===================== Recommended reading ===================== Mortimer J Adler and Charles Van Doren, `"How to read a book" `_ (`archive.org link `_) Mortimer and Van Doren mention with asterisks titles included in `Great Books of the Western World` (single asterisk) and `Gateway to the Great Books` (double asterisk). #. Homer (9th Century B.C. ?) * Iliad * Odyssey #. The Old Testament #. Aeschylus (c. 525-456 B.C.) * Tragedies #. Sophocles (c. 495-406 B.C.) * Tragedies #. Herodotus (c. 484-425 B.C.) * History of the Persian Wars #. Euripides (c. 485-406 B.C.) * Tragedies (esp. `Medea`, `Hippolytus`, `The Bacchae`) #. Thucydides (c. 460-400 B.C.) * History of the Peloponnesian War #. Hippocrates (c. 460-377? B.C.) * Medical writings #. Aristophanes #. Plato #. Aristotle #. Epicurus `Reading list `_ suggested by Jordan Peterson Literature/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 Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep Chandler, Raymond: The Long Goodbye Dalyrmple, Theodore: Our Culture: What’s Left of It Dalrymple, Theodore: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment `(g1) `_ Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground `(g2) `_ Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov `(g3) `_ Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Devils `(g4) `_ Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot `(g5) `_ Golding, William: Lord of the Flies Graves, Robert: I, Claudius Hammet, Dashiel: The Maltese Falcon Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell To Arms Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World Huxley, Aldous: Island Huxley, Aldous: Point Counterpoint Kazantzakis, Nikos: The Fratricides Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kesey, Ken: Sometimes a Great Notion Keyes, Daniel: Flowers for Algernon Laurence, Margaret: The Stone Angel Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird Nietzsche, Friedrich: Beyond Good and Evil `(g6) `_ Nietzsche, Friedrich: On the Genealogy of Morals Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Antichrist `(g7) `_ Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Gay Science Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Will to Power `(g8) `_ Orwell, George: 1984 Orwell, George: Animal Farm Orwell, George: Road to Wigan Pier 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 Steinbeck, John: Of Men and Mice Stendhal: The Red and the Black Thompson, Hunter S: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina `(g9) `_ Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace `(g10) `_ Troyat, Henri: Tolstoy Wolfe, Tom: The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry Becker, Ernest: The Denial of Death Ellenberger, Henri: The Discovery of the Unconscious Eysenck, Hans: Genius Frankl, Viktor: Man’s Search for Meaning Freud, Sigmund: An Outline of Psychoanalysis `(g11) `_ Freud, Sigmund: The Interpretation of Dreams `(g12) `_ 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: Psychology of Religion: East and West Jung, Carl: Symbols of Transformation Jung, Carl: The Symbolic Life Jung, Carl: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology May, Rollo. Angel, Ernest & Ellenberger, Henri: Existence: A new dimension in psychiatry and psychology Neumann, Erich: The Origins and History of Consciousness Neumann, Erich: The Great Mother Piaget, Jean: Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood Piaget, Jean: The Moral Judgment of the Child Rogers, Carl: A Way of Being Rogers, Carl: On Becoming a Person 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 Sacks, Oliver: The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat Sacks, Oliver: Awakenings Sacks, Oliver: An Anthropologist on Mars 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 Eliade, Mircea: The Sacred and the Profane Frye, Northrop: The Great Code Frye, Northrop: Words with Power Lewis, Bernard: The Crisis of Islam Smith, Huston: (introductory): 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 De Soto, Hernando: 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 Porter, Theodore M: The Rise of Statistical Thinking 1820-1900 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 Peterson, Jordan B: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Peterson, Jordan B: Maps of Meaning