Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2025-05-30
Books mentioned on #2330 - Bono
Bono is the lead singer of the rock band U2, as well as an activist and author. His memoir, "Bono: Stories of Surrender," is available wherever books are sold.
Joe Rogan recommended The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. Also mentioned: On the Road by Jack Kerouac and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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On the Road
On the Road by Jack Kerouac is a seminal autobiographical novel that chronicles the cross-country road trips of its protagonist and captures the restless energy of the Beat Generation.
Discussed“I was reading, you know, Sam Shepard. I was reading, you know, on the road. I was reading, you know, all these great writers and just opening up my imagination.”
Where to get it
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The Book of Five Rings
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi is a classic treatise on strategy, tactics, and philosophy written by a legendary seventeenth-century Japanese swordsman.
Recommended“So like googie he he was an extraordinary human being but he wrote a book on strategy called the book of five rings.”
Where to get it
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The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is an absolute masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian literature that weaves together parallel narratives featuring the devil visiting the Soviet Union alongside a philosophical story about Pontius Pilate.
Discussed“this great um there's a great book by by Bulgakov called The Master in the Margarita. Have you heard about this?”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“No, I I mean it is a I was calling it a memewir me what I wrote myself. It's the memoir and it is look there's something narcissistic and but it's it's your material you know that's what you get your you know your it's not just your body your psychology is the canvas”
“that's why I wrote the book surrender that's why I did it but because it was just starting came to realize when I was younger”