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Ryan Holiday Books in Order

Ryan Holiday has written 17 books, published between 2012 and 2025. The first book is Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (2012) and the newest is What You're Made For: Powerful Life Lessons from My Career in Sports (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Ryan Holiday also publishes as Jeff Ritze.

Books
17
Published
2012–2025
Pages on record
3,438 in 12 of 17 books
Reading time
57–86 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,438 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 17 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Ryan Holiday, author of the Stoic Virtue series

Ryan Holiday writes non-fiction about stoicism, marketing and success. Trust Me, I'm Lying (2012) opens a list of 17 catalogued books that holds The Obstacle Is the Way (2014), Ego Is the Enemy (2016), The Daily Stoic (2016), Stillness Is the Key (2019) and Lives of the Stoics (2020). Stoic Virtue is the one grouped series, and titles appear about every ten months.

How many Ryan Holiday books are there?

Ryan Holiday has 17 books, released between 2012 and 2025. 4 of them belong to the Stoic Virtue series.

Ryan Holiday Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Ryan Holiday books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday (2012)
  2. Cover of Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising by Ryan Holiday (2013)
  3. Cover of The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday (2014)
  4. Cover of Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday (2016)
  5. Cover of The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity by Ryan Holiday (2016)
  6. Cover of Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work That Lasts by Ryan Holiday (2017)
  7. Cover of The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday (2017)
  8. Cover of Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday (2019)
  9. Cover of Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius by Ryan Holiday (2020)
  10. Cover of Discipline Is Destiny by Ryan Holiday, book 2 of the Stoic Virtue series (2022)
  11. Cover of The Daily Dad by Ryan Holiday (2023)
  1. 1
    Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  2. 2
    Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising2013 · 111 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013111
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph2014 · 201 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014201
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Ego Is the Enemy2016 · 226 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016226
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity2016 · 404 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016404
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work That Lasts2017 · 248 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017248
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living2017 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017368
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue2018 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018336
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Stillness Is the Key2019 · 264 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019264
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius2020 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020352
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    Courage Is CallingStoic Virtue #12021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    The Boy Who Would Be King2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  13. 13
    Discipline Is DestinyStoic Virtue #22022 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2022304
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  14. 14
    The Daily Dad2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  15. 15
    Right Thing. Right NowStoic Virtue #32024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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  16. 16
    Wisdom Takes WorkStoic Virtue #42025 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2025400
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  17. 17
    What You're Made For: Powerful Life Lessons from My Career in Sports2025 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2025224
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Ryan Holiday books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Stoic Virtue in order

4 books
  1. 1. Courage Is Calling
  2. 2. Discipline Is Destiny
  3. 3. Right Thing. Right Now
  4. 4. Wisdom Takes Work

Standalone books

13 books

13 Ryan Holiday titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Ryan Holiday Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Ryan Holiday books run from Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (2012) to What You're Made For: Powerful Life Lessons from My Career in Sports (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Ryan Holiday in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Ryan Holiday books in order?

You only need to read Ryan Holiday books in order within the Stoic Virtue series, which holds 4 of the 17 Ryan Holiday books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Ryan Holiday

Start with Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (2012), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Ryan Holiday book?

What You're Made For: Powerful Life Lessons from My Career in Sports (2025) is the newest Ryan Holiday book released so far.

Is there a new Ryan Holiday book coming?

No next Ryan Holiday book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Ryan Holiday at a glance

Still publishing
Ryan Holiday published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Ryan Holiday books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,438 pages across the 12 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 284 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Ryan Holiday books, 9 of 17, were published in the 2010s.

What the Ryan Holiday books are about

12 of the 17 Ryan Holiday books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: stoics is tagged on 4 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.