BONUS | Ryan Holiday Curates a Reading List for Nick Thompson

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

After their interview, Ryan and Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic and author of The Running Ground, headed into The Painted Porch to talk about their favorite books and swap recommendations.

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📚 Full list of books that Ryan gave to Nick:

Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman

Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm

The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America by Jeffrey Rosen

Notes to John by Joan Didion

Necessary Trouble by Drew Gilpin Faust

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays Translation)

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

Letter to the Father by Franz Kafka

What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami

Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green

Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther

Check out Nick’s new book The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports

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