The Coddling of the American Mind and How to Become Intellectually Antifragile — Jonathan Haidt

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

Barbara Ehrenreich

“A wonderful book, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich. She says, when the European explorers went out”— Jonathan Haidt

The Year of Living Biblically

A.J. Jacobs

“when he wrote the book The Year of Living Biblically, which is a fantastic, fantastic book.”— Tim Ferriss

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

“One of the greatest works of the Liberal tradition is On Liberty. It's a kind of a long book with dense prose. But chapter two is the key chapter”— Jonathan Haidt

Stolen Focus

Johann Hari

“turn off your notifications, get your attention back. Read Johann Hari's book Stolen Focus. So you can make yourself 10 or 15 IQ points smarter”— Jonathan Haidt

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger

“makes me think about Tribe by Sebastian Junger, which I highly recommend to people. It really underscores the fragility of isolation”— Tim Ferriss

Free-Range Kids

Lenore Skenazy

“we're friends with Lenore Skenazy, who wrote this fantastic book, Free-Range Kids. We let our kids out to play in Washington Square Park.”— Jonathan Haidt

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

“my favorite two are Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, the Gregory Hays translation is, I think, the best one.”— Jonathan Haidt

Discourses (collected works of Epictetus)

Epictetus

“And then also Epictetus, his collected works. And what I do whenever I read, I do all my reading electronically now”— Jonathan Haidt

Shooting an Elephant

George Orwell

“I want to say H.G. Wells (George Orwell, Ed.), but I don't think that is right, who wrote an essay called Shooting [an] Elephant”— Tim Ferriss

The Bhagavad Gita

“at the same time I was reading the Bhagavad Gita and in the Bhagavad Gita, there is a specific scene”— Jonathan Haidt

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

“there was a wonderful PBS series on, I think, The Hero with a Thousand Faces was one of his books.”— Jonathan Haidt

The Dhammapada

“That's a quote from The Dhammapada, How can you quarrel, knowing that you'll both be dead before long?”— Jonathan Haidt

Evernote

Evernote Corporation (inferred)

“I like to copy out text. So I copy my favorite lines out into an Evernote file. And so what I do in the mornings”— Jonathan Haidt

Fortnite

Epic Games (inferred)

“The one mistake I made was that when my son wanted Fortnite in sixth grade, and we said no because video games can be addictive.”— Jonathan Haidt