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Books recommended by Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday recommends 85 books, among them Here Comes Everybody, How To Hide An Empire and How To Keep Your Cool.

Category

Industry

85 books

Here Comes Everybody

Clay Shirky

Technology

How To Hide An Empire

Daniel Immerwahr

History

How To Keep Your Cool

Seneca

Philosophy

How to Live

Sarah Bakewell

Philosophy

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

Donald Robertson

History

Keep Going

Austin Kleon

Design

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

George Horace Lorimer

Philosophy

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

Memoirs of Hadrian

Marguerite Yourcenar

History

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

History

My Life and Battles

Jack Johnson

History

No Hiding Place

William Seabrook

Biography & memoir

Of Anger

Seneca

Philosophy

Plutarch’s Lives

Plutarch

History

Reveille for Radicals

Saul D. Alinsky

Philosophy

Rules for Radicals

Saul D. Alinsky

Philosophy

Selected Epigrams

Martial

Philosophy

Sex on the Brain

Deborah Blum

Psychology

Sherman

B.H. Liddell Hart

Biography & memoir

Sixteen Satires

Juvenal

Fiction

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

Psychology

The Aeneid

Virgil

Philosophy

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Mordecai Richler

Fiction

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

History

The Cathedral & the Bazaar

Eric S. Raymond

Technology

The Complete Perfectionist

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Philosophy

The Enchiridion

Epictetus

Philosophy

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anonymous

History

The Fish That Ate the Whale

Rich Cohen

History