I took all of the suggestions from my first post and have compiled them into one list.

The title next to the name is the "read this first" book if you'd like to know more about his type of thinking and not necessarily written by the person, as in the case of biographies.

This list is meant to parallel that of /u/favours_of_the_moon from Geiststeuerung so I will try to avoid repetition.

Please add more and I will edit the post to fill it out. I'd love to see this grow to become a definitive compilation of must-read material for men.

Where a book is of more relevance for TRP than the author, it will be under the Specific Works of interest section and will be listed title first followed by the author.

Again, please give suggestions for the top book to read in relation to the person - either written by the person or a biography.

THE LIST

Antiquity:

  • Sun Tzu - Art of War
  • Alexander the Great
  • Julius Caesar
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
  • Plato - The Republic
  • Attila the Hun
  • Ghengis khan
  • Vlad the Impaler

Middle Ages:

  • François Villon - "was a French poet, thief, killer, barroom brawler, and vagabond"
  • Machiavelli

Renaissance:

  • La Rochefoucauld - Reflections Sentences and Moral Maxims

Modernity:

  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Winston Churchill
  • Ben Franklin - Autobiography
  • Nietzsche
  • Schopenhauer
  • Hemingway
  • Tesla - Autobiography
  • Houellebecq
  • Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

Specific Works:

  • Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas
  • 3 books: Power, Seduction, Mastery by Robert Greene

Links to other compilations: