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Books by Herman Melville mentioned on podcasts

5 books across 80 episodes on 27 podcasts.

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick comes up in discussions across several podcasts, including Stuff You Should Know, Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, The Joe Rogan Experience, Monday Morning Podcast, Modern Wisdom, and People I (Mostly) Admire. On Stuff You Should Know, Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant discuss a friend who is an aficionado of the work and considers it the best book of all time, while humorously confusing the title with The Scarlet Letter. The hosts of Las Culturistas praise it as a thriller and a page-turner. On The Joe Rogan Experience, a speaker analyzes Ahab as a tragic protagonist who fails to learn from his mistakes, and Mike Rowe notes that the sinking of a Nantucket whaling ship in 1821 inspired Melville to write the book. Bill Burr mentions reading it on the Monday Morning Podcast, Ben Shapiro recalls reading it during a book club on Modern Wisdom, and Ken Ono shares on People I (Mostly) Admire how his mentor used the opening of the novel as an analogy for discovery in mathematics.

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  1. MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE

    77 mentions · StarTalk Radio, Stuff You Should Know, Pod Save America

    Moby-Dick by Herman Melville is an epic American novel that chronicles the obsessive, self-destructive quest of Captain Ahab to hunt down the giant white whale that maimed him.

    Discussed
    “You know, Moby Dick was a bomb. Was that true? Oh my God, it bombed. In the most vicious reviews. Wow. Melville died thinking his great work. Call me Ishmael.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson StarTalk Radio In Theory with Janna Levin 2026-10-20
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  2. Moby Dick

    37 mentions · Stuff You Should Know, The Joe Rogan Experience, Modern Wisdom

    Moby Dick by Herman Melville is a classic 19th-century novel exploring the obsessions of Captain Ahab and the dramatic whaling voyage of the Pequod.

    Discussed
    “He is a Moby Dick afficionado and collects copies and versions of that and he said that is the best book of all time.”
    Josh Clark Stuff You Should Know The Cliffs Notes on Cliffs Notes 2025-05-15 Listen at 36:59
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  3. The Confidence Man

    4 mentions · The Ezra Klein Show, Conversations with Tyler, The Book Review

    The Confidence Man by Herman Melville is a complex, darkly satirical novel set on a Mississippi River steamboat that serves as a profound meditation on trust, identity, and American capitalism.

    Recommended
    “but I'm going to invoke his much stranger book The cont man which is a book about how belief happens and who the people are who can make us believe”
    Darrin Burnett The Ezra Klein Show Your Mind Is Being Fracked 2024-05-31 Listen at 1:10:51
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  4. The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids

    1 mention · Conversations with Tyler

    Discussed
    “you've actually delivered a lecture at University of Chicago Law School on the herman melville short story paradise of bachelors tartarus of maids”
    Tyler Cowen Conversations with Tyler Larry Summers on Macroeconomics, Mentorship, and Avoiding Complacency … 2017-09-20 Listen at 21:02
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible