Books Joe Rogan Recommends

The Comfort Crisis

Michael Easter

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman (inferred)

Best Evidence

David S. Lifton

Dune

Frank Herbert

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

War Is a Racket

Smedley Butler

Dissolving Illusions

Suzanne Humphries (inferred)

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

On Writing

Stephen King

Open

Andre Agassi (inferred)

The Plague

Albert Camus

Trickster Makes This World

Lewis Hyde

Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

A Fighter's Heart

Sam Sheridan

Born Standing Up

Steve Martin

Brother Sam

Bill Kinison

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (inferred)

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert Pirsig

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler

The Terminal List

Jack Carr

American Buffalo

Steven Rinella (inferred)

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

The Status Game

Will Storr

A Land So Strange

Andres Resendez (inferred)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

Playing Off the Rail

David McCumber

The Culture series

Iain M. Banks

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien (inferred)

The Precipice

Toby Ord

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink (inferred)

Supernatural

Graham Hancock

The Singularity Is Near

Ray Kurzweil

Can't Hurt Me

David Goggins

Lying

Sam Harris (inferred)

Bad Therapy

Abigail Shrier (inferred)

Countdown

Shanna Swan

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

Tell Your Children

Alex Berenson

The Strange Death of Europe

Douglas Murray

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

Coming to Palestine

Sheldon Richman

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Hunter S. Thompson

Hate Inc.

Matt Taibbi

Hidden War

John Nores Jr.

Hitler (biography)

Ian Kershaw

Murder Machine

Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci

My Big TOE (Theory of Everything)

Thomas Campbell

Obama's Wars

Bob Woodward

Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit

The Bible

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Charlie Mackesy (inferred)

The Coming Wave

Mustafa Suleyman

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

The Great Taking

David Webb

The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved

Hunter S. Thompson

The MANIAC

Benjamin Labatut

The Mind Body Prescription

John Sarno (inferred)

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

John Marco Allegro

The Stand

Stephen King

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin (inferred)

12 Rules for Life

Jordan Peterson

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Gabor Maté

Provoked

Scott Horton

The Righteous Mind

Jonathan Haidt

American Cosmic

Diana Walsh Pasulka

Drug Use for Grown-Ups

Carl Hart

Good Energy

Casey Means and Calley Means

Maps of Meaning

Jordan Peterson

Never Finished

David Goggins

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

America's Cultural Revolution

Christopher Rufo

Cause Unknown

Edward Dowd (inferred)

Confidence

James Smith

Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion

Elliott West

Crush It!

Gary Vaynerchuk

Discipline Is Destiny

Ryan Holiday

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

Irreversible Damage

Abigail Shrier

Prepared

Mike Glover

San Fransicko

Michael Shellenberger

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

Peter Zeihan

The Giza Power Plant

Christopher Dunn

The Gray Man

Mark Greaney

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt

Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

Dan Flores

Your Brain on Birth Control

Sarah Hill

11/22/63

Stephen King

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

Eric Cline (inferred)

A Christian's Guide to Psychedelics

Wendi Reese

A.D. After Disclosure

Richard Dolan

Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens

John E. Mack

After Steve

Tripp Mickle (inferred)

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman (inferred)

As a Man Thinketh

James Allen

Asimov on Numbers

Isaac Asimov

Ask the Dust

John Fante

Autism and LSD

Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy

Dan Flores

Black Elk Speaks

John G. Neihardt (inferred)

Black Gangster

Donald Goines

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew (inferred)

Blind Spots

Marty Makary

Blindsight

Peter Watts

Bright Future

Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist

Brotherhood of the Rose

David Morrell

Cam Hanes's book (Endure)

Cam Hanes

Christopher Dunn's work (The Giza Power Plant)

Christopher Dunn

Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War

Pat Buchanan

Cobalt Red (inferred)

Siddharth Kara (inferred)

Communion

Whitley Strieber

Conan

Robert E. Howard

Conan the Barbarian (Robert E. Howard books)

Robert E. Howard

Confrontations

Jacques Vallée

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

E.O. Wilson

Conversations with God

Neale Donald Walsch

Count Down

Dr. Shanna Swan (inferred)

Cujo

Stephen King

David Goggins' two books (Can't Hurt Me / Never Finished)

