Books vetted by long-form podcast conversations
With exact timestamps, not AI fluff. Every recommendation, critique and author plug links to the second it was said, so you can hear the host or guest explain why in their own voice.
Ranked by how many separate conversations endorsed or critiqued each book.
The Creative ActRick Rubin
π 2 EndorsementsποΈ 2 Author PlugsCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Founders
How to Make a Few Billion DollarsBrad Jacobs
π 2 EndorsementsποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on Founders
- Forge of Christendom
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell
π 2 EndorsementsCited on Conversations with Tyler, Lex Fridman Podcast
- Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
π 1 EndorsementCited on Conversations with Tyler, Founders, Lex Fridman Podcast
The Art of Warεζ¦ (Sun Tzu)
π 1 EndorsementCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Founders, The Knowledge Project
- In the Path of Conquest
Means of AscentRobert A. Caro
π 1 EndorsementποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on Dwarkesh Podcast, Founders
- Primal Intelligence
The Lord of the RingsJ.R.R. Tolkien
π 1 EndorsementCited on Conversations with Tyler, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
The Perfect StormSebastian Junger
π 1 EndorsementποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, EconTalk
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkRobert A. Caro
π 1 EndorsementποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on Dwarkesh Podcast
The Road to SerfdomFriedrich A. von Hayek
π 1 EndorsementCited on Conversations with Tyler, The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)
Why Nations FailDaron Acemoglu
β‘ 1 CritiqueποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on EconTalk, Odd Lots (Bloomberg)
- A Brief History of Intelligence
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (Four Volume Set)Winston S. Churchill
π 1 EndorsementCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- A Movable Feast
- Alexander the Great
Alexander The Great And The Logistics Of The Macedonian ArmyDonald W. Engels
π 1 EndorsementCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- Alexander the Great: The Invisible EnemyAlexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy
John Maxwell O'Brien
π 1 EndorsementCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- An Autobiography
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and WeptElizabeth Smart
π 1 EndorsementCited on Conversations with Tyler
Condition of the Working Class in EnglandFriedrich Engels
π 1 EndorsementCited on Conversations with Tyler
- Death by Government
- Exile on Main St
- Gravity and Grace
- Hackney Diamonds
- Healing Back Pain
- If This Is a Man
- Leisure, the Basis of Culture;
- Life and Fate
- Mastering 'Metrics
- Mind Games
- Mutiny on the BountyMutiny on the Bounty
Nordhoff, Charles and Hall, James Norman
π 1 EndorsementCited on Conversations with Tyler
- Nolan Variations
Notes on the State of VirginiaThomas Jefferson
π 1 EndorsementCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- Nvidia Way
- Olympias
- Passions and the Interests
Pioneers of the Black AtlanticWilliam L. Andrews
π 1 EndorsementCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- Pro-slavery Thought in the Old SouthPro-slavery Thought in the Old South
William Sumner Jenkins
π 1 EndorsementCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- Radetzky March
- Red and the Black
Sexual Harassment of Working WomenCatharine A. MacKinnon
π 1 EndorsementCited on Conversations with Tyler
- Silicon Empires
- Story of Your Life
- Submission
- The Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in GermanyThe Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Germany
C.H. Talbot (ed)
π 1 EndorsementCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
The Art of War in the Middle AgesCharles William Chadwick Oman
π 1 EndorsementCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- The Chess Computer Handbook (Batsford Chess Book)
- The Death of Artemio Cruz
- The Effective Executive
- The Faerie Queene
- The Holocaust
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
- The Merchant Bankers
- The Mind of Napoleon
- The Myth of Sisyphus
The Principles and Practice of MedicineSir William Osler
π 1 EndorsementCited on The Knowledge Project
- The Rape of Lucrece
- The Viking Wars
- The Viking Way
The WEIRDest People in the WorldJoseph Patrick Henrich
π 1 EndorsementCited on Conversations with Tyler
- Their Satanic Majesties RequestTheir Satanic Majesties Request
The Rolling Stones
π 1 EndorsementCited on Conversations with Tyler
- Why Not Kill Them All?
