218 picks

Books Diary of a CEO Recommends

Ranked by how often Diary of a CEO brings them up. All episodes

16 recommends

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

16 recommends

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

14 recommends

Dopamine Nation

Dr. Anna Lembke

13 recommends

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

12 recommends

The Real Anthony Fauci

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

9 recommends

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

7 recommends

Outlive

Peter Attia (inferred)

7 recommends

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan (inferred)

6 recommends

Essentialism

Greg McKeown

6 recommends

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman (inferred)

6 recommends

Lost Connections

Johann Hari

6 recommends

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

5 recommends

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

5 recommends

Mastery

Robert Greene

4 recommends

Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock

4 recommends

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4 recommends

Influence

Robert Cialdini

4 recommends

The Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant

3 recommends

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig

3 recommends

Atomic Habits

James Clear

3 recommends

Good to Great

Jim Collins (inferred)

3 recommends

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

3 recommends

The Chimp Paradox

Steve Peters

3 recommends

Built to Move

Kelly Starrett

3 recommends

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

3 recommends

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

3 recommends

The Status Game

Will Storr

3 recommends

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

3 recommends

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner

3 recommends

Getting Things Done

David Allen

3 recommends

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Robert Kiyosaki

3 recommends

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

3 recommends

The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

3 recommends

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

2 recommends

The 4-Hour Workweek

Tim Ferriss

2 recommends

Happy Sexy Millionaire

Steven Bartlett

2 recommends

How Emotions Are Made

Lisa Feldman Barrett

2 recommends

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

2 recommends

Supernatural

Graham Hancock

2 recommends

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

2 recommends

Stolen Focus

Johann Hari

2 recommends

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell

2 recommends

Indistractable

Nir Eyal

2 recommends

Jungle Keeper

Paul Rosolie

2 recommends

Losing My Virginity

Richard Branson

2 recommends

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

2 recommends

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

2 recommends

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum

2 recommends

The Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

2 recommends

Attached

Amir Levine and Rachel Heller (inferred)

2 recommends

Destined for War (the Thucydides Trap)

Graham Allison (inferred)

2 recommends

Factfulness

Hans Rosling (inferred)

2 recommends

Generations

Jean Twenge

2 recommends

Getting the Love You Want

Harville Hendrix (inferred)

2 recommends

I Am That

Nisargadatta Maharaj

2 recommends

Sex at Dawn

Chris Ryan

2 recommends

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu (inferred)

2 recommends

The Ape That Understood the Universe

Steve Stewart-Williams

2 recommends

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Charlie Mackesy (inferred)

2 recommends

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga (inferred)

2 recommends

The Doors of Perception

Aldous Huxley

2 recommends

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

2 recommends

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

2 recommends

The Mind Body Prescription

John Sarno (inferred)

2 recommends

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason (inferred)

2 recommends

The Slight Edge

Jeff Olson (inferred)

2 recommends

The Way of the Superior Man

David Deida

2 recommends

Women Who Love Too Much

Robin Norwood

1 recommend

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

1 recommend

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

1 recommend

Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To

David Sinclair

1 recommend

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett

1 recommend

The Infinite Game

Simon Sinek

1 recommend

$100M Leads

Alex Hormozi

1 recommend

$100M Offers

Alex Hormozi

1 recommend

Principles

Ray Dalio

1 recommend

Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

Dacher Keltner

1 recommend

Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

Mark Manson (inferred)

1 recommend

Finding Ultra

Rich Roll

1 recommend

Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

1 recommend

The Case Against Reality

Donald Hoffman

1 recommend

The Diary of a CEO

Steven Bartlett

1 recommend

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan

1 recommend

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson

1 recommend

8 Rules of Love

Jay Shetty

1 recommend

Confidence

James Smith

1 recommend

Crush It!

Gary Vaynerchuk

1 recommend

First, Break All the Rules

Marcus Buckingham (inferred)

1 recommend

Gulag

Anne Applebaum

1 recommend

Happy People Are Annoying

Josh Peck

1 recommend

Human Compatible

Stuart Russell

1 recommend

Stormlight Archive

Brandon Sanderson

1 recommend

The Gift of Fear

Gavin de Becker

1 recommend

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

1 recommend

The Hormone Cure

Sarah Gottfried

1 recommend

The Power of Regret

Daniel Pink

1 recommend

The Science of Storytelling

Will Storr

1 recommend

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

David Epstein

1 recommend

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

1 recommend

Your Brain on Birth Control

Sarah Hill

1 recommend

Books by Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell

1 recommend

Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives

Frank J. Sulloway

1 recommend

Emotional Success

David DeSteno

1 recommend

Give and Take

Adam Grant

1 recommend

How to Do the Work

Nicole LePera

1 recommend

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

1 recommend

Loonshots

Safi Bahcall

1 recommend

Make Time

Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

1 recommend

Many Lives, Many Masters

Brian Weiss

1 recommend

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)

Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

1 recommend

My Booky Wook

Russell Brand (inferred)

1 recommend

Never Eat Alone

Keith Ferrazzi

1 recommend

Open Socrates

Agnes Callard (inferred)

1 recommend

Other Minds

Peter Godfrey-Smith (inferred)