David Goggins (inferred)

Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture

Gabe Brown

Disconnected Kids

Dr. Robert Melillo

Dopefiend

Donald Goines

Dove

Robin Lee Graham

Endure (inferred)

Cam Hanes

Everything You Know Is Wrong

Lloyd Pye

Exploration Fawcett

Percy Fawcett

First and Last Men

Olaf Stapledon

Five Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life

Bill Eddy

Frame-Up! The Untold Story of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

Andy Edmonds (inferred)

Fraternity of the Stone

David Morrell

Gabriel Allon series

Daniel Silva

Ghosts of Extinction

Gods of Eden

William Bramley

Going Clear

Lawrence Wright

Guns Up

Johnnie Clark (inferred)

Hamlet's Mill

Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution

T.J. English

Heavy Metal

How the Hippies Saved Physics

David Kaiser (inferred)

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)

Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut (inferred)

How to Write Funny and Make Money Being Funny

unknown (inferred)

How We Live Is How We Die

Pema Chodron (inferred)

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Richard Bach

In the Belly of the Beast

Jack Henry Abbott (inferred)

Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

Invictus

William Ernest Henley (inferred)

Jack Carr novels

Jack Carr

Joseph P. Farrell (books on the Nazi Bell / plasma physics)

Joseph P. Farrell

Kevin Nealon caricature book

Kevin Nealon

Last and First Men

Olaf Stapledon

Let the Right One In

John Ajvide Lindqvist (inferred)

Letters to a Young Contrarian

Christopher Hitchens

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

Louis L'Amour westerns

Louis L'Amour

McGoorty: A Pool Room Hustler

Robert Byrne

Means of Ascent

Robert Caro (inferred)

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Carl Jung

Men Without Women

Haruki Murakami

Mike Caro's Book of Poker Tells

Mike Caro

My Lunches with Orson

Peter Biskind (inferred)

Naples '44

Norman Lewis (inferred)

Naturalist

E.O. Wilson

Of Boys and Men

Richard Reeves (inferred)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

One Nation Under Blackmail

Whitney Webb

Operation Gladio: The CIA, the Vatican, and the Mob

Paul L. Williams

Osho (audiobook, title unspecified)

Osho

Osho's books

Osho

Passport to Magonia

Jacques Vallee (inferred)

Passport to the Cosmos

John E. Mack

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi (inferred)

Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey

Tony Annigoni

Proof of Heaven

Eben Alexander

Realms of the Human Unconscious

Stanislav Grof (inferred)

Reframe Your Brain

Scott Adams

Rise and Kill First

Ronen Bergman (inferred)

Running the Table

L. Jon Wertheim (inferred)

Running the Table: The Legend of Kid Delicious, the Last Great American Pool Hustler

L. Jon Wertheim

Sam Tallent's book (Running the Light)

Sam Tallent

Shoeless Joe

W.P. Kinsella (inferred)

Spillover

David Quammen

Starting Strength

Mark Rippetoe

The Accidental Superpower

Peter Zeihan

The Adventurous Bowman

Saxton Pope

The Afghanistan Papers

Craig Whitlock

The Answer to the Question Is Me

David Mlan

The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

John Barrow and Frank Tipler

The Art of War

Sun Tzu (inferred)

The Bible (Proverbs and Ecclesiastes)

The Billionaire Raj

James Crabtree (inferred)

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Louise Perry

The Case for Christ

Lee Strobel

The Catastrophe of Success

Tennessee Williams

The Comanche Empire

Pekka Hamalainen

The Dude and the Zen Master

Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe

The Emperor Wears No Clothes

Jack Herer

The Fall

Albert Camus

The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation

Richard Feynman

The Five Families

The Forgotten Highlander

Alistair Urquhart

The Gray Man series

Mark Greaney

The Heart of Everything That Is

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin (inferred)

The Kabbalah of Envy

Nilton Bonder

The Kybalion

Three Initiates (inferred)

The League of Night and Fog

David Morrell

The Lord of Sipan

Sidney Kirkpatrick (inferred)

The Lost City of Z

David Grann (inferred)

The New Puritans

Andrew Doyle

The New Rules of War

Sean McFate (inferred)

