342 picks

Books Joe Rogan Recommends

Ranked by how often Joe Rogan brings them up. All episodes

26 recommends

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

17 recommends

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

17 recommends

Empire of the Summer Moon

S.C. Gwynne (inferred)

16 recommends

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

16 recommends

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

15 recommends

The Immortality Key

Brian Muraresku

14 recommends

Dopamine Nation

Dr. Anna Lembke

14 recommends

Coyote America

Dan Flores

12 recommends

The Real Anthony Fauci

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

9 recommends

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

9 recommends

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

8 recommends

The Coddling of the American Mind

Jonathan Haidt

7 recommends

Outlive

Peter Attia (inferred)

7 recommends

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan (inferred)

7 recommends

Hell's Angels

Hunter S. Thompson

6 recommends

The Comfort Crisis

Michael Easter

6 recommends

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman (inferred)

6 recommends

Best Evidence

David S. Lifton

6 recommends

Dune

Frank Herbert

6 recommends

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

6 recommends

The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

6 recommends

War Is a Racket

Smedley Butler

5 recommends

Dissolving Illusions

Suzanne Humphries (inferred)

5 recommends

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor

5 recommends

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

5 recommends

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

5 recommends

On Writing

Stephen King

5 recommends

Open

Andre Agassi (inferred)

5 recommends

The Plague

Albert Camus

5 recommends

Trickster Makes This World

Lewis Hyde

4 recommends

Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock

4 recommends

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger

4 recommends

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

4 recommends

A Fighter's Heart

Sam Sheridan

4 recommends

Born Standing Up

Steve Martin

4 recommends

Brother Sam

Bill Kinison

4 recommends

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

4 recommends

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (inferred)

4 recommends

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

4 recommends

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert Pirsig

3 recommends

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

3 recommends

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler

3 recommends

The Terminal List

Jack Carr

3 recommends

American Buffalo

Steven Rinella (inferred)

3 recommends

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

3 recommends

The Status Game

Will Storr

3 recommends

A Land So Strange

Andres Resendez (inferred)

3 recommends

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

3 recommends

Playing Off the Rail

David McCumber

3 recommends

The Culture series

Iain M. Banks

3 recommends

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien (inferred)

3 recommends

The Precipice

Toby Ord

3 recommends

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

2 recommends

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

2 recommends

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink (inferred)

2 recommends

Supernatural

Graham Hancock

2 recommends

The Singularity Is Near

Ray Kurzweil

2 recommends

Can't Hurt Me

David Goggins

2 recommends

Lying

Sam Harris (inferred)

2 recommends

Bad Therapy

Abigail Shrier (inferred)

2 recommends

Countdown

Shanna Swan

2 recommends

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

2 recommends

Tell Your Children

Alex Berenson

2 recommends

The Strange Death of Europe

Douglas Murray

2 recommends

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

2 recommends

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

2 recommends

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

2 recommends

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

2 recommends

Coming to Palestine

Sheldon Richman

2 recommends

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Hunter S. Thompson

2 recommends

Hate Inc.

Matt Taibbi

2 recommends

Hidden War

John Nores Jr.

2 recommends

Hitler (biography)

Ian Kershaw

2 recommends

Murder Machine

Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci

2 recommends

My Big TOE (Theory of Everything)

Thomas Campbell

2 recommends

Obama's Wars

Bob Woodward

2 recommends

Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit

2 recommends

The Bible

2 recommends

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Charlie Mackesy (inferred)

2 recommends

The Coming Wave

Mustafa Suleyman

2 recommends

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

2 recommends

The Great Taking

David Webb

2 recommends

The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved

Hunter S. Thompson

2 recommends

The MANIAC

Benjamin Labatut

2 recommends

The Mind Body Prescription

John Sarno (inferred)

2 recommends

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

John Marco Allegro

2 recommends

The Stand

Stephen King

2 recommends

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin (inferred)

1 recommend

12 Rules for Life

Jordan Peterson

1 recommend

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Gabor Maté

1 recommend

Provoked

Scott Horton

1 recommend

The Righteous Mind

Jonathan Haidt

1 recommend

American Cosmic

Diana Walsh Pasulka

1 recommend

Drug Use for Grown-Ups

Carl Hart

1 recommend

Good Energy

Casey Means and Calley Means

1 recommend

Maps of Meaning

Jordan Peterson

1 recommend

Never Finished

David Goggins

1 recommend

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan

1 recommend

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

1 recommend

America's Cultural Revolution

Christopher Rufo

1 recommend

Cause Unknown

Edward Dowd (inferred)

1 recommend

Confidence

James Smith

1 recommend

Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion

Elliott West

1 recommend

Crush It!

Gary Vaynerchuk

1 recommend

Discipline Is Destiny

Ryan Holiday

1 recommend

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

1 recommend

Irreversible Damage

Abigail Shrier

1 recommend

Prepared

Mike Glover

1 recommend

San Fransicko

Michael Shellenberger

1 recommend

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

Peter Zeihan

1 recommend

The Giza Power Plant

Christopher Dunn

1 recommend

The Gray Man

Mark Greaney

1 recommend

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt

1 recommend

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

Dan Flores

1 recommend

Your Brain on Birth Control

Sarah Hill

1 recommend

11/22/63

Stephen King

1 recommend

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

Eric Cline (inferred)

1 recommend

A Christian's Guide to Psychedelics

Wendi Reese

1 recommend

A.D. After Disclosure

Richard Dolan

1 recommend

Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens

John E. Mack

1 recommend

After Steve

Tripp Mickle (inferred)

1 recommend

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

1 recommend

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman (inferred)

1 recommend

As a Man Thinketh

James Allen

1 recommend

Asimov on Numbers

Isaac Asimov

1 recommend

Ask the Dust

John Fante

1 recommend

Autism and LSD

1 recommend

Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy

Dan Flores

1 recommend

Black Elk Speaks

John G. Neihardt (inferred)

1 recommend

Black Gangster

Donald Goines

1 recommend

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

Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew (inferred)

1 recommend

Blind Spots

Marty Makary

1 recommend

Blindsight

Peter Watts

1 recommend

Bright Future

Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist

1 recommend

Brotherhood of the Rose

David Morrell

1 recommend

Cam Hanes's book (Endure)

Cam Hanes

1 recommend

Christopher Dunn's work (The Giza Power Plant)

Christopher Dunn

1 recommend

Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War

Pat Buchanan

1 recommend

Cobalt Red (inferred)

Siddharth Kara (inferred)

1 recommend

Communion

Whitley Strieber

1 recommend

Conan

Robert E. Howard

1 recommend

Conan the Barbarian (Robert E. Howard books)

Robert E. Howard

1 recommend

Confrontations

Jacques Vallée

1 recommend

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

E.O. Wilson

1 recommend

Conversations with God

Neale Donald Walsch

1 recommend

Count Down

Dr. Shanna Swan (inferred)

1 recommend

Cujo

Stephen King

1 recommend

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

David Goggins (inferred)

1 recommend

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

Gabe Brown

1 recommend

Disconnected Kids

Dr. Robert Melillo

1 recommend

Dopefiend

Donald Goines

1 recommend

Dove

Robin Lee Graham

1 recommend

Endure (inferred)

Cam Hanes

1 recommend

Everything You Know Is Wrong

Lloyd Pye

1 recommend

Exploration Fawcett

Percy Fawcett

1 recommend

First and Last Men

Olaf Stapledon

1 recommend

Five Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life

Bill Eddy

1 recommend

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

Andy Edmonds (inferred)

1 recommend

Fraternity of the Stone

David Morrell

1 recommend

Gabriel Allon series

Daniel Silva

1 recommend

Ghosts of Extinction

1 recommend

Gods of Eden

William Bramley

1 recommend

Going Clear

Lawrence Wright

1 recommend

Guns Up

Johnnie Clark (inferred)

1 recommend

Hamlet's Mill

Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend

1 recommend

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

T.J. English

1 recommend

Heavy Metal

1 recommend

How the Hippies Saved Physics

David Kaiser (inferred)

1 recommend

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)

Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut (inferred)

1 recommend

How to Write Funny and Make Money Being Funny

unknown (inferred)

1 recommend

How We Live Is How We Die

Pema Chodron (inferred)

1 recommend

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Richard Bach

1 recommend

In the Belly of the Beast

Jack Henry Abbott (inferred)

1 recommend

Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice

1 recommend

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

1 recommend

Invictus

William Ernest Henley (inferred)

