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I’m building a list of every book Indiana Jones might have read throughout his life. Thoughts?

I’m currently working on a reading list for Indiana Jones. My goal is to compile everything he likely read throughout his education and adulthood, using his associations from the Young Indiana Jones adventures right up to Dial of Destiny as a guide.

I’ve included books written by the historical figures he actually met (like Hemingway and Roosevelt) and texts related to the specific artifacts and events he experienced. I've also included some of the works talked about in the bonus features of the Young Indiana Jones Adventures DVD set, and some that just logically fit even if they've not be mentioned. It’s been a fun way to look at his life through a more academic lens. So far I've gotten up to the end of the first five Young Indiana Jones movies. I may look at the Young Indiana Jones Young Adult books next.

I’d love to hear what you think I should add!

My First Adventure

  1. The Wonder Book of Electricity (for when he learned about electricity)
  2. The Wonder Book of Trains (breaking the land speed record)
  3. The Wonder Book of Aircraft (sending his dog to the moon)
  4. Romance and The Legend of Chivalry by A.R Hope Moncrieff (a stand in for his dad's book about chivalry)
  5. The Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter
  6. My Life Story by Emily Keene
  7. The History of Ancient Egypt Vol 1 by John Romer (he learned all about Egypt on the boat there)
  8. The History of Ancient Egypt Vol 2 by John Romer
  9. The History of Ancient Egypt Vol 3 by John Romer
  10. Morocco that Was by Walter Harris
  11. Slavery in Morocco (Black Morocco) by C.E Hamel
  12. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E Lawrence
  13. The History of Archaeological Thought by Bruce Trigger
  14. Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts (he was reading a book about Napoleon in Egypt)

Passion for Life

  1. Field Guide to East Africa by John G Williams
  2. The Worlds of the Maasai Warrior by Tepilit O Saitoti
  3. African Adventure Stories by J Alden Loring
  4. African Game Animals by Edmund Heller
  5. Travel and Adventure in East South Africa by F.C Selous
  6. A Hunters Wanderings by F.C Selous
  7. African Nature Notes by F.C Selous
  8. The Happy Hunting Grounds by Kermit Roosevelt
  9. War in the Garden by Kermit Roosevelt
  10. An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
  11. African Game Trails by Theodore Roosevelt
  12. Ancient Armour and Weapons by John Hewitt
  13. The Louvre by Geneviève Bresc-Bautier
  14. The Collector by Matalya Semenova
  15. Matisse by Spurling
  16. My Adventures as an Illustrator by Norman Rockwell
  17. The history of Cubism by Jose Pierre
  18. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  19. France in the World: A new global history
  20. Portraits by John Gieger
  21. Landscapes by John Gieger
  22. The painter of modern life: Memoirs of Degas by George Moore and Walter Sickert
  23. George Braque: A Life by Alex Danchev
  24. Loving Picasso by Fernande Olivier
  25. Picasso and his friends by Fernande Olivier
  26. Picasso by Gertrude Stein
  27. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
  28. The Autobiography by Alice Tolkas
  29. Sister Brother by Brenda Wineapple
  30. Bohemian Lives by Amy Licence
  31. A life of Picasso Book 1 by John Richardson
  32. A life of Picasso Book 2 by John Richardson
  33. A life of Picasso Book 3 by John Richardson
  34. A life of Picasso Book 4 by John Richardson
  35. Recollections of Henri Rousseau by Wilhelm Uhde
  36. The rise of cubism by Daniel-Henry Kahweiler
  37. My Galleries and painters by Daniel-Henry Kahweiler
  38. Leonardo Da Vinci The Biography by Walter Isaacson
  39. Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects by Vasaari
  40. The lives of Leonardo Da Vinci by Paolo Giovio
  41. Leonardo Da Vinci's Notebooks
  42. Bleriot by Brian Elliot

Perils of Cupid

  1. The Austrian Court from Within
  2. The Assassination of the Archduke Duke Franz Ferdinand: Sarajevo 1914 by Greg King
  3. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
  4. The Ego and ID by Sigmund Freud
  5. Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  6. Civilization and its discontent by Sigmund Freud
  7. The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones
  8. Modern Man in search of his soul by Carl Jung
  9. The Archetypes of the collective unconscious by Carl Jung
  10. Memories, dreams, reflections by Carl Jung
  11. The practice and theory of individual psychology by Alfred Adler
  12. Understanding human nature by Alfred Adler
  13. And what life could mean to you by Alfred Adler
  14. Alfred Adler: A portrait from life by Phyllis Bottome
  15. Scenes of a Bohemian by Henri Murger
  16. Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long
  17. Puccini a biography by William Weaver
  18. A history of the opera by Carolyn Abbate
  19. SPQR by Mary Beard
  20. The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918 by Professor A.J.P Taylor
  21. The marriage of Figaro
  22. About Behaviorism by B.F Skinner
  23. The Principles of Physiological Psychology by Wilhelm Wundt
  24. Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram

Travels with Father

  1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  2. Tolstoy a biography by AM Watson
  3. A history of Russia by Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky
  4. The Cossacks by WIlliam Penn Cresson
  5. The Romanovs by Simon Sebay Montefiore
  6. Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
  7. Fifty-two stories by Chekov
  8. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
  9. The Nose by Gogol
  10. The Overcoat by Gogol
  11. Father and Sons by Turgenev
  12. The Mother by Gorky
  13. Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn
  14. Das Capital by Karl Marx
  15. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
  16. Pitching in a pinch by Christy Mathewson
  17. The Metaphysical by Aristotle
  18. The Nicomachean Ethics By Aristotle
  19. Politics by Aristotle
  20. Republic by Plato
  21. Conversations with Socrates
  22. The Last Days of Socrates
  23. The Dangerous lie and ideas of Diogenes the Cynic by Jean-Manuel Roubineau
  24. The Cynic philosophy from Diogenes to Julian
  25. The skeptics by R.J Hankinson
  26. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
  27. The Saviours of God by Nikos Kazantzakis
  28. Creators, Conquerors and Citizens by Robin Wakefield

Journey of Radiance

  1. Clairvoyance by Charles Webster Leadbetter
  2. How Theosophy came to be by Charles Webster Leadbetter
  3. Annie Besant an autobiography
  4. The ancient book of wisdom by Annie Besant
  5. First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti
  6. The only revolution by Jiddu Krishnamurti
  7. Life and Death of Jiddu Krishnamurti
  8. The theosophical society by Jeffery D Lavoie
  9. The Vedas
  10. The Torah
  11. The Old Testament
  12. The New Testament
  13. The Quran
  14. The Xray or Photography of the invisible by William J Morton
  15. The Early Empires: Qin and Han
  16. China between Empires: The Northern and Southern dynasties
  17. Chinas Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty
  18. The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China
  19. The Troubled Empire: China and Yuan and Ming Dynasties
  20. China's Last Empire: The Great Qing
  21. In Search of Modern China by Jonathan Spence
  22. The Nei Ching
  23. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
  24. Samadhi: Personal Journey to Spiritual Truth by Derek Biermana

Posted Mar 27, 2026, 8:01 PM UTC

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