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Sebastian Junger's Reading List

The author of "The Perfect Storm" and, most recently, "Tribe" avoids books likely to anger him: "The newspapers make me furious enough. I don't add to that by reading books that do. Perhaps I should."

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Books from The Daily Stoic: Sebastian Junger On Being Addicted To The Illusion of Control (2025)

Extracted via LLM (gemini-2.5-flash) from auto-captions of The Daily Stoic (2025-08-30).

Source: www.youtube.com

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Insurgent Mexico

John Reed · Buy on Amazon

"He wrote a book called Insurgent Mexico and there's a there's a paragraph that the that describes the tropa ponchovia's troop... And it's an extraordinary paragraph because basically Cormarmac McCarthy took that paragraph and was like, I can do this."

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Cormac McCarthy · 1985 · Buy on Amazon

"I adore Cormack McCarthy, so I'm not dissing on him at all. Right. You can see that you could totally see the rooms. It's extraordinary. Totally extraordinary."

By the Book: Sebastian Junger (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-05-12).

Source: www.nytimes.com

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari · 2011 · Buy on Amazon

"Thank God someone finally wrote that exact book. It's like a bible for people who don't believe in God."

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Empire of the Summer Moon

Sam Gwynne · 2010 · Buy on Amazon

"The last really well-written book I've read was "Empire of the Summer Moon," by Sam Gwynne."

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Michael Herr · 1977 · Buy on Amazon

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Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton Trumbo · Buy on Amazon

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The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane · 1895 · Buy on Amazon

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway · Buy on Amazon

""For Whom the Bell Tolls," by Hemingway, is also indispensable."

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Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · Buy on Amazon

"I remember crying at the end of "The Road," by Cormac McCarthy."

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At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Peter Matthiessen · Buy on Amazon

"Peter Matthiessen's "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" was the first modern novel that I read, at age 16."

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Peter Matthiessen · Buy on Amazon

"After that I read his "Far Tortuga," another national treasure."

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John Stuart Mill · Buy on Amazon

"John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism" gave me the kind of ethical guidance that every person needs — religious or otherwise."

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The Age of Reason

Thomas Paine · 1794 · Buy on Amazon

"I would also insist that she read "The Age of Reason," by Thomas Paine."

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