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Ryan Holiday books: every book Ryan Holiday wrote and recommended
Across 14 podcasts. Every show Ryan Holiday appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by Ryan Holiday
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The Obstacle Is the Way
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Stillness Is the Key
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Ego Is the Enemy
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Trust Me, I'm Lying
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The Daily Stoic Journal
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Conspiracy
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Courage Is Calling
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Right Thing, Right Now
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The Daily Stoic
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Lives of the Stoics
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The Daily Dad
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Perennial Seller
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Discipline Is Destiny
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Growth Hacker Marketing
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Wisdom Takes Work
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The Girl Who Would Be Free
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The Boy Who Would Be King
Ryan Holiday’s most recommended books
- Meditations by Aurelius Marcus
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
- Range by David J. Epstein
- Yes to Life by Viktor E. Frankl
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Ryan Clark Holiday is an American marketer and author. He writes books and markets them with non-traditional methods. He became known for marketing Stoicism as a lifestyle and philosophy for modern people, specifically, the philosophy advocated by Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor. On his podcast, The Daily Stoic, Holiday frequently discusses and recommends ambitious books and historical literature. When connecting with guests about having a broad range of interests, he brought up David Epstein's book Range. He recommended Nathaniel Philbrick's book The Rush to his listeners and highlighted large, comprehensive biographies such as Ron Chernow's Grant and Hamilton as examples of ambitious books worth tackling. In discussions about long and challenging historical works, he also referred to Robert Caro's The Power Broker and The Passage of Power. Furthermore, Holiday recommended Diogenes Laërtius's Lives of the Eminent Philosophers for its biographical accounts of various Stoic philosophers and suggested Epictetus's Enchiridion as an accessible starting point for readers before advancing to more difficult classical texts by the same philosopher.
Books recommended by Ryan Holiday
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Meditations
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a timeless collection of personal reflections and Stoic philosophy written by the Roman emperor.
Discussed“There are more than 80 references in the Meditations to the Common Good, a phrase that appears on nearly every page of the work.”
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The 48 Laws of Power
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers is a provocative guide examining historical strategies for acquiring and navigating power.
Discussed“As Robert Greene says, always say less than necessary.”
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The Odyssey
Homer's epic poem The Odyssey recounts the arduous ten-year journey of the Greek hero Odysseus as he strives to return home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, facing mythical monsters, divine wrath, and profound personal trials along the way.
Discussed“he was reading not just Epictetus and not just the Stoics, but he was reading the Odyssey and the Iliad because Epictetus had said that students needed to be familiar with those works, too.”
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The Great Gatsby
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Discussed“Gatsby's obviously a great example of this. On on one level, it's a perfect snapshot of the Jazz Age. And then you realize on a different level it's about the American dream, it's about ambition...”
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The War of Art
Steven Pressfield's The War of Art serves as a profound guide for creatives, entrepreneurs, and thinkers seeking to understand and conquer the psychological barriers that hinder productivity and inspiration.
Recommended“and then i know you like uh steven pressfield”
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The Obstacle Is the Way
The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday is a popular self-help book that draws on Stoic philosophy to help readers reframe adversity as an opportunity for growth.
Discussed“Now, when I read Obstacle is the Way, I was struck by how simple the idea is and yet how radical it also becomes when you actually try to live it.”
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The Daily Stoic
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman offers 365 days of ancient wisdom and reflections designed to help readers cultivate resilience, clarity, and self-control in their everyday lives.
Discussed“So, so that I was never going to be in The Virtue books, but then I did realize, okay, if you're talking about virtue and you're making strong judgments—positive and negative—of other people, um, there can be an implication that you're somehow the master of these things.”
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Gates of Fire
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield is a historical novel detailing the heroic Spartan stand at the Battle of Thermopylae.
Discussed“and then I have on my wall I have the last page from the typ written manuscript of Gates of Fire signed by the author”
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Range
Range by David J.
Recommended“There's a book behind you. I was just thinking about when I think of you, one of my favorite books range. Have you read range?”
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Yes to Life
Yes to Life by Viktor E.
Discussed“It made me think of the Victor Franco essay collection that they did a couple of years ago, which is called Yes to Life. And the subtitle is in spite of everything.”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E.
Discussed“Every time you look at someone's story, I think of Victor Frankle. Yeah. You look at all these stories and you go, it's the same.”
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy is an illustrated fable following an unlikely quartet of characters as they explore profound themes of kindness, friendship, vulnerability, and resilience.
Recommended“I love the book, The Boy, The Fox, The Horse and the Mole by Charlie Mackesey who I had on the Daily Stoic podcast. And he has a great line in that book. He says, asking for help isn't giving up. It's actually refusing to give up.”
