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

Ian Greer -

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