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Every book, product and show recommended on episodes about philosophy & stoicism — ranked by how many times it was genuinely endorsed.

Books 229

14 recommends

Awareness

Anthony de Mello (inferred)

12 recommends

Radical Acceptance

Tara Brach

10 recommends

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

10 recommends

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

10 recommends

Of Wolves and Men

Barry Lopez

8 recommends

Little, Big

John Crowley

7 recommends

Don't Shoot the Dog

Karen Pryor (inferred)

7 recommends

Empire of the Summer Moon

S.C. Gwynne (inferred)

7 recommends

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

6 recommends

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan (inferred)

6 recommends

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

6 recommends

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse (inferred)

5 recommends

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

5 recommends

Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic

Paul Conti (inferred)

5 recommends

The Real Anthony Fauci

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

5 recommends

1,000 True Fans

Kevin Kelly (inferred)

5 recommends

The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday

5 recommends

The Year of Living Biblically

A.J. Jacobs

5 recommends

Bad Science

Ben Goldacre

5 recommends

More Money Than God

Sebastian Mallaby

4 recommends

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Diana Chapman, Jim Dethmer, Kaley Klemp (inferred)

4 recommends

The Coddling of the American Mind

Jonathan Haidt

4 recommends

Mastery

Robert Greene

4 recommends

Vagabonding

Rolf Potts

4 recommends

Draft No. 4

John McPhee

4 recommends

Gold

Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

4 recommends

The Power Law

Sebastian Mallaby

3 recommends

The Art of Learning

Josh Waitzkin

3 recommends

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

3 recommends

From Strength to Strength

Arthur Brooks

3 recommends

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (inferred)

3 recommends

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

3 recommends

Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

M. Mitchell Waldrop (inferred)

3 recommends

Finite and Infinite Games

James Carse

3 recommends

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

3 recommends

On Writing

Stephen King

3 recommends

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Charlie Munger (inferred)

3 recommends

Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation)

Lao Tzu, trans. Stephen Mitchell (inferred)

3 recommends

The Culture series

Iain M. Banks

3 recommends

The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics

Dennis O'Neil

3 recommends

The Healing Journey

Claudio Naranjo

3 recommends

The Neverending Story

Michael Ende

3 recommends

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Jon Kabat-Zinn

2 recommends

Deep Work

Cal Newport

2 recommends

Good to Great

Jim Collins (inferred)

2 recommends

Excellent Advice for Living

Kevin Kelly

2 recommends

I Don't Want to Talk About It

Terry Real

2 recommends

The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

Boyd Varty

2 recommends

Lying

Sam Harris (inferred)

2 recommends

A Guide to the Good Life

William B. Irvine (inferred)

2 recommends

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut (inferred)

2 recommends

Destined for War (the Thucydides Trap)

Graham Allison (inferred)

2 recommends

Die with Zero

Bill Perkins (inferred)

2 recommends

Dominion

Tom Holland

2 recommends

Let My People Go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard

2 recommends

Losing My Virginity

Richard Branson

2 recommends

On the Shortness of Life

Seneca

2 recommends

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

2 recommends

Stolen Focus

Johann Hari

2 recommends

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu (inferred)

2 recommends

The Ancient City

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

2 recommends

The Case for God

Karen Armstrong (inferred)

2 recommends

The Doors of Perception

Aldous Huxley

2 recommends

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

2 recommends

The Greatest Salesman in the World

Og Mandino

2 recommends

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

2 recommends

The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles (inferred)

2 recommends

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (inferred)

2 recommends

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

2 recommends

When Reason Goes on Holiday

Neven Sesardic (inferred)

2 recommends

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

1 recommend

The 4-Hour Body

Tim Ferriss

1 recommend

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

1 recommend

Anything You Want

Derek Sivers

1 recommend

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

1 recommend

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger

1 recommend

Awe

Dacher Keltner

1 recommend

So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport

1 recommend

The Creative Habit

Twyla Tharp

1 recommend

The Gift of Fear

Gavin de Becker

1 recommend

The Great CEO Within

Matt Mochary

1 recommend

The Price of Everything

Russ Roberts

1 recommend

The Secret Chief

MAPS (inferred)

1 recommend

Waking Up

Sam Harris

1 recommend

Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein

1 recommend

Wool

Hugh Howey

1 recommend

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking (inferred)

1 recommend

A Hunger Artist

Franz Kafka

1 recommend

A Table for Two

Amor Towles (inferred)

1 recommend

Adaptation and Natural Selection

George C. Williams (inferred)