1 recommend

Rest

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

1 recommend

River Out of Eden

Richard Dawkins

1 recommend

Sexmart

1 recommend

Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me

Charlamagne tha God

1 recommend

Subtract

Leidy Klotz

1 recommend

Team of Rivals

Doris Kearns Goodwin

1 recommend

The 5 Love Languages

Gary Chapman

1 recommend

The Align Method

Aaron Alexander

1 recommend

The Alignment Problem

Brian Christian

1 recommend

The All-or-Nothing Marriage

Eli Finkel

1 recommend

The Cider House Rules

John Irving

1 recommend

The Creature from Jekyll Island

G. Edward Griffin (inferred)

1 recommend

The Culture novels

Iain Banks

1 recommend

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown (inferred)

1 recommend

The Fall of Public Man

Richard Sennett

1 recommend

The Idiot Brain

Dean Burnett (inferred)

1 recommend

The Inner Game of Tennis

Timothy Gallwey (inferred)

1 recommend

The Kingkiller Chronicle

Patrick Rothfuss

1 recommend

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (inferred)

1 recommend

The No Asshole Rule

Robert Sutton (inferred)

1 recommend

The Perennial Philosophy

Aldous Huxley

1 recommend

The Pursuit of Wow!

Tom Peters

1 recommend

The Total Money Makeover

Dave Ramsey

1 recommend

The Toxin Solution

Joe Pizzorno

1 recommend

The Wisdom of Insecurity

Alan Watts

1 recommend

The World According to Garp

John Irving

1 recommend

The Wuhan Cover-Up

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

1 recommend

Why Trust Science?

Naomi Oreskes

1 recommend

Wild Seed

Octavia E. Butler

1 recommend

Zen and the Art of Making a Living

Laurence G. Boldt (inferred)

7 mentions

Mother of God

Paul Rosolie

6 mentions

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

5 mentions

Scary Smart

Mo Gawdat

5 mentions

The Parasitic Mind

Gad Saad

5 mentions

We Who Wrestle with God

Jordan Peterson

4 mentions

Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

4 mentions

How to Stay in Love

James Sexton

4 mentions

Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene

4 mentions

Livewired

David Eagleman

4 mentions

Losing the Nobel Prize

Brian Keating

4 mentions

Mating in Captivity

Esther Perel

4 mentions

Same as Ever

Morgan Housel

4 mentions

The State of Affairs

Esther Perel

3 mentions

AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable

Roman Yampolskiy

3 mentions

Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose

Martha Beck

3 mentions

Genius Foods

Max Lugavere

3 mentions

Happy

Fearne Cotton

3 mentions

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Ramit Sethi

3 mentions

Into the Impossible

Brian Keating

3 mentions

Main Street Millionaire

Codie Sanchez

3 mentions

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

3 mentions

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

3 mentions

Solve for Happy

Mo Gawdat

3 mentions

Suicidal Empathy

Gad Saad

3 mentions

The 33 Strategies of War

Robert Greene

3 mentions

The Algebra of Wealth

Scott Galloway

3 mentions

The Art of Seduction

Robert Greene

3 mentions

The Art of Spending Money

Morgan Housel

3 mentions

The Consuming Instinct

Gad Saad

3 mentions

The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption

Gad Saad

3 mentions

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere

3 mentions

The Happiness Hypothesis

Jonathan Haidt

3 mentions

The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

Gad Saad

3 mentions

The Sign and the Seal

Graham Hancock

3 mentions

The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self

Martha Beck

3 mentions

Think Like a Monk

Jay Shetty

3 mentions

Tough: My Journey to True Power

Terry Crews

3 mentions

Underworld

Graham Hancock

2 mentions

A Book of Secrets

Derren Brown

2 mentions

A Path Through The Jungle

Steve Peters

2 mentions

Abundance

Deepak Chopra

2 mentions

An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West

Konstantin Kisin

2 mentions

Atlas of the Heart

Brené Brown

2 mentions

Atomic Habits Workbook

James Clear

2 mentions

Becoming Bulletproof: Life Lessons from a Secret Service Agent

Evy Poumpouras

2 mentions

Before & Laughter

Jimmy Carr

2 mentions

Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters

Erica Komisar

2 mentions

Captivate

Vanessa Van Edwards

2 mentions

ChatGPT and The Future of AI

Terry Sejnowski

2 mentions

Company Rules: Or Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the CIA

Mike Baker

2 mentions

Dare to Lead

Brené Brown

2 mentions

Forbidden Facts

Gavin de Becker

2 mentions

Forever Strong

Gabrielle Lyon

2 mentions

Healthy Brain, Happy Life

Wendy Suzuki

2 mentions

Money: Master the Game

Tony Robbins

2 mentions

Not a Diet Book

James Smith

2 mentions

Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work

Reshma Saujani

2 mentions

Physics of the Future

Michio Kaku

2 mentions

Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything

Michio Kaku

2 mentions

Raising Mentally Strong Kids

Daniel Amen

2 mentions

Relentless

Tim Grover

2 mentions

Selfie

Will Storr

2 mentions

Spoon-Fed

Tim Spector

2 mentions

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

Neil deGrasse Tyson

2 mentions

That Little Voice in Your Head

Mo Gawdat

2 mentions

That Will Never Work

Marc Randolph

2 mentions

The Age of AI and Our Human Future

Eric Schmidt, Henry A. Kissinger, Daniel Huttenlocher

2 mentions

The Glucose Goddess Method

Jessie Inchauspé

2 mentions

The New Menopause

Mary Claire Haver

2 mentions

The Next Conversation

Jefferson Fisher

2 mentions

The Story of Reality

Greg Koukl

2 mentions

Will

Will Smith

2 mentions

Women, Food, and Hormones

Sarah Gottfried

2 mentions

You Happier

Daniel Amen