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The best history & geopolitics books recommended on podcasts

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

10× recommended

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

Lex Fridman +9
10× recommended

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

Lex Fridman +9
10× recommended

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Tim Ferriss +9
7× recommended

Empire of the Summer Moon

S.C. Gwynne (inferred)

Joe Rogan +6
7× recommended

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Tim Ferriss +6
6× recommended

Outlive

Peter Attia (inferred)

Andrew Huberman +12
6× recommended

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

Tim Ferriss +9
6× recommended

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan (inferred)

Joe Rogan +7
6× recommended

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +5
5× recommended

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Diary of a CEO +10
5× recommended

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Tim Ferriss +9
5× recommended

Essentialism

Greg McKeown

Tim Ferriss +8
5× recommended

The 80/20 Principle

Richard Koch

Tim Ferriss +7
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

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Lex Fridman +4
5× recommended

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

Diary of a CEO +4
5× recommended

More Money Than God

Sebastian Mallaby

Tim Ferriss +4
5× recommended

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lex Fridman +4
4× recommended

The Coddling of the American Mind

Jonathan Haidt

Joe Rogan +6
4× recommended

Mastery

Robert Greene

Diary of a CEO +5
4× recommended

Getting Past No

William Ury (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +4
4× recommended

The Comfort Crisis

Michael Easter

Joe Rogan +4
4× recommended

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

Best Evidence

David S. Lifton

Joe Rogan +3
4× recommended

Coyote America

Dan Flores

Joe Rogan +3
4× recommended

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

Influence

Robert Cialdini

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

The Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant

Diary of a CEO +3
4× recommended

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William Shirer

Lex Fridman +3
3× recommended

Dissolving Illusions

Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk (inferred)

Joe Rogan +6
3× recommended

Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock

Joe Rogan +4
3× recommended

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

Tim Ferriss +3
3× recommended

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

Longitude

Dava Sobel (inferred)

Andrew Huberman +2
3× recommended

Master of the Senate

Robert Caro

Lex Fridman +2
3× recommended

The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

Lex Fridman +2
3× recommended

The Culture series

Iain M. Banks

Joe Rogan +2
3× recommended

The Immortality Key

Brian Muraresku

Joe Rogan +2
3× recommended

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert Pirsig

Tim Ferriss +2
2× recommended

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink (inferred)

Andrew Huberman +3
2× recommended

I Don't Want to Talk About It

Terry Real

Tim Ferriss +3
2× recommended

American Buffalo

Steven Rinella (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +2
2× recommended

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler

Lex Fridman +2
2× recommended

Fierce Intimacy

Terry Real

Tim Ferriss +2
2× recommended

The Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

Diary of a CEO +2
2× recommended

The Terminal List

Jack Carr

Joe Rogan +2
2× recommended

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

Tim Ferriss +1
2× recommended

Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder

Lex Fridman +1
2× recommended

Destined for War (the Thucydides Trap)

Graham Allison (inferred)

Diary of a CEO +1
2× recommended

Dominion

Tom Holland

Tim Ferriss +1
2× recommended

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner

Diary of a CEO +1
2× recommended

Letters from a Stoic

Seneca (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +1
2× recommended

Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

Lex Fridman +1
2× recommended

Neuromancer

William Gibson

Tim Ferriss +1
2× recommended

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Lex Fridman +1
2× recommended

Playing Off the Rail

David McCumber

Joe Rogan +1

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