Best Science Books Mentioned on Podcasts
1304 books about science recommended across 758 podcast episodes.
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
135 episodes
Meditations
76 episodes
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
34 episodes
Thinking, Fast and Slow
33 episodes
Zero to One
23 episodes
The Great Adventure Catholic Bible, Second Edition (Paperback)
21 episodes
Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body
20 episodes
The Obstacle is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
18 episodes
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
18 episodes
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
17 episodes
Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
16 episodes
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
13 episodes
Discourses by Epictetus: A Classic Stoic Guide to Enduring Peace, Purpose, and Power
12 episodes
Man's Search for Meaning
11 episodes
The Network State: How To Start a New Country
11 episodes
Project Hail Mary: A Novel
10 episodes
Dune
9 episodes
Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control (The Stoic Virtues Series)
9 episodes
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
8 episodes
Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds. (The Stoic Virtues Series)
8 episodes
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
8 episodes
The Three-Body Problem (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 1)
7 episodes
Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
7 episodes
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
7 episodes
The Wealth of Nations
7 episodes
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
7 episodes
The Managerial Revolution
7 episodes
The Daily Stoic Boxed Set
7 episodes
Man's Search for Meaning
6 episodes
Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat. (The Stoic Virtues Series)
6 episodes
The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success
6 episodes
The Martian: A Novel
6 episodes
Atlas Shrugged
6 episodes
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition (The Covey Habits Series)
6 episodes
Communion
6 episodes
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
6 episodes
The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
6 episodes
Outliers: The Story of Success
6 episodes
Ego Is the Enemy
6 episodes
Notes on Being a Man
5 episodes
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
5 episodes
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey Series)
5 episodes
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
5 episodes
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
5 episodes
The Conquest of the Incas
5 episodes
Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)
5 episodes
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
5 episodes
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
5 episodes
Brave New World
5 episodes
The Score Takes Care of Itself
5 episodes
Contact: A Novel
5 episodes
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
5 episodes
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
5 episodes
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
5 episodes
The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.
5 episodes
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
5 episodes
Foundation
5 episodes
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
5 episodes
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
4 episodes
$100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
4 episodes
UFOs & Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites
4 episodes
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
4 episodes
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
4 episodes
Dopamine Nation
4 episodes
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
4 episodes
The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant
4 episodes
The Da Vinci Code: A Novel (Robert Langdon)
4 episodes
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
4 episodes
1984
4 episodes
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
4 episodes
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
4 episodes
Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love
4 episodes
Principles: Life and Work
4 episodes
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
4 episodes
Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler's Totalitarian VisionβEssential Lessons in Vigilance, Responsibility, and Opposing Evil
4 episodes
On the Road
4 episodes
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
4 episodes
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
4 episodes
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
4 episodes
Lessons of History
4 episodes
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
4 episodes
The Odyssey
4 episodes
Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your LifeβA Revolutionary Approach to Maximizing Life Experiences Over Accumulating Wealth
4 episodes
The War of Art
4 episodes
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
4 episodes
The End of History and the Last Man
4 episodes
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
4 episodes
The 48 Laws of Power
4 episodes
The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War
4 episodes
Seneca - Letters from a Stoic: The Complete Collection of 124 Letters, also known as Moral Letters to Lucilius. Translated by Richard M. Gummere
4 episodes
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
4 episodes
Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind
4 episodes
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
4 episodes
Meditations
3 episodes
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
3 episodes
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
3 episodes
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Folger Shakespeare Library) (Updated) (3/25/12)
3 episodes
Paradise Lost
3 episodes
The Happiness Hypothesis
3 episodes
The Catcher in the Rye
3 episodes
Forbidden Science 6: Scattered Castles, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 2010-2019
3 episodes
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas Paperbacks)
3 episodes
Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy Book 1)
3 episodes
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
3 episodes
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
3 episodes
Ender's Game (Ender Quintet Book 1)
3 episodes
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
3 episodes
Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