1 recommend

Jack Carr novels

Jack Carr

1 recommend

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

Joseph P. Farrell

1 recommend

Kevin Nealon caricature book

Kevin Nealon

1 recommend

Last and First Men

Olaf Stapledon

1 recommend

Let the Right One In

John Ajvide Lindqvist (inferred)

1 recommend

Letters to a Young Contrarian

Christopher Hitchens

1 recommend

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

1 recommend

Louis L'Amour westerns

Louis L'Amour

1 recommend

McGoorty: A Pool Room Hustler

Robert Byrne

1 recommend

Means of Ascent

Robert Caro (inferred)

1 recommend

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Carl Jung

1 recommend

Men Without Women

Haruki Murakami

1 recommend

Mike Caro's Book of Poker Tells

Mike Caro

1 recommend

My Lunches with Orson

Peter Biskind (inferred)

1 recommend

Naples '44

Norman Lewis (inferred)

1 recommend

Naturalist

E.O. Wilson

1 recommend

Of Boys and Men

Richard Reeves (inferred)

1 recommend

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

1 recommend

One Nation Under Blackmail

Whitney Webb

1 recommend

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

Paul L. Williams

1 recommend

Osho (audiobook, title unspecified)

Osho

1 recommend

Osho's books

Osho

1 recommend

Passport to Magonia

Jacques Vallee (inferred)

1 recommend

Passport to the Cosmos

John E. Mack

1 recommend

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi (inferred)

1 recommend

Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey

Tony Annigoni

1 recommend

Proof of Heaven

Eben Alexander

1 recommend

Realms of the Human Unconscious

Stanislav Grof (inferred)

1 recommend

Reframe Your Brain

Scott Adams

1 recommend

Rise and Kill First

Ronen Bergman (inferred)

1 recommend

Running the Table

L. Jon Wertheim (inferred)

1 recommend

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

L. Jon Wertheim

1 recommend

Sam Tallent's book (Running the Light)

Sam Tallent

1 recommend

Shoeless Joe

W.P. Kinsella (inferred)

1 recommend

Spillover

David Quammen

1 recommend

Starting Strength

Mark Rippetoe

1 recommend

The Accidental Superpower

Peter Zeihan

1 recommend

The Adventurous Bowman

Saxton Pope

1 recommend

The Afghanistan Papers

Craig Whitlock

1 recommend

The Answer to the Question Is Me

David Mlan

1 recommend

The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

John Barrow and Frank Tipler

1 recommend

The Art of War

Sun Tzu (inferred)

1 recommend

The Bible (Proverbs and Ecclesiastes)

1 recommend

The Billionaire Raj

James Crabtree (inferred)

1 recommend

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Louise Perry

1 recommend

The Case for Christ

Lee Strobel

1 recommend

The Catastrophe of Success

Tennessee Williams

1 recommend

The Comanche Empire

Pekka Hamalainen

1 recommend

The Dude and the Zen Master

Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman

1 recommend

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe

1 recommend

The Emperor Wears No Clothes

Jack Herer

1 recommend

The Fall

Albert Camus

1 recommend

The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation

Richard Feynman

1 recommend

The Five Families

1 recommend

The Forgotten Highlander

Alistair Urquhart

1 recommend

The Gray Man series

Mark Greaney

1 recommend

The Heart of Everything That Is

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin (inferred)

1 recommend

The Kabbalah of Envy

Nilton Bonder

1 recommend

The Kybalion

Three Initiates (inferred)

1 recommend

The League of Night and Fog

David Morrell

1 recommend

The Lord of Sipan

Sidney Kirkpatrick (inferred)

1 recommend

The Lost City of Z

David Grann (inferred)

1 recommend

The New Puritans

Andrew Doyle

1 recommend

The New Rules of War

Sean McFate (inferred)

1 recommend

The Operator

Rob O'Neill

1 recommend

The Outsider (The Stranger)

Albert Camus

1 recommend

The Polity series (Polity universe)

Neal Asher

1 recommend

The Power of the Dog

Don Winslow

1 recommend

The Purple Gang: Organized Crime in Detroit

Paul R. Kavieff (inferred)

1 recommend

The Road to Eleusis

R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl Ruck

1 recommend

The Rum Diary

Hunter S. Thompson

1 recommend

The Shining

Stephen King

1 recommend

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

Joseph P. Farrell

1 recommend

The Storm Before the Calm

George Friedman

1 recommend

The Strain

Guillermo del Toro

1 recommend

The Tiger

John Vaillant (inferred)

