121 Jordan Peterson Recommended Books
Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He is widely known for his book “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos”. His lectures and writing cover topics such as free will, personal responsibility, and the meaning of life.
121 Books recommended by Jordan Peterson
The House of God
Author :Samuel Shem
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
And Other Clinical Tales
Author :Oliver Sacks
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Complete and Definitive Text
Author :Sigmund Freud
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Factfulness
Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Author :Hans Rosling
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Of Mice and Men
Author :John Steinbeck
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Point Counter Point
Author :Aldous Huxley
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
A Way of Being
Author :Carl Rogers
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Grapes of Wrath
Author :John Steinbeck
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The New Executive Brain
Frontal Lobes in a Complex World
Author :Elkhonon Goldberg
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Lord of the Flies
Author :William Golding
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Origins and History of Consciousness
Author :Erich Neumann
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Zorba the Greek
Author :Nikos Kazantzakis
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Symbolic Life
Author :Carl Jung
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Great Mother
An Analysis of the Archetype
Author :Erich Neumann
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Play Dreams & Imitation in Childhood
Author :Jean Piaget
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Myths Dreams and Mysteries
Author :Mircea Eliade
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author :Ken Kesey
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Old Man and the Sea
Author :Ernest Hemingway
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
I, Claudius
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius
Author :Robert Graves
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Mystery of Capital
Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Author :Hernando De Soto
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Author :Ernest Hemingway
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Author :Tom Wolfe
- Jordan Peterson"A great book." - Jordan Peterson [Source]
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Author :Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Cancer Ward
A Novel
Author :Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Crisis of Islam
Holy War and Unholy Terror
Author :Bernard Lewis
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Horse's Mouth
Author :Joyce Cary
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing, Book 1
Author :Hunter S. Thompson
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Great Escape
Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Author :Angus Deaton
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Flowers for Algernon
Author :Daniel Keyes
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Beyond Good & Evil
Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Author :Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Notes from Underground
Author :Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Road to Wigan Pier
Author :George Orwell
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Mephistopheles
The Devil in the Modern World
Author :Jeffrey Burton Russell
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Maltese Falcon
Author :Dashiell Hammett
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Rape of Nanking
The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Author :Iris Chang
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
A Farewell to Arms
Author :Ernest Hemingway
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Emotional Brain
The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
Author :Joseph Ledoux
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Great Code
The Bible and Literature
Author :Northrop Frye
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
Author :Carl Jung
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Little Science, Big Science...and Beyond
Author :Derek J.De Solla Price
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Man's Search for Meaning
Author :Viktor E. Frankl
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
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The Stone Angel
Author :Margaret Laurence
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
On Becoming a Person
A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Author :Carl Rogers
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
Author :Carl Jung
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Psychology and Alchemy
Author :Carl Jung
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Life at the Bottom
The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
Author :Theodore Dalrymple
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Mercy Among the Children
Author :David Adams Richards
- Jordan Peterson"The greatest novel I have read in many years." - Jordan Peterson [Source]
How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
Author :Bjørn Lomborg
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Crime and Punishment
Author :Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird, Book 1
Author :Harper Lee
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Denial of Death
Author :Ernest Becker
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Brothers Karamazov
Author :Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Master and Margarita
Author :Mikhail Bulgakov
- Jordan Peterson"I read [this book] four times, and it's still unbelievably deep." - Jordan Peterson [Source]
The Anti-Christ
Author :Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Myth and Reality
Author :Mircea Eliade
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
An Enquiry into the Functions of the Septo-Hippocampal System
Author :Jeffrey A. Gray
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Sometimes a Great Notion
Author :Ken Kesey
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Moral Judgment of the Child
Author :Jean Piaget
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The World's Religions
Author :Huston Smith
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry Into Values
Author :Robert M. Pirsig
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Psychology and Religion
West and East
Author :Carl Jung
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Symbols of Transformation
Author :Carl Jung
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Brain Architecture
Understanding the Basic Plan
Author :Larry W. Swanson
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
Author :Matt Ridley
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Red and the Black
Author :Stendhal
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
An Outline of Psycho-Analysis
Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
Author :Sigmund Freud
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Earth in Human Hands
Shaping Our Planet's Future
Author :David Grinspoon
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
A History of Nazi Germany
Author :William L. Shirer
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
East of Eden
Author :John Steinbeck
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Mysterium Coniunctionis
Author :Carl Jung
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Affective Neuroscience
The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
Author :Jaak Panksepp
- Jordan Peterson"One of the best books on the neuroscience of emotion." - Jordan Peterson [Source]
Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Author :Steven Pinker
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Painted Bird
Author :Jerzy Kosinski
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Systemantics
How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
Author :John Gall
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Gay Science
With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Author :Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Wuthering Heights
Author :Emily Brontë
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Big Sleep
Philip Marlowe, Book 1
Author :Raymond Chandler
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Discovery of the Unconscious
The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry
Author :Henri F. Ellenberger
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Charterhouse of Parma
Author :Stendhal
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Will to Power
Author :Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Our Culture, What's Left of It
The Mandarins and the Masses
Author :Theodore Dalrymple
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
Author :James J. Gibson
- Jordan Peterson"One of the most influential books I ever read." - Jordan Peterson [Source]
Brave New World
Author :Aldous Huxley
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
Author :Theodore M. Porter
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Myth of Mental Illness
Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Author :Thomas S. Szasz
- Jordan Peterson"It's a classic. You should read it if you're interested in psychology." - Jordan Peterson [Source]
An Anthropologist On Mars
Seven Paradoxical Tales
Author :Oliver Sacks
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Words with Power
Being a Second Study of "The Bible and Literature"
Author :Northrop Frye
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Long Goodbye
Philip Marlowe, Book 6
Author :Raymond Chandler
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Sacred and The Profane
The Nature of Religion
Author :Mircea Eliade
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The Forge and the Crucible
The Origins and Structure of Alchemy
Author :Mircea Eliade
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Ordinary Men
Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Author :Christopher R. Browning
- Jordan Peterson"The best book of its type." - Jordan Peterson [Source]
The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross
A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East
Author :John M. Allegro
- Jordan Peterson"A book to bend your mind." - Jordan Peterson [Source]
Modern Man In Search of a Soul
Author :Carl Jung
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
Fratricides
Author :Nikos Kazantzakis
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
The First Circle
Author :Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Jordan PetersonRecommended on Jordan Peterson's website. [Source]
FAQs
Q1: What types of books does Jordan Peterson recommend?
Jordan Peterson is a public intellectual and professor, and his book recommendations span a diverse range of topics. He encourages people to read works of philosophy, psychology, literature, science and theology. He also regularly reads the Bible, the Quran, and books about ancient myths.
Q2: Has Jordan Peterson authored any books himself?
Yes, Jordan Peterson has written notable books such as '12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos' and 'Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life', exploring life's challenges and potential solutions.
Q3: Are Jordan Peterson's book recommendations controversial?
Jordan Peterson's views have sparked debate and, as a result, some of the books he recommends might be seen as contentious. However, they often stimulate critical thinking and discussions on various subjects.
Q4: How often does Jordan Peterson recommend books?
Jordan Peterson regularly recommends books during his lectures, talks, and public appearances. He updates and changes his recommended reading list often and regularly encourages readers to read a wide range of books from many different authors.
Q5: Is Jordan Peterson's book recommendations suitable for all readers?
Jordan Peterson's book recommendations vary greatly and are intended for readers of all ages. He encourages readers to read topics which are interesting and relevant to them, and to explore new ideas, opinions and topics.
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