Cover of The Terminal List

Book · 2018 · United states, fiction

The Terminal List

by Jack Carr · Brought up by 11 people on 8 podcasts

The Terminal List by Jack Carr has been mentioned in 16 episodes across 8 podcasts (5 episodes recommend it and 11 episodes discuss it), through . Most frequently brought up by Joe Rogan (7 episodes), Shaan Puri (2 episodes) and Jack Carr (2 episodes) on The Joe Rogan Experience (7 episodes), My First Million (2 episodes) and The Megyn Kelly Show (2 episodes).

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16
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8
people
11
episodes recommend it
5

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The books are amazing.
Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 2025 Listen at 2:18:00

Questions about The Terminal List by Jack Carr

Who recommends The Terminal List by Jack Carr on podcasts?

Joe Rogan (4 episodes) and Shaan Puri (1 episode) have recommended The Terminal List by Jack Carr on podcasts. In all, 11 people brought it up across 8 podcasts (2 people recommended it).

Which podcasts mention The Terminal List the most?

The Joe Rogan Experience (7 episodes), My First Million (2 episodes), The Megyn Kelly Show (2 episodes), How I Write (1 episode) and Lenny's Podcast (1 episode), among 8 podcasts in all.

Is The Terminal List recommended, or only discussed?

The Terminal List by Jack Carr was recommended in 5 episodes and discussed without a recommendation in 11 episodes, as of 2026-11-03.

What do people say about The Terminal List?

Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience (2025-10-09): "The books are amazing."

When was The Terminal List last mentioned on a podcast?

The Terminal List by Jack Carr was last recommended on The Joe Rogan Experience by Joe Rogan on 2026-11-03.

What they say about it

Grouped from 16 episodes
  • Adapted into series
    6
  • Written by former Navy SEAL“former Navy Seal”
    5
  • Praise for the book“the books are great”
    4

The best things said about it

6 of 25 · every mention
Discussed
The Terminal List explores what could happen when an apex predator, a warrior at the top of his game, is thrown into a situation from which there is no return.
David Perell How I Write · Jul 2026
Recommended
One of the highest reviewed books I've ever seen given the quantity of reviews.
Shaan Puri My First Million · Mar 2024
Discussed
His first book is incredible.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Discussed
I started reading The Terminal List, and I read the first book, and I was hooked.
Shaan Puri My First Million · May 2024
Discussed
It's based on a New York Times best-selling novel by an author named Jack Carr.
Chris Pratt SmartLess · Jun 2022
Discussed
His debut novel, The Terminal List, became a massive hit and was adapted into the wildly successful Amazon Prime Video series starring actor Chris Pratt.
Megyn Kelly The Megyn Kelly Show · Apr 2026

Where and when it comes up

Mentions by year

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Podcast episodes that discussed The Terminal List, by year. One episode counts once, however often the book came up.

How it comes up

Recommended means the speaker tells listeners to read it.

Episodes, each counted once, by the strongest way it came up.

Most episodes, by podcast

8 shows

11 people who brought it up

Most recommendations first

Why people recommend it

The Terminal List by Jack Carr is an action-packed military thriller following former Navy SEAL James Reece as he seeks vengeance against the corrupt forces responsible for the murder of his team and family. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan repeatedly recommended Carr's novels to his listeners, highlighting the author's military background and praising the sheer quality of the books, which were later adapted into a hit television series starring Chris Pratt. On My First Million, Shaan Puri discussed the novel and pointed out its massive volume of glowing reviews on Amazon. The Rich Roll Podcast featured an interview with actor Tom Hopper and host Rich Roll discussing the broader book series, including Dark Wolf, and exploring the challenges of adapting Carr's prolific military stories for the screen. Additionally, David Perell spoke with Jack Carr on How I Write, examining the author's writing process and the journey of his debut novel from a bestselling manuscript to a major original streaming series on Amazon Prime Video.

