Ryan Holiday

Chernell's biography of Washington is very good.

Most of Ddian's books like A Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights, most of her books have amazing titles

I talk about some of this marketing stuff in Trust Me, I'm Lying as well.

you know him he was in Austin the son it was awesome Texas it's like Yellowstone I've got this in hardback

Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience is included in this one.

so I'm here talking to Robert Greene about his new book the laws of human nature

this title is just amazing oh you like that that Hemingway quot yeah I that title is incredible Thompson cost of these dream Sports stories and other serious business it's like his best sports

The Art Thief by Michael Finkel is insane about this guy that steals nearly a billion dollars of art from tiny museums across Europe and then he hides it in his apartment is an insane book that you almost cannot believe it's happening.

I have that next to Barack Obama's memoir.

I haven't read Steven's newest thing oh rationality that's good I had him on

you need to read slow productivity just uh no no

Notes to John. This book sounds incredibly boring, but it's actually one of the greatest writers of all time writing these letters to her husband.

have you read Nick's novel piz a lot of Galviston Nick it's good I actually like there's not a lot of I mean there's some good textas now but I feel like that's a more modern one

well in the art of seduction I talked about how telling a story lowers people's resistance makes the mind open up

this and maybe Bright Lights Big City are the only two good second person novels.

Okay, this is called the Colossus. I don't even know how you say this word, but it's actually uh Henry Miller, the novelist, uh the controversial novelist, uh wrote like one of the greatest travel books of all time.

if you read Stephen pressfield's Gates of Fire that's his best book I'll give you that this is the last page of Gates of Fire from his original manuscript he said it's a I'll give you a copy it's like one of the greatest Noel so what's the play on lie so uh oh here we lie

This is one of my all-time favorite novels. This is Walker Percy's The Movie Goer.

um his that have you American R that's him too take that one

This is the black count about a black general in Napoleon's army who also just happened to be the father of Alexander Dumas, three musketeers, the count of Monte Cristo.

"[One] of the most inspiring men of the last 150 years." - Ryan Holiday

"Ostensibly about the art of writing, but really it too is about life and how to tackle the problems, temptations and opportunities life throws at us." - Ryan Holiday

"Even if you’ve never watched a down of football, you’ll get something out of this book." - Ryan Holiday

in the art in the strategy book the 33 strategies of war communication as I used Machiavelli as the prime example