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Jordan B. Peterson’s 2016 Reading List

The 35 books Jordan B. Peterson recommended in 2016, with the reasons in their own words. See all the books Jordan B. Peterson recommends.

Other years: 2019

35 books recommended in 2016

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

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1984

by George Orwell

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The Road to Wigan Pier

by George Orwell

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Devils

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

by Christopher Browning

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The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosiński

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The Rape of Nanking

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The Gulag Archipelago

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Man’s Search for Meaning – The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust

by Viktor E. Frankl

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Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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A History of Religious Ideas

by Mircea Eliade

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Affective Neuroscience

by Jaak Panksepp

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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Idiot

by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

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A Confession

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The Kingdom of God Is Within You

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The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The First Circle

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Cancer Ward

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

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Aion

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Symbols of Transformation

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Answer to Job

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The Origins and History of Consciousness

by Erich Neumann

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The Great Mother

by Erich Neumann

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Animal Farm

by George Orwell

On Jordan B. Peterson’s Maps of Meaning: Suggested Readings & Russian Translation - Jordan Peterson · Also recommended by 1 other

Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell

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Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell

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The Doors of Perception

by Aldous Huxley

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The Discovery of the Unconscious

by Henri Ellenberger

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The Emotional Brain

by Joseph LeDoux

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