Every mention

25 quotes from 16 episodes · 8 passing or ad reads below
Joe Rogan That's why it's not just that men aren't interested in reading. If you tell them about a great like Jack Ca… 7
Recommended
“That's why it's not just that men aren't interested in reading. If you tell them about a great like Jack Carr, do you know who he is? Uh, no. Former Navy Seal. He wrote the book The Terminalist that they turned into a show on Netflix.”
The Joe Rogan Experience #2575 - Sam Tallent 2026-11-03
Recommended
“He wrote The Terminalist, that Amazon series. It's he's he's a great it's the one that Chris Pratt plays in that Amazon series. Oh, okay. It's really good. But the books are amazing.”
Discussed
“right out of the box terminalist his first book is [ __ ] incredible. It's incredible.”
Discussed
“you nailed it if the terminal list is your first book that's crazy”
Recommended
“because I read his first book and I was like this is great”
Recommended
“well I like the books the books are great”
Discussed
“so I've only read savage Sun is that I didn't read it and listen to it people get mad you say I guess but so savage Sun is the only one I've listened to did you talk about Russia and the other books in the second one”
Discussed
“people ask me like can I start with this third one and the publisher wants me to say yes start with the third one”
Shaan Puri The first one was called The Terminal List. It came out in 2018. And if if you go to The Terminal List on A… 2
Discussed
“If you don't know who Jack Carr is, you guys should look him up, but basically he has this series of books called The Terminal List.”
Discussed
“And I started reading the Terminal List, and I read the first book, and I was hooked.”
Recommended
“The first one was called The Terminal List. It came out in 2018. And if if you go to The Terminal List on Amazon, you'll see it's it's one of the highest reviewed books I've ever seen given the quantity of reviews.”
Jack Carr So if my character like in The Terminal List he gets ambushed in in Los Angeles that I can remember what it… 2
Discussed
“So if my character like in The Terminal List he gets ambushed in in Los Angeles that I can remember what it was like to be ambushed in Baghdad and I can take those feelings and emotions and apply them directly to the narrative”
Discussed
“So, uh so first one out of the gate with this few words here, revenge without constraint, I had a title, The Terminal List, right away and then I had this one-page executive summary.”
Discussed
“it was very evident it's gonna be the terminal list that's the one”
Andrew Klavan one of the biggest shows last year on television, one of the biggest stream shows on television was The Ter… 1
Discussed
“one of the biggest shows last year on television, one of the biggest stream shows on television was The Terminal List, based on Jack Carr's book.”
Chris Pratt it's based on um new york times best-selling novel by an author named jack carr jack carr is a former navy… 1
Discussed
“it's based on um new york times best-selling novel by an author named jack carr jack carr is a former navy seal”
Discussed
“Oh, so it's based on a New York Times best-selling novel by an author named Jack Carr. Jack Carr is a former Navy SEAL and my buddy Jared. When I did a film called Zero Dark Thirty...”
David Perell And also, Amazon Prime took his book The Terminal List and turned it into an original series with Chris Pra… 1
Discussed
“And also, Amazon Prime took his book The Terminal List and turned it into an original series with Chris Pratt as the star.”
Discussed
“Look at this, first line of the preface. This is a novel of revenge. The Terminal List explores what could happen when an apex predator, a warrior at the top of his game, is thrown into a situation from which there is no return.”
Jason Lemkin it's a it's written by this x Navy SEAL that like like I think tech people don't read the everyone but outs… 1
Discussed
“it's a it's written by this x Navy SEAL that like like I think tech people don't read the everyone but outside of tech reads this author but Amazon did this thing the terminal list”
Megyn Kelly His debut novel, The Terminal List, became a massive hit and was adapted into the wildly successful Amazon… 1
Discussed
“His debut novel, The Terminal List, became a massive hit and was adapted into the wildly successful Amazon Prime Video series starring actor Chris Pratt.”
Rich Roll Dark Wolf and the original terminal list show. These are all based on books by Jack Carr. He was a seal, ri… 1
Discussed
“Dark Wolf and the original terminal list show. These are all based on books by Jack Carr. He was a seal, right? He was a seal. This guy's really prolific. Like he's just cranking out books all the time and these books are crushing, right?”
Suzanne Santo he's the terminal is the first one 1
Discussed
“he's the terminal is the first one”
Tom Hopper And then when it comes to something like Terminal List, even more so, right, because I not only have a fan… 1
Discussed
“And then when it comes to something like Terminal List, even more so, right, because I not only have a fan base of an existing character from a book that I have to think about, but also for Jack because he's putting the responsibility into me to create a character that he's written to the Navy seal community.”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
Discussed
“well there's a bunch apparently Jack Carr the author of the book there's like a bunch of of books in that Series so like I know I'm about to start reading them”

Often mentioned with

Other mentions (8: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“My guest today is Tom Hopper, an actor known for scene-stealing roles in Game of Thrones and the Umbrella Academy, and now for his starring role alongside Chris Pratt and Taylor Kitch in the Terminal List, a military action thriller series based on the novel of the same name by author and former Navy SEAL Jack Carr.”
Passing
“Uh but he's written those books and one of them is the Amazon show Terminal List.”
Plugged
“um uh in the first book so all those little things really ended up making it very personal as did the uh the more dramatic”
Plugged
“and that's what I'm in my last in in the blood that's what I wanted to write a sniper-centric novel last time without that uh scene of two snipers on opposite hillsides or buildings that are looking for each other and then they're looking and then they find each other at the last second and one guy shoots and it”
Plugged
“and I put them in the show in the terminal list so on Chris Pratt's uh they're drinking with Boozer in that first episode”
Plugged
“so I'd like to look at things through the enemy's eyes which I did in the devil's hand my fourth book”
Passing
“but we did we did meet up there and but I did fly up there with Chris Pratt and Jack Carr and some of the other folks from the terminal list which is a TV show that Chris Pratt is in that Jack Carr wrote the book that the show is based on and we went up there watched the”
Plugged
“that last book in the uh the devil's hand i put myself in the enemy's shoes and i thought hey what did they learn from us on the field of battle over the last 20 years at war”

Portraits from Wikimedia Commons: Joe Rogan, The White House / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain); Megyn Kelly, MattGagnon / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain); Jack Carr, MediaMP3Producer / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0); Andrew Klavan, Embutler / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0); Rich Roll, Compassion Over Killing / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).