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The best creativity & art books recommended on podcasts

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

14× recommended

Awareness

Anthony de Mello (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +13
12× recommended

Radical Acceptance

Tara Brach

Tim Ferriss +12
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
10× recommended

Of Wolves and Men

Barry Lopez

Tim Ferriss +9
8× recommended

Little, Big

John Crowley

Tim Ferriss +7
7× recommended

Don't Shoot the Dog

Karen Pryor (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +6
7× recommended

Empire of the Summer Moon

S.C. Gwynne (inferred)

Joe Rogan +6
7× recommended

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Tim Ferriss +6
6× recommended

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

Tim Ferriss +9
6× recommended

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan (inferred)

Joe Rogan +7
5× recommended

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Diary of a CEO +10
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

1,000 True Fans

Kevin Kelly (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +5
5× recommended

The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday

Andrew Huberman +5
5× recommended

The Year of Living Biblically

A.J. Jacobs

Tim Ferriss +5
5× recommended

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Lex Fridman +4
5× recommended

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Al Ries and Jack Trout (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +4
5× recommended

The Overstory

Richard Powers (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +4
4× recommended

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Diana Chapman, Jim Dethmer, Kaley Klemp (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +7
4× recommended

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +6
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

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

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

Best Evidence

David S. Lifton

Joe Rogan +3
4× recommended

Coyote America

Dan Flores

Joe Rogan +3
4× recommended

Gold

Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

On Grief and Grieving

David Kessler and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert Heinlein

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

Trickster Makes This World

Lewis Hyde

Tim Ferriss +3
3× recommended

Dissolving Illusions

Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk (inferred)

Joe Rogan +6
3× recommended

The Art of Learning

Josh Waitzkin

Tim Ferriss +5
3× recommended

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

Diary of a CEO +4
3× recommended

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor

Joe Rogan +3
3× recommended

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

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

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

Joe Rogan +2
3× recommended

Levels of the Game

John McPhee

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

Longitude

Dava Sobel (inferred)

Andrew Huberman +2
3× recommended

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation)

Lao Tzu, trans. Stephen Mitchell (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

The Blade Itself

Joe Abercrombie

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

Lex Fridman +2
3× recommended

The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics

Dennis O'Neil

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

The Effective Executive

Peter Drucker

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

The Neverending Story

Michael Ende

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

This Is Water

David Foster Wallace

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Andrew Huberman +2
3× recommended

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert Pirsig

Tim Ferriss +2
2× recommended

Good to Great

Jim Collins (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +4
2× recommended

Excellent Advice for Living

Kevin Kelly

Tim Ferriss +3
2× recommended

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink (inferred)

Andrew Huberman +3

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