What I’ve Read So Far: A Personal Bibliography

This isn’t a scholarly bibliography. It’s a personal one.

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The books listed below represent the works I’ve actually read in my ongoing exploration of Stoic philosophy. My journey began around 2012 with A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine, and since then, I’ve continued adding to my understanding—sometimes in concentrated bursts, sometimes more sporadically. I’ve read some of these texts more than once, sometimes deeply, sometimes casually. I’ve listed them here without attempting to preserve the sequence, since memory doesn’t always cooperate.

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I share this list to give you a sense of where I’m coming from—what I’ve engaged with, what’s influenced me, and where my reflections are grounded. I only reference works I’ve personally read, and I make no claim to expertise. Everything I write is filtered through my own ongoing questions, blind spots, and breakthroughs.

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My hope is that this evolving “Stoic bookshelf” might help contextualize the ideas I explore elsewhere on the site, and maybe even offer a nudge to others looking for a place to start.

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• A Guide to the Good Life – William B. Irvine

• A Handbook for New Stoics – Massimo Pigliucci & Gregory Lopez

• A Man in Full – Tom Wolfe

• A New Stoicism – Lawrence Becker

• Discourses – Epictetus

• Enchiridion (The Handbook) – Epictetus

• Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life – A.A. Long

• How to Be a Stoic – Massimo Pigliucci

• Letters from a Stoic – Seneca

• Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

• Stoicism – John Sellars

• Stoicism and Emotion – Margaret Graver

• Stoicism Today: Selected Writings II – ed. Patrick Ussher

• The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy – John Sellars

• The Hellenistic Philosophers – A.A. Long & D.N. Sedley

• The Practicing Stoic – Ward Farnsworth

• The Stoic's Guide to Happiness – Donald Robertson