Reading List from Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, author of Maps of Meaning

Go ahead and take the next 12 months to read these books. A purgative for the soul.

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Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Notes from Underground
The Devils
The Idiot

 

Tolstoy

Confessions
The Kingdom of God is Within You

 

Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita

 

Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
The Gulag Archipelago

The First Circle

Cancer Ward

 

Other books of critical importance:

 

Carl Jung

The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
Aion

Symbols of Transformation 

Answer to Job

 

Erich Neumann

The Origins and History of Consciousness
The Great Mother

 

George Orwell

1984
The Road to Wigan Pier
Animal Farm
Down and Out in Paris and London
Homage to Catalonia

 

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World
The Doors of Perception

 

Other Works

The Discovery of the Unconscious (Henri Ellenberger)
The Neuropsychology of Anxiety (Jeffrey Gray)
Affective Neuroscience (Jaak Panksepp)
The Emotional Brain (Joseph LeDoux)