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The Year of Living Biblically
A.J. Jacobs
“He's written a lot of great books. My favorite's probably The Year of Living Biblically”
“A.J. is amazing. He's written a lot of great books. My favorite's probably The Year of Living Biblically, but he's written a lot of great books.”— Tim Ferriss
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Quarterback
Netflix
“The most spiritual revelations I've ever had watching a TV show have come watching that Netflix series Quarterback. It's amazing.”
“The most spiritual revelations I've ever had watching a TV show have come watching that Netflix series Quarterback.”— Soman Chainani
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The Secret History
Donna Tartt
“there's this category of book that I can recommend to anybody... I always tell them Secret History by Donna Tartt... Those are my first three recommendations.”
“I always tell them Secret History by Donna Tartt, A Little Life by Hanya, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney. Those are my first three recommendations.”— Soman Chainani
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
“there's this category of book that I can recommend to anybody who comes to me... A Little Life by Hanya... Those are my first three recommendations.”
“I always tell them Secret History by Donna Tartt, A Little Life by Hanya, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney. Those are my first three recommendations.”— Soman Chainani
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Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
“there's this category of book that I can recommend to anybody... Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney. Those are my first three recommendations.”
“I always tell them Secret History by Donna Tartt, A Little Life by Hanya, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney. Those are my first three recommendations.”— Soman Chainani
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The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani (inferred)
“I wrote a series called The School for Good and Evil for 10 years. There's six books in the series, and Netflix made a movie out of it”— Soman Chainani
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Beasts and Beauty
Soman Chainani (inferred)
“another book a little bit for older audiences is called Beats and Beauty, which is going to be a TV show sometime soon”— Soman Chainani
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The School for Good and Evil
Netflix
“There's six books in the series, and Netflix made a movie out of it that came out last year.”— Soman Chainani
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss (inferred)
“after The 4-Hour Workweek, every pressure, including a lot of internal pressure, but every expectation and pressure was that I was going to do something in the same category”— Tim Ferriss
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The 4-Hour Body
Tim Ferriss (inferred)
“And that's when I went to The 4-Hour Body, totally different category. A lot of people assumed, within publishing, totally different readership.”— Tim Ferriss
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The Usual Suspects
“So it's like The Usual Suspects with "Kobayashi" on the cup. Wait a minute.”— Tim Ferriss
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The Lion King
“Where he walks, the ground shakes, the females part, they bow their head. It's like The Lion King, right?”— Soman Chainani
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Ever After High
Mattel
“And Mattel was putting one out called Ever After High, which was, Ever After High, School for Good and Evil, they were so similar”— Soman Chainani
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Outsourcing Your Life
A.J. Jacobs (inferred)
“makes me think of this chapter, which was an excerpt that I had in my very first book, from A.J. Jacobs. And I think it was literally called Outsourcing Your Life from originally Esquire”— Tim Ferriss
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The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk (inferred)
“And then, during COVID, I read The Body Keeps the Score. And I had struggled with some things for my entire life in terms of anxiety”— Soman Chainani
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X-Files
“David Duchovny was next to me. I had grown up watching X-Files.”— Soman Chainani
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
“It came up first because I was going to be on The Kelly Clarkson Show two years ago, and I had never been on kind of a TV show like that.”— Soman Chainani
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Miss Americana
“but watching, what was it called, Americana, I want to say, the documentary.”— Tim Ferriss
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Billions
“I met you through Brian Koppelman, the creator of Billions.”— Soman Chainani
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
“And Donna Tartt wrote Goldfinch, Secret History. She's only written three books. She writes one every 10 years”— Soman Chainani
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