BONUS | Ryan Holiday Curates a Reading List for Nick Thompson
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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
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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