Jordan Peterson's Book Recommendations
Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, professor of psychology, and author of 12 Rules for Life. His reading recommendations span mythology, psychology, philosophy, and literature, with deep influences from Jung, Dostoevsky, and Solzhenitsyn.
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📚 Books Recommended by Jordan Peterson 118
The Horse's Mouth
"The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary. A book from my great books list:"
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The Discovery of the Unconscious
"This is accurate. Clinicians participating are implicit in producing a psychogenic epidemic. For the history of such social illnesses, which almost always preferentially affect young women, see Henri Ellenberger: The History of the Unconscious (a truly great book)."
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The Great Mother
"See the great book The Great Mother by Erich Neumann. The negative elementary feminine is the archetypal devouring mother: death and torment by compassion."
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Island
"Island by Aldous Huxley a book from my great books list"
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The Old Man and the Sea
"The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway a book from my great books list"
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A Farewell to Arms
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The Myth of Mental Illness
"It's a classic. You should read it if you're interested in psychology."
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
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The Origins and History of Consciousness
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Crime and Punishment
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Beyond Good And Evil
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Demons
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Our Culture, What's Left of It
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Ordinary Men
"The best book of its type."
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The Rape of Nanking
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The Painted Bird
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1984
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Brave New World
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Affective Neuroscience
"One of the best books on the neuroscience of emotion."
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Notes from Underground
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The Master and Margarita
"The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. A book from my great books list:"
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Man's Search for Meaning
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The Charterhouse of Parma
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The Great Code
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
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War And Peace
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Stalin
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The Symbolic Life
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The Stone Angel
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On Becoming a Person
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The Emotional Brain
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The Moral Judgment of the Child
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Tolstoy
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Answer to Job
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The Great Escape
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The Interpretation of Dreams
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Shamanism
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Of Mice and Men
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Animal Farm
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The Mystery of Capital
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The Red and the Black
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The House of God
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The Bible
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The Brothers Karamazov
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The Forge and the Crucible
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The New Executive Brain
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Genius
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The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
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The Sacred and The Profane
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Life at the Bottom
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Zorba the Greek
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Myth and Reality
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Systemantics
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The Maltese Falcon
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Progress
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Awakenings
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Flowers for Algernon
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Myths Dreams and Mysteries
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Point Counter Point
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The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
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Wuthering Heights
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A Way of Being
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An Outline of Psycho-Analysis
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Brain Architecture
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Psychology and Religion
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The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
"One of the most influential books I ever read."
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The First Circle
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Cancer Ward
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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The Big Sleep
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Aion
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Existence
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I, Claudius
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Little Science, Big Science...and Beyond
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Psychology and Alchemy
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An Anthropologist On Mars
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Anna Karenina
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Fratricides
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Lord of the Flies
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Play Dreams & Imitation in Childhood
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Earth in Human Hands
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Sometimes a Great Notion
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Symbols of Transformation
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Mysterium Coniunctionis
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Endurance
"Read [this] book."
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The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross
"A book to bend your mind."
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DMT
"A very interesting book."
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The Return of the God Hypothesis
"Reading Stephen C. Meyer's Return of the God Hypothesis. It's a difficult book, well-written, densely informative. He claims (p. 211) "without functional criteria to guide a search through the vast space of possible sequences, random variation is probabilistically doomed.""
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Mercy Among the Children
"The greatest novel I have read in many years."
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Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity
"A beautifully produced book..."
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Mama's Last Hug
"Reading Mama's Last Hug, by the eminent and brilliant primatologist Frans de Waal, who revolutionized our understanding of chimpanzee social organization. The book is a model of clarity and subtle depth"
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"Everyone should have this book."
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The Long Goodbye
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On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
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Modern Man In Search of a Soul
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The Rational Optimist
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The Gulag Archipelago (3 books)
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History of Religious Ideas (3 books)
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Factfulness
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The Idiot
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Words with Power
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The Will to Power
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The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
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Mephistopheles
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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The Denial of Death
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The Crisis of Islam
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The Anti-Christ
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Enlightenment Now
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The Gay Science
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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East of Eden
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
"A great book."
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