Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday began as a media strategist and wrote Trust Me, I’m Lying, an insider account of how online outrage is manufactured. He then spent a decade making Stoicism legible to a modern audience, starting with The Obstacle Is the Way and running through a sequence of books on ego, stillness and the cardinal virtues.

He publishes a widely-followed monthly reading list and runs a bookshop in Bastrop, Texas, so his recommendations come with an unusual amount of shelf-level conviction behind them.