Ryan Holiday

Letters from a Stoic

by Seneca

On the Shortness of Life

by Seneca

How to Live

by Sarah Bakewell

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fooled by Randomness

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Bed of Procrustes

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

Will to Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

Mastery

by Robert Greene

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

by George Horace Lorimer

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

by Tyler Cowen

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

by Cheryl Strayed

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed

The Score Takes Care of Itself

by Bill Walsh

The Education of a Coach

by David Halberstam

Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk

The Moviegoer

by Walker Percy

Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

The Sorrows of Young Werther

by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What Makes Sammy Run?

by Budd Schulberg

The Harder They Fall

by Budd Schulberg

On the Waterfront

by Budd Schulberg

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

by Mordecai Richler

Company K

by William March

Plutarch's Lives

by Plutarch

Essays

by Plutarch

The Makers of Rome: Nine Lives

by Plutarch

On Sparta

by Plutarch

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

by Giorgio Vasari

Totto-Chan:The Little Girl at the Window

by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

The Power Broker

by Robert Caro

Sherman:Soldier, Realist, American

by B.H. Liddell

My Bondage and My Freedom

by Frederick Douglass

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

My Life and Battles

by Jack Johnson

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

by Edmund Morris

Asylum: An Alcoholic Takes the Cure

by William Seabrook

No Hiding Place

by William Seabrook

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus

by Publius Syrus / Darius Lyman Jr.

Essays and Aphorisms

by Arthur Schopenhauer

Rules by Radicals

by Saul D. Alinsky

Reveille for Radicals

by Saul D. Alinsky

Boyd:The Fighter Pilot who Changed the Art of War

by Robert Coram

33 Strategies of War

by Robert Greene

The Book of Five Rings

by Miyamoto Musashi

The Strategy Paradox

by Michael E. Raynor

The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli

On War

by Von Clausewitz

The History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides

The Moral Animal

by Robert Wright

Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters

by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa

Sex on the Brain

by Deborah Blum

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

by Neil Strauss

The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins

The Evolution of Desire

by David Buss

The Origins of Virtue

by Matt Ridley

Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization

by John Robb

The Pirate's Dilemma

by Matt Mason

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto

by Jaron Lanier

The New New Thing

by Michael Lewis

Founders at Work

by Jessica Livingston

The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

by Evgeny Morozov

The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source

by Eric S. Raymond

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

by John Vaillant

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

by Candice Millard

Destiny of the Republic

by Candice Millard

Shadow Divers

by Robert Kurson

The Aeneid

by Virgil

Candide

by Voltaire

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Unknown

Epigrams

by Marcus Valerius Martial

Hamlet

by Shakespeare

Sixteen Satires

by Juvenal

Four Tragedies and Octavia

by Seneca

Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays

by Joseph Addison

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

Selected Speeches

by Demosthenes

Cicero: Selected Political Speeches

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ask the Dust

by John Fante

Dreams from Bunker Hill

by John Fante

The Brotherhood of the Grape

by John Fante

Full of Life

by John Fante

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

by John Fante

The Road to Los Angeles

by John Fante

1933 Was a Bad Year

by John Fante

Fante/Mencken

by John Fante

Fante:A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving

by Dan Fante

Sherman: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

by W.T. Sherman

Sherman: Fighting Prophet

by Lloyd Lewis

Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity,1822-1865

by Brooks D. Simpson

Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

by Joshua Wolf Shenk

12 Years a Slave

by Solomon Northup

A Slave in the White House

by Paul Jennings

Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War

by Admiral David Porter

Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild

by Lee Sandlin

Patriotic Gore

by Edmund Wilson

The Legacy of the Civil War

by Robert Penn Warren

Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

by David Fraser

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

Mencken: The American Iconoclast

by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

Bowling Alone

by Robert D. Putnam

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

by Chrysta Freeland

All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

by John Taliaferro

Eisenhower in War and Peace

by Jean Edward Smith

Where Men Win Glory:The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

by Jon Krakauer

The Black Count

by Tom Reiss

Euripides: Electra and Other Plays

by Euripides

The Persians and Other Plays

by Aeschylus

Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

by Phil Jackson

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

by Adam Smith

How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life

by Russ Roberts

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest fro Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

