast
- Full of Life
- 1933 Was a Bad Year
- John Fante & H. L. Mencken: A Personal Correspondence, 1930-1952
- Fante: A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving
- The Book of Dead Philosophers
- The Twelve Caesars
- Trouble Is My Business
- The High Window
- The Little Sister
- Farewell, My Lovely
- The Simple Art of Murder
- Raymond Chandler Speaking
- Chandlertown: The Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe
- Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
- Alexander Hamilton
- The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940
- The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
- Lancelot
- Mr. Eternity
- The World According to Star Wars
- The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
- The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
- Composed: A Memoir
- Fishing for Fun: And to Wash Your Soul
- Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
- How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
- The Library Book
- Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
- Napoleon: A Life
- Churchill: Walking with Destiny
- Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
- A Fool's Errand
- Her Right Foot
- Outside, Inside
- What Does It Mean to Be American?
- Minecraft: Woodsword Chronicles: Into the Game!
- American Rust
- All the Pretty Horses
- Comanches: The History of a People
- Greeking Out: Epic Retellings of Classic Greek Myths
- Greeking Out: Heroes and Olympians
- Rules for a Knight
- The Death of Socrates
- Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
- The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
- Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing
- Victory Over Myself
- Jungle Ways
- No Hiding Place: An Autobiography
- Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide-Open Society
- Moralia, Volume II: How to Profit by One's Enemies
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Dead Wake
- The Art of War
- The Intelligent Investor
- The Bhagavad Gita
- Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman
- A Poem for Every Night of the Year
- Fifty Famous Stories Retold
- Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
- Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
- High Five
- On War
- Minecraft: The Island
- Sherman: Fighting Prophet
- The Scarecrow
- A Poem for Every Day of the Year
- The Way of the Champion: Pain, Persistence, and the Path Forward
- Gilead
- The Alchemist
- Atlas Shrugged
- In Cold Blood
- American Buffalo
- Buffalo for the Broken Heart
- Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Permission Marketing
- Unlabel
- Zero to One
- Contagious
- Hooked
- So Good They Can't Ignore You
- A Man in Full
- A Guide to the Good Life
- Antifragile
- Less Than Zero
- All Marketers are Liars
- The Republic
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- Hold Me Tight
- Discover Your Inner Economist
- 1929
- The Painted Bird
- The Little Prince
- Native Son
- Chesterfield's Letters to His Son, Volume 1
- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
- And the Sea Will Tell
- A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
- Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man's Quest to Preserve the World's Great Animals
- The Pope's Elephant
- The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
- The Book of Imaginary Beings
- The Bear: History of a Fallen King
- Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves
- The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion
- Natural History, Volume III: Books 8-11
- Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
- The Medici Giraffe: And Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power
- Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
- A Lion Called Christian
- Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
- Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived
- The Beauty of the Beasts: Tales of Hollywood's Wild Animal Stars
- The Flinch
- Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood
- Some Fruits of Solitude
- You Can't Make Me Angry
- Writings from the Zen Masters
- An Apology for Idlers
- Why I Write
- A Confession and Other Religious Writings
- Socrates: A Man for Our Times
- Napoleon
- Churchill
- Edison: A Biography
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: The Defining Years, 1933-1938
- Colonel Roosevelt
- Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter
- Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
- The Heart and the Fist
- The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You
- Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
- Maxims and Reflections
- The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs
- The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
- Strenuous Epigrams of Theodore Roosevelt
- Maxims of Wall Street
- Michael Jackson, Inc.
- Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Followers into Fanatics
- Confessions of an Advertising Man
- The Unpublished David Ogilvy
- Choose Yourself!
- The Personal MBA
- Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices
- Spin: How to Turn the Power of the Press to Your Advantage
- Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership
- Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention
- Marshall: Hero for Our Times
- General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman
- Tides of War
- The Great Beanie Baby Bubble
- Grand Delusions: The Cosmic Career of John DeLorean
- The Present Alone Is Our Happiness
- Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche
- My Year Inside Radical Islam
- The Essential Difference
- Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts
- Black Brothers, Inc.: The Violent Rise and Fall of Philadelphia's Black Mafia
- Only in America: The Life and Crimes of Don King
- Stoicism and the Art of Happiness
- The Consolations of Philosophy
- Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind
- Stoicism
- Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics
- The Stoics: A Guide for the Perplexed
- Stoicism and Emotion
- The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics
- Everything Has Two Handles: The Stoic's Guide to the Art of Living
- A New Stoicism
- Teacher Man
- Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
- Thick Face, Black Heart
- A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
- The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian
- The Man Who Would Be Queen
- Angela's Ashes
- The Sociopath Next Door
- His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.
- Radical Reconstruction
- The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
- Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
- What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
- The Hustons
- The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst
- Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations
- How to Be a Stoic
- Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
- Socrates
- The Big Sea
- A History of My Times
- US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man
- Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
- The Myth of the Robber Barons
- The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
- The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS
- No Logo
- It's Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive
- Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student
- Free Prize Inside!
- The Greco-Persian Wars
- Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History
- On the Orator
- Till Death Us Do Part
- Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
- The Predators' Ball
- American Psycho
- Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
- The Anabasis of Cyrus
- The Daily Drucker
- Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- Fair Play
- Goodbye to a River
- The Present Age
- Raising Hare
- The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America
- Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy
- Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote
- Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot
- The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Outliers
- Love, War, and Circuses: The Age-Old Relationship Between Elephants and Humans
- The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
- Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
- The Souls of Black Folk
- The Campaigns of Alexander
- Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids
- Leviathan
- Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both
Books written by Ryan Holiday
- Stillness Is the Key
- Trust Me, I'm Lying
- The Obstacle Is the Way
- Ego Is the Enemy
- The Daily Stoic
- Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
- Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
- The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living
- Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
- Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
- Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
- Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
- The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids
- Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds.
- Wisdom Takes Work: Learn, Apply, Repeat