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Ryan Holiday (born June 16, 1987) is an American author, modern Stoic, public-relations strategist, owner of the Painted Porch Bookshop and host of the podcast The Daily Stoic. Prior to becoming an author, he served as the former director of marketing and eventually an advisor for American Apparel. Holiday's debut to writing was in 2012, when he published Trust Me, I'm Lying. Holiday's notable works include his books on Stoic philosophy, such as The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, Stillness is the Key, Courage is Calling, and Lives of the Stoics. Career Early career Holiday began his professional career after dropping out of college at the age of 19. He attended University of California, Riverside, where he studied political science and creative writing. He consulted for author Tucker Max and, later, he worked with Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, on Greene's 2009 New York Times bestselling book, The 50th Law. Holiday served as Director of Marketing for American Apparel and, later, as an adviser to the company. He left the company in October 2014. He has consulted on a number of media campaigns and written extensively on the topic of media manipulation. Writing Holiday is the author of several books and has written for Forbes, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Guardian, Thought Catalog, Medium.com, New York Observer, The New York Times and Texas Monthly. Books he has authored have sold more than three million copies combined.Holiday published his first book, a media exposé about the state of online journalism called Trust Me, I'm Lying, in July 2012, which debuted on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. His second book Growth Hacker Marketing was originally published in September 2013 by Portfolio/Penguin and then expanded into a print edition in 2014. The book shows how traditional marketing efforts are no longer the most effective, and why growth hacking is cheaper and more effective in today's market. The book was named one of Inc. magazine's top 10 marketing books of 2014.In February 2014, Holiday was named editor-at-large of the Business & Technology section at the New York Observer.Holiday's third book The Obstacle Is the Way, was published May 1, 2014, also by Portfolio/Penguin. The book is based on the Stoic exercise of framing obstacles as opportunities. The book has sold more than 1 million copies and was read by the New England Patriots during their 2014 Super Bowl-winning season, as well as distributed through the locker room of the Seattle Seahawks in the following offseason. The Obstacle Is the Way reached No. 1 on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller List in 2019, five years after its initial release. Two-time NBA Champion Chris Bosh listed The Obstacle Is the Way as his favorite book and added that, when his head coach Erik Spoelstra gifted Miami Heat players copies of the book, Bosh had already read it twice. During a press conference at the Masters in 2019, four-time major champion golfer Rory McIlroy said he read The Obstacle Is the Way as well as Holiday's following book, Ego Is the Enemy, leading up to the tournament. In the months following former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier's on-field spinal injury that left him unable to walk, Shazier credited The Obstacle Is The Way for helping him improve his mindset and focus on recovery.In 2016, he published two books. The first, Ego Is the Enemy, uses various historical figures as case studies to illustrate the perils of egotism. The second, The Daily Stoic, is a daily devotional of Stoic meditations. Both books went on to become bestsellers with Daily Stoic reaching No. 1 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list.In 2018, he published Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue. It is about the lawsuit between Gawker Media and wrestler Hulk Hogan, as well as Peter Thiel's involvement in the dispute. It was favorably reviewed by William D. Cohan of The New York Times, who called the book, "one helluva page-turner." Conspiracy is being developed into a feature film with Charles Randolph writing the script and Francis Lawrence attached as the director. In October 2019, he published Stillness Is the Key, which became the first of Holiday's books to reach No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Stillness Is the Key argues for a balanced approach to life, of limiting the amount of "noise" and while mostly referencing stoicism, he also makes references to Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism as well as the Abrahamic religions. In 2020, he published Lives of the Stoics, which he wrote with author Stephen Hanselman. The book is a collection of biographies for more than two dozen philosophers who lived according to the stoic virtues of courage, temperance and wisdom.He has written a chapter in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans. Stoicism While Holiday was a college student, Dr. Drew recommended Epictetus which inspired Holiday's interest in stoicism. Holiday, through his books, articles and lectures, has been credited by The New York Times with the increasing popularity of stoicism. He was also described as "leading the charge for stoicism," which has been noted for gaining traction among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Classicist Gregory Hays, whose 2002 translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations became a bestseller, provided commentary on Holiday's stoic writing by saying it is, "very much in the spirit of his ancient models" and added, "Holiday is also a great teller of stories." Personal life Holiday wrote public letters encouraging his father not to vote for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. Despite his public opposition to Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign, Holiday was offered a communications director position within the Trump administration, which he did not accept. Holiday supported Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election. He said: "For those asking what happened to the Biden sign...we hung it up on our ranch in Texas, where we own guns, raise cows for meat, prefer low taxes, fly an American flag, and mostly want to be left alone. It's perfectly possible to have "conservative" beliefs and know what the obvious right thing to do in 2020 is." In September 2020, Holiday initiated a funding drive and personally contributed $10,000 toward the removal of two Confederate monuments from the Bastrop County Courthouse and the courthouse approved the removal and relocation of the monuments to an alternative site in February 2021.Holiday owns and operates the independent bookstore Painted Porch Bookshop in Bastrop, Texas. He is married and has two sons. He lives on a 40-acre ranch in Bastrop County, Texas. See also Modern StoicismBibliography Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator. Portfolio. 2012. ISBN 978-1591845539. Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising. Portfolio. 2014. ISBN 978-1591847380. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Time.... Discover the Ryan Holiday popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ryan Holiday books.
Best Seller Ryan Holiday Books of 2023
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Conspiracy
Ryan HolidayAn NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018!A stunning story about how power works in the modern agethe book the New York Times called "one helluva pageturner" and The Sunday Times of ...
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Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus & Robert DobbinContains The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion'I must die. But must I die bawling?'Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the ear...
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Principles
Ray Dalio#1 New York Times Bestseller“Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving.” The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and ent...
