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The best focus & productivity books recommended on podcasts

The focus & productivity 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

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

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

Andrew Huberman +14
7× recommended

Dopamine Nation

Dr. Anna Lembke

Diary of a CEO +10
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
6× recommended

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tim Ferriss +6
6× recommended

Nonviolent Communication

Marshall Rosenberg (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +5
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

Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic

Paul Conti (inferred)

Andrew Huberman +7
5× recommended

1,000 True Fans

Kevin Kelly (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +5
5× recommended

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Dale Carnegie

Tim Ferriss +4
5× recommended

More Money Than God

Sebastian Mallaby

Tim Ferriss +4
5× recommended

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Al Ries and Jack Trout (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +4
5× recommended

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lex Fridman +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

Getting Past No

William Ury (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +4
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

Built to Sell

John Warrillow

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

Draft No. 4

John McPhee

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

Stephen LaBerge

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

Gold

Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

Open

Andre Agassi (inferred)

Andrew Huberman +3
4× recommended

The Last Lion

William Manchester

Tim Ferriss +3
4× recommended

The Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant

Diary of a CEO +3
4× recommended

The Molecule of More

Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long (inferred)

Andrew Huberman +3
4× recommended

The Power Law

Sebastian Mallaby

Tim Ferriss +3
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

Altered Traits

Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson

Andrew Huberman +3
3× recommended

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tim Ferriss +3
3× recommended

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor

Joe Rogan +3
3× recommended

From Strength to Strength

Arthur Brooks

Tim Ferriss +3
3× recommended

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +3
3× recommended

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Tim Ferriss +3
3× recommended

An Immense World

Ed Yong

Andrew Huberman +2
3× recommended

Born Standing Up

Steve Martin (inferred)

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

Joe Rogan +2
3× recommended

Getting Things Done

David Allen

Tim Ferriss +2
3× recommended

High Output Management

Andy Grove

Tim Ferriss +2

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