Books List

As read about in the Reflection: On Reading

If you’re looking for books to read on Stoicism, check the Stoic Reading List for Beginners, here

(Rr) = Reread

2018

1. Five people you meet in heaven – Mitch Albom
2. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
3. Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
4. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
5. The Call of the Wild – Jack London 
6. The Sea Wolf – Jack London 
7. White Fang – Jack London 
8. I am Legend – Richard Matheson
9. Animal Farm – George Orwell
10. Nineteen-eighty-four – George Orwell
11. Dracula – Bram Stoker
12. Annihilation – Jeff VanderMeer
13. Authority – Jeff VanderMeer 
14. Acceptance – Jeff VanderMeer 
15. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruíz Zafón
16. The Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruíz Zafón
17. The Prisoner of Heaven – Carlos Ruíz Zafón

2019

1. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
2. The Labyrinth of the Spirits – Carlos Ruíz Zafón
3. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
4. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
5. The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
6. Brief Answers to the Big Questions – Stephen Hawking
7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
8. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
9. A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick
10. From Russia with Love – Ian Fleming
11. Island – Aldous Huxley
12. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
13. Seveneves – Neal Stephenson
14. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
15. Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
16. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories – Robert Louis Stevenson
17. Hell’s Angels – Hunter S. Thompson
18. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip K. Dick
19. An Introduction to Existentialism – Robert G. Olson
20. The Stranger – Albert Camus
21. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
22. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
23. Meditations – Marcus Aurelius (Hays translation)
24. The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
25. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
26. Essays in Love – Alain de Botton
27. The Discourses (by Arrian), The Handbook, Fragments – Epictetus
28. The Diary of a Nobody – George and Weedon Grossmith
29. Prelude to Foundation – Isaac Asimov
30. Frankenstein – Mary Shelly
31. Post Office – Charles Bukowski
32. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut

2020

1. The Republic, The Symposium, Parmenides, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo – Plato
2. Forward the Foundation – Isaac Asimov
3. Becoming a Life Coach – Tom Chiarella
4. The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus
5. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
6. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
7. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
8. Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov
9. Dialogues and Essays – Seneca
10. The Coaching habit – Michael Bungay Stanier
11. The Case For Working With Your Hands – Matthew Crawford
12. Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov
13. Millionaire Teacher – Andrew Hallam
14. The Eudemian Ethics – Aristotle
15. Foundation’s Edge – Isaac Asimov
16. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
17. Dune – Frank Herbert
18. Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 
19. The Essays: A Selection – Michel de Montaigne
20. The Dispossed – Ursula K. Le Guin
21. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
22. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
23. Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert T. Kiyosaki 
24. Neuromancer – William Gibson
25. Millionaire Expat – Andrew Hallam
26. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
27. Blockchain Revolution – Don & Alex Tapscott
28. How to be a Stoic – Massimo Pugliucci
29. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing – John C. Bogle
30. Man’s Search For Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
31. Your Money or Your Life – Vicki Robin
32. The Richest Man in Babylon – George S. Clason
33. Foundation and Earth – Isaac Asimov
34. The Four Hour Work Week – Tim Ferris
35. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
36. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov (Rr)
37. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
38. A Guide to the Good Life – William B. Irvine
39. The Plague – Albert Camus
40. The Rest of the Robots – Isaac Asimov
41. That One Should Disdain Hardships – Musonius Rufus
42. The Girl Who Played With Fire – Stieg Larsson

2021

1. Letters from a Stoic – Seneca
2. The Complete Robot – Isaac Asimov
3. Borne – Jeff Vandermeer
4. Zero to One – Peter Thiel
5. The Book On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are – Alan Watts
6. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest – Stieg Larsson
7. Physics – Aristotle (skimmed)
8. Caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov
9. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
10. On the Good Life – Cicero
11. The Naked Sun – Isaac Asimov
12. Exile and the Kingdom – Albert Camus 
13. The Robots of the Dawn – Isaac Asimov
14. Epictetus – The Discourses (by Arrian), The Handbook, Fragments (Rr)
15. Robots and Empire – Isaac Asimov
16. Thus Spake Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche
17. The Man in the High Castle – Philip  K. Dick
18. The Millionaire Next Door – Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko
19. Selected Works – Cicero
20. Women – Charles Bukowski
21. Stardust – Neil Gaiman
22. The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel
23. Dune – Frank Herbert (Rr)
24. On Living and Dying Well – Cicero
25. World War Z – Max Brooks
26. The Gods Themselves – Isaac Asimov
27. The Consolations of Philosophy – Alain de Botton
28. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
29. Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
30. The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
31. Beyond Good and Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche
32. Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
33. Dune Messiah – Frank Herbert

2022

1. The Essays: A Selection – Michel de Montaigne (Rr)
2. Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama
3. The Age of Absurdity – Michael Foley
4. Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
5. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
6. Children of Dune – Frank Herbert
7. Malcolm X – Malcolm X
8. Be Water My Friend – Shannon Lee
9. Show Your Work! – Austin Kleon
10. Zen in the Art of Writing – Ray Bradbury
11. Spinoza Practical Philosophy – Gilles Deleuze
12. God Emperor of Dune – Frank Herbert
13. A Guide to the Good Life – William B. Irvine (Rr)
14. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
15. Dialogues and Essays – Seneca (Rr)

2023

1. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor – Donald J. Robertson
2. Effortless Public Speaking – Liam Sandford & Derek Moore
3. The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holiday
4. 365 Ways to be more Stoic – Tim LeBon & Kasey Pierce