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Lives of the Stoics
Ryan Holiday & Stephen HanselmanInstant New York Times Advice & Business Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller!A New York Times Noteworthy Pick and a "stellar work" by Publis...
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Meditations
René Descartes & Desmond M. ClarkeWidely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he ...
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Stillness Is the Key
Ryan HolidayInstant #1 New York Times Bestseller & Wall Street Journal BestsellerIn The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdom wildly...
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Velocity
Ajaz Ahmed & Stefan OlanderHow can you win when the only certainty is change? Highly accessible, lively and inspiring, Velocity draws upon the authors’ unique perspectives and experiences to present seven ti...
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Maxims
François de La Rochefoucauld & Leonard TancockThe philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphoris...
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The Psychology of Stupidity
Jean-François Marmion & Liesl Schillinger"We need books like this one." Steven PinkerAt last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard ...
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The Kid Stays in the Picture
Robert EvansRobert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an awa...
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A Cowboy for Christmas
Sara RichardsonIn this heartwarming secondchance holiday romance, a fake engagement is this cowboy's best chance at proving his love is all real perfect for fans of New York Times bestselling au...
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On Living and Dying Well
Cicero & Thomas HabinekIn the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, re...
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On Love and Barley
Matsuo Basho & Lucien StrykBasho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a lifelong traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the...
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10 Ways to Make Money in a Free World
Nicholas LovellFree is coming. We all know how artists and are at risk from filesharing; now digital manufacturing and 3D printing mean that no industry is immune. But the same technology that en...
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Discipline Is Destiny
Ryan HolidayThe instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case fo...
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Following Atticus
Tom RyanAfter a close friend died of cancer, middleaged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniat...
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Black Privilege
Charlamagne Tha GodAn instant New York Times bestseller! Charlamagne Tha Godthe selfproclaimed “Prince of Pissing People Off,” cohost of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, and “the most important voic...
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A Confession and Other Religious Writings
Leo TolstoyDescribing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. By the time he was fift...
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Wildoak
C. C. HarringtonGive the gift of connection this holiday season with this lushly illustrated story of a girl and a snow leopard and their unlikely friendship. Perfect for fans of Pax and Odder. "N...
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The Proper Study Of Mankind
Isaiah Berlin‘He becomes everyman’s guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas’ New York Review of BooksIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one...
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Be More Pirate
Sam Conniff AllendePirates didn’t just break the rules, they rewrote them. They didn’t just reject society, they reinvented it. Pirates didn’t just challenge the statusquo, they changed everyfckingth...
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Happy Ever After
Paul Dolan'A passionate, provocative book. It isn't just a selfhelp book. It is a manifesto for a better society' Sunday Times 'One of the most rigorous articulations of the new mood of acc...
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The Mirror Effect
Drew Pinsky & Dr. S. Mark YoungIn the eyeopening New York Times bestseller, The Mirror Effect, widely respected addiction and behavior specialist and producer/host of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew on VH1, Dr. Dr...
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Shook One
Charlamagne Tha GodCharlamagne Tha God, New York Times bestselling author of Black Privilege and always provocative cohost of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, reveals his blueprint for breaking free...
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Perennial Seller
Ryan HolidayThe book that Inc. says "every entrepreneur should read" and an FT Book of the Month selection...How did the movie The Shawshank Redemption fail at the box office but go on to...
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Cracked
Drew PinskyDr. Drew Pinsky is best known as the cohost of the longrunning radio advice program Loveline. But his workday is spent at a major Southern California clinic, treating the severest ...
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Beethoven
Jan SwaffordJan Swafford’s biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificen...
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Snowbound at Christmas
Jennifer Ryan, Maisey Yates & Lia RileyWhen a snowstorm pummels the western half of the country, three couples find once offlimits love just in time for Christmas. An unforgettable holiday anthology from bestselling aut...
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Fallen Angel
Christopher Brookmyre'Gloriously dark, deliciously twisty' CLARE MACKINTOSH ONE FAMILY, TWO HOLIDAYS, ONE DEVASTATING SECRETTo new nanny Amanda, the Temple family seem to have it all: the former actres...
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Courage Is Calling
Ryan HolidayThe instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller! Ryan Holiday’s bestselling trilogyThe Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Ke...
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Applied Empathy
Michael VenturaMichael Ventura, entrepreneur and CEO of awardwinning strategy and design firm Sub Rosa, shares “how to unlock our ability to design solutions, spark innovation, and solve tough ch...
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Intellectuals
Paul Johnson"Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read." New York Times Book ReviewA fascinating portrait of the minds that ha...
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Russian Thinkers
Isaiah Berlin & Henry HardyFew, if any, Englishlanguage critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that R...
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A Haunted Halloween
Ray O'RyanZack doesn’t think ghosts existbut a haunted Halloween might change his mind in the eleventh Galaxy Zack chapter book adventure.Zack absolutely, one hundred percent does not believ...
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365 Tao
Ming-Dao DengPlace the word Tao Into your heart. Use no other words. The Tao is constantly moving, the path that all life and the whole universe takes. There is nothing that is not part of itha...
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Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan HolidayThe instant Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and international bestseller“While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their...
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The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday & Stephen HanselmanFrom the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditationsan instant Wall Street Journal and USA ...
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The Fat Lady Sang
Robert EvansFrom the legendary producer and author of The Kid Stays in the Pictureone of the greatest Hollywood memoirs ever writtencomes a longawaited second work with all the elements of a s...
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Growth Hacker Marketing
Ryan HolidayA primer on the future of PR, marketing and advertising now revised and updated with new case studies"Forget everything you thought you knew about marketing and read thi...
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Stoicism and the Art of Happiness
Donald RobertsonThe stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition insights which endure to this day. The philosophical tradition, founded in Athens b...