Literary, Philosophical, and Genre
The Great Courses Lecture Series:
- Louis Markos: From Plato to Post-modernism: Understanding the Essence of Literature and the Role of the Author
- John McWhorter: Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage
- Kenneth W. Harl: The Vikings
- Arnold Weinstein: Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature
- Arnold Weinstein: Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative
- Brooks Landon: Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer’s Craft
- James Hynes: Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques
Additional Courses and Texts
- Masterclass: James Patterson Teaches Writing
- Janet Burroway: Writing Fiction, A guide to narrative craft
- J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst: Ship of Theseus
- Marilynne Robinson: Gilead
- William H. Gass: Middle C
- Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth; Pathways to Bliss; Mythic Imagination, Collected Short Fiction
- Northrop Fry: Anatomy of Criticism
- Bernard Cornwell: The Saxton Tales Books 1-6
- Amanda Hocking: The Trylle Series Books 1-3
- Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant: Write, Publish, Repeat; The Beam Seasons 1 and 2
- Dr. Tom Morris: Philosophy for Dummies
- Dean Kowalski & William Irwin: The Big Bang Theory and Philosophy: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Aristotle, Locke
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama: The Universe in a Single Atom
- Viktor Mayer-Schonberger: Delete, The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
Business, Marketing, and Design
- Jonah Sachs: Winning the Story Wars
- William Hayes: So You Want to Be a College Professor?
- Stephen R. Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
- Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody
- Chip & Dan Heath: Switch, How to change things when change is hard; Decisive, How to make better choices in life and work; Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
- Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Swizzler: Crucial Conversations, Tools for talking when stakes are high
- David Graeber: Debt: The First 5,000 Years; The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
- Jonathon Porritt: Capitalism, As if the World Matters
- Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Seth Godin: Permission Marketing; Linchpin; All Marketers Are Liars; Tribes; What to Do When it’s Your Turn
- Skillshare Class: Seth Godin - The Modern Marketing Workshop; Seth Godin - The New Business Toolbox: Help Your New Business Do It Right The First Time; Su Mathews Hale and Michael D’Esopo - Strategic Design: The Art and Science of Branding
- Feng Zhu School of Design: 86 Hours of Episodes related to concept design
Athletic and Biographical
- Meb Keflezighi: Run to Overcome
- Chris McCormack: I’m Here to WIN
- Chris Bergland: The Athlete’s Way
- Dr. Ed Wolfgram: It’s Never Too Late
- Dean Karnazes: Ultramarathon Man, Confessions of an all-night runner ; Run! 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss