podbrain Best Writing Books Mentioned on Podcasts
1178 books about writing recommended across 485 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
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
Discourses by Epictetus: A Classic Stoic Guide to Enduring Peace, Purpose, and Power
12 episodes
The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living
11 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
$100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
10 episodes
Dune
9 episodes
Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control (The Stoic Virtues Series)
9 episodes
The Bible Timeline Chart
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
The Daily Stoic 10th Anniversary Edition: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
8 episodes
The Great Adventure Catholic Bible
8 episodes
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
8 episodes
Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
7 episodes
Democracy in America
7 episodes
The Three-Body Problem (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 1)
7 episodes
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
7 episodes
The Managerial Revolution
7 episodes
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
7 episodes
The Wealth of Nations
7 episodes
The Daily Stoic Boxed Set
7 episodes
The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
6 episodes
Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat. (The Stoic Virtues Series)
6 episodes
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition (The Covey Habits Series)
6 episodes
Ego Is the Enemy
6 episodes
The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success
6 episodes
Man's Search for Meaning
6 episodes
Stillness Is the Key
6 episodes
Communion
6 episodes
Atlas Shrugged
6 episodes
The Martian: A Novel
6 episodes
Notes on Being a Man
5 episodes
Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series)
5 episodes
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
5 episodes
Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)
5 episodes
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
5 episodes
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
5 episodes
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
5 episodes
Foundation
5 episodes
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey Series)
5 episodes
The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.
5 episodes
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
5 episodes
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
5 episodes
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
5 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
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
4 episodes
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
4 episodes
On the Road
4 episodes
Dopamine Nation
4 episodes
The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant
4 episodes
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
4 episodes
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
4 episodes
Principles: Life and Work
4 episodes
1984
4 episodes
Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler's Totalitarian VisionβEssential Lessons in Vigilance, Responsibility, and Opposing Evil
4 episodes
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
4 episodes
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
4 episodes
The Da Vinci Code: A Novel (Robert Langdon)
4 episodes
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
4 episodes
The Odyssey
4 episodes
The War of Art
4 episodes
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
4 episodes
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
4 episodes
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
4 episodes
100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff (Acquisition.com $100M Series)
4 episodes
The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War
4 episodes
The End of History and the Last Man
4 episodes
The 48 Laws of Power
4 episodes
The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids
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
Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love
4 episodes
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
4 episodes
Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind
4 episodes
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
4 episodes
The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life
3 episodes
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
3 episodes
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
3 episodes
Meditations
3 episodes
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
3 episodes
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Folger Shakespeare Library) (Updated) (3/25/12)
3 episodes
Paradise Lost
3 episodes
Raising Hare: A Memoir
3 episodes
The Happiness Hypothesis
3 episodes
The Hero With A Thousand Faces
3 episodes
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas Paperbacks)
3 episodes
The Catcher in the Rye
3 episodes
Ulysses
3 episodes
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
3 episodes
Ender's Game (Ender Quintet Book 1)
3 episodes
One Summer: America, 1927
3 episodes
Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
3 episodes
Think and Grow Rich (An Official Publication of the Napoleon Hill Foundation)
3 episodes
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
3 episodes
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
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
What Works on Wall Street, Fourth Edition: The Classic Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time
3 episodes
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
3 episodes
The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
3 episodes
1984
3 episodes
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
3 episodes
The Plague
3 episodes
Letter to His Father
3 episodes
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
3 episodes
The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
3 episodes
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
3 episodes
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
3 episodes
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
3 episodes
Poor Charlie's Almanack
3 episodes
Junglekeeper: What It Takes to Change the World
3 episodes
The Lord Of The Rings: One Volume
3 episodes
The population bomb
3 episodes
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
3 episodes
Basic Economics
3 episodes
The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
3 episodes
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
3 episodes
Levels of the Game
3 episodes
Meditations (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)
3 episodes
The Republic
3 episodes
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
3 episodes
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
3 episodes
Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
3 episodes
How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
3 episodes
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
3 episodes
Lonesome Dove: A Novel
3 episodes
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
3 episodes
Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it) (Singularity University Books)
3 episodes
Meditations: Deluxe Classic Edition
3 episodes
Direct from Dell
3 episodes
World on Fire
3 episodes
The Complete Collection of Plutarch's Parallel Lives
3 episodes
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
2 episodes
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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
Leviathan
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
Built From Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body
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
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
2 episodes
