Jordan Peterson's Top Recommended Books, Movies, Documentaries, Art, and Essays.

Every book, movie, documentary, artwork, and essay Jordan Peterson recommended in over 100 hours of lectures and online content.

Books

• Read the Bible
• Read The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Must read)
• Read Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (Must read)
• Read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Must read)
• Read Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Read The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Read The Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Read The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Read The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz
• Read The History of Religious Ideas by Mircea Eliade
• Read Memories, Dreams, and Reflections. Carl Jung’s autobiography.
• Read Panzram—the autobiography of a serial killer. Shows that you need to be careful. Don’t be naïve. There is real evil out there.
• Read The Discovery of the Unconscious by Henri Ellenberger. The best intro to psychoanalytic tradition. It Covers Adler, Jung, Freud + 300 years of psychoanalytic history before Freud.
• Read The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
• Read Shakespeare and Tolstoy
• Read Carl Jung’s Red Book
• Read Symbols of Transformation by Carl Jung (similar to Maps of Meaning)
• Read The Origin and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann (similar to Maps of Meaning, great introduction to Jung)
• Read The Great Mother by Erich Neumann
• Read Dante’s Inferno
• Read Milton’s Paradise Lost
• Read The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
• Read Ordinary Men
• Read Huxley’s Brave New World
• Read The Stone Angel. Margaret Laurence is Peterson’s favorite female author and this is his favorite of her novels.
• Read Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Essays

• Read the writings of the Columbine shooters. It helps you understand how people go awry—how evil is created. It makes you realize that evil exists.
• Read Carl Jung’s paper: The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious. Great but difficult—requires extensive knowledge of Jung’s work.
• Read Nietzsche’s essay: The Use and Abuse of History

Movies

• Watch The Lion King
• Watch Pinocchio
• Watch Sleeping Beauty
• Watch Harry Potter
• Watch Beauty and the Beast. Depicts the female hero’s journey.
• Watch The Little Mermaid
• Watch Breaking Bad
• Watch My Left Foot. It shows what you can achieve if you’re independent.

Documentaries

• Watch Crumb (1994) documentary
• Watch Hitman Hart documentary

Artwork

• Look at the painting Tree of Life Flanked by Eve and Mary
• Look at William Blake’s paintings

Program

• Do Jordan Peterson’s Self Authoring Suite