Books like A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine

A series of spiritual exercises for leading a meaningful life, 2,000 years old and still relevant today.

The Obstacle Is the Way teaches readers how to turn adversity into advantage using Stoic principles, illustrated with stories of historic figures and modern success.

Jonathan Haidt blends modern psychology and brain science with ancient wisdom to explain what makes people happy and how to increase it.

A daily guide that brings ancient Stoic wisdom into modern life, offering daily reflections, exercises, and insights for cultivating serenity, self‑knowledge, and resilience.

A practical guide that shows how Stoic philosophy—from thinkers like Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius—can help you manage modern challenges, regulate emotions, and pursue a good life.

Lives of the Stoics explores the lives of ancient Stoic philosophers, from epigraphic slaves to emperors, showing how their embrace of courage, justice, temperance, and wisdom can guide modern success and self‑mastery.

This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; second, through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; third, through the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism, showing how it refines philosophical traditions, challenges the imagination, and ultimately defines the kind of life one chooses to lead. A distinguished roster of specialists have written an authoritative guide to the entire philosophical tradition. The first two chapters chart the history of the school in the ancient world, and are followed by chapters on the core themes of the Stoic system: epistemology, logic, natural philosophy, theology, determinism, and metaphysics. There are two chapters on what might be thought of as the heart and soul of the Stoics system: ethics.