With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and OkinawaE. B. Sledge
π 1 EndorsementCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Guns, Germs, and SteelJared Diamond
ποΈ 2 Author PlugsCited on Conversations with Tyler, EconTalk, Huberman Lab
SuperintelligenceNick Bostrom
Passing references onlyCited on All-In Podcast, Odd Lots (Bloomberg), The Ezra Klein Show
When Everyone Knows That Everyone KnowsSteven Pinker
ποΈ 2 Author PlugsCited on Conversations with Tyler, EconTalk
- Anointed
- AuslΓ€nder
- Becoming a Principle-Driven Leader
Charles Koch
ποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on Conversations with Tyler
- Collective Edge
- False Dawn
- Gray Matters
- How Africa Works
- It's Not Magic
- Most Awful ResponsibilityMost Awful Responsibility
Alex Wellerstein
ποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Nuclear WarAnnie Jacobsen
ποΈ 2 Author PlugsCited on Conversations with Tyler, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and KingsJared Diamond
ποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on Conversations with Tyler
- Prophets, Coaches, and Kings
- Surviving Rome
The Rise and Fall of the Third ReichWilliam L. Shirer
Passing references onlyCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- "THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY"
1066 and All ThatWalter Carruthers Sellar
Passing references onlyCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- A Complete Unknown
A Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution of the Jewish QuestionTheodor Herzl
Passing references onlyCited on EconTalk
- An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to IndependenceAn African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
Zeinab Badawi
ποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- Anabasis
- Arrogant Ape
- Circles of Compensation
- Controlling Contagion
- Critique of Judgment
- Don Quixote
- Einstein's Unfinished Dream
- Flourish
- Food Intelligence
- GREEK WARFARE: MYTHS AND REALITIESGREEK WARFARE: MYTHS AND REALITIES
HANS VAN WEES
Passing references onlyCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- History of the Second World WarHistory of the Second World War
Winston Churchill
Passing references onlyCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- How to Hero
- How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars
- I Love Capitalism!
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone DiesEliezer Yudkowsky
ποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on Odd Lots (Bloomberg)
- In Praise of Folly
- Inside Vanguard
- Invictus
- Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth
- Kubla Khan
- Let England Shake
- Life As We Made It
- Lower Than the Angels
- Made in America : Mi Historia / Made in America
- Man Who Would Be King
Melting Point : Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised LandRachel Cockerell
ποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on EconTalk
- Night the Referee Hit Back
- On Settler Colonialism
- Prices and Production
- Promises of Giants
- Read Write Own
- Second Act
Seven and a Half Lessons About the BrainLisa Feldman Barrett
ποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on The Drive with Peter Attia
- Solo Golf
- Stars in the Ring
- Strongmen Armed: The United State Marines Against JapanStrongmen Armed: The United State Marines Against Japan
Robert Leckie
Passing references onlyCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
The Emperor of All MaladiesSiddhartha Mukherjee
ποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on The Drive with Peter Attia
The Expression of Emotions in Man and AnimalsCharles Darwin
Passing references onlyCited on Huberman Lab
The Gathering StormWinston S. Churchill
Passing references onlyCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- The Last Dynasty
- The Magic Mountain
- The Mind-body Problem
- The One and the Ninety-Nine
- The Perfect Tuba
- The Philosophy of Right
- The Rise and Fall of Rational Control
Harvey Claflin Mansfield
ποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on Conversations with Tyler
- The Rolling Stones
- The Savage Landscape
- The Social Contract
- The Status Game
- The Wall
- Thicker Than Water : History, Secrets and Guilt
- Violent Saviors
War That Made the Roman EmpireBarry Strauss
ποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Wealth Against CommonwealthHenry Demarest Lloyd
Passing references onlyCited on The Knowledge Project
- What Happened to Liberal Democracy?
Daron Acemoglu
ποΈ 1 Author PlugCited on Conversations with Tyler
- Wild Problems