1 recommend

Affective Computing

Rosalind Picard

1 recommend

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Peter Bernstein

1 recommend

Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature

Andy Goldsworthy

1 recommend

Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson

1 recommend

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert Sapolsky

1 recommend

Bhagavad Gita (Stephen Mitchell translation)

Stephen Mitchell

1 recommend

Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem

Michael Rothschild

1 recommend

Building on Bedrock

Derek Lidow

1 recommend

Capital Ideas

Peter Bernstein

1 recommend

Complexity: A Guided Tour

Melanie Mitchell

1 recommend

Counsels and Maxims

Arthur Schopenhauer

1 recommend

Creating Shareholder Value

Alfred Rappaport

1 recommend

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

Barbara Ehrenreich

1 recommend

Death

Todd May

1 recommend

Demian

Herman Hesse

1 recommend

Descartes' Error

Antonio Damasio

1 recommend

Direct Truth

Kapil Gupta

1 recommend

Discourses (collected works of Epictetus)

Epictetus

1 recommend

Discworld novels

Terry Pratchett

1 recommend

Easy Strength

Dan John and Pavel Tsatsouline

1 recommend

Economics in One Lesson

Henry Hazlitt

1 recommend

Educating Intuition

Robin Hogarth (inferred)

1 recommend

Eon

Greg Bear

1 recommend

Free-Range Kids

Lenore Skenazy

1 recommend

Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending

Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton (inferred)

1 recommend

Hiding the Elephant

Jim Steinmeyer

1 recommend

How to Grow More Vegetables

John Jeavons

1 recommend

In the Penal Colony

Franz Kafka

1 recommend

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

1 recommend

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

Victor Sebestyen

1 recommend

Meditations on Moloch

Scott Alexander

1 recommend

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie (inferred)

1 recommend

More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics

Philip Mirowski

1 recommend

Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson (inferred)

1 recommend

Novacene

James Lovelock

1 recommend

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

1 recommend

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

1 recommend

Onward

Howard Schultz

1 recommend

Parent Effectiveness Training

Thomas Gordon (inferred)

1 recommend

Peace Is Every Step

Thich Nhat Hanh

1 recommend

Picnic, Lightning

Lawrence Scott (inferred)

1 recommend

Plato's Dialogues

Plato

1 recommend

Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov

1 recommend

Pour Your Heart Into It

Howard Schultz

1 recommend

Probable Impossibilities / The Accidental Universe

Alan Lightman

1 recommend

Psychology of Intelligence Analysis

Richards J. Heuer Jr.

1 recommend

Resonance

Hartmut Rosa

1 recommend

Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson (inferred)

1 recommend

Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts (inferred)

1 recommend

Sources of the Self

Charles Taylor

1 recommend

Square Foot Gardening

Mel Bartholomew (inferred)

1 recommend

Striking Thoughts

Bruce Lee

1 recommend

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner

1 recommend

Tell Me Who You Are

Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi

1 recommend

The 5 Types of Wealth

Sahil Bloom (inferred)

1 recommend

The Adventures of Johnny Bunko

Daniel Pink

1 recommend

The Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges

1 recommend

The Art of Power

Thich Nhat Hanh

1 recommend

The Art of Seeing

1 recommend

The Best American Science and Nature Writing

1 recommend

The Book of Life

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1 recommend

The Castle

Franz Kafka

1 recommend

The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

Scott E. Page

1 recommend

The Diversity Bonus

Scott E. Page

1 recommend

The Enneads

Plotinus

1 recommend

The Expanse (book series)

James S. A. Corey

1 recommend

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism

Friedrich A. Hayek

1 recommend

The Felt Meanings of the World

Quentin Smith (inferred)

1 recommend

The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading

Ian Rowland

1 recommend

The Garden of Forking Paths

Jorge Luis Borges

1 recommend

The Hannibal Lecter series

Thomas Harris

1 recommend

The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

Brian Muraresku (inferred)

1 recommend

The Man Who Quit Money

Mark Sundeen (inferred)

1 recommend

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

1 recommend

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

Judith Rich Harris

1 recommend

The Precipice

Toby Ord

1 recommend

The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

1 recommend

The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History

Dale Allison (inferred)

1 recommend

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

Carl Trueman

1 recommend

The Secret of Our Success

Joseph Henrich

1 recommend

The Swerve

Stephen Greenblatt (inferred)

1 recommend

The Trial

Franz Kafka

1 recommend

The Untethered Soul

Michael Singer

1 recommend

The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James

1 recommend

The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives

David B. Yaden (inferred)

1 recommend

The View from Nowhere

Thomas Nagel

1 recommend

The Way to Love

Anthony de Mello

1 recommend

The WEIRDest People in the World

Joseph Henrich

1 recommend

The Will to Believe

William James

1 recommend

The Wisdom of Crowds

James Surowiecki

1 recommend

The Work (Byron Katie worksheets)

Byron Katie

1 recommend

The Work (Byron Katie's worksheets)

Byron Katie (inferred)

1 recommend

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough

1 recommend

The Wuhan Cover-Up

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

1 recommend

Think on These Things

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1 recommend

Wanted: A Memoir (inferred)

Ken Rideout (inferred)

1 recommend

What Is Ancient Philosophy?

