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Every book named on the Joe Rogan Experience

20 books have been named on the Joe Rogan Experience in this catalogue, from 8 episodes. Each entry below carries the episode, what was actually said, and a link to that second of the conversation.

Books are the most reliable thing to catalogue from this show, and the reason is structural. A book has to be named in full, with its author, because there is no other way to refer to it — unlike a supplement, which usually gets mentioned as a compound and leaves you guessing which bottle was meant.

The range is the interesting part. Guests arrive to discuss the book they just wrote, which accounts for some of this list. The rest is Joe reaching for something he read years ago because it settles an argument happening in the room, which is why titles from the 1970s sit beside releases from this year.

Product	What was said	Show	Hear it
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives	“I haven't been back to the Congo since Cobalt Red came out”	Joe Rogan Experience	1:58
Don't Sleep	“this one Daniel Everett don't sleep there are snakes”	Joe Rogan Experience	2:37:07
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention	“in my book, How Language Began”	Joe Rogan Experience	39:19
Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and...	“Andrew Gallammore on who wrote a great book called Alien Information Theory”	Joe Rogan Experience	29:14
Childhood's End	“There's a great book by the great Arthur C. Clark called Childhood's End”	Joe Rogan Experience	52:26
Communion: A True Story	“they'll walk by communion in like a Barnes & Noble bookstore and it'll freak them out”	Joe Rogan Experience	1:44:37
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga	“Did you ever read Hell's Angels? It's really great. It's Hunter's breakout book”	Joe Rogan Experience	1:16:19
Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature	“he followed it up with a book in 1981 called life itself”	Joe Rogan Experience	1:08:28
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary E...	“this is like the structure of scientific revolutions is written by a guy named Thomas”	Joe Rogan Experience	2:55:25
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quan...	“There's a great book called What is Real by a guy named Adam Becker”	Joe Rogan Experience	1:05:43
Chaos: Charles Manson	“Tom O'Neal's book, In Chaos, which I recommend every week. It's the best book, man”	Joe Rogan Experience	1:06:52
Hacks	“When you read Donna Brazil's book about it, she openly admits they screwed him hard”	Joe Rogan Experience	1:37:14
Ladies and Gentlemen	“Chris just gifted me, ladies and gentlemen, Lenny Bruce, which is an amazing book”	Joe Rogan Experience	0:16
Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb	“his new book was about MK Ultra... Project Mind Control”	Joe Rogan Experience	1:00:03
Jacques Vallee's books	“If you ever read Jacques Valet's books... he's a legitimate scientist... he's brilliant”	Joe Rogan Experience	2:24:44
More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First	“I published a book called more human designing a world where people come first”	Joe Rogan Experience	18:20
The Feynman Lectures on Physics	“he did a real nice set of books, you know, for freshman physics”	Joe Rogan Experience	2:11:19
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion wit...	“There's a great book called the immortality key by Brian Murescu”	Joe Rogan Experience	1:06:18
My Big TOE: The Complete Trilogy	“your book, my big toe, the theory of everything”	Joe Rogan Experience	41:01
Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To	“look at Lifespan, why we age and why we don't have to”	Joe Rogan Experience	1:49:01