1 recommend

The Tommyknockers

Stephen King

1 recommend

The Tools

Phil Stutz and Barry Michels (inferred)

1 recommend

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

Preston Dennett

1 recommend

The Twilight Language

Michael Hoffman

1 recommend

The Undiscovered Self

Carl Jung

1 recommend

The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes

Amanda Ripley

1 recommend

The Virus and the Vaccine

Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher

1 recommend

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman (inferred)

1 recommend

They Don't Talk Back

Henry Trefflich

1 recommend

Trance Formation of America

Cathy O'Brien

1 recommend

UFOs

Leslie Kean

1 recommend

Unbreakable (Ronnie O'Sullivan autobiography)

Ronnie O'Sullivan

1 recommend

Understanding Collapse

Guy Middleton (inferred)

1 recommend

Utopia for Realists

Rutger Bregman

1 recommend

Warlock

Oakley Hall (inferred)

1 recommend

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem (Cliff Nesteroff)

Cliff Nesteroff

1 recommend

WEIRD

Joseph Henrich (inferred)

1 recommend

Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon

David McGowan (inferred)

1 recommend

Who Makes the NBA?

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

1 recommend

Wine and War

Don and Petie Kladstrup (inferred)

1 recommend

World on the Wing

Scott Weidensaul (inferred)

1 recommend

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

4 mentions

Losing the Nobel Prize

Brian Keating

4 mentions

The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating

David Buss

4 mentions

The Future of the Mind

Michio Kaku

4 mentions

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Steven Pressfield

4 mentions

Turning Pro

Steven Pressfield

4 mentions

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

David Buss

3 mentions

AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable

Roman Yampolskiy

3 mentions

Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story

Harvey Pekar

3 mentions

Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism

Scott Horton

3 mentions

Genius Foods

Max Lugavere

3 mentions

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

3 mentions

Suicidal Empathy

Gad Saad

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

Gabor Maté

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

True Believer

Jack Carr

3 mentions

Underworld

Graham Hancock

2 mentions

Apocalypse Never

Michael Shellenberger

2 mentions

Before & Laughter

Jimmy Carr

2 mentions

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

Mike Baker

2 mentions

Danielle

Ray Kurzweil

2 mentions

Death by Astonishment

Andrew Gallimore

2 mentions

Deception: The Great Coverup

Rand Paul

2 mentions

Drownproof

Andy Stumpf

2 mentions

Endure

Cameron Hanes

2 mentions

Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

Avi Loeb

2 mentions

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

Bjorn Lomborg

2 mentions

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

Scott Horton

2 mentions

For Love of Country

Tulsi Gabbard

2 mentions

Forbidden Facts

Gavin de Becker

2 mentions

Genius Kitchen

Max Lugavere

2 mentions

In My Time of Dying

Sebastian Junger (inferred)

2 mentions

It Happened: A Uniquely Lucky Life in Sports Television

Jim Lampley

2 mentions

Joseph Levy Escapes Death

Rick Strassman

2 mentions

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

Sara Walker

2 mentions

Magicians of the Gods

Graham Hancock

2 mentions

Party of One: A Fuzzy Memoir

Dave Landau

2 mentions

Phenomena

Annie Jacobsen

2 mentions

Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything

Michio Kaku

2 mentions

Red Sky Morning

Jack Carr

2 mentions

Running the Light

Sam Tallent

2 mentions

Savage Son

Jack Carr

2 mentions

Scarcity Brain

Michael Easter

2 mentions

Selfie

Will Storr

2 mentions

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

Neil deGrasse Tyson

2 mentions

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

Annie Jacobsen

2 mentions

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

David Buss

2 mentions

The End of Woke

Andrew Doyle

2 mentions

The God Equation

Michio Kaku

2 mentions

The Murderer Next Door

David Buss

2 mentions

The Pentagon's Brain

Annie Jacobsen

2 mentions

The Simulation Hypothesis

Rizwan Virk

2 mentions

The Singularity Is Nearer

Ray Kurzweil

2 mentions

The Soul of Prophecy

Rick Strassman

2 mentions

The Stimulated Mind

Tommy Wood

2 mentions

Tremendous

Joey Diaz

2 mentions

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

Norman Ohler

2 mentions

Undeniable

Cameron Hanes

2 mentions

We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity

Phil McGraw