3 episodes
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Childrenβs Health Defense)
3 episodes
Poor Charlie's Almanack
3 episodes
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
3 episodes
One Summer: America, 1927
3 episodes
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
3 episodes
The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life
3 episodes
The Road to Serfdom The Definitive Edition (Volume 2)
3 episodes
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
3 episodes
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
3 episodes
On the Origin of Species
3 episodes
The Essential Mein Kampf: New English Translation
3 episodes
A Calendar of Wisdom
3 episodes
The Gulag Archipelago
3 episodes
Chariots of the Gods: 50th Anniversary Edition
3 episodes
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
3 episodes
The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
3 episodes
The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
3 episodes
The Plague
3 episodes
Ulysses
3 episodes
Lonesome Dove: A Novel
3 episodes
Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
3 episodes
Awaken The Giant Within
3 episodes
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
3 episodes
World on Fire
3 episodes
Only the Paranoid Survive
3 episodes
The Innovator's Dilemma
3 episodes
Commentary on the Tabernacle
3 episodes
The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
3 episodes
The population bomb
3 episodes
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
3 episodes
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
3 episodes
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
3 episodes
The Republic
3 episodes
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
3 episodes
Levels of the Game
3 episodes
1984
3 episodes
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
3 episodes
What Works on Wall Street, Fourth Edition: The Classic Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time
3 episodes
Raising Hare: A Memoir
3 episodes
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
3 episodes
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
3 episodes
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
3 episodes
Direct from Dell
3 episodes
Modern Times
3 episodes
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
3 episodes
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
3 episodes
The Complete Collection of Plutarch's Parallel Lives
3 episodes
Free Will
2 episodes
A Better World With AI: The Vision of Dario Amodei
2 episodes
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
2 episodes
The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
2 episodes
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
2 episodes
The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific
2 episodes
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
2 episodes
Gym Launch Secrets: The Step-By-Step Guide To Building A Massively Profitable Gym
2 episodes
Adventures in the Screen Trade
2 episodes
Your Brain on Love: The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships
2 episodes
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
2 episodes
How to Stay in Love: A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together
2 episodes
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
2 episodes
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2 episodes
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Annotated)
2 episodes
The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
2 episodes
What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire and the Self-Knowledge Imperative
2 episodes
How The Mighty Fall (09) By Collins, Jim Hardcover (2009)
2 episodes
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
2 episodes
The Player of Games (Culture Book 2)
2 episodes
The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists
2 episodes
The Controllers: Mind Control and Project MK-ULTRA - Modern Myth, Mass Manipulation, and a New Hypothesis of "Alien" Abductions
2 episodes
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
2 episodes
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
2 episodes
I, Robot (The Robot Series)
2 episodes
The Stimulated Mind: Future-Proof Your Brain from Dementia and Stay Sharp at Any Age
2 episodes
Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World
2 episodes
The Art of War Sun Tzu - Complete Edition: The New Modern English Translation (Translated and Annotated)
2 episodes
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
2 episodes
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
2 episodes
This Is Your Mind on Plants
2 episodes
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
2 episodes
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
2 episodes
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
2 episodes
Consider Phlebas (Culture Book 1)
2 episodes
Man's Search For Meaning
2 episodes
The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future
2 episodes
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
2 episodes
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
2 episodes
A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition (Belknap)
2 episodes
Two Treatises of Government
2 episodes
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
2 episodes
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
2 episodes
Frankenstein
2 episodes
1984
2 episodes
The Odyssey
2 episodes
Steve Jobs
2 episodes
The Prophet
2 episodes
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2 episodes
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
2 episodes
The Great Nerve: The New Science of the Vagus Nerve and How to Harness Its Healing Reflexes
2 episodes
Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water
2 episodes
House of Cards (House of Cards Series Book 1)
2 episodes
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
2 episodes
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
2 episodes
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Exposed and Explained by the World's Two
2 episodes
Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
2 episodes
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
2 episodes
Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
2 episodes
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
2 episodes
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
2 episodes
Built From Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body
2 episodes
StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Series)
2 episodes