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Good Inside
Good Inside by Dr.
Recommended“And then, um we're talking about keeping the fire and being the good guys. Dr. Becky's Good Inside is a book I've given to a lot of dads and and parents across the board.”
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Good to Great
Good to Great by Jim Collins is a popular business book exploring how companies transition from being mediocre to achieving sustained greatness.
Recommended“we have copies of good to great and uh what to make of a life at the painted porch bookstore”
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is a celebrated novel that chronicles a tragic wartime romance and the brutal realities of combat, known for its spare prose and poignant explorations of human resilience.
Discussed“well we talked about hemingway um in uh a farewell to arms he rewrote the ending like 35 times”
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A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion
A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion by Epictetus is a foundational Stoic text that offers enduring wisdom on personal agency, resilience, and emotional control.
Recommended“Like Epictetus, it's easier to start with the Enchiridion, which is sort of a summary of his teachings, but then you got to go to the Discourses.”
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Mastery
Mastery by Robert Greene is a non-fiction book that explores the paths to true expertise by examining the lives of historical figures, contemporary masters, and the dynamics of mentorship.
Recommended“and then when you read his other books particularly Mastery then then then you sort of unlock the puzzle”
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The Brass Check
The Brass Check by Upton Sinclair is a searing early twentieth-century journalistic exposé that investigates media corruption, propaganda, and industrial influence over the press.
Discussed“I'd been deeply influenced by this book that I read, we still carry on the painted porch today, called The Brass Check by Upton Sinclair”
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Letters from a Stoic
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca is a classic collection of moral epistles written by the Roman philosopher to his friend Lucilius, offering enduring practical guidance on mastering emotions, accepting mortality, and navigating daily challenges.
Discussed“Somebody that I know sent me a picture yesterday of their copy of letters of a Stoic that they'd bought at the painted porch.”
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Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a widely praised guide on habit formation, behavior change, and systems over goals.
Discussed“uh rupy cow releases milk and honey James Clear releases Atomic habits and they're they both just these books just sell 10 million copies on their own”
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The other 390 books Ryan Holiday recommended or discussed, ranked
- The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
- Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
- Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday
- What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan
- The diary of a young girl by Cherry Gilchrist
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
- Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S. Thompson
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
- The choice by Edith Eger
- How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by Donald Robertson
- The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
- The 50th Law by 50 Cent, Robert Greene
- The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
- The inner citadel by Pierre Hadot
- Call Sign Chaos by James N. Mattis
- Dying Every Day by James Romm
- Papyrus by Irene Vallejo
- So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
- The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
- The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- Enchiridion by Epictetus
- Painting as a Pastime by Winston S. Churchill
- The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen
- The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The big short by Michael Lewis
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- American Buffalo by Steven Rinella
- Daring Young Men by Richard Reeves
- Deliver Me from Nowhere by Warren Zanes
- How to Decide by Annie Duke
- Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves
- Quit by Annie Duke
- Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler
- Go Gentle by Maria Semple
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- Death be not proud by John Gunther
- Freak Kingdom by Timothy Denevi
- Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
- Sailing True North by Admiral James Stavridis USN
- It's Better to Be Feared by Seth Wickersham
- A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy
- Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers
- History Matters by David McCullough
- Plain Speaking by Merle Miller
- Bittersweet by Susan Cain
- Courage Under Fire by James B. Stockdale
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- Lincoln's Virtues by William Lee Miller
- No More Champagne by David Lough
- One Line a Day by Line A Day
- Outdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven Rinella
- Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be by Steven Pressfield
- Quiet by Susan Cain
- Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
- Steal like an artist by Austin Kleon
- Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Fifth Anniversary Limited Edition by Charlie Mackesy
- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
- The Second Mountain by David Brooks
- The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes
- Waging a Good War by Thomas E. Ricks
- “The” History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- A Man at Arms by Steven Pressfield
- Burning the Days by James Salter
- Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild
- Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- Epictetus by Epictetus
- Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
- How to Read the Bible by James L. Kugel
- Just Babies by Paul Bloom
- On Anger by Aubrey Stewart
- Seneca's Letters from a Stoic: Moral Letters to Lucilius by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston
- The Brass Check, a Study of American Journalism by Upton Sinclair
- The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
- The Fall by Albert Camus
- The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
- The Premonition by Michael Lewis
- The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg
- Why not the best? by Jimmy Carter
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
- On the Edge by Nate Silver
- The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss
- If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal by Justin Gregg
- But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman
- Joyful, Anyway by Kate Bowler
- Soul Boom by Rainn Wilson
- Frederick by Leo Lionni
- Renegade by Adam Kinzinger, Michael D'Antonio
- The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
- The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
- The Pope's Elephant by Silvio A. Bedini
- The Practice of Groundedness： A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds--Not Crushes--Your Soul by Brad Stulberg
- What to Make of a Life by Jim Collins
- A Journey through Texas by Frederick Law Olmsted
- I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman
- In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger
- Invisible Rulers by Renee DiResta
- Master of Change by Brad Stulberg
- The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Cost of These Dreams by Wright Thompson
- The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish
- The Night of the Gun by David Carr
- The Rush by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Tribe by Sebastian Junger
- Black Hawk, Down by Mark Bowden
- Brotherhood Of The Grape by John Fante
- Dereliction of Duty by H. R. McMaster
- Disrobed by Frederic Block
- How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
- How will you measure your life? by Clayton M. Christensen
- In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Lanterns On The Levee by William Alexander Percy
- Level Up by Stacey Abrams
- Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
- Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough
- Shop class as soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
- The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
- The Pentagon Papers by Susan Dudley Gold
- The Republic by Plato
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Tyrant by Stephen Greenblatt
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi
- What to Expect when You're Expecting by Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff, Sharon Mazel
- Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright
- 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
- A Second Chance by Judge Frederic Block
- American Kings by Seth Wickersham
- blue ocean strategy by Unknown
- Boyd by Robert Coram
- Buddha by Karen Armstrong
- By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept by Elizabeth Smart
- Call Sign Chaos by Jim Mattis, Bing West
- Churchill by Martin Gilbert
- Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
- Crisis of Conscience by Raymond Franz
- Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus
- Dream hoarders by Richard V. Reeves
- Education of a wandering man by Louis L'Amour
- Empire of cotton by Sven Beckert
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- George Marshall by Debi Unger
- Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
- Grant by Ron Chernow
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
- Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins
- How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith III
- How to Be a Leader by Plutarch
- How to Die by Seneca
- How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
- How to Keep Your Cool by Seneca
- Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford
- Indian givers, How the indians of the americas transformed the world by Jack weatherford
- It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
- Journal of a Novel by John Steinbeck
- Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
- Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater by Franz Kafka
- Letters to a Young Athlete by Chris Bosh
- Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
- Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
- Lyle Family by Oscar Kennett Lyle
- Main Street Millionaire by Codie Sanchez
- Marcus Aurelius by William O. Stephens
- Money the acid test in an East Indian tongue by David McConaughy
- Night of the Grizzlies by Jack Olsen
- No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler
- Old in art school by Nell Irvin Painter
- Oresteia by Aeschylus
- Over the Beach by Zalin Grant
- Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch
- Places and Names by Elliot Ackerman
- President Lincoln by William Lee Miller
- Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1882–1940) by James MacGregor Burns
- SAS Survival Handbook, Revised Edition by John 'Lofty' Wiseman
- Sheepdogs by Elliot Ackerman
- Son by Lois Lowry
- Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz
- Strip Tees by Kate Flannery
- Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
- The Arcadian by Steven Pressfield
- The Black Count by Tom Reiss
- The Black Count Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
- The Chancellor by Kati Marton
- The Confident Mind by Dr. Nate Zinsser
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin
- The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan by Elliot Ackerman
- The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- The Image by Daniel J. Boorstin
- The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
- The intelligent investor by Benjamin Graham
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
- The passage of power by Robert A. Caro
- The Revenant by Michael Punke
- The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
- The Road to Character by David Brooks
- The Tiger by John Vaillant
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot by James B. Stockdale
- To have and have not by Ernest Hemingway
- Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
- Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
- Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
- Your Fellow Americans by Peter Santenello
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- A Fool's Errand, by One of the Fools by Albion Winegar Tourgée
- A New Stoicism by Lawrence C. Becker
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- A World Without Email by Cal Newport
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
- All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
- Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
- Ask the Dust by John Fante
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Baby on the Fire Escape by Julie Phillips
- Be Here Now by Ram Dass
- Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Billions and billions by Carl Sagan
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Blank check by Tim Weiner
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
- Boys Among Men by Jonathan Abrams
- Burr by Gore Vidal
- Catch as Catch Can by Joseph Heller
- Clayton Christensen's "how Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton Christensen
- Courage by Bernard Waber
- Creation by Gore Vidal
- Crimes and Punishments by Frederic Block
- David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
- De profundis by Oscar Wilde
