Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2025-05-20
Joe Rogan & Amanda Knox: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #2324
#2324 - Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox is an exoneree, journalist, public speaker, and author of two books, the newest of which is “Free: My Search for Meaning.” She co-hosts the podcast “Labyrinths” with her partner, Christopher Robinson.
Joe Rogan recommended The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson, and discussed Free: My Search for Meaning by Amanda Knox. Amanda Knox discussed So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Free: My Search for Meaning
Free: My Search for Meaning by Amanda Knox is a powerful memoir detailing the author's extraordinary personal journey and her quest for meaning following her highly publicized wrongful imprisonment.
Discussed“You have a book. I do. Yeah. I hope you like it. Free. That's a great name.”
Where to get it
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The Psychopath Test
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson is a popular investigative nonfiction book that explores the concept of psychopathy, the psychiatric industry, and the formal checklists used to diagnose personality disorders.
Recommended“He has a good book about that. Have you read the psychopath test? No, I haven't.”
Where to get it
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a non-fiction book by Jon Ronson that investigates the devastating phenomenon of internet cancel culture and social media outrage.
Discussed“I read the publicly shamed book though. Yeah, that's a good one, too. It's great.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“If anybody wants there's a documentary. Yes, there's a Netflix documentary. Um, I wrote a book called Waiting to be Heard. And then more recently, I wrote this book, Free My Search for Meaning”
“I wrote a book called Waiting to be Heard. And then more recently, I wrote this book, Free My Search for Meaning, which covers like, you know, you can read it and learn about the case”
“And I mean, one of the wildest things about this book is that I talk about like I do not sugarcoat what I went through like and especially what he did to me.”
“And so I and I wrote this book from my perspective.”
“I mean, that's a lot of the obstacles the way kind of stuff. I mean, it's a lot of stuff that I write about in the book actually is one of the things that my goal with this book was to try to like yes, what happened to me is like, oh, crazy story happened to a girl one time”
“Archer in the art of archery. There's a reason why there's that book. Yes.”