Jordan B. Peterson's Book Recommendations

Jordan B. Peterson’s Book Recommendations

Last Updated on April 28, 2021

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Jordan B. Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief and his book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. He is a critic of political correctness and postmodernism. He has become a controversial figure for his stances against feminism, postmodernism, and post-structuralism.

Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief and his book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. He is a critic of political correctness and postmodernism. He has become a controversial figure for his stances against feminism, postmodernism, and post-structuralism.

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Contents

1.The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas S. Szasz

2.The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

3.Panzram byThomas E. Gaddis

4.Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

5.Man’s Search for Meaning byViktor E. Frankl

6.The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks

7.Factfulness by Hans Rosling

8.The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9.Words with Power by Northrop Frye

10.The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann

11.The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche

12.Our Culture, What’s Left of It by Theodore Dalrymple

13.Affective Neuroscience by Jaak Panksepp

14.The Neuropsychology of Anxiety by Jeffrey A. Gray

15.Mephistopheles by Jeffrey Burton Russell

16.The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

17.The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

18.The Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis

19.The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche

20.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

21.Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker

22.Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

23.The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

24.The Great Code by Northrop Frye

25.The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

26.East of Eden by John Steinbeck

27.Two Essays on Analytical Psychology by Carl Jung

28.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

29.War And Peace Leo Tolstoy

30.Modern Man In Search of a Soul by Carl Jung

31.The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

32.Stalin by Edvard Radzinsky

33.The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

34.The Symbolic Life by Carl Jung

35.The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

36.The Emotional Brain by Joseph Ledoux

37.On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers

38.Tolstoy by Henri Troyat

39.The Moral Judgment of the Child by Jean Piaget

40.The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

41.Answer to Job by Carl Jung

42.How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by Bjørn Lomborg

43.The Great Escape by Angus Deaton

44.The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

45.Beyond Good & Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

46.Shamanism by Mircea Eliade

47.Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

48.The Mystery of Capital by Hernando De Soto

49.Animal Farm by George Orwell

50.1984 by George Orwell

51.The Red and the Black by Stendhal

52.Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

53.Island by Aldous Huxley

54.The World’s Religions by Huston Smith

55.The House of God by Samuel Shem

56.The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Cary

57.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

58.The New Executive Brain by Elkhonon Goldberg

59.The Forge and the Crucible by Mircea Eliade

60.The Sacred and The Profane by Mircea Eliade

61.The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 by Theodore M. Porter

62.Genius by Eysenck

63.Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

64.The Discovery of the Unconscious by Henri F. Ellenberger

65.Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple

66.Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

67.The Great Mother by Erich Neumann

68.The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

69.Systemantics by John Gall

70.Myth and Reality by Mircea Eliade

71.The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

72.Progress by Johan Norberg

73.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

74.The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious by Carl Jung

75.Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley

76.Myths Dreams and Mysteries by Mircea Eliade

77.Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

78.Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

79.The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

80.The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception by James J. Gibson

81.Psychology and Religion by Carl Jung

82.Brain Architecture by Larry W. Swanson

83.An Outline of Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud

84.A Way of Being by Carl Rogers

85.The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

86.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

87.Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

88.A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 1 by Mircea Eliade

89.The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

90.Psychology and Alchemy by Carl Jung

91.Little Science, Big Science…and Beyond by Derek J.De Solla Price

92.I, Claudius by Robert Graves

93.Existence by Rollo May

94.Aion by Carl Jung

95.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

96.An Anthropologist On Mars by Oliver Sacks

97.A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

98.The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

99.Play Dreams & Imitation in Childhood by Jean Piaget

100.Lord of the Flies by William Golding

101.Fratricides by Nikos Kazantzakis

102.For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

103.On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche

104.A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 3 by Mircea Eliade

105.Symbols of Transformation by Carl Jung

106.Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey

107.Earth in Human Hands by David Grinspoon

108.Mysterium Coniunctionis by Carl Jung

109.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

110.A History Of Religious Ideas, Vol. 2 By Mircea Eliade

111.The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Conclusion:

Jordan Peterson is a controversial figure, but he is also a man of great knowledge and wisdom. His book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is a must-read for anyone who wants to live a better life.

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