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The best survival & adventure books recommended on podcasts

The survival & adventure books that actually got recommended on the biggest podcasts — by the people who read them — each linked to the episode and quote.

12× recommended

Radical Acceptance

Tara Brach

Tim Ferriss +12
10× recommended

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

Lex Fridman +9
10× recommended

Of Wolves and Men

Barry Lopez

Tim Ferriss +9
7× recommended

Empire of the Summer Moon

S.C. Gwynne (inferred)

Joe Rogan +6
6× recommended

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

Tim Ferriss +9
6× recommended

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tim Ferriss +6
5× recommended

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Tim Ferriss +9
5× recommended

Essentialism

Greg McKeown

Tim Ferriss +8
5× recommended

The Real Anthony Fauci

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Joe Rogan +6
5× recommended

The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday

Andrew Huberman +5
5× recommended

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lex Fridman +4
4× recommended

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Diana Chapman, Jim Dethmer, Kaley Klemp (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +7
4× recommended

The Coddling of the American Mind

Jonathan Haidt

Joe Rogan +6
4× recommended

Getting Past No

William Ury (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +4
4× recommended

The Comfort Crisis

Michael Easter

Joe Rogan +4
4× recommended

Vagabonding

Rolf Potts

Tim Ferriss +4
4× recommended

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

Stephen LaBerge

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

Open

Andre Agassi (inferred)

Andrew Huberman +3
4× recommended

The Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant

Diary of a CEO +3
3× recommended

The Art of Learning

Josh Waitzkin

Tim Ferriss +5
3× recommended

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +3
3× recommended

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

Joe Rogan +2
3× recommended

The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

Lex Fridman +2
2× recommended

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink (inferred)

Andrew Huberman +3
2× recommended

The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

Boyd Varty

Tim Ferriss +3
2× recommended

American Buffalo

Steven Rinella (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +2
2× recommended

Lying

Sam Harris (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +2
2× recommended

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

Tim Ferriss +2
2× recommended

The Terminal List

Jack Carr

Joe Rogan +2
2× recommended

1984

George Orwell

Lex Fridman +1
2× recommended

Body for Life

Bill Phillips

Tim Ferriss +1
2× recommended

The Ancient City

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

Lex Fridman +1
2× recommended

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Charlie Mackesy (inferred)

Diary of a CEO +1
2× recommended

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga (inferred)

Andrew Huberman +1
2× recommended

The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lex Fridman +1
2× recommended

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lex Fridman +1
2× recommended

When Reason Goes on Holiday

Neven Sesardic (inferred)

Lex Fridman +1
1× recommended

The 4-Hour Body

Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss +96
1× recommended

After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond

Bruce Greyson

Tim Ferriss +1
1× recommended

Conscious

Annaka Harris

Tim Ferriss +1
1× recommended

Direct from Dell

Michael Dell (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +1
1× recommended

Mental Toughness Training for Sports

Jim Loehr

Tim Ferriss +1
1× recommended

32 Principles

Henry Gracie

Tim Ferriss
1× recommended

A Billion Wicked Thoughts

Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam (inferred)

Lex Fridman
1× recommended

A Hunger Artist

Franz Kafka

Lex Fridman
1× recommended

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

Lex Fridman
1× recommended

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lex Fridman
1× recommended

Boone: A Biography

Robert Morgan

Tim Ferriss
1× recommended

Breathing for Warriors

Belisa Vranich (inferred)

Tim Ferriss
1× recommended

Brotherhood of the Rose

David Morrell

Joe Rogan
1× recommended

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Roger Lowenstein (inferred)

Tim Ferriss
1× recommended

Coming into the Country

John McPhee

Tim Ferriss
1× recommended

Count Down

Dr. Shanna Swan (inferred)

Joe Rogan
1× recommended

December 1941

Craig Shirley (inferred)

Tim Ferriss
1× recommended

Discovery of the Unconscious

Henri Ellenberger

Andrew Huberman
1× recommended

Fraternity of the Stone

David Morrell

Joe Rogan
1× recommended

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution

T.J. English

Joe Rogan
1× recommended

Hell's Angels

Hunter S. Thompson

Joe Rogan
1× recommended

In the Penal Colony

Franz Kafka

Lex Fridman

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