Books mentioned on the podcasts

45 books, and the largest category in this catalog by a wide margin — nearly half of everything here. That is not an accident of collection. Long-form interview shows run on books: the guest wrote one, the host read one, or an argument sends someone reaching for a title from twenty years ago.

Books are also the most trustworthy entries on the site, and it is worth knowing why. A book gets named in full, with its author, because there is no other way to refer to it. There is no ambiguity to resolve and nothing for us to guess at — which is exactly the opposite of a supplement mentioned only as an ingredient. Almost every entry on this page is a direct, verbatim mention.

Joe Rogan accounts for 19 of them, more than any other host. Diary of a CEO adds 11, Huberman Lab 9 and The Mel Robbins Podcast 7, the last of which is almost entirely books.