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Ryan Holiday Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Ryan Holiday is an author, businessman and podcaster. NYT Bestselling Author of The Obstacle Is The Way & more @DailyStoic @DailyDadEmail One free email per day. Inspired by Stoic philosophy:

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Book Cover for: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts, Leo Tolstoy

A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts

Leo Tolstoy
Ryan HolidayRyan Holiday

1/ A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy “Daily study,” Tolstoy wrote, is “necessary for all people.” Tolstoy dreamed of creating a book with “a wise thought for every day of the year, from the greatest philosophers of all times and all people.” https://t.co/GVLTzRr7Od

Hardcover, 1997

$30.99$15.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature, Robert Greene

The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature

Robert Greene
Ryan HolidayRyan Holiday

The G.O.A.T @RobertGreene's newest book, The Daily Laws, is out today! I’ve learned more from Robert than just about any other human being. You’ll say the same after reading this book—it’s packed, page after page, with his hard-won wisdom. https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/the-daily-laws-366-meditations-on-power-seduction-mastery-strategy-and-human-nature?_pos=1&_sid=3a22f8422&_ss=r https://t.co/4yoSJzLEVD

Paperback, 2023

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Meditations: With Selected Correspondence, Marcus Aurelius

Meditations: With Selected Correspondence

Marcus Aurelius
Ryan HolidayRyan Holiday

Marcus Aurelius asks us in Meditations, why are you trying to be a better wrestler but not a better person, a better forgiver of faults, a better friend in tight places? What about being a better parent? A better grandparent? https://t.co/vM1I7rXhP2

Paperback, 2011

$9.94$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad, Austin Kleon

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

Austin Kleon
Ryan HolidayRyan Holiday

"Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad" signed by @austinkleon https://t.co/qlp6GXLHtV

Paperback, 2019

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Meditations: Introduction by D. A. Rees, Marcus Aurelius

Meditations: Introduction by D. A. Rees

Marcus Aurelius
Ryan HolidayRyan Holiday

5/ Meditations by Marcus Aurelius There’s a reason this book has endured now for almost twenty centuries. If you haven’t read Marcus Aurelius or if you have…you should read this book and then read it again. https://t.co/sstUoWfwZS

Hardcover, 1992

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Death Be Not Proud, John J. Gunther

Death Be Not Proud

John J. Gunther
Ryan HolidayRyan Holiday

2/ Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther This book is deeply moving and profound. It’s written in 1949 by the famous journalist John Gunther about the death of his genius son Johnny at 17 from a brain tumor. https://t.co/LWRB78I6ss

Paperback, 2007

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, Peter F. Drucker

Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices

Peter F. Drucker
Ryan HolidayRyan Holiday

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Peter Drucker

Paperback, 1993

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark, Julia Baird

Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark

Julia Baird
Ryan HolidayRyan Holiday

3/ Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark by @bairdjulia This is a powerful, inspiring book about resilience and powering through. I found myself marking dozens of pages in this one and just continually smiling throughout. https://t.co/QGFljfArd0

Paperback, 2022

$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Robert E. Lee: A Life, Allen C. Guelzo

Robert E. Lee: A Life

Allen C. Guelzo
Ryan HolidayRyan Holiday

On today’s @dailystoic podcast I talk to Historian Allen C. Guelzo about his new book Robert E. Lee: A Life, the importance of cherishing/protecting democratic principles, Lincoln’s complexity of depth and Lee’s complexity of confusion, and more. Listen: https://t.co/ZTPzugZzbY https://t.co/BcV9ynZahM

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl
Ryan HolidayRyan Holiday

Honored to have been asked to write a piece for the By Invitation series in @TheEconomist but mostly excited that I got to interview Dr. Viktor Frankl's wife, and talk about an idea that I first heard about when I read Man's Search For Meaning in 2005...  https://t.co/QprIuLlo5e

Paperback, 2006

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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