Books Recommended by Jordan Peterson
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Panzram
A Journal of Murder
Thomas E. Gaddis
Source: "He made friends with this physician in the prison [...] and the physician encouraged him to write his autobiography." - Jordan Peterson
2 recommenders
Mercy Among the Children
David Adams Richards
Source: "The greatest novel I have read in many years." - Jordan Peterson
1 recommender
The Myth of Mental Illness
Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Thomas S. Szasz
Source: "It's a classic. You should read it if you're interested in psychology." - Jordan Peterson
1 recommender
The Gulag Archipelago (3 books)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
Affective Neuroscience
The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
Jaak Panksepp
Source: "One of the best books on the neuroscience of emotion." - Jordan Peterson
1 recommender
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Source: "I read [this book] four times, and it's still unbelievably deep." - Jordan Peterson
The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
James J. Gibson
Source: "One of the most influential books I ever read." - Jordan Peterson
1 recommender
History of Religious Ideas (3 books)
Mircea Eliade
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
2 recommenders
The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross
A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East
John M. Allegro
Source: "A book to bend your mind." - Jordan Peterson
2 recommenders
The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
3 recommenders
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
And Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
Factfulness
Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
2 recommenders
Words with Power
Being a Second Study of "The Bible and Literature"
Northrop Frye
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
The Origins and History of Consciousness
Erich Neumann
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
1 recommender
Our Culture, What's Left of It
The Mandarins and the Masses
Theodore Dalrymple
Source: Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.
1 recommender
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