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
2 episodes
Risk and Reward: How to handle market volatility and build long-term wealth
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 Art of War Sun Tzu - Complete Edition: The New Modern English Translation (Translated and Annotated)
2 episodes
The Metamorphosis
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
Consider Phlebas (Culture Book 1)
2 episodes
The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future
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
Steve Jobs
2 episodes
The Prophet
2 episodes
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2 episodes
The Confessions of St. Augustine (Catholic Classics)
2 episodes
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion β How Emotion Undermines Morality, Justice, and Good Policy
2 episodes
Phaedrus (Oxford World's Classics)
2 episodes
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
2 episodes
Frankenstein
2 episodes
A Confederacy of Dunces
2 episodes
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
2 episodes
War and Peace
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
The Hobbit
2 episodes
How Asia Works
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
The Odyssey
2 episodes
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
2 episodes
The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
2 episodes
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
2 episodes
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
2 episodes
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
2 episodes
The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
2 episodes
Man's Search For Meaning
2 episodes
The Stranger: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Albert Camus Classics)
2 episodes
The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland
2 episodes
Moral Letters to Lucilius: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
2 episodes
First Principles
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
Forbidden Facts: Government Deceit & Suppression About Brain Damage from Childhood Vaccines
2 episodes
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
2 episodes
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
2 episodes
The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
2 episodes
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
2 episodes
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)
2 episodes
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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
The Enchiridion: The Handbook of Stoic Principles for Mastery of Mind and Life
2 episodes
Roots: The Enhanced Edition: The Saga of an American Family
2 episodes
The Age of Disclosure
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
Jurassic Park: A Novel
2 episodes
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
2 episodes
Who We Are and How We Got Here
2 episodes
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
2 episodes
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Chinese Edition)
2 episodes
Against the Odds: An Autobiography
2 episodes
Chronicles: Volume One
2 episodes
House of Cards (House of Cards Series Book 1)
2 episodes
War Is a Racket (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
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
The Old Regime and the Revolution
2 episodes
The Alchemist
2 episodes
The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life
2 episodes
The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed: The Definitive Book on Value Investing β A Timeless Investment Strategy for Navigating the Stock Market and Mastering Finance
2 episodes
The Lord of the Rings
2 episodes
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
2 episodes
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
2 episodes
The Body Keeps the Score
2 episodes
The Game
2 episodes
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
2 episodes
Of Wolves and Men
2 episodes
Fierce Intimacy
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
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics)
2 episodes
Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
2 episodes
Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
2 episodes
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
2 episodes
The Boy Who Would Be King: A Fable About Marcus Aurelius
2 episodes
The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work
2 episodes
Meditations
2 episodes
Meditations
2 episodes
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
2 episodes
84, Charing Cross Road
2 episodes
Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Hoover Essays Book 6)
2 episodes
Small Things Like These
2 episodes
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
2 episodes
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
2 episodes
The Journalist and the Murderer
2 episodes
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
2 episodes
The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
2 episodes
Agamemnon
2 episodes
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Illustrated [Kindle in Motion]: The Illustrated Edition (Illustrated Harry Potter Book 1)
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
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: Third Edition β The Essential Work on Creative Destruction and Economic Growth (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
2 episodes
The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
2 episodes
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest For Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
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
Elon Musk
2 episodes
Dreamland: An Autobiography
2 episodes
Fingerprints Of The Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
2 episodes
Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition): A Novel
2 episodes
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
2 episodes
Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water
2 episodes
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
2 episodes
The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics)
2 episodes
Notes to John
2 episodes
Go Gentle: Oprah's Book Club
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 Great Nerve: The New Science of the Vagus Nerve and How to Harness Its Healing Reflexes
2 episodes
1000 True Fans: Use Kevin Kelly's Simple Idea to Earn A Living Doing What You Love
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 Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
2 episodes
Free Will
2 episodes
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
2 episodes
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
2 episodes
The Game by Neil Strauss β The Secret World of Pickup Artists, Seduction & Social Mastery
2 episodes
Sam Walton: Made in America
2 episodes
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
2 episodes
Whalefall: A Novel
2 episodes
Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
2 episodes
War is a Racket
2 episodes
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
2 episodes
Meditations
2 episodes
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
2 episodes
Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-of-Body Experience (Journeys Trilogy)
2 episodes
The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence of Alien Intervention
2 episodes
Intruders
2 episodes
The Cryptos Conundrum: A Novel
2 episodes
In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
2 episodes
Ego Is the Enemy
2 episodes
Verity
2 episodes
Burning the Days: Recollection (Ambassador Book Awards) (Vintage International)
2 episodes
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Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agentβs Search for Hope and Justice
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