Reading List

This is a list of books that I've found helpful, inspiring, and thought-provoking. 

• A Guide to the Good Life - William B. Irvine

• This is required reading for a 21st century Stoic. Actually, everyone should read it - at least twice.

• Your Money or Your Life - Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez
• The grand-mammy of Financial Independence. I'm usually skeptical of financial advice books, but the ideas presented here are so unexpected and inspiring. Provides a complete vision of an independent life rather than focusing solely on the financial side.

• Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength - John Tierney and Roy Baumeister

• Provides some scientific support for the notion of 'character'. I highly recommend this to all aspiring Stoics. Willpower is a muscle that can be developed.

• The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg

• Provides some useful research on breaking bad habits and developing good ones.

• The Rebel Sell: How Counterculture became Consumer Culture - Jospeh Heath & Andrew Potter

• This is a delightful and fascinating look at consumer culture. They mercilessly dissect the middle class consumerist arms race - especially the consumerist snobbery known as 'hipster anti-consumerism'. In the end, this is not an anti-consumerist book, but that's no reason not to read it.