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The Painted Porch Reading List

87 books carried and recommended at Ryan & Samantha Holiday's bookshop, The Painted Porch — sorted into eight shelves. Order any of them on Amazon, or (better) buy them from the store.

Ryan HolidayStoicismRobert GreeneWritingBusiness, MarketingBiography, HistoryFictionPoetry

Ryan Holiday — His Own Books

16 titles
The Obstacle Is the WayRyan HolidayAmazon → Ego Is the EnemyRyan HolidayAmazon → Stillness Is the KeyRyan HolidayAmazon → Courage Is CallingRyan HolidayAmazon → Discipline Is DestinyRyan HolidayAmazon → Right Thing, Right NowRyan HolidayAmazon → The Daily StoicRyan HolidayAmazon → The Daily Stoic JournalRyan HolidayAmazon → The Daily DadRyan HolidayAmazon → Lives of the StoicsRyan HolidayAmazon → Trust Me, I'm LyingRyan HolidayAmazon → ConspiracyRyan HolidayAmazon → Growth Hacker MarketingRyan HolidayAmazon → Perennial SellerRyan HolidayAmazon → The Boy Who Would Be KingRyan HolidayAmazon → The Girl Who Would Be FreeRyan HolidayAmazon →

Stoicism & Philosophy

10 titles
MeditationsMarcus AureliusAmazon → Letters from a StoicSenecaAmazon → On the Shortness of LifeSenecaAmazon → Discourses and Selected WritingsEpictetusAmazon → The Art of LivingEpictetusAmazon → A Calendar of WisdomLeo TolstoyAmazon → Man's Search for MeaningViktor FranklAmazon → Why Buddhism Is TrueRobert WrightAmazon → The OdysseyHomerAmazon → Courage Under FireJames B. StockdaleAmazon →

Robert Greene

7 titles
The 48 Laws of PowerRobert GreeneAmazon → The Laws of Human NatureRobert GreeneAmazon → MasteryRobert GreeneAmazon → The 33 Strategies of WarRobert GreeneAmazon → The Art of SeductionRobert GreeneAmazon → The Daily LawsRobert GreeneAmazon → The 50th LawRobert Greene and 50 CentAmazon →

Writing & Creativity

13 titles
The War of ArtSteven PressfieldAmazon → Turning ProSteven PressfieldAmazon → The Creative Act: A Way of BeingRick RubinAmazon → Bird by BirdAnne LamottAmazon → On WritingStephen KingAmazon → Steal Like an ArtistAustin KleonAmazon → Keep GoingAustin KleonAmazon → Show Your Work!Austin KleonAmazon → The Creative HabitTwyla TharpAmazon → Letters to a Young PoetRainer Maria RilkeAmazon → Daily Rituals: How Artists WorkMason CurreyAmazon → A Moveable FeastErnest HemingwayAmazon → Journal of a NovelJohn SteinbeckAmazon →

Business, Marketing & Decision-Making

12 titles
The Psychology of MoneyMorgan HouselAmazon → Zero to OnePeter ThielAmazon → Never Split the DifferenceChris VossAmazon → Thinking in BetsAnnie DukeAmazon → EssentialismGreg McKeownAmazon → Digital MinimalismCal NewportAmazon → The Great Mental Models Volume 1Shane ParrishAmazon → Clear ThinkingShane ParrishAmazon → The 22 Immutable Laws of MarketingAl Ries and Jack TroutAmazon → The $100 StartupChris GuillebeauAmazon → Die with ZeroBill PerkinsAmazon → Co-IntelligenceEthan MollickAmazon →

Biography, History & Narrative Nonfiction

17 titles
Empire of the Summer MoonS.C. GwynneAmazon → The Storm Before the StormMike DuncanAmazon → The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and SurvivalJohn VaillantAmazon → Shadow DiversRobert KursonAmazon → The Warmth of Other SunsIsabel WilkersonAmazon → Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel WilkersonAmazon → How the Word Is PassedClint SmithAmazon → Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern WorldJack WeatherfordAmazon → Bury the ChainsAdam HochschildAmazon → On TyrannyTimothy SnyderAmazon → Tyrant: Shakespeare on PoliticsStephen GreenblattAmazon → A World Lit Only by FireWilliam ManchesterAmazon → How to Hide an EmpireDaniel ImmerwahrAmazon → Left of BangPatrick Van Horne and Jason A. RileyAmazon → GreenlightsMatthew McConaugheyAmazon → First PrinciplesThomas E. RicksAmazon → Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient WorldIrene VallejoAmazon →

Fiction & Novels

7 titles
1984George OrwellAmazon → A Farewell to ArmsErnest HemingwayAmazon → Rules for a KnightEthan HawkeAmazon → American WarOmar El AkkadAmazon → Goodbye to a RiverJohn GravesAmazon → 84, Charing Cross RoadHelene HanffAmazon → A Christmas CarolCharles DickensAmazon →

Poetry

5 titles
Milk and HoneyRupi KaurAmazon → The Sun and Her FlowersRupi KaurAmazon → Home BodyRupi KaurAmazon → Dog SongsMary OliverAmazon → The ProphetKahlil GibranAmazon →

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