It’s a very decent list of books … Literature is for everyone … But you need an extensive vocabulary for Jung , Nietzsche or Mircea Eliade … those books have a language of their own !!!
If you want to be emotionally, psychologically and morally depressed and defeated this is surely the list of books to read. If you want to lose all hope in life and heap your soul with despair and confusion, read away. Rather, I suggest you read the Bible. Anything and everything by C S Lewis. All the works of Laura Ingalls wilder. The histories of Josephus. The novels of Herman Wouk. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. Anything by Jane Austin. The biographies of George Washington Carver, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Corrie Ten Boom, and Friedrich Bonhoeffer, for character, brilliance and courage. And even the children's book "Heidi", by Johanna Spyri, will surprise you with its wit, humor and depth.
"Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book." - Mark Twain
Well, I have read 19 of them. He shares my love of Russian lit. I'm not as deeply read as he is in psychology, but my experience as a "psychologist" was teaching 2 quarters of Intro to Psyche at a low prestiege for profit college.
Melville for sure,Billy Bud, Bartleby, and Ahab are 3 of the most fascinating characters produced by this side of the pond though maybe they are more a product of the old world or a mix. But you can only fit so much,I'm sure Greene, Grossman, De Lampedusa, Waugh, Kingsley Amis could all be added but there is only so much room and so little time. Gonna check out Zorba the Greek and Hunter Thompson.
Yes but... that's Jordan's list and he's so well read that I am sure there were many he agonised over and had to throw out. Everyone will have their own ideas about others that can be added. I will try to get as many of these as I can, but some of them, particularly the more scholarly ones on religion and psychology are priced as textbooks and are very expensive.
@@BookTube-vx3lu the guys already been exposed. Europa the last battle found on youtubes competitor site initials bc. Frankl and his peoples claim has been exposed as well. Much like ann franks dad was exposed. Do your research dont be lazy
@@BookTube-vx3lu i have a why for you. After the real historians destroyed the holocaust narrative and the curator at aushwitz was forced to change their plaque out front that read 3-4 million jews died here to 1 million people of all types died here, why didnt the 6 million figure come down? U can google an image that shows both the old plaque and the new side by side and interviews with the curator discussing it. Why was history made illegal? Questioning and investigating their narrative outlawed!?!? I dont think so jack we are stewards of the truth and history
A reasonable person can disagree with an author and still find wisdom in his work. Orwell was also a self-proclaimed socialist, and his works are recommended by Peterson and many other conservative thinkers.
@@czgibson3086Funny you mention that, I’ve never thought of GoW as a leftist book. I mean even the title alludes to FDRs failed Agricultural Adjustment Act where they were pouring kerosene on grapes and slaughtering healthy animals while people were starving. Granted there was an appeal to the government to set up socialist communes for the poor so there’s a bit of a mixed message, but the hunger that was felt was a direct result of the Government of the time trying to socialize agriculture.
Surprising list including atheistic books as chosen by professed Christian Peterson. Is this his list or maybe this was on his list before he learned about God? I think they duplicated his voice with AI as no human being would pronounce $ as 'dollar' as was said @ 19:40! They'd better start recommending more uplifting books that promote truth, morality and hope such as the Bible. Too bad the wonderful moral parable of 'Lord of the Rings' isn't included as it was definetly inspired by Scripture!
I'm surprised he didn't include communitarian authors like Robert Putnam (Bowling Alone, etc) and Amitai Etzioni. Also surprised he didn't mention giants like Tocqueville, Thoreau, and Frederick Douglas. Glad he didn't mention Ayn Rand, though.
The Fountainhead is pretty good though. I’ve read around 40 or 50 of the books mentioned and I could easily name 15 that aren’t as good as Ayn Rand’s novel. Btw, saying that Frederick Douglass (with two “s”) is a giant says much more about you and your list than about him. That being said, “Narrative…” is a book I would recommend to anyone.
@@hilgo_velomobile Well, you should try to inform yourself from firsthand sources when possible in order to make sure you aren’t just repeating what someone told you. Otherwise you will expose yourself like you just did…
There are 24 Parker novels by Richard Stark, and he couldn't put a single one on his list? Out of 24? Not even 'The Hunter'? For real? And I'm not trying to be funny or ironic. Not even _'The Outfit'_ .
@@BookTube-vx3lu For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible. Shame on you. We're talking Parker...PARKER.
I will say this: JP needs to get out of his comfort zone. Parker as a character is the total opposite of JP as a character; and Peterson _is_ a character. I wish to God I'd read Robert Starks in HS English lit instead of stanky Maya Angelou (I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings). Thank God JP didn't put that trash on his list; though I suspect he will eventually. I learned absolutely NOTHING philosophically relevant to me (in IKWTCBS), nor anything useful as far as writing techniques go. Starks on the other hand was a master on so many fronts. He was a much better writer than half the people on JP's vaunted list. His Parker novels will never be taken serious by literary posers and gatekeepers.
@@CornCod1 and what about Marguerite Yourcenar with the formidable "memories of Adriano", much better than many writers, who wrote about roman history and roman emperors. What about Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf! What about the three nobel prizes Grazia Deledda (italian writer), Toni Morrison and Wislawa Szymborska...and Sylvia Plath? Edith Stein, Simone De beauvoir. George Sand (nome de plume of a female writer) Simone Weil, Lou Andreas Salome, etc etc. These are all amazing writers who have greatly contributed to Literature. But, no, in 100 titles, they did not find place in this cheauvinist list.
@@girodiboanottetempo5931 Who is this etcetc? Is that a _nome de plume_ too? Because I've never heard of her. Probably some ancient Greek lady from the Island of Lesbos.
I think this is a list of books on how to become a psychiatrist or how to make yourself need one. Just reading Turgenev, for the first time. Sketches from a hunter's album. Amazing how he describes country. Maltese Falcon is a random, but much appreciated, choice on this list.
I picked up about 30 books from a charity shop on holiday, 50p each! Many Russian classics, Chekhov, Gorky, Tolstoy and Turgenev. Just checked my bookshelf and I have "Home of the Gentry," and also "Fathers and Sons." Will read it after I have finished "Sketches from a Hunter's Album." Thanks and best wishes to you.@phoebecaulfield4062
No Jane Austen I guess. 😉 It may be my limitation but I so much prefer hearing someone speak without music in the background. Perhaps having spent years in music theatre it is, to me, one or the other. And Jordan Peterson's voice, being so emotional, commands all the attention on its own. FWIW.
"Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book." - Mark Twain
Wow, so amazing to learn there is someone that has read all the same authors as me... I have never been able to relate to anyone how they can be life changing and bing a certian kind of timeless wisdom. Ive read all of Dostoevsky, at least twice... Tolstoy... War and Peace a favorite but other novellas like Ivan the Fool etc are really educational. Nietzsche, Man kinds Search for Meaning. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. the gulag archipelago, etc.. almost everything on the list minus Jung, Freud,
