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Books recommended by Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday recommends 18 books, among them Meditations, The War of Art and Bird by Bird.

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Nonfiction

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

Nonfiction

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

Biography & memoir

Range

David Epstein

Business & management

Mastery

Robert Greene

Self-improvement

How To Keep Your Cool

Seneca

Philosophy

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

Donald Robertson

History

Keep Going

Austin Kleon

Design

Letters from a Stoic

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Philosophy

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

The Earl Of Chesterfield

Self-improvement

Of Anger

Seneca

Philosophy

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

Psychology

The Complete Perfectionist

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Philosophy

The Enchiridion

Epictetus

Philosophy

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus

Publius Syrus

Philosophy

The Score Takes Care of Itself

Bill Walsh

Biography & memoir

The Second Mountain

David Brooks

Spirituality & religion

Tiny Beautiful Things

Cheryl Strayed

Biography & memoir