by Daniel James Brown

A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

by Sam Sheridan

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

A Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game

by Sam Sheridan

Washington: A Life

by Ron Chernow

Dying Everyday

by Eric Romm

Col. Roosevelt

by Edmund Morris

The Winner Within

by Pat Riley

The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership

by John Wooden

The Way To Love

by Anthony De Mello

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

by Jon Ronson

Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

by Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele

George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon

by Stephen W. Sears

Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

by S.C Gwynne

Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow

The Hunters: A Novel

by James Salter

The Little Prince

by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

by Gregory Hays

The Man Without a Country

by Edward Hale

Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

by George Devol

Hunger

by Knut Hamsun

Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

Strategy

by BH Liddell

The Crack Up

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

On the Rock: Twenty Five Years in Alcatraz

by Alvin Karpis

Death Be Not Proud

by John Gunther

The Disenchanted

by Budd Schulberg

The Measure of My Days

by Florida Scott Maxwell

The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ and Other Essays

by Jay Haley

Essays

by Plutarch

Nature and Selected Essays

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Essential Epicurus

by Epicurus

Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy Caesar

by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

The Persian Expedition

by Xenophon

Greek Tragedy

by Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles

History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides

A War Like No Other

by Victor Davis Hanson

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

by Steven Pressfield

The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece

by Victor Davis Hanson

The Campaigns of Alexander

by Arrian

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

by Jack Weatherford

Napoleon: A Life

by Paul Johnson

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo

by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters

by Ulysses S. Grant

Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure

by William Pittenger

Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy

by Peter Carlson

The Civil War: A Narrative

by Shelby Foote

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

Disunion

by The New York Times

Cold Mountain

by Charles Frazier

Goodbye to All That

by Robert Grave

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

by T.E. Lawrence

The Liberator

by Alex Kershaw

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

by E.B. Sledge

Helmet for my Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

by Robert Leckie

Captain Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel

by Louis de Bernieres

Faith of my Fathers

by John McCain

What It Is Like To Go To War

by Karl Marlantes

A Rumor of War

by Philip Caputo

My War Gone By, I Miss It So

by Anthony Loyd

War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

by Chris Hedges

The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL

by Eric Greitens

The 33 Strategies of War

by Robert Greene

The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commaners Saved Wars That Were Lost

by Victor Davis Hanson

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

by Dave Grossman

WAR

by Sebastian Junger

Thank You for Your Service

by David Finkel

Billy Flynn's Long Halftime Walk

by Ben Fountain

The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

Don't Think of an Elephant! : Know Your Values and Frame the Debate

by George Lakoff

Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear

by Frank Luntz

Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Past 25 Years

by Paul B. Carroll & Chunka Mui

The Big Con: The Story of Confidence Men

by David Maurer

Whiz Mob

by David Maurer

This Boy's Life

by Tobias Wolff

Gilead

by Marilynne Robinson

Gilgamesh

by Translator: Andrew George

Aeneid

by Virgil

Odyssey

by Homer

Iliad

by Homer

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

Native Son

by Richard Wright

Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk

The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosinski

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian

by Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

by Mordecai Richler

Civil War Stories

by Ambrose Bierce

All The King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

Socrates: A Man For Our Times

by Paul Johnson

Churchill

by Paul Johnson

Edison: A Biography

by Matthew Josephson

Cyropaedia

by Xenophon

The Kids Stays In The Picture: A Notorious Life

by Robert Evans

My Bondage and My Freedom

by Frederick Douglass

Hurricane: The Life of Rubin Carter, Fighter

by James S. Hirsch

How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told By Themselves

by Orison Sweet Marden

Lives of Eminent Philosophers Volume I

by Diogenes Laertius

Lives of Eminent Philosophers Volume II

by Diogenes Laertius

The Book of Dead Philosophers

by Simon Critchley

Lives of the Later Caesars

by Anonymous

The Makers of Rome: Nine Lives

by Plutarch

Profiles in Courage

by John F. Kennedy

The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

The Lady in the Lake

by Raymond Chandler

Playback

by Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

Trouble is My Business

by Raymond Chandler

The High Window

by Raymond Chandler

The Little Sister

by Raymond Chandler

Farewell My Lovely

by Raymond Chandler

The Simple Art of Murder

by Raymond Chandler

A History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory

by Norman M. Klein

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

The Price of Experience: Power, Money, Image and Murder in Los Angeles

by Randall Sullivan

Less Than Zero

by Bret Easton Ellis

Imperial Bedrooms

by Bret Easton Ellis

LA Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City

by John Buntin

The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood

by Edward Jay Epstein

The Hollywood Economist 2.0: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies

by Edward Jay Epstein

Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Pete Guber Took Sony For a Ride in Hollywood

by Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters

The 50th Law

by 50 Cent and Robert Greene

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Personal History

by Katherine Graham

The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli

Show Your Work

by Austin Kleon

Status Anxiety

by Alain de Botton

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars

by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan

Lord Chesterfield's Letters

by Philip Dormer Stanhope

Letters To A Young Poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

by Anne Lamott

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

by Ron Chernow

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

by Rich Cohen

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

by Clay Shirky

Hackers and Painters: Big ideas from the Computer Age

by Paul Graham

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons and Gangster Dreams

by Rich Cohen

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

by Richard H. Thaler

The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

Fragments

by Heraclitus

The Education of Cyrus

by Xenophon

Why Don't We Learn from History?

by BH Liddell

The Art Of War

by Sun Tzu

American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day

by Robert Coram

Charlie Wilson's War

by George Crile

Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

Eleanor Roosevelt Volume One

by Blanche Weisen Cook

Empire State of Mind:How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office

by Zack O'Malley Greenburg

Southern California: An Island on The Land

by Raymond Chandler

Steal Like an Artist

by Austin Kleon