Pierre Hadot

1 recommend

What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

Mark McCormack

1 recommend

Who

Geoff Smart and Randy Street (inferred)

1 recommend

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Robert Sapolsky

1 recommend

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Janelle Shane

91 mentions

The 4-Hour Workweek

Tim Ferriss

41 mentions

Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body

Andrew Huberman

38 mentions

The 4-Hour Chef

Tim Ferriss (inferred)

31 mentions

Tribe of Mentors

Tim Ferriss

22 mentions

Tools of Titans

Tim Ferriss

5 mentions

Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport

4 mentions

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

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

4 mentions

Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

3 mentions

A World Without Email

Cal Newport (inferred)

3 mentions

AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable

Roman Yampolskiy

3 mentions

Built to Last

Jim Collins

3 mentions

Great by Choice

Jim Collins

3 mentions

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

3 mentions

How the Mighty Fall

Jim Collins

3 mentions

How to Live

Derek Sivers

3 mentions

What Technology Wants

Kevin Kelly

2 mentions

$100M Leads

Alex Hormozi

2 mentions

$100M Offers

Alex Hormozi

2 mentions

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

2 mentions

Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0

Jim Collins

2 mentions

Build the Life You Want

Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey

2 mentions

Cathedral of the Wild

Boyd Varty

2 mentions

Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il

Michael Malice

2 mentions

Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story

Harvey Pekar

2 mentions

Expectations Investing (Revised Edition)

Michael Mauboussin and Alfred Rappaport

2 mentions

Girl Decoded

Rana el Kaliouby

2 mentions

Into the Impossible

Brian Keating

2 mentions

Losing the Nobel Prize

Brian Keating

2 mentions

Scary Smart

Mo Gawdat

2 mentions

The Age of AI and Our Human Future

Eric Schmidt, Henry A. Kissinger, Daniel Huttenlocher

2 mentions

The Anarchist Handbook

Michael Malice

2 mentions

The Happiness Hypothesis

Jonathan Haidt

2 mentions

The Inevitable

Kevin Kelly

2 mentions

The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

Michael Malice

2 mentions

The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil

Michael Malice

2 mentions

Useful Not True

Derek Sivers

2 mentions

Vanishing Asia

Kevin Kelly

2 mentions

Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

Russ Roberts

Products 36

8 recommends

Waking Up

Sam Harris

7 recommends

Maui Nui Venison

Maui Nui Venison

7 recommends

The Way (meditation app)

Tim Ferriss / Henry Shukman (inferred)

6 recommends

Scrivener

Literature & Latte (inferred)

4 recommends

PSO-RITE

Pso-Rite (inferred)

3 recommends

Day One

Automattic (inferred)

2 recommends

The Five Minute Journal

Intelligent Change (inferred)

2 recommends

Nordic Naturals omega-3

Nordic Naturals

2 recommends

NotebookLM

Google (inferred)

1 recommend

aibo

Sony

1 recommend

Aion Skincare (formerly Grooming Department) shaving soap

Aion Skincare

1 recommend

American Express Business Gold Card

American Express (inferred)

1 recommend

American Express Business Platinum Card

American Express (inferred)

1 recommend

American Express Gold Card

American Express (inferred)

1 recommend

Award Tool (awardtool.com)

1 recommend

Bank of America Preferred Rewards program

Bank of America (inferred)

1 recommend

Bank of America Premium Rewards Card

Bank of America (inferred)

1 recommend

Barrister and Mann shaving soap (Seville)

Barrister and Mann

1 recommend

Capital One Venture X Business Card

Capital One (inferred)

1 recommend

Chiseled Face Midnight Stag shaving soap

Chiseled Face

1 recommend

Dr. Bronner's unscented Castile soap

Dr. Bronner's

1 recommend

Fidelity Rewards Visa (2% cash back card)

Fidelity (inferred)

1 recommend

FINIS Duo Bone Conduction Headphones (with Dorsal Snorkel)

FINIS

1 recommend

Fisher Traction (portable traction device)