The Operator

Rob O'Neill

The Outsider (The Stranger)

Albert Camus

The Polity series (Polity universe)

Neal Asher

The Power of the Dog

Don Winslow

The Purple Gang: Organized Crime in Detroit

Paul R. Kavieff (inferred)

The Road to Eleusis

R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl Ruck

The Rum Diary

Hunter S. Thompson

The Shining

Stephen King

The SS Brotherhood of the Bell / A demon in the I core

Joseph P. Farrell

The Storm Before the Calm

George Friedman

The Strain

Guillermo del Toro

The Tiger

John Vaillant (inferred)

The Tommyknockers

Stephen King

The Tools

Phil Stutz and Barry Michels (inferred)

The Top 100 UFO Sightings of All Time (school sightings book)

Preston Dennett

The Twilight Language

Michael Hoffman

The Undiscovered Self

Carl Jung

The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes

Amanda Ripley

The Virus and the Vaccine

Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman (inferred)

They Don't Talk Back

Henry Trefflich

Trance Formation of America

Cathy O'Brien

UFOs

Leslie Kean

Unbreakable (Ronnie O'Sullivan autobiography)

Ronnie O'Sullivan

Understanding Collapse

Guy Middleton (inferred)

Utopia for Realists

Rutger Bregman

Warlock

Oakley Hall (inferred)

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem (Cliff Nesteroff)

Cliff Nesteroff

WEIRD

Joseph Henrich (inferred)

Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon

David McGowan (inferred)

Who Makes the NBA?

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Wine and War

Don and Petie Kladstrup (inferred)

World on the Wing

Scott Weidensaul (inferred)

Zealot

Reza Aslan

7 mentions

Mother of God

Paul Rosolie

7 mentions

The White Pill

Michael Malice

6 mentions

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

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

5 mentions

Gates of Fire

Steven Pressfield

5 mentions

The Parasitic Mind

Gad Saad

5 mentions

We Who Wrestle with God

Jordan Peterson

Losing the Nobel Prize

Brian Keating

The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating

David Buss

The Future of the Mind

Michio Kaku

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Steven Pressfield

Turning Pro

Steven Pressfield

When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault

David Buss

AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable

Roman Yampolskiy

Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story

Harvey Pekar

Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism

Scott Horton

Genius Foods

Max Lugavere

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

Suicidal Empathy

Gad Saad

The Consuming Instinct

Gad Saad

The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption

Gad Saad

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Gabor Maté

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

Gad Saad

The Sign and the Seal

Graham Hancock

True Believer

Jack Carr

Underworld

Graham Hancock

Apocalypse Never

Michael Shellenberger

Before & Laughter

Jimmy Carr

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

Mike Baker

Danielle

Ray Kurzweil

Death by Astonishment

Andrew Gallimore

Deception: The Great Coverup

Rand Paul

Drownproof

Andy Stumpf

Endure

Cameron Hanes

Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

Avi Loeb

False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

Bjorn Lomborg

Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan

Scott Horton

For Love of Country

Tulsi Gabbard

Forbidden Facts

Gavin de Becker

Genius Kitchen

Max Lugavere

In My Time of Dying

Sebastian Junger (inferred)

It Happened: A Uniquely Lucky Life in Sports Television

Jim Lampley

Joseph Levy Escapes Death

Rick Strassman

Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

Sara Walker

Magicians of the Gods

Graham Hancock

Party of One: A Fuzzy Memoir

Dave Landau

Phenomena

Annie Jacobsen

Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything

Michio Kaku

Red Sky Morning

Jack Carr

Running the Light

Sam Tallent

Savage Son

Jack Carr

Scarcity Brain

Michael Easter

Selfie

Will Storr

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

Annie Jacobsen

The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex

David Buss

The End of Woke

Andrew Doyle

The God Equation

Michio Kaku

The Murderer Next Door

David Buss

The Pentagon's Brain

Annie Jacobsen

The Simulation Hypothesis

Rizwan Virk

The Singularity Is Nearer

Ray Kurzweil

The Soul of Prophecy

Rick Strassman

The Stimulated Mind

Tommy Wood

Tremendous

Joey Diaz

Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

Norman Ohler

Undeniable

Cameron Hanes