- Die with Zero by Bill Perkins, William O. Perkins
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Emerson by Robert D. Richardson
- Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Envy by Joseph Epstein
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Finding Ultra by Rich Roll
- First Principles by Thomas E. Ricks
- Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Forgive Me Not by Jennifer Baker
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by J. McIver Weatherford
- Good Bones by Maggie Smith
- Great Contemporaries by Winston S. Churchill
- Green on Blue by Elliot Ackerman
- Guinness Book of World Records by Unknown
- Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
- Hello, Cruel World! by Melinda Wenner Moyer
- Here, Right Matters by Alexander Vindman
- Histories by Herodotus
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged by Edward Gibbon
- Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
- How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur
- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- James by Percival L. Everett
- John Adams by David McCullough
- Lancelot by Walker Percy
- Lawn boy by Jonathan Evison
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
- Light years by James Salter
- Lincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk
- Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
- Lone Star 03 by Wesley Ellis
- Marcus Aurelius by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
- Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
- My First Book of Sign by Pamela J. Baker
- None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney
- On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Path Lit by Lightning by David Maraniss
- Plato and the Tyrant by James Romm
- Plato's Republic for today by Πλάτων
- Play Nice but Win by Michael Dell
- Profiles in courage by John F. Kennedy
- Queen Victoria by Giles Lytton Strachey
- Race to Judgment by Frederic Block
- Raising Sand by Robert Plant
- Revolutionary road by Richard Yates
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Stoic Warriors by Nancy Sherman
- Strategy by Lawrence Freedman
- Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Adventures of Herbie Cohen by Rich Cohen
- The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman
- The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
- The Artist's Journey by Steven Pressfield
- The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
- The Bassoon King by Rainn Wilson
- The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
- The Bhagavad Gita by Jack Hawley
- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
- The Blood Of The Martyrs by Naomi Mitchison
- The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Captain Class by Sam Walker
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- The Children by David Halberstam
- The Correspondence of Marcus Cornelius Fronto with Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Lucius Verus, Antoninus Pius, and Various Friends by Marcus Cornelius Fronto
- The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Daily Laws by Robert Greene
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon. Vol. 2. [-3-4]. by Edward Gibbon
- The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
- The Discourses of Epictetus by Epictetus
- The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published by Arielle Eckstut, David Henry Sterry
- The Everything Store by Brad Stone
- The fatal shore by Robert Hughes
- The Forty Years War by Len Colodny
- The Freaks by Arthur Wing Pinero
- The Future of War by Lawrence Freedman
- The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
- The Harder They Fall by Budd Schulberg
- The Harder They Fall by Bud Schulberg
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Image, A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America by Daniel Joseph Boorstin
- The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley
- The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by Unknown
- The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
- The life you can save by Peter Singer
- The Love Conspiracy by Susan Napier
- The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Mark Aurel (Römisches Reich, Kaiser)
- The Moral Arc by Michael Shermer
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- The Odyssey of Homer; Translated from the Greek by T. E. Shaw (Lawrence of Arabia); with an Introduction by Sir Maurice Bowra by Homère
- The opposite of spoiled by Ron Lieber
- The Perilous Fight by Colin Kaepernick
- THE PLAGUE by Albert Camus
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink
- The prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Reason Why by Cecil Woodham-Smith
- The Running Ground by Nick Thompson
- The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
- The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
- The stranger in the woods by Michael Finkel
- The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone
- The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- The Wisdom of the Bullfrog by Admiral William H. McRaven
- The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs
- The years of Lyndon Johnson (Volumes 1-3) by Robert A. Caro
- This Book by Kathryn Madeline Allen
- This Kind of War by T. R. Fehrenbach
- Three lives for Mississippi by William Bradford Huie
- Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
- Thyestes by Seneca
- To a Young Jazz Musician by Wynton Marsalis, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
- To Risk It All by Admiral James Stavridis, USN
- Tough Jews by Rich Cohen
- Travels with George by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Truman by David McCullough
- Twelve and a Half by Gary Vaynerchuk
- Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Van Gogh by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
- Verissimus by Donald J. Robertson
- Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird
- Victory Over Myself by Floyd Patterson
- Voicing Change by Rich Roll
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- What If... by Dale Mayer
- Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
- You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live by Paul Kix
Questions about Ryan Holiday’s book recommendations
What book does Ryan Holiday recommend most?
Meditations by Aurelius Marcus. Ryan Holiday recommended it in 118 episodes, with 12 explicit recommendations.
How many books has Ryan Holiday recommended on podcasts?
We have found 410 books Ryan Holiday recommended or discussed, across 280 episodes of 14 podcasts. Ad reads and passing mentions are not counted.
What books are on Ryan Holiday's reading list?
The books Ryan Holiday has recommended most on podcasts are Meditations by Aurelius Marcus, The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers, The Odyssey by Homer, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. The full book list below has all 410.