Fisher Traction

1 recommend

Hyperice vibrating foam roller

Hyperice

1 recommend

Katie's Bubbles shaving soap

Katie's Bubbles

1 recommend

Leaf therapeutic device

Leaf (inferred)

1 recommend

Morpheus heart-rate trainer

Morpheus

1 recommend

Phoenix Shaving (Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements) shaving soap

Phoenix Shaving

1 recommend

Pi

Inflection AI (inferred)

1 recommend

Points (points.com)

1 recommend

Points Path (browser extension)

1 recommend

Proraso shaving soap

Proraso

1 recommend

Seats.aero

7 mentions

Coyote (card game)

Exploding Kittens

2 mentions

TOMS Shoes

TOMS

Films, shows & games 62

7 recommends

Arrival

Denis Villeneuve (inferred)

6 recommends

Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki (inferred)

4 recommends

Contact

Robert Zemeckis (inferred)

4 recommends

Her

Spike Jonze (inferred)

3 recommends

Yellowstone

Taylor Sheridan (inferred)

3 recommends

Dealt

3 recommends

Man on Wire

2 recommends

Interstellar

Christopher Nolan (inferred)

2 recommends

Chef's Table

Netflix

2 recommends

Miracle

Derren Brown (inferred)

2 recommends

12 Monkeys

Terry Gilliam (inferred)

2 recommends

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick

2 recommends

Bigger Stronger Faster

Chris Bell (director)

2 recommends

Black Mirror

Charlie Brooker (inferred)

2 recommends

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python (inferred)

1 recommend

X-Men

20th Century Fox (inferred)

1 recommend

All the Hacks (podcast)

Chris Hutchins

1 recommend

The Push

Derren Brown (inferred)

1 recommend

80,000 Hours Podcast

80,000 Hours (inferred)

1 recommend

A Prophet (Un prophète)

Jacques Audiard (inferred)

1 recommend

A State of Mind

1 recommend

Altered Carbon

Laeta Kalogridis (inferred)

1 recommend

Arrested Development

1 recommend

Assassin's Creed

Ubisoft (inferred)

1 recommend

Behind the Curve

Daniel J. Clark (inferred)

1 recommend

Hear This Idea

Finn Moorhouse and Luca Righetti (inferred)

1 recommend

In Our Time

BBC (inferred)

1 recommend

Invest Like the Best (podcast)

Patrick O'Shaughnessy

1 recommend

Jesus' Son

Alison Maclean (inferred)

1 recommend

Keynes vs. Hayek Rap Videos (Fear the Boom and Bust / Fight of the Century)

Russ Roberts and John Papola

1 recommend

La Jetee

Chris Marker (inferred)

1 recommend

Life Has No Goals No Purpose (audio clip)

Osho

1 recommend

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street

Netflix (inferred)

1 recommend

Masters of Scale (podcast)

Reid Hoffman

1 recommend

May I Suggest

Susan Werner (inferred)

1 recommend

MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT

1 recommend

Motherless Brooklyn

Edward Norton (inferred)

1 recommend

Police State

Dinesh D'Souza

1 recommend

Prescription Thugs

Chris Bell (director)

1 recommend

Primer

Shane Carruth (inferred)

1 recommend

Rationally Speaking

Julia Galef (inferred)

1 recommend

Slow Dance

David Weatherford

1 recommend

The Alpinist

1 recommend

The Battle of Polytopia

Midjiwan AB (inferred)

1 recommend

The Expanse

Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby (inferred)

1 recommend

The Heart of Consciousness (Annaka Harris audio documentary)

Annaka Harris (inferred)

1 recommend

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (audiobook narrated by Stephen Fry)

Stephen Fry (narrator) (inferred)

1 recommend

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (audiobook)

Douglas Adams (inferred)

1 recommend

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

1 recommend

The Office (UK)

Ricky Gervais (inferred)

1 recommend

The Pretense of Knowledge (Nobel Prize lecture)

Friedrich A. Hayek

1 recommend

The Teaching Company ethics course (objective moral truth)

The Teaching Company / The Great Courses (inferred)

1 recommend

You Will Marry the Wrong Person

Alain de Botton / The School of Life (inferred)

4 mentions

Killer Joe

Tracy Letts (inferred)

4 mentions

True Detective

HBO (inferred)

3 mentions

Dallas Buyers Club

Jean-Marc Vallee (inferred)

3 mentions

Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater (inferred)

3 mentions

Mud

Jeff Nichols (inferred)

2 mentions

A Time to Kill

Joel Schumacher (inferred)

2 mentions

Bernie

Richard Linklater (inferred)

2 mentions

Magic Mike

Steven Soderbergh (inferred)

2 mentions

The Paperboy

Lee Daniels (inferred)