The Handy Quantum Physics Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)
2 episodes
Letters to a Young Poet
2 episodes
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
2 episodes
Verity
2 episodes
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
2 episodes
The Cryptos Conundrum: A Novel
2 episodes
ABOVE BLACK - Project Preserve Destiny - An Insider's Account of Alien Contact and Government Coverup
2 episodes
High Output Management
2 episodes
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
2 episodes
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
2 episodes
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
2 episodes
The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work
2 episodes
The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
2 episodes
The Stranger: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Albert Camus Classics)
2 episodes
Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China
2 episodes
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
2 episodes
One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market
2 episodes
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
2 episodes
Awaken the Giant Within : How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
2 episodes
War and Peace
2 episodes
The Cousins' Wars
2 episodes
Frederick The Great
2 episodes
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
2 episodes
Angels & Demons
2 episodes
Origin: A Novel (Robert Langdon Book 5)
2 episodes
Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
2 episodes
Fire in the Minds of Men
2 episodes
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics)
2 episodes
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Vintage International)
2 episodes
Of Wolves and Men
2 episodes
1000 True Fans: Use Kevin Kelly's Simple Idea to Earn A Living Doing What You Love
2 episodes
Ozymandias
2 episodes
The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt
2 episodes
The Age of Disclosure
2 episodes
The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East
2 episodes
Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults
2 episodes
A Court of Thorns and Roses
2 episodes
Heated Rivalry: Now Streaming on Crave and HBO Max (Game Changers Book 2)
2 episodes
On Xi Jinping: How Xi's Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World
2 episodes
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
2 episodes
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
2 episodes
Who We Are and How We Got Here
2 episodes
Ethereum White Paper
2 episodes
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Chinese Edition)
2 episodes
Against the Odds: An Autobiography
2 episodes
DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences
2 episodes
Chronicles: Volume One
2 episodes
Nicolaus Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in Layman's Terms (In Laymanβs Terms)
2 episodes
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
2 episodes
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
2 episodes
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
2 episodes
The Alchemist
2 episodes
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
2 episodes
The Body Keeps the Score
2 episodes
Fingerprints Of The Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
2 episodes
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
2 episodes
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest For Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
2 episodes
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
2 episodes
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
2 episodes
Fierce Intimacy
2 episodes
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
2 episodes
Agentic AI Untangled
2 episodes
Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness
2 episodes
Sam Walton: Made in America
2 episodes
Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
2 episodes
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
2 episodes
Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
2 episodes
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
2 episodes
Elon Musk
2 episodes
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
2 episodes
Meditations
2 episodes
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
2 episodes
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
2 episodes
Agamemnon
2 episodes
The Social Dilemma
2 episodes
Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-of-Body Experience (Journeys Trilogy)
2 episodes
Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers
2 episodes
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
2 episodes
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
2 episodes
The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
2 episodes
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
2 episodes
The Four Hour Chef
2 episodes
Jurassic Park: A Novel
2 episodes
The Story of Civilization
2 episodes
The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I
2 episodes
The Hours: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics Book 1)
2 episodes
Mrs. Dalloway
2 episodes
Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition): A Novel
2 episodes
The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence of Alien Intervention
2 episodes
Built To Sell: Creating A Business That Can Thrive Without You
2 episodes
Mastery
2 episodes
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
2 episodes
The Hustler: A Novel
2 episodes
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
2 episodes
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
2 episodes
The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
2 episodes
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
2 episodes
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
2 episodes
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
2 episodes
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (Wordsworth Classics)
2 episodes
On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth
2 episodes
The Jungle
2 episodes
The Art of Learning
2 episodes
Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
2 episodes
The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life
2 episodes
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: Third Edition β The Essential Work on Creative Destruction and Economic Growth (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
2 episodes
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
2 episodes
Intruders
2 episodes
Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agentβs Search for Hope and Justice