What books has Ryan Holiday written?
Trust Me, I'm Lying (2012), The Obstacle Is the Way (2013), Growth Hacker Marketing (2013), Ego Is the Enemy (2016), The Daily Stoic (2016), The Daily Stoic Journal (2017), Perennial Seller (2017), Conspiracy (2018), Stillness Is the Key (2019) and Lives of the Stoics (2020), among 17 in all.
What did Ryan Holiday recommend on The Daily Stoic?
Meditations, The 48 Laws of Power and The Odyssey, among 380 books in all.
What is the latest book Ryan Holiday recommended?
Range, recommended on The Daily Stoic (2026-10-11).
People who recommend the same books
Appearances
Other mentions (494: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
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“In the all is one chapter of stillness is the key. There's a quote I like from Seneca says, all that you behold, that which comprises both God and man is one.”
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“That's how long it's been since the Daily Stoic was published. One decade. Hundreds of weeks. Thousands of days between then and this new 10-year anniversary edition that's coming out today.”
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“And so he encouraged me, and that became The Obstacle is the Way.”
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“And then it was actually Steve's idea to do the Daily Stoic. As we talk about in today's episode, he had done a number of sort of daily devotional books when he was a publisher.”
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“And that's what the 10-year anniversary edition of the Daily Stoic is. And today you can finally get it.”
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“Three years of research that produced lives of the Stoics, that all happened because I was, you know, put in bed for a while.”
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“I went through it here. I'm going through it with, trust me, I'm lying, which I'm doing an anniversary edition.”
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“And then I've got to get started on the Ego is the Enemy anniversary edition.”
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“This is from today's entry in the Daily Stoic Journal.”
Plugged Stillness Is the Key
“And one of those books I wrote is called Stillness is the Key. And it's about how stillness unlocks our potential, not just for professional success, but for personal happiness and contentment.”
Plugged The Daily Stoic
“It was called The Daily Stoic, and it was supposed to be one bit of Stoic wisdom every day. One day, a quote from Marcus, one day from Epictetus or Seneca, plus a little meditation on what they meant and how to apply it.”
Plugged The Daily Stoic
“in 2016 i sat down to write this book that would present stoicism in a one page per day format i didn't know how it would do or who it would reach but here we are not just 10 years later but three million copies later”
Plugged Lives of the Stoics
“as I say in my book The Lives of the Stoics we study the lives of the people who went before us so we can learn easily what they learned with great difficulty so we can pick up where they left off”
Plugged Lives of the Stoics
“Tell the story in lives of the Stoics.”
Plugged The Obstacle Is the Way
“I remember my book, The Obstacles Away, made its way through professional sports.”
Plugged The Obstacle Is the Way
“So anyway, somehow Oprah went from Maria to my books. And I know she went to my books because as we were talking, I could see Oprah's marked up copy of The Obstacle is the Way.”
Plugged Discipline Is Destiny
“There is a passage where I talk about this in Discipline's Destiny, which let me grab real fast.”
Plugged Marcus Aurelius
“And he's the author of this great new biography, Marcus Aurelius, Philosopher King. I've been raving about it. I've had him on. We've done a number of short episodes.”
Plugged The Daily Stoic
“and i'm reading to you today from the daily stoic 366 meditations on wisdom perseverance in the art of living by yours truly my co-author and translator steven hanselman”
Plugged The Behavior of Social Justice
“I wrote about this in in in my Justice book. I did this book on this series on the cardinal virtues. We tend to think of justice as like politics, the law, judges and juries.”
Plugged The Obstacle Is the Way
“That was like how we paid for it and that's what helped me take the risk, the jump to do The Obstacle Is the Way. And my publisher was not super excited about a book about an obscure school of ancient philosophy”
Passing Rickover
“I was reading a book about Admiral Rickover recently that they just sort of mentioned it off-handedly, but I guess for maybe it's still the case”
Plugged The Daily Stoic
“And I'm reading to you today from the daily stoic 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance in the art of living by yours truly, my co-author and translator, Steven Hanselman”
Plugged The Daily Stoic
“As it happens, I retold this story, and I forgot that I told it in the data stoke, but I retell part of the story, encourages calling.”
Plugged Courage Is Calling
“As it happens, I retold this story, and I forgot that I told it in the data stoke, but I retell part of the story, encourages calling. This is from, I think, the third or fourth chapter in the book, and it says the important thing is to not be afraid.”
Plugged Courage Is Calling
“Yeah, no, I have a talk about this in the courage book. I had a moment like that where I went to my boss when I was at American Parolead, asked me to do something.”