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Jordan Peterson's core books he recommends to educate themselves
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1		Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning 4.11 avg rating — 24,996 ratings score: 194, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2		The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński 3.90 avg rating — 29,041 ratings score: 192, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3		Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl 4.37 avg rating — 939,137 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4		Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 3.98 avg rating — 2,154,738 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5		1984 by George Orwell 4.21 avg rating — 5,766,815 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6		The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell 3.91 avg rating — 30,107 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7		Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.29 avg rating — 1,158,771 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8		Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.31 avg rating — 67,942 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9		Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche 4.03 avg rating — 120,561 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10		The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Shun-Ru Chang 4.26 avg rating — 58,127 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11		Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C.G. Jung 4.20 avg rating — 14,945 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12		Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson 4.03 avg rating — 6,811 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13		Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions by Jaak Panksepp 4.39 avg rating — 494 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14		A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries by Mircea Eliade 4.40 avg rating — 1,983 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15		A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity by Mircea Eliade 4.48 avg rating — 1,040 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16		A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms by Mircea Eliade 4.42 avg rating — 838 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17		The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4.35 avg rating — 14,743 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18		The Gulag Archipelago: Volume II: Destructive-Labor Camps, The Soul, Barbed Wire by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4.48 avg rating — 3,652 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19		The Gulag Archipelago: Volume III: Katorga, Exile, Stalin Is No More by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4.54 avg rating — 2,743 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Apr 22, 2018 04:33AM

A nice list of all the recommended Jordan Peterson books, the other lists either include everything or have some books that aren't part of the list.

Great books, gives you a wide exposure to ideas from senseless murder of Nanking to dystopia times with controlled speech.

I recommend Man's search for meaning by Viktor F, such an interesting book about how people live through the darkest of